While the Department generally does not recommend other sites or sources and tries to maintain the dignity of its anonymity, an exception has been made in this case and highly "suggests" investigating the magazine's website:
Architecture MN
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Announcement #7_ Unauthorized Publicity
In a surprising and unauthorized move an announcement (Best Promo Ever) of the forthcoming Exhibition was released today on the Architecture MN blog Architecture MN blog. It is unclear what action or sanctions the Department might take against the organization in order to hamper a growing anticipation as the opening approaches.
While the Department generally does not recommend other sites or sources and tries to maintain the dignity of its anonymity, an exception has been made in this case and highly "suggests" investigating the magazine's website:
Architecture MN
While the Department generally does not recommend other sites or sources and tries to maintain the dignity of its anonymity, an exception has been made in this case and highly "suggests" investigating the magazine's website:
Architecture MN
Announcement #6-Entry to Zone 5 image released
In an effort to mitigate mounting public pressure for further information and explanations of their earlier announcements on the excavation occurring in Zone 5, the Department of Public Design released a photo of what they describe as the "Entry to Zone 5". In an attempt to answer why a number "9" can be seen painted under the entry, a spokesperson for the Director stated, "This is a typical deflection technique used at the time of Zone 5's active life meant to obfuscate efforts to locate them."
No further information was released.
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| Purported "Entry to Zone 5" |
No further information was released.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Announcement #4-An Exhibition of reAssembly
The Director of the Department of Public Design released preliminary images of the work undertaken by the Council of Architects in the reAssembly of Zone 5.
reAssembly Sections
reAssembly Panel A
reAssembly - Speculations
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Announcement #3-Invitation to An Exhibition of reAssembly
The Director of the Department of Public Design announced today that an ambiguous assortment of artifacts and materials recently uncovered in Zone 5 will be evaluated by the Council of Architects and presented in an exhibition of reassembly.
Where:
Form + Content Gallery
210 North 2nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55401
When:
July 14 - August 29, 2011
Thur-Sat, 12-6pm
Opening Reception
Saturday July 16; 6-9pm
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Announcement #2
From the Department of Public Design
RE: Found objects, materials and arcane constructions
Council of Architects MEMO
From: Member Roehr
This project has grown out of a conversation amongst a specific group of working architects interested in exploring new ways of working together that might leverage their particular (sometimes peculiar) skills and collective energy to new and unforeseen ends. The project itself is an effort to tease out that ever mystifying and primal relationship between things and meaning - how meaning imbues a thing; how a thing embodies meaning. This is a perennial question in our practice, and the question that holds the potential to open architecture well beyond itself. As a group effort, the project has also become an exploration of the relationship between the realms of highly personal and collective meaning. It has taken a group of people who are typically engaged in the controlled, detailed, orchestrated manipulation of the environment into a highly ambiguous situation in which the very ground rules for what we are doing together are in constant flux and negotiation, pushing everyone beyond their comfort zone. The conversation is fundamentally unstable, and is constantly going meta; the danger is to tumble through an infinite regress of reflection about what we are trying to achieve. But that is also the thrill, and cuts to the heart of the balance we are always seeking as architects and artists, and presumably as humans - a provisional equilibrium between order and chaos - an equilibrium that momentarily suspends negotiation and allows us to act. The resulting artifact will be less an artwork or installation per se, and more the record of this process, manipulated to highlight and clarify itself.
RE: Found objects, materials and arcane constructions
Council of Architects MEMO
From: Member Roehr
This project has grown out of a conversation amongst a specific group of working architects interested in exploring new ways of working together that might leverage their particular (sometimes peculiar) skills and collective energy to new and unforeseen ends. The project itself is an effort to tease out that ever mystifying and primal relationship between things and meaning - how meaning imbues a thing; how a thing embodies meaning. This is a perennial question in our practice, and the question that holds the potential to open architecture well beyond itself. As a group effort, the project has also become an exploration of the relationship between the realms of highly personal and collective meaning. It has taken a group of people who are typically engaged in the controlled, detailed, orchestrated manipulation of the environment into a highly ambiguous situation in which the very ground rules for what we are doing together are in constant flux and negotiation, pushing everyone beyond their comfort zone. The conversation is fundamentally unstable, and is constantly going meta; the danger is to tumble through an infinite regress of reflection about what we are trying to achieve. But that is also the thrill, and cuts to the heart of the balance we are always seeking as architects and artists, and presumably as humans - a provisional equilibrium between order and chaos - an equilibrium that momentarily suspends negotiation and allows us to act. The resulting artifact will be less an artwork or installation per se, and more the record of this process, manipulated to highlight and clarify itself.
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Arcane assemblage 1 -Zone 5 |
Monday, May 2, 2011
Announcement #1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Department of Public Design announced today that an ambiguous assortment of seemingly unrelated objects recently uncovered in Zone 5, will be assessed by the Council of Architects to determine their nature, origin, and meaning. The Council will attempt to assemble these objects in order to apprise their adherence to the Department's current Standards of Dogma for the public domain.
The Council's findings will be on display this summer at Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. The public is invited to view this presentation and encouraged to respond with alternate explanations and interpretations for consideration by the Council, after which a final report will be prepared for the Department's purview.
While the Department cannot be reached in any manner for information or questioning, the findings of this ongoing investigation can be found at the a designated project website@
http://thedepartmentofpublicdesign.blogspot.com
Details to follow
-The Director
Select Images:
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC DESIGN: INTERIM REPORT
RE: Found objects, materials and arcane constructions
The Department of Public Design announced today that an ambiguous assortment of seemingly unrelated objects recently uncovered in Zone 5, will be assessed by the Council of Architects to determine their nature, origin, and meaning. The Council will attempt to assemble these objects in order to apprise their adherence to the Department's current Standards of Dogma for the public domain.
The Council's findings will be on display this summer at Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. The public is invited to view this presentation and encouraged to respond with alternate explanations and interpretations for consideration by the Council, after which a final report will be prepared for the Department's purview.
While the Department cannot be reached in any manner for information or questioning, the findings of this ongoing investigation can be found at the a designated project website@
http://thedepartmentofpublicdesign.blogspot.com
Details to follow
-The Director
Curated by Jay H. Isenberg and Lynda Monick-Isenberg.
The Council of Architects:
Alchemy
ALTUS Architecture + Design
CITYDESKSTUDIO
Locus Architecture
RoehrSchmitt Architecture
Locus Architecture
RoehrSchmitt Architecture
Select Images:
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| Excavation - Zone 5 |
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| Found construction-Zone 5 |
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| Found object - Zone 5 |
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| Artifacts - Zone 5 |
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| Found Materials/Objects - Zone 5 |
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| Arcane construction - Zone 5 |
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