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the Teatro del Mondo isn’t located in a specific public space or exhibition venue, but floating in front of the Venetian island. Likewise, the intervention presented in this application embraces the nomadic ambitions on line. “The smoggy haze that blankets the city at times is a visible reminder of the(se) challenges.” Our team was intrigued to address the challenge of the open call. Not only by providing an object that can move each edition from one city to another, but also creating something that is able to move between areas of interest within the same one. A moving platform that is accessible for the diverse population in Yerevan to aknowledge and be aknowleged.
Although the brief of the call requires participants to select one public space in Yerevan as a point of reference, this proposal addresses several areas of the Armenian capital. The aim is not to increase the intervention’s visibility, but rather to provide visitors and citizens with an accessible public ‘station’.
The radio station. The Armenian Radio (fictional) was a popular type of humor that emerged between the 1950s-60s in the former Communist Eastern Block countries. The question-and-answer jokes often touched topics that were sensitive or liable for censorship. By the late 1950s, those jokes were actively addressing the realities of people, such as the lack of civil liberties, shortages, poor quality of household items etc. The Armenian Radio inspires to recreate such a format, with the intention of addressing pressing current issues that contain a similar sensitive load, such as rapid urbanisation, aging infrastructure, construction boom and political turbulence. The pavilion works as a moving radio station that aims to connect people in their own time and space. It enables citizens and other international visitors to address one another through a live and in person broadcasting program. Moreover, this can include interviews, voice messages, podcasts, music, etc. In the public spaces selected, listeners will participate to the communicative line and it will last for the whole biennial period.
The weather station. Together with the radio station, the nomadic installation will be provided with a weather acquisition system that tops-up the architecture of the object. Through this device, the aim is to monitor the urban environment and aknowledge people about the condition of the context they live in. Run by solar energy, it will be used to collect data on the air pollution (PM 2.5 and PM 10 percentages mostly) of different public spaces throughout the city, defining those that need more or less improvement in the near future. After the data collection process, the radio station will therefore be used to daily inform people of the air quality issue, too.