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dedesign is Carlos García-Sancho (read more)
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based in Neukölln, Berlin.

dedesign is  /architecture
/graphic design and image editing
/video editing
/computer-aided drawing
/hand drawing
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EN: The world we live in is clearly overdesigned.

The aim of dedesign is to explore the real necessities and limitations of the design praxis, if any. A design made by and for the 'non-designers'. An architect pretending to be a graphic designer pretending to be a video-editor and pretending to make a living out of it in Berlin.

And posting his results so far in the web.

If you have a project that could fit in this guidelines, or any comments, please share.

Gentlemen, let's dedesign.
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DE: Wir wohnen in einer Welt, die deutlich überentworfen ist.

Das Ziel von dedesign ist, die realen Bedürfnisse und Grenzen der Design-Praxis zu erforschen. Ein Design, das für und von den 'nicht-designers' gemacht ist. Ein Architekt, der ein Grafiker zu sein behauptet, der ein Video-Editor zu sein behauptet, der seinen Lebensunterhalt damit zu verdienen behauptet.

Und er stellt seine bisherige Projekte ins Netz.

Wenn Du ein solches Projekt im Kopf hast, oder noch eine Meinung, bitte nimm Kontakt mit mir auf.

Meine Damen und Herren, let's dedesign.
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ES: El mundo en el que vivimos está claramente sobrediseñado.

El objetivo de dedesign es explorar las necesidades y limitaciones reales de la praxis del diseño, si es que las hay. Un diseño hecho por y para los 'no diseñadores'. Un arquitecto que pretende ser un diseñador gráfico que pretende ser un montador de video que pretende vivir de ello en Berlin.

Y que cuelga sus trabajos hasta ahora en la web.

Si tienes proyectos que puedan encajar en estas premisas, o si tienes comentarios, por favor ponte en contacto.

Caballeros, vamos a dediseñar.
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bordeaux report

Urban research carried out by Cohabitation Strategies in the frame of the Évento 2011 art biennale in Bordeaux, France, with Michelangelo Pistoletto as the art director. The aim was the creation of a publication that would guide and inform the artists invited to the biennale, come together under the motto ‘L’art pour une re-évolution urbaine’ (‘Art towards a urban revolution’). Some of the main topics adressed were the status and future of social housing in France, gentrification processes triggered by urban renewal projects and the climate of competition between cities in the logic of neoliberal urbanization.

The research was carried out by a team based in Bordeaux with Carlos García-Sancho (architect), Floriane Arrijuria Minaberry (urban sociologist), Guillermo Delgado (architect), Fanny Liatard (urbanist/politologist), Anne-Cécile Paredes (photographer), Emmanuelle Roussilhes-Pouchet (urban sociologist). The research was guided and supervised by Lucia Babina, Emiliano Gandolfi, Gabriela Rendon and Miguel Robles-Durán.

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invasive densities

Final graduation project at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as part of the Urban Asymmetries Master Program, July 2009. This individual architecture project worked together as part of a bigger urban strategy, a communal project led by a group of ten Architecture and Urbanism students: Levan Asabashvili [GE], Bai Yan [CN], Silvia Bizzarri [IT], Carlos García-Sancho [ES], Tania Guerrero [MX], Tomi Jaskari [FI], Tom Kolnaar [NL], Phillip Lühl [NA], Willem van de Ven [NL], Siebe M Voogt [NL], Taufan ter Weel [NL] and Idan Zveibil [IS].

All these projects were published in the book “Urban Asymmetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization”, Ed. Tahl Kaminer, Miguel Robles-Dúran, Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011.

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ecatepec: media maps

Part of the research carried by the Urban Asymmetries group in Ecatepec, Mexico City as part of the graduation project was a series of interviews and video shots of the conditions present in the site. This media showed as a perfect tool to show the views and standpoints of the different players, and the conflicts that were generated.
Five clips of about five minutes each have been created and used for several presentations (including the graduation). There is a project to create a 30 min documentary about the work carried out by the Urban Asymmetries group in Ecatepec.

The architectural and urban projects were published in the book “Urban Asymmetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization”, Ed. Tahl Kaminer, Miguel Robles-Dúran, Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011.

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mapping economies

Various diagrams produced for the Urban Asymmetries graduation project, used in the project research draft and the oral presentations.
The challenge was to represent graphically a series of economical processes present in the site in Ecatepec, Mexico City.

This project, among others, was published in the book “Urban Asymmetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization”, Ed. Tahl Kaminer, Miguel Robles-Dúran, Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011.

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alternative urbanities


Final graduation project at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as part of the Urban Asymmetries Master Program, July 2009. This architecture proposal worked as part of a bigger urban strategy, a communal project led by a group of ten Architecture and Urbanism students: Levan Asabashvili [GE], Bai Yan [CN], Silvia Bizzarri [IT], Carlos García-Sancho [ES], Tania Guerrero [MX], Tomi Jaskari [FI], Tom Kolnaar [NL], Phillip Lühl [NA], Willem van de Ven [NL], Siebe M Voogt [NL], Taufan ter Weel [NL] and Idan Zveibil [IS].

All these projects were published in the book “Urban Asymmetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization”, Ed. Tahl Kaminer, Miguel Robles-Dúran, Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011.

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camp metropolità

Urban project to try to foresee and analyze the development that the Spanish high speed train (AVE) will bring when it builds a train station in La Secuita, Tarragona, a village of around 1 500 inhabitants between the rivaling cities of Tarragona and Reus. This station will serve as a local hub for a population of over 400 000. The project was developed together with Adrià Escolano at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) with Jorge Perea and Carles Crosses.

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representing utopia

The project attempts to represent the spaces of Thomas MORE’s ‘Utopia’. Each the four pannels represents a different scale: the country (the island), the city, the street and the human scale.
The island of Utopia is here represented with the imagery of the 20th century modernism,deliberately mixing different representation techniques in oder to create a temporally confuse setting. This might also refer to the idea of the time-travel, a device used as a excuse to think about utopias throughout time. There is a feeling of despair, a certain sense of lost future evoked by the images. It reminds us that built utopias tend to enter the realm of the dystopian.

“Utopia: The island”
by Carlos García-Sancho, September 2008
Collage (non-digital) on 100% cotton paper
50x50 cm
Under supervision of Miguel Robles-Durán (Urban Asymmetries, TU DELFT).

The island is represented with the language of transport networks diagrams. Each of the fifty four cities of Amaurot (arranged in a perfect grid) has the name of a different micronation, a simulacrum of Utopia in the contemporary world.

“Utopia: The city”
by Carlos García-Sancho, September 2008
Collage (non-digital) on 100% cotton paper
50x50 cm
Under supervision of Miguel Robles-Durán (Urban Asymmetries, TU DELFT).

“Utopia: The street”
by Carlos García-Sancho, September 2008
Collage (non-digital) on 100% cotton paper
50x50 cm
Under supervision of Miguel Robles-Durán (Urban Asymmetries, TU DELFT).

“Utopia: The human scale”
by Carlos García-Sancho, September 2008
Collage (non-digital) on 100% cotton paper
50x50 cm
Under supervision of Miguel Robles-Durán (Urban Asymmetries, TU DELFT).

The last pannel represent the desolated open spaces of Amaurot, the capital of Utopia which follows the guidelines of the Modernist City. It is the where the grotesque customs of the utopians take place. It represents a society in which every citizen is happy, but still relies on slavery, surveillance, punishment and humiliation.

process-based architecture

Pannels for the ARCHIPRIX prize 2009, appointed by the Technical University of Delft. Exhibited in the Faculty of Architecture, Delft. Collective work of the Urban Asymmetries group.
The challenge was to create pannels which could represent the graduation projects as a whole with a common language. The projects were portrayed through axonometries in which the strategies and different phases of the project could be inserted. An attempt to represent what the Urban Asymmetries group defended: the generation of a ‘process-based architecture’.

All these projects were published in the book “Urban Asymmetries. Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization”, Ed. Tahl Kaminer, Miguel Robles-Dúran, Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2011.

“Invasive densities: base CAD drawing”
by Carlos García-Sancho in collaboration with the Urban Asymmetries group, November 2009
Computer-aided 2D drawing
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“Invasive densities: base CAD drawing” (detail)
by Carlos García-Sancho in collaboration with the Urban Asymmetries group, November 2009
Computer-aided 2D drawing
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“Archiprix pannel: Proposing alternative urbanities”
collective work of the Urban Asymmetries group, November 2009.
Transfered prints and gouache on wood pannels
100 x 200 cm.

homopatik

Promotional videos for the homopatik party in about:blank, Berlin. Each of the parties has a different topic and the videos try to explain and develop them. Videos posted and linked on the web are seen as a cheap and sustainable alternative to printing flyers, a kind of flyer 2.0.

These videos would not be possible without the help and support of Danilo Rosato, Konstantin Wächter, Discordant Photography, Francesco Mr. Ties, and many other individuals that without any remuneration collaborate in the making of the videos lending their time and know-how.

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baladona tetris

Final project for the Urbanism course (“Urbanística VI”) at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) under the supervision of professors Manuel Bailo and Francesc Bacardit. The task proposed was converting the Badalona Sud industrial complex near Barcelona, Spain, to a residential area, imagining the existing industrial warehouses were to be dismantled.
The project proposed a general urban plan together with some housing typologies to “assemble” this new urban fabric, in the fashion of a Tetris game. The main two goals directing the project were the introduction of dwelling typologies with accessible roof terraces and the recuperation of a lost visual relation with the sea.

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keyword: space

Video piece trying to map a given space according to the three notions of space given by David Harvey in his text “Space as a keyword”. Under the supervision of Tahl Kaminer (TU Delft).

“Absolute space is fixed and we record or plan events within its frame. This is the space of Newton and Descartes (…). Space is relative in a double sense: that there are multiple geometries from which to choose and that the spatial frame depends crucially upon what it is being relativized and by whom. (…) It is impossible to understand space independent from time under this formulation and this mandates an important shift of language from space and time to space-time or space-temporality. The relational notion of space-time implies the idea of internal relations; external influences get internalized in specific processes or things through time (…). In a way, relational conceptions of space-time brings us to the point where mathematics, poetry and music converge if not merge.” [1]

[1] David Harvey, ‘Space as a key word’, “Spaces of global capitalism”, Verso, London New York, 2006, p 119-125.

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cooljas

“Cooljas” was the title of a booklet presented as a final project for the “Art and Architecture Theory” course (Composició III) in June 2007, under the supervision of Josep Maria Montaner at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB). Project carried out together with Adrià Escolano, Xavier Pagès and Pavel Cueto.

The premise of the research project was to analyze the work of architect Rem Koolhaas by trying to emulate his work, thus creating a counterfeit copy, a knock-off brand: ‘Cooljas’. Before knowing his final project for a Congress Centre in Cordoba (Spain), diagrams and tentative plans were produced trying to anticipate some of his thoughts and overall intentions, while imitating his graphical and representational style. This process was used as an excuse to reflect on the relation between an architect’s theoretical discourse and his practice, the role of the iconic building and the legacy of the architectural star-system.

Examples of publication spreads.
by Pavel Cueto, Adrià Escolano, Carlos García-Sancho, Xavier Pagès June 2007.
Print.
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The publication mimicked the Spanish gossip magazine ¡Hola! and was completed with fake advertisement pages in which famous star architects appeared as part of marketing campaigns.

“Cooljas® is not exactly Koolhaas, but it is similar.
Nckia®, Sunny®, Buitton®, Kike®… The same way counterfeit Asian copies saturate luxury and technology markets in big global capitals, Cooljas® is a fake and self-interested copy of Koolhaas production. Through Koolhaas’ texts we have tried to re-construct his architecture, and concretely one of his most recent works: the Palacio del Sur in Córdoba. […]
In between all these conflicting interests, architectural and cultural production, search of recognition and urban renewal programs, which role does the theoretical discourse really take? Is there a real, unambiguous relation between a built work and the texts it inspires, or is it just a collection of warm-hearted intentions, distanced from reality? Can an architectonical discourse be materialized?”
Excerpt from the booklet’s introduction.

Some of the publication’s fake advertising spaces, featuring various star architects (details).
by Pavel Cueto, Adrià Escolano, Carlos García-Sancho, Xavier Pagès June 2007.
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Diagrams presented in the publication (details).
by Pavel Cueto, Adrià Escolano, Carlos García-Sancho, Xavier Pagès June 2007.
Print.
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recycled architectures

Design project which tried to re-address some of the leftover spaces created at the crossing of two major roads in northern Barcelona: Via Augusta and Ronda de Dalt. This was an academic design project carried out together with Adrià Escolano and Pavel Cueto in the course “Arquitectures reciclades” under the supervision of Pilar Cos at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB).

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el dibujador

Personal illustration blog. Watercolor drawings depicting everyday life events, and what is not so everyday about them. eldibujador.tumblr.com

El dibujador is currently not drawing anymore, but he will hopefully be back soon when he takes some time to sort out all the drawings piled up inside his head.

“El dibujador”, translated as “the maker of drawings”, 

draws his whole life from some time ago. He started remembering moments and then drew them, trying to be precise in every detail, capturing everything. Doing so, those moments belonged to him.

El dibujador is a voyeur of his own life.

“A voyeur of his own life.”
Watercolor and ink on paper, August 2007.
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“Streets and avenues.”
Watercolor and ink on paper, 2010.
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“Jewish weddings”
Watercolor and ink on paper, July 2009.
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“Chomula, Chiapas, Mexico.”
Watercolor and ink on paper, January 2009.
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“Snow through the webcam”
Watercolor and ink on paper, November 2009.
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“Facing Haneke”
Watercolor and ink on paper, June 2010.
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“Neues leben in altem Schloss.”
Watercolor and ink on paper, August 2009.
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“Disappear.”
Watercolor and ink on paper, May 2010.
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Original caption (in Spanish):
“a veces lo más correcto parece que uno desaparezca.
coger una goma de borrar y empezar a borrarse sin pensar mucho en ello. y es que todos sospechamos que tenemos una en alguna parte de nuestra cabeza borradora, como ya nos intentó advertir el bueno de lynch.
y dejar atrás sólo unas miguitas, como si fueran unas cagarrutas de un animal que nadie vio llegar. de un dodo. de un gamusino.
el miedo es el de no poder borrarse del todo, como esos niños manazas en la clase de manualidades, que intentan borrar afanosamente los errores de su dibujo pero han apretado demasiado con el lápiz.”

ménage à moi

*ménage à moi* is a small brand of hand-made t-shirts done with stencils, trying to offer unique garments at low prices, which are currently sold in Berlin:

Kaufhaus der Berliner
Krossenerst 18, BERLIN

*ménage à moi* has been sold also in Barcelona, Rotterdam and Valladolid.

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