txt: What is Check-in Architecture
What is Check-In Architecture? Check-In Architecture is 300 documentaries. Check-in Architecture is a free-press and a blog. Check-in Architecture is 2 exhibitions. Check-in Architecture is hundreds of student-produced, online and offlinedistributed videos. Check-in Architecture is 600 students and researchers from all over Europe traveling across the continent to investigate folds in urban space. Check-in Architecture is a generation living low-cost, travelling low-cost, aware of communication dynamics and their roles in it. Check-in Architecture: the project Check-in Architecture is a participatory research project, supported by the International Union of Architects (UIA), the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the 2008 World Design Capital, Turin. We invite art, architecture, design and creativity students from the best universities in Europe (you can find the complete list under the heading universities) to film spaces and people all over the continent. You will have the opportunity to travel for free, with logistical support from the Check-in Architecture office. In every city, you will accomplish a mission, producing a short documentary based on a script and a set of instructionsvideo: Tutorial: the explanation of the project - checkinarchitecture on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afEo5bAD2uI]
