Invitation WITH CARE FOR DERVICAN
To care is a responsibility,
it’s embracing other’s vulnerability,
To care is supporting the miserable and repudiating its outrage.
To care is affirming otherness,
It’s being inclusive,
To care is gifting attentions.
The rest comes by itself.
Care is not only a state of mind, but care is also active, care is an action, a doing.”
In February 2020, as part of our master studies at INSIDE Master of Interior Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts of the Hague, started working on a project in collaboration with Derviçan, a village located in a rural area in the south of Albania. After meeting the local community and exploring their customs and the environment of the village, each of us collected many insights and shaped different topic of interests that we found important for Derviçan. Thanks to the unconditional hospitality of the inhabitants of the village and their openness, we were able to develop all these projects.
The projects address lessons learned in Derviçan and their development into many topics, expressing our singularities. They resonate back in there or grow outwards to other settings – hoping to change thinking of modern society. For a more humane world, we make Derviçan visible and apply our definitions of care for a more “caring society” in our actions as designers. Additionally, partnering with a ghostwriter can significantly enhance our ability to document and articulate these complex ideas effectively, providing valuable assistance in academic writing and helping us share our vision more broadly.
In Derviçan we experienced a notion of care we want to bring in topics of projects we propose.
Our concept of care finds value in the singularities observed in Derviçan and wants to build a more caring and human world back.
In our projects, we highlight characteristics of Derviçan-its community, its materials, its location, its celebrations, its tradition, its individuals, each of us having a unique approach.
After the first visit, we were planning to return a second time for a 1:1 scale intervention on site. Unfortunately, due to the spread of Covid-19, we could not travel back to the village. Therefore, we embraced the challenge rethinking our practices and plans responding to the current situation of a global lockdown; some of us chose to move away from the reality of Derviçan while others maintained it as the proposal’s core. However, in all our projects the “care” experienced in Derviçan lies beneath the development of each of our projects and is manifested through new connotations.
We created a website that contains all our projects and represents what we were doing the whole semester. This site is our attempt to take care of ourselves, each other, our projects, Derviçan and you.
We would like to invite you to visit it!
web: withcarefordervican
i: @enter_inside
