Wind Tunnel Bulletin #06 [electronic resource].

ZHdK 2017

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In the last issue, we watched the cloud of our project “Size Matters: On the Scale and Size of Models” disappear into the suction head of our wind tunnel – and now return transformed. This occurs because our new research project, “Aerial/Photographic Images: The Moving Image and the Camera as a Scaling and Analytical Instrument” will launch in a few months. We will be adding two newly created PhD positions to our team and one postdoctoral position, all funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). So now is a good moment to devote an issue of our bulletin to the no-longer-not-yet state in which we find ourselves in-between projects. Wind needs both: a high-pressure and a low-pressure area. One blows, the other sucks, and the wind makes them twins. Do they look at each other? Who knows. In their interstice, we articulate a few things close to our heart: we have removed the engine of our Zurich wind tunnel and shipped it to the Venice Research Pavilion (Update), where we will be building a new tunnel between 8 July and 13 August 2017 – from wood that we will collect with a sailing boat out in the lagoon (Cover, On the Move II). One building, the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan, is still going round in our heads. Perhaps these temples are vessels for the wind when it isn’t blowing? Or does it blow into newspapers itself and remained entangled in these (On the Move I)? Last but not least, we are using the trip to Venice to reflect on the infrastructure surrounding us in Zurich, that is, the space conditioning our work (Housing). As usual, the bulletin concludes with an interview. In other words, with questions. And we prefer those anyway.
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Florian Dombois
Sibylle Boppart
Kaspar König
Sarine Waltenspül
Mark Kyburz
Viola Zimmermann
Joy Laporte
Piet Esch