ConCom MoMove
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ConCom tests innovative education formats focusing on cultural heritage, digital technology, and their societal impact. In 2020/21 it served as a platform for students to explore architecture of Modern Movement by using multiple digital tools for communicating the potential of existing buildings and sites to shape a sustainable, inclusive and aesthetic environment. MoMove was developed in cooperation with Docomomo Int. for open, accessible and reusable knowledge exchange.
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Description of the project
Summary
ConCom explored digital forms of ideation, documentation, design and dissemination to creatively use these potentials for the reuse and safeguard of the recent built environment, here infrastructure. Students conducted cross-cultural and cross-sectoral research in interdisciplinary and international teams. On display are websites, apps, short movies, films, as well as applications of 360-degree images, augmented and virtual reality. The 13 virtual exhibits demonstrate the students’ reflections and concerns towards the future sustainable design of the built environment, inspired by the lessons learnt from Modern Movement. Furthermore, ConCom MoMove represents a model for enhancing access to cultural heritage and inclusiveness by digitalising heritage infrastructure, transforming it into "green" infrastructure with a high social purpose.
Key objectives for sustainability
Sustainability was addressed in different exhibits and on different levels. Powerstations showcases the health risks different types of energy production over time (https://docomomothowl.wixsite.com/kraftwerke), the reuse potential of power stations is explained in a movie (https://www.detmolddesigntransfer.online/docomomo), Watertowers deals with convertible industrial typologies that can be re-used for other purposes such as housing (https://docomomowatertowers.wixsite.com/wassertuerme). City, Country Industry compares the transformation potential of urban and rural industrial buildings in Bielefeld and Kaunitz and Beirut Urban Development questions the future of Beirut's harbour regions after the explosion in 2020 (https://vimeo.com/515219581/05fab4fbd0). ConCom MoMove project is a sustainable education model, as it is open, accessible, inclusive and reusable for different topics or fields of research and learning.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Aesthetics was addressed in several exhibits and on different levels. Facade Innovations explores the development of design and technology of facades in the 20th century (https://docomomofacade.wixsite.com/exhibit). The historic and typological development of gas stations over the 20th century as an urban object are shown in Tankstellentypologien (https://vimeo.com/515219581/05fab4fbd0) and Reihenhäuser 1919-2020 explores the variety of residential layouts as an expression of societal developments (https://th-owl.wixsite.com/reihenhaus). The role of architecture, industrial aesthetics and corporate design for the companies AEG and Siemens are visualised with 3D-models in Corporate Architecture (https://docomomofactories.wixsite.com/corporate). Finally, the aesthetic use of building services in the Bauhaus building in Dessau in the 1920s is presented in an app. The specific purpose of the ConCom education model and the MoMo virtual exhibition and its exhibits was to improve and enlarge access to and quality of experience of cultural and architectural heritage. The exhibits are offering an advanced experience of the MoMo achievements through in-depth virtual and visual representation and interpretation.
Key objectives for inclusion
Inclusion was in particular addressed in three exhibits related to different themes and formats. A building and a community elaborates the role of three buildings over time in Pristina (Kosovo), Algiers (Algeria) and in Kandovan (Iran) by putting into focus the user perspective and perception for a department store, a cinema and a traditional housing in modern times (https://prezi.com/view/C8CZGiSoYBc21QfUReIn/)ddd). The Amman Hangar Museum presents the virtual exhibition of student projects from Detmold and Amman in the modern hangars in Amman (https://cutt.ly/UkpHTcP). The Frankfurt Kitchen - a virtual experience, a tour in Augmented Reality, brings the hidden model of a Frankfurt kitchen in Detmold to the public (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/frankfurt-kitchen-in-may-house-2ebe179099e445d4bc07194ee08fcce5). ConCom MoMove as a whole is enhancing access to cultural heritage for everyone, promoting inclusiveness and having a high social purpose.
Results in relation to category
The ConCom MoMove course has raised the awareness of the students for their responsibility as future designers and engineers to shape the livability of our cities, sites and buildings and it allowed for interdisciplinary, international and cross-cultural research. This can be seen as the attempt to reach any societal and practical impact on how to deal with the recent built heritage in order to achieve a healthy and sustainable development of the built environment with the support of many different stakeholders. Further, it is a long-lasting scholarly discussion on how to deal with and assess education and research outputs in general and in particular beyond written data and output. ConCom MoMove served as a platform for students to explore digital tools and technologies and their applicability for communicating research results. The approaches and outputs have been diverse conveying current knowledge and new findings in innovative forms of representation.
How Citizens benefit
Each team reached out to different institutions, archives, NGO's and companies to collect and densify the information needed for their exhibits. With regard to the target audience the students have made different choices (children, citizens, professionals or academics), but all of them were apt to communicate their new knowledge to a wider and non-expert audience. ConCom MoMove has collaborated with Docomomo Germany and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation to join their international academic collaborative networks already been established with museums, universities, foundations.
Innovative character
The results of ConCom MoMove highlight the importance of creative and innovative research outputs that would increase diversity and visibility of academic research and therefore have the potential of having higher impact to professional audiences, lay people and the society. Digitization in form of Open Access (OA), Free and Open Software and Source (FOSS) and Open Educational Resources (OER) is used as part of the proposed educational agenda that addresses the ideas of Modern Movement on different levels for different audiences. The education and research design was post-disciplinary and experimental, producing innovative forms of representation and communication of results and knowledge transfer. With a reference to Bauhaus teaching approach, ConCom MoMove is developing collaborative space for critical thinking and creative testing, yet in contemporary context, using contemporary tools and technologies and addressing contemporary and future challenges.
