Treasure Island

Treasure Island map

Choosing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island as my 3rd city of interdependence came as a natural progression throughout my previous discoveries/explorations/adventures in Nowa Huta and Sheffield. In Nowa Huta, a second hand shop which became popular amongst us in Studio Six was refered to by locals in the neighbourhood as ‘Treasure Island’. Later, I stumbled upon my first piece of ‘treasure’ here also. For more details refer to blogroll #10.

This started me on a path of inquiry; what is treasure? What is junk?  Why are things perceived of different value? Who decides which?

Later, more reading into other similar novels in the same genre of treasure hunting and ‘epic’ journeys, seems to further emphasise the question of ‘treasure’ and how ‘value’ is possibly a relative notion/suggestion. This thematic development has started to inform a project brief which revolves around the concept of waste management in the urban environment today.

What can we classify as waste? Is there a way in adding ‘value’  of so-called waste before we add to the count of landfills?

Is one man’s junk another man’s treasure?

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Studio Six, MArch School of Architecture,

University of Sheffield

The work of  Studio Six is linked to the Interdependence Day project, (www.interdependenceday.co.uk)

launched in 2006 to reinvigorate sustainability debates and to question some of the technocratic outcomes of seeing ecological and economic concerns as an accounting or ‘problem solving’ challenge.

What can architecture contribute to this attempt to reconsider global, economic and environmental issues?

Interdependent understanding invites an architecture rooted in creativity and metaphor, which ‘listens’ to the potential of a city rather than imposing mark marketable criteria of enterprise, lifestyle or efficiency. This architecture is based on conversations between the city and its varied inhabitants, and in an awareness of its social, economic and ecological metabolism.

The interdependencies of a place may be understood as a particularly dynamic and complex constellation of social, economic and emotional relations, but the term also has ambitions for a sense of a place that is extroverted and unexpected. Interdependence includes a consciousness of links with the wider world integrating in a positive way the near and far, the local and the global, the human and the ecological.

The studio will instigate alternative modes of architectural collaboration, representation, and communication that are more open and amateur rather than specialised or expert. We will be exploring an architecture of ‘making-do’ and of ‘provisional construction’.

The studio has been exploring the ’steel cities’ of Nowa Huta and Sheffield but we have also been thinking about other cities, about state responsibility, about carnival, about pigeons…     Renata Tyszczuk

 

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