© All images by Redshift Architecture & Art in association with Laura Harding, Alex Koll, Michael Zanardo
PAD: Protest Activity Dwelling
Exhibited:
- Canberra Biennale 2005
- Strategies for Urban Occupation, Storefront for Art & Architecture 2011
in association with: Laura Harding, Alex Koll, Michael Zanardo
Exhibited:
- Canberra Biennale 2005
- Strategies for Urban Occupation, Storefront for Art & Architecture 2011
in association with: Laura Harding, Alex Koll, Michael Zanardo
The PAD is a temporary dwelling for appropriating urban spaces. It is designed for use over a day or for up to a month to facilitate the occupation of urban spaces for protest.
Fundamental to the PAD is the idea of signification. Protest involves the dissemination of a message to the widest possible audience. Accordingly, the PAD uses the message to structure inhabitation.
The poster is a dynamic structural element which moves into three positions, changing the section of the PAD to form three modes – Towing, Working, and Sleeping.
The PAD allows all types of people to transiently inhabit their city and to communicate their message in a format that engages with the scale and complexity of contemporary urban environments.
The PAD allows all types of people to transiently inhabit their city and to communicate their message in a format that engages with the scale and complexity of contemporary urban environments.
• The messsage encloses the PAD for transport;
• The message forms shelter for working beneath;
• The message folds to make pockets for sleep.
A large format poster is printed for each protest and fixed to telescopic arms and rollers on the PAD structure.
• The message forms shelter for working beneath;
• The message folds to make pockets for sleep.
A large format poster is printed for each protest and fixed to telescopic arms and rollers on the PAD structure.
