今日精華大学客員教授Sir Peter Cook ワークショップ課題文"THE INHABITED GARDEN"

遅れましたが、今回のピーター・クック先生によるワークショップの課題文を掲載します。
アサイメントタイトルは「THE INHABITED GARDEN/居住する庭」です。

KYOTO SEIKA UNIVERSITY
PETER COOK PROJECT

THE INHABITED GARDEN

Since Kyoto is the world’s greatest city of gardens and landscape
I am inspired to have a workshop that is to do with this.

Yet the relationships in Kyoto between nature and the built object are usually formal. Even the open spaces themselves are a mixture of the formal and the ‘theatrical’ – distances and positions are highly considered.

Does the Japanese tradition provide for the unexpected ?
The naughty ?
The weird ?
The incongruous ?

Yet Japanese psychology – like that of the English, enjoys (privately)
The naughty, the weird and the incongruous.

So I want you to design an EXTRA garden for Kyoto.

QUICKLY FIND A LOCATION. It should not be too small.

Create a garden, but one that has people living in it.

Try not to just put some nice buildings in amongst trees.

Make it more curious, more ambiguous, more original than that.

PERHAPS on first seeing the garden, you do not know that anybody lives there.

PERHAPS it only gets revealed that they are there as part of a progression through the garden.

PERHAPS the workshop is really about TYPOLOGIES, DECEPTION, THEATRE or aspects of AESTHETICS.

Choose your medium.
SINCE IT IS GROUP WORK, GET THE IDEA GOING QUICKLY, DON’T
SPEND ALL THE WEEK ARGUING.
GROUP LEADERS HAVE THE PRIMARY TASK OF DISCOVERING WHO IN THE GROUP CAN DO WHAT AND THEN GETTING THEM MOVING.

Peter Cook

以上が課題文です。