The children’s program invites audiences aged 8–12 years of age to create floating cities and bizarre flying systems and talk about biomimicry—a field of knowledge based on borrowing ideas, concepts, design, and technical solutions from natural processes and organisms. Teenagers will reflect on our planet’s visions of the future and present their ideas during the discussion. Garage’s youngest visitors will be able to read books about flights in reality and dreams and draw their own aircraft.
Aeronauts unite! A public program for kids and teens accompanying Tomás Saraceno’s Moving Atmospheres project
Date
Place
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
HOW TO TAKE PART
Children and teenagers under 18 years of age are invited to participate.
Participation is available with advance registration.
Personal protective equipment (masks and gloves) must be used at the event.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 3
13:00–15:00 Garage Glass Room
Discussion for teenagers: “Visions of the Future: What Epochs Await Our Planet?”
Anthropocene is the era of humanity. Novaсene is the era of artificial intelligence. Aerocene is the era of air. Which of these eras are we living in? Which comes next? Artist Tomás Saraceno believes that our epoch will be replaced by the Aerocene—the era of air, where social and environmental ties will be determined by the laws of thermodynamics. Using solar energy, humankind will rise into the air without fossil fuels. Once unbound from the surface of the Earth with its physical and barriers and state borders, humanity will be able to move freely through the air ocean.
The session will introduce participants to various concepts and visions of the future. Together with the tutors, they will discuss changes that may happen in social, environmental, and cultural ties in the coming geological epochs, both prospective and real.
14+
About the tutors
Dmitry Burenko is co-founder and director at the project The Epoch of Anthropocene. Sociologist, candidate of psychology. He lives and works in Moscow.
Pavel Boev is co-founder and Science Director at the project The Epoch of Anthropocene. Anthropologist and ecologist. He lives and works in Moscow.
REGISTRATION
Sunday, October 4
13:00–16:00 Kids’ Room
Graphics workshop: “I Want to Fly!”
Participants will meet Garage Triennial's unannounced artist and find out why he was not included in the general list. During a casual tea party, the artist will explain how to make art without producing anything. Listeners will then have the opportunity to ask questions and take a fresh look at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
The event is in three sessions: 13:00, 14:00, 15:00.
Each session lasts 40 minutes.
5+
Sunday, October 4
14:00–16:00 Garage Atrium
Workshop: A Postcard from the Future
Participants of the workshop will be transported to the year 3030 and make a postcard for a real person from the past, that is, from 2020. Inspired by the work of Tomás Saraceno, ideas about an eco-friendly future, and their own thoughts on what the world could be like in a thousand years, they will also try to envision and depict a panorama of a floating city.
In addition to developing the city’s new image, the group will discuss why certain buildings will soar in the air, which architectural principles will most likely become outdated and which will remain relevant. They will try to find answers to questions about how future city dwellers will look and what kind of interaction with other types of life awaits humanity. Participants will also design a postage stamp, a teleport to the past in this case.
8+
About the pedagogues
Marina Vaisman is an architect, graphic artist, teacher, founder and author of education programs at the MOGU! architectural studio, co-curator of the program for teenagers MАРШROOT at the Architectural School March (2019–2020).
Nikolay Fugarov is an architect, documentary filmmaker, chief architect of projects at AI Architects, teacher at the MOGU! architectural studio, co-curator of the program for teenagers MАРШROOT at the Architectural School March (2019–2020).
Saturday, November 14
12:00–13:15
Lecture: “Borrowed from Nature: How Biomimicry Helps Us Build the Future Today”
Nature is an inexhaustible source of ideas, concepts, and solutions. Constant experiments have been going on in its “laboratories” for 3.8 billion years now. Through countless trial and error in the course of evolution, modern plant and animal species have emerged and occupied all ecological niches on the planet, from sea depths to mountain peaks, from the Equator to Polar caps. Human genius has also managed to achieve a lot, but nature often does it with much more elegance and cost savings. Humanity was able to elevate themselves to the sky, but only due to the use of hydrocarbon engines. To lift just one kilogram of mass in the air, an airplane requires immeasurably more energy than those who mastered flight millions of years ago, that is, birds, insects, and even some mammals.
The speakers will discuss biomimicry, biomemetics, and bionics—areas of knowledge based on borrowing ideas, concepts, design, and technical solutions from natural processes and organisms. The audience will get to know which plant gave us velcro straps, which bird inspired Japanese bullet trains, how physical laws can allow humans to overcome gravity and conquer the atmosphere, and whether this will be the beginning of a new era—the Aerocene.
8+
About the tutors
Dmitry Burenko is co-founder and director at the project The Epoch of Anthropocene. Sociologist, candidate of psychology. He lives and works in Moscow.
Pavel Boev is co-founder and Science Director at the project The Epoch of Anthropocene. Anthropologist and ecologist. He lives and works in Moscow.
Saturday, January 30
13:00–15:30 Garage Atrium
Workshop: Right for the Air
The workshop will introduce participants to Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene Manifesto and the bold ideas of Russian avant-gardists. After that, they will be offered the opportunity to design the landscape of a floating city. Each group member will create their own block, which could exist autonomously or be connected to other neighborhoods. Helped by the Museum’s educators, participants will figure out how the city with a three-dimensional traffic diagram, with street blocks and city centers located at different heights—could operate, with particular focus made on the newly-developed air transport.
8+
About the pedagogues
Marina Vaisman is an architect, graphic artist, teacher, founder and author of education programs at the MOGU! architectural studio, co-curator of the program for teenagers MАРШROOT at the Architectural School March (2019–2020).
Nikolay Fugarov is an architect, documentary filmmaker, chief architect of projects at AI Architects, teacher at the MOGU! architectural studio, co-curator of the program for teenagers MАРШROOT at the Architectural School March (2019–2020).
