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Workshop
TMML

The Public School for Architecture
Congress railway station
10 – 11 June 2014
Brussels, BE

TMML’s central question is: ‘How can we develop a tactic that would allow
our imagination to blossom when faced with the preponderance of those urban signs intended for collective use?’

Starting from their central question, TMML organized a two-day workshop at the invitation of architect Lars Fischer as part of The Public School For Architecture Brussels. Cédric Noël and Mira Sanders shared with a range of students the findings obtained during the residency at Berlin’s ZK/U.

Participants brought their own basic materials – tools for modelling, materials for moulding, a camera, etc. Together with TMML, they discussed how public spaces were shaped and reflected on the idea of urban representation. TMML outlined their methods for collecting material in the field. Considering the imagination as a main potential for shared territory, they highlighted the role of the making process in the materialization of the representation of the city – in this case, Brussels. After shared mental exercises on imagining the space, students made physical objects with TMML (using objects found in the street, but also paper, cardboard, clay, wood, etc.) that embodied these issues. But also again ‘constructions’ that played with Geir Kaufmann’s idea, or Aby Warburg’s proximity and/or association techniques as in Oswald Mathias Ungers’ City Metaphors (1982).