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32

InteligenciasColectivas

Every region of the world has its own repertoire of construction techniques. The coexistence of different degrees of industrialization and development allows for the mixing of semi-industrial products with old and enduring techniques; however, they are only considered valid in informal environments. While many of these construction solutions lack proper design planning, they generate a wide range of procedures through popular and generational wisdom. Few standardized products exhibit such great improvisation.

Inteligencias Colectivas draws its inspiration in part from this very ethos. Rooted in real-life examples of intelligent construction, this online platform and free database brings together knowledge considered to be on the fringe of traditional construction practice. This methodology is used in order to promote a type of technical know-how that is at once inclusive and public. A horizontal learning system — through tinkering with material prototypes — helps to weave together a tight network of people and collectives.

54

[estación ecológica

las malvinas]

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVA 2.0

MINISTERIO M.AMBIENTEUNIBE

IX/2011 - XII/2011

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVA

OFFFFICINAPROGRAMA EL RANCHITO

MATADERO - MADRID

VIII/2011 - XII/2011

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVAOIZ EGINSEPTIEMBRE 2012-

JUNIO 2013

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVATAIWAN

JULIO 2013


SEÚLMAYO 2015

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVAPAKISTÁN

OCTUBRE 2016

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVASÁHARA

MINISTERIO M.AMBIENTEFESTIVAL FISAHARA

2011 - 2012


RED BATACCEBATA

FEBRERO 2013


RED MALABOCCEMALABO

FEBRERO 2013


DONOSTIAUNIVERSIDAD

DEL PAÍS VASCO

1/III/2011 - 10/III/2011


BUDAPESTMOHOLY-NAGY

1/VI/ 2011 - 10/VI/ 2011


SANTIAGOC.C.E. SANTIAGO DE CHILE

23/XI/2010 - 26/XI/2010


CHILEF.A.U. UNIV. CHILE

29/XI/2010 - 10/XII/2010


LIMAUNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA

ESCUELABFABLAB

08/XI/2010 - 19/XII/2010


RED LIMACCELIMA

SEPTIEMBRE 2012


RED MANAGUACCEMANAGUA

OCTUBRE 2012


MONTEVIDEOUNIVERSIDAD

DE LA REPÚBLICA

13/XII/2010 - 17/XII/2010

BINTELIGENCIA

COLECTIVAS. AIRES

06/XII/2010 - 10/XII/2010


MEDELLÍNVII BIAU

REDES LOCALES

8/X/2010 - 18/X/2010


PALOMINOUNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA

DE BOGOTÁ

2010 -

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVABOGOTÁ

CONSEJERÍA CULTURAL DE PAÑA EN COLOMBIA

22/XI/2010 - 26/XI/2010

ES

INTELIGENCIACOLECTIVASANTO

DOMINGOC.C.E.SANTO DOMINGO

UNIBE11/VII/2011 - 30/VII/2011

VAINTELIGENCIA

COLECTIBILBOCAÓSTICA

XII/2011

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InteligenciasColectivas[Karachi]

After 20 days in Karachi in which we discovered nearly 60 amazing objects (a term we use for non-standardized intelligent constructions), met more than 200 people, designed and built an urban structure using local techniques in collaboration with Marvi Mazhar and her team, engaging a human network of more than 30 people, we were still far away from knowing Karachi in all its complexity. However, for us Karachi is a city full of jewels.

Karachi is naan bakers, pomegranate juice stands, motorbike covers, kites, steel handmade tools and all kinds of cook and chill in public space.

Moving around Karachi with open eyes and as close to what was happening around us (other than walking, our preferred means of transportation was the rickshaw), we perceived from the very first second the city’s strong manufacturing character and the Pakistani way of doing things “better done than perfect” with unexpected intelligent design solutions that solve specific problems and are determined by the materials and technologies available at the time. Recycling is a leitmotiv in Karachi.

What happens when these intelligent design solutions for everyday problems are shared and replicated again and again all around the city? The result is a city where the amount of dif ferent kinds of trolleys, bikes, canopies, street kitchens etc. becomes infinite.

As object, types these solutions shape the perception and use of public space. Every user customizes objects for his/her own purpose, creating a diverse family of the same object. The families of objects are made by different people who specialize in a certain trade and usually live and work in a certain neighborhood typical for their field of work, thus creating markets and commercial areas where the products on sale are built in backyard workshops. Streets full of nothing but car parts lead to streets full of textile products or food, rerouting needs and demands, influencing the urban landscape and peoples’ movement around the city to the point of rendering sidewalks irrelevant.

The systems of urban objects and bottom-up infrastructure (trash collectors, goods delivery, transportation) are in fact the cornerstones of urban behavior in the city. Urbanism in Karachi is handmade, built by objects and manufactures.

98 “Ruk

ko,

ru

kko

ru

kko”

(com

mon

exp

ress

ion

hear

d du

r-in

g ou

r ric

ksha

w s

afar

i res

earc

h ar

ound

the

city

)

“Why should we import it if we can make it” “S

idewalks?

Of course, but

maybe…

”(com

mon expression heard

during our rickshaw safari

research around the city)

1110

jewels Inteligencias Colectivas (IC) is about developing an online researching tool to categorize and taxonomize intelligent urban solutions concerning informal knowledge, citizen agreements, citizen-experts and non-driven urban processes. We are uploading and sharing them under Creative Commons licenses.

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: Bac

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bdul

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app

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nolo

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achi

, Pak

ista

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sion

s: 1

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15

x 3

cm

app

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way

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: Pak

ista

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s: V

aria

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, bam

boo

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llige

nce:

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ple

and

refin

ed d

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ls o

f ten

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str

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: Ibr

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app

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, Pak

ista

nD

imen

sion

s: 4

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ork

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: Kar

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ista

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aria

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-cos

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Loca

tion

: Kar

achi

, Pak

ista

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imen

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nolo

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aint

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woo

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ork

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llige

nce:

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uty

as a

sin

g of

pro

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m o

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tion

: Ib

rahi

m H

ider

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arac

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akis

tan

Dim

ensi

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rah

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[Bea

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Cit

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Loca

tion

: Pak

ista

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s: V

aria

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nolo

gy: M

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nce:

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of fi

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pace

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me

kin

d o

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lleys

.

Loca

tion

: Kar

achi

, Pak

ista

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imen

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s: -

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nolo

gy: -

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llige

nce:

Clu

ster

of w

orks

hops

and

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nom

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sca

le

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akis

tan

tru

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pai

nti

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spo

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so p

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de

a pl

ace

in t

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city

for

acti

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peo

ple

kno

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go

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goo

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Around the city you find many different types of trolleys selling goods, food, juices... but almost all of them have the same structure. The frame is made using steel flat bars that are bent and twisted. Two pairs of ribs receive the wheels. Using four ribs instead of two allows each wheel to move independently. Over this frame a wood board made out of cheap wood battens is placed. Starting with this simple structure each owner can add parts to adapt the trolley to his own needs.

The upgrades allow us to take a deeper look at some of the objects found in the research. The objects are measured and explained from their manufacturing process. The objective pursued is twofold: on the one hand to allow the informal knowledge that treasures the object to be codified as a technique. On the other hand this form of cataloging allows the object to be replicable in contexts different from the original.

darwin meets karachi [upgrade]

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#Karachi Trolley

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jugaad[prototyping] Planning and building critical constructions (“prototypes”) from an assortment of evolved “jewels” found in Karachi, in collaboration with know-how local agents, becomes an equal and equitable design methodology for cultural exchange.

These prototypes are centered on architectural and urban planning techniques that combine conventional know-how with present-day needs. Many materials – recycled, semi-industrialized, crafted and manufactured – are integrated into such customized constructions. These solutions need to be incorporated into the building process as a way to make longstanding social traditions and our ever-changing built environment commensurable.

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pakistan chowk

“We know that urban spaces, arts and cultural nexus and organizations are what make our neighborhoods livable, walkable, and vibrant.”

Marvi Mazhar

In Inteligencias Colectivas, our final aim is to understand “tactical urbanisms” around the world as intelligent emergent city-living-making and to uncover human creativity as evidences of local culture, concerns and political situations. If we can document, share and implement such knowledge and hybridize it with scientific city-development, we will be able to ensure decent, healthy and safe living conditions in more liveable and grassroots planned urban environments.

We plan 21st century cities with citizen-curators, and this endeavour wouldn’t be possible without the cooperation and support of a vast network of agents, administrations, cultural and social entities.

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From Then to Now...an ongoing initiative

Architecture starts with desire on the part of its makers, whether for security, or grandeur, or shelter, or rootedness. Built, it influences the emotions of those who experience and use it, whose desires continue to shape and change it. Desire and emotion are overlapping concepts, but if ‘desire’ is active, directed towards real and imagined ends, and if ‘emotion’ implies greater passivity, describing the ways in which we are moved, architecture is engaged with both. Buildings are intermediaries in the reciprocation between the hopes and intentions of people, in the present and the past. They are the mineral interval between the thoughts and actions that make them and the thoughts and actions that inhabit them. Heritage is knowledge. Architecture is Life.

In the fast growing cities of developing countries most parks have been reduced or even been replaced by buildings. This reflects callous disregard for health and recreation of the citizens. Moreover the parks have been stratified according to socio-economic status of the urban dwellers with very little consideration to the recreational needs of the low-income urban lot.

Pakistan Chowk is a landmark heritage public space of Karachi. It lies in the District South, Karachi, where Strachan Road meets Aram Bagh, covering an area of 6633 sq.ft. approximately. The Chowk is surrounded mostly by pre-partition buildings, few new developments, famous educational buildings and restaurants. The Chowk and its surrounding dust covered buildings tell the story of the journey of the city of Karachi into decay and dearth of aesthetics.

Historically, the Rambagh Quarters’ (now known as Arambagh Quarters) importance arises from the water tanks (talao) and innumerable wells that once occupied a large area and were the initial water source to the Artillery and others.

Pakistan Chowk was formerly called the educational heart of Karachi. It was from here that the Sindh College Association and D.J Science College began to operate. It also promoted tourist activities and housed the busiest taxi and Victoria Station in the city, known as the Purana Tonga Stand.

The basic vision was to rehabilitate the Chowk back to its glory, to revive the concept of Public Square free of any commercial hoardings, redundant wires, and through the tool of design, develop the space. The aim of the rehabilitation was not beautification, but rather making it a sustainable and adaptable space for the neighborhood and the local stakeholders in three phases.

• Phase 1: analytical study and oral history of the space and its inhabitants and development of associations through dialogues with stakeholders, also known as Mohalla Baazi• Phase 2: designing and implementation of interventions at the Chowk • Phase 3: dealing with the issues at urban level with the help of local stakeholders and establishing a Cultural Art Center in Old Downtown

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Design Intervention and ProcessThe Chowk was previously surrounded by a solid wall. There was no vertical access to the platform and the Chowk had turned into the largest public bathroom and dump in the neighborhood, populated by homeless and drug addicts.

The interventions carried out at the Chowk include the installation of 32 benches with names of Karachiites who worked towards civic engagement, plantation of 18 lignum trees around the Chowk, massive cleaning of the area, installation of lamp posts, dustbins, a history board and an installation by German-Spanish design team zoohaus. From the largest garbage collection platform to now an Urban Cultural Hub, we designed the space keeping the relevance and importance of its surrounding context.

The immediate context of Pakistan Chowk and architectural influences of the area have been well documented through Condition Survey Report (CSR), Cultural Mapping and Oral History documentation, and an anthropological study of the local immigrant community is in its process.

In the frame of “Urbanities – art and public space in Pakistan”, the German-Spanish architecture collective zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas carried out an investigative and constructive research of urban informal design practices and collective technologies.

The outcomes were realized in collaboration with Marvi Mazhar & Associates for the use of the community at Pakistan Chowk, where an outdoor space with red frames was designed with truck artists and welders. Through intelligent design intervention and scale, the space became a popular node for the locals.

Today, the space is inhabited by artists who come on Sundays to paint, sketch and teach – an informal Art Center has been established by senior artists, and we have hosted several cultural events like theatre, music, storytelling sessions, readings and art performances.

The intention to go to a place creates historical time: the place is a goal in the future. The future cannot, however be left open and undefined. It is an ongoing dialogue. What is a place? What gives a place its identity, its aura? Preparing an up to date assessment of the constitution of Public Space may seem an impossible undertaking since public space takes diverse shapes and faces increasingly multifaceted and complex demands. Many towns and cities, however, now recognize the importance of public spaces, which, alongside the major places of interest, form the bond that holds together a city’s landscape.

Marvi Mazhar, Heritage Consultant, principal architect Marvi Mazhar & Associates, Founder & Creative Head Pakistan Chowk Community Centre

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guilds&markets [humannetwork] We understand “human network” as an active knowledge network of persons and collectives that becomes essential to get into specific and inaccessible qualitative space design. In this case the act of building a 3x6x4 meter structure becomes an epic action that involves more than 30 people.

For this project, Karachi, the mega-creative city of makers, brought the guilds of Charpai, Truck Art, Masonry and Motorcycle Decoration together with Marvi Mazhar’s Architecture Office (Ali Raza), the curator Sara-Duana Meyer and the team of Inteligencias Colectivas to design and build “Jugaad”, a playful urban installation on Pakistan Chowk in the heart of the city. While this research and project is mainly geared towards amateur builders, it aspires to be something greater: to encourage and cultivate citizen science.

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AcknowledgmentsIn the process of IC Karachi particularly noteworthy is the commitment of Sara-Duana Meyer and Stefan Winkler as initiators and curators of “Urbanities – art and public space in Pakistan”. Equally remarkable is the participation of initiatives like “Pakistan Chowk”, represented by Marvi Mazhar or the “Vasl Artists’ Collective” created and supported by Adeela Suleman and Naila Mahmood. We also want to express an immense gratitude for the ones who showed us the “real” Karachi and their streets: Ali Raza, Zoya Ahmed, Huma Tassawar, Shahana Rajani, Madeeha Syed, Basil Andrews, etc.

This network pushed the limits of Inteligencias Colectivas and enabled the development of new environments in a more sustainable, creative and common sense way.

Inteligencias Colectivas [karachi] took place as an an investigative and constructive research by zoohaus in the framework of Urbanities – art and public space in Pakistan.

Urbanities – art and public space in Pakistan is a critical exploration of the urban, its complexities and possibilities under the premise of individual artistic work and research approaches. Throughout 2016, the partner project between the Goethe-Institut Pakistan and the Lahore Biennale Foundation, in collaboration with Vasl Artists’ Collective, Annemarie-Schimmel-Haus, Marvi Mazhar & Associates, and other partners, incited discursive and artistic contributions related to Pakistan’s controversial and contested urban space. By recollecting Henri Lefebvre’s “right to the city” for critical discussion, the project aimed to enable a broad audience to engage with contemporary art and urban space, and to link the emerging generation of artists, curators and urban researchers in Pakistan with the scenes in Germany within the broader framework of the curatorial processes leading up to the Lahore Biennale.

The project Urbanities – art and public space in Pakistan was conceived by Stefan Winkler, Goethe-Institut Pakistan, and directed and co-curated by Sara-Duana Meyer.

Photo creditsAmna Abdullah and zoohaus

Marvi Mazhar & AssociatesPage 50-51, 62 bottom

DesignRizwan Hussainwww.lahoredesignstudio.com

EditorsSara-Duana Meyer and Stefan Winkler (Goethe-Institut Pakistan) www.goethe.de/pakistan

This publication is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SAISBN: 978-969-9697-01-2

Inteligencias Colectivas 2016www.inteligenciascolectivas.org

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