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Manufactura teatral

Accompanied by the students, the visitors will share the experience of their apprenticeship. Address communication and exchange through a nonlinear exhibition composed by scenic units disposed inside the same suitcases the students will bring.

“What’s most important for us is the apprenticeship linked to the experience of action, where the student is the one who goes in search of knowledge and not the other way around. This will question his intuition, drive him towards teamwork, encourage him to solve real problems and create a need for learning that teachers will only accompany”.

We wanted the design of this exhibition to be part of the training program itself, as a creative exercise for students and graduates through which they could raise awareness of their own learning. For this purpose we asked them to organize themselves in groups so as to develop a narrative object inside a piece of luggage that they would bring along to Prague.

In this way we seek to share and communicate our training process from a more personal point of view and work within the main theme of the Quadrennial that is, we believe, to be discovered and discover another culture reflecting on the concepts of travel and encounters while encouraging a real exchange experience with the visitors of the pavilion.

We don´t just want to exhibit archive memories, nor to present our work as static. These “scenic units” as we call them, would be deployed in different ways: some as displays, containing the own universe of their creators, and others as pieces of furniture of the pavilion itself. We propose a nonlinear narrative space in order to facilitate the dialogue with our exhibition.

The operation of these bags can be autonomous as well as complementary (via a system of assembly between them). We intend that the pavilion changes day by day, not only in its configuration but also in its content and in the way it is articulated by the elements. A bit like if the visitors were in front of a stage act, with a constant changing of scenery.

We also want to give an important place to the Stage Design Department of the Architecture school of the city of Nantes (FR) with which we have a close collaborative partnership working together in the creation and implementation of the training program but overall by reflecting upon the constant redefinition of the scenography profession.

The topics we want to approach rangefrom: the theoretical framework and the genesis of academic programs, the exercises that we have developed in the training program during the last two years (2012–2014) along with different professional practices, to the implementation of our productive workshop which still functions.

Last but not least, we would like to emphasize the relationship that our facilities have with their environment and how they participate in a process of social and urban renewal in depressed areas of the city.