Of the October 31, 2012 to March 3, 2013, at ICO Museum in Zorrilla Street, number 3 of Madrid you can attend the Ma Yansong exhibition, one of the most important contemporary Chinese architects and belonging to the collective MAD Architects, which he directs and which is composed of Chinese architects and the rest of the world.
We have attended the exhibition and subsequent children's workshop organized by Talk in art. It is an exhibition that focuses on freedom, independence and the constant relationship of Ma Yansong's work with nature. This Chinese architect was born in 1975 in Beijing and the ICO Museum dedicates until March 2013 his first exhibition in Spain, a sample that highlights that search for relationships between the environment and the urban environment. In the exhibition you can see a wide selection of projects, some of them already realities, photographs, infographics and models that, according to Yansong himself, seek timelessness: "that they move with people and make them feel and think".
The title of the exhibition is called: Ma Yansong Between modernity (global) and tradition (local) and the challenge for the kids in the workshop is to get them to create a space for human life in their relationship with nature and to design the cities of the future. The following image shows the Absolute Towers, in Canada, and that its inhabitants have renamed Marilyn Towers for that of the sinuous.
Ma Yansong and his MAD Architects studio ("crazy architects" in English) have revolutionized the concept of urban planning by integrating the landscape into the concept of their buildings. Its spaces pretend that the human being lives with nature and that the relationships between the people who inhabit them are also enhanced.
In the workshop we had to build, using the inspiration of the visit, a building or construction with an associated emotion. We had a train station that remembered and inspired warmth. At the end, each participant was given an educational notebook edited for the exhibition and can be seen at the end of the article.
Located on the Paseo del Arte in Madrid, the ICO Museum is a fantastic space to review temporary exhibitions that offer a vision of current art. The workshops for children are Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 to 13:00 and the dates are from November 10, 2012 to March 3, 2013. The ages of the children are from 6 to 12 years old They must be accompanied by at least one adult. The price of the activity is 0 euros. It really is free.
We had a great time, so we thank Talla en Arte thanks and congratulations for the great organization, explanations and also for the creativity they have managed to extract from the kids. I still like children to participate in the groups although I still demand more than the children speak fluently in public, explaining and telling their ideas and projects.
This is the result of our activity. A train station with a form of steam engine that acts as a distributor of travelers to the train tracks. Some train tracks that are covered with huge sheets that act to provide shade and shelter to travelers who access the platforms. An exercise in imagination that inspired us by the beautiful work of Ma Yansong that we loved and fascinated.
