Users Manual

User's Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution

User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution is a year-long project developed as Casco’s contribution to Utrecht Manifest – Biennial for Social Design. The project deals with the evolutionary and collaborative process of “living” research in the contemporary domestic and private sphere – particularly in relation to the spatial imagining (or the built environment). It aims at re-articulating while exercising the notions of the social, the public and, eventually, the commons. For this purpose, an apartment in the Casco’s neighborhood (Bemuurde Weerd oz 18 b, Utrecht) is rented to be both a symbolic and functional base of the project. The actual use and transformation of space and multiple forms of activities in and out of the apartment intertwine with cross-disciplinary research and imaginative practices. The apartment is open to the public from Tuesday till Sunday from 12.00 till 18.00

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The Grand Domestic Revolution

4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 3 October, 2010 - 18:00
Casco House
Tuesday-Sunday 12 am - 6 pm
Curators: 
Binna Choi

Casco is extending its space to an apartment in the neighbourhood (Bemuurde Weerd oostzijde 18b) for a year-long project entitled 'User's Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution'. Developed in the framework of Utrecht Manifest - Biennial for Social Design, the project deals with the evolutionary process of “living” research into contemporary domestic and private sphere in order to re-articulate and exercise the notions of the social, the public and, eventually, the commons. The apartment becomes both a symbolic and functional base for this project.... more

Presentation of the new HKU visual identity proposal

21 January, 2010 - 14:00 - 20:00
Casco

Programma at the HKU.
A multi-disciplinary and collaborative students group from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) presents the new HKU visual identity proposal they have developed over last 5 months, assigned and directed by Casco in collaboration with the HKU project bureau.

Open forum

17 January, 2010 - 14:00 - 17:00
Casco

In the spirit of continuation of the form of public discussion in ‘If You Lived Here…’, an open forum will take place after the opening to share the history of the project as well as to develop a comparative view between past and present, between the US context and Utrecht and elsewhere in the post-welfare conditions of Europe. Participants include Martha Rosler, Anton Vidokle and Binna Choi, with guests including artist Marion von Osten, architect Andreas Muller, artist Graziela Kunsch and Friso Wiersum & Margot Ellenbruk, organizers of the Hidden City project in Utrecht.... more

If You Lived Here Still… An archive project by Martha Rosler

16 January, 2010 - 17:00 - 19:00
Casco

Casco's first project in the year in which it celebrates its 20th anniversary looks back at a project that took place 20 years ago on another continent. Organized as part of our year-long programme ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’, Casco’s contribution to Utrecht Manifest–Biennial for Social Design, this signals another step in exploring how critical art, design and cultural practice affect society. ... more

User's Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution's Weblog open!

Visit: http://www.cascoprojects.org/gdr/

New card image

Card design: Sam de Groot
Card image-reference: a diagram from Group Dynamics and Action-Research by Gilbert K. Krulee, Transformation, 1950, a floor plan & a photograph from How to Build Your Own Living Structures by Ken Issacs, 1974

Submitted by Binna Choi on 2 January, 2010 - 20:43

Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities

29 November, 2009 - 12:00 - 10 January, 2010 - 18:00
Casco

Casco presents you with 'Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities', a project by Mirjam Thomann who will create a site-specific installation at Casco that will reach beyond Casco's facade. With this installation, the artist refers to and extrapolates from Casco’s specific nature, as well as to a significant architecture in the urban environment of its space. Thoman will also stay at the Casco House until 4 December 2009 whereby she will contribute to Casco’s ongoing project ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’.... more

Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities

29 November, 2009 - 17:00 - 4 December, 2010 - 18:00
Casco House
Tuesday-Sunday 12 am - 6 pm
Curators: 
Binna Choi

Casco presents you with 'Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities', a project by Mirjam Thomann who will create a site-specific installation at Casco that will reach beyond Casco's facade. With this installation, the artist refers to and extrapolates from Casco’s specific nature, as well as to a significant architecture in the urban environment of its space. Thoman will also stay at the Casco House until 4 December 2009 whereby she will contribute to Casco’s ongoing project ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’.... more

Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities

29 November, 2009 - 17:00 - 10 January, 2010 - 20:00
Casco House
Tuesday-Sunday 12 am - 6 pm
Curators: 
Binna Choi

Casco presents you with 'Shapes, Dimensions, Possibilities', a project by Mirjam Thomann who will create a site-specific installation at Casco that will reach beyond Casco's facade. With this installation, the artist refers to and extrapolates from Casco’s specific nature, as well as to a significant architecture in the urban environment of its space. Thoman will also stay at the Casco House until 4 December 2009 whereby she will contribute to Casco’s ongoing project ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’.... more

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