Research Topics The research and design tasks move freely in-between architecture, urban design , environmental artand other disciplines of art and science within the general framework of built human environment .Ruin Academy – Ouno 2010 Anarchic Grandmothers, Academic Squatting, Urban Acupuncture-these are some of the ideas behind the Ruin Academy.More Ruins – Phyllis Richardson, Archetcetera 2011 The Academy workshops include: Organic Acupuncture Spontaneous and often illegal urban farms and community gardens balancing the industrial Taipei and tuning the city towards the organic . The Community Gardens of Taipei – P2P Foundation 2010 River Urbanism A form of landscape urbanismaiming in natural river restoration in urban conditions and reconnection of the modern city and the river nature. Taipei from the River – International Society of Biourbanism 2011 Illegal Architecture Architecture that uses the Official City as a “growing platform and energy source, where to attach itself like a parasite and from where to leach the electricity and water... The Instant City's%DIFDELCMD < ] %%% illegal urban farms or night markets is so widespread and deep rooted in the Taiwanese culture and cityscape that we could almost speak of another city on top of the “official” Taipei, a parallel city – or a para-city . ” Illegal Architecture in Taipei – Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Architizer 2011 Casagrande adds, “many spontaneous and often illegal communities are growing that are more complex and fruitful than official development and official architecture – often blindly directed by economy and centralised politics. Anarchist grandmothers are cultivating illegal community gardens and urban farms everywhere around Taipei. They are breaking the city.” Academic Ruin Emma Tucker, The LIP, 2013 Local Knowledge is a theme penetrating through all the research elements and tying the Third Generation Taipei to the site-specific natural environment.Ruin Academy Taiwan : Architecture Information – E-Architect 2010 Casagrande: Architects’ and designers’ position about organic knowledge is tricky. We are not the ones who carry this collective genetic memory on, but we are in a better position to interpret and negotiate with it, step by step, like a shaman getting answers from the organic side. This can easily go very wrong, when architect starts copyrighting fragments of local knowledge under his ego. I guess often it would be enough to create a platform of accidents for the organic knowledge to surface, start cooking, and finding its own forms and dynamics. Design is not necessarily needed in here, and design should not replace reality – while organic knowledge is close to reality, nature. Change from organic city – M. Casagrande, International Society of Biourbanism
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