This class was taught by Luna Maurer and Jonathan Puckey. The other participating teachers were Jeroen Bodewits, Katja Prins, Ine Lamers and Rob de Vree.
Students: Lena, Inna, Arina, Ana (Dimitrovsgrad), Dima (Dimitrovsgrad), Farida, Olga, Sveta, Tolik. All the students were from Samara except for Ana and Dima.

Before the start of the Summer School we had no idea how Russian students work and think. Because of this we tried to set up our part of the workshop in a way that staid close to our own personal interests and professional approach to design. We wanted to show them the way we work and think and let them decide what they find interesting and usable in their own work.

The workshop ended with the exhibition: The accidental tourist (see the series of posters announcing the exhibition)
The assignmet was to create a "tourist guide" to the city Samara and it had to be a series.
Four projects were developed in our class:

1. "Moscow Highway" by Lena, Inna, Arina (a series of bags)
White textile bags were thrown on the biggest street of Samara, the Moscow Highway, so they would be driven over by cars. De car tires functioned as a printing technique that created the patterns that emerged on the bags.

2. "What do you want to sell to a foreigner?" by Farida, Olga and Sveta (a performance, installation and book)
Farida, Olga and Sveta addressed the relation between the intimate, private and public in Samara. Their project investigated the tear-off advertisements that Samara is littered with. They asked passers-by in the city what they would like to sell to a foreigner and asked them to write it on a bed sheet with their phone number. They filmed this action and projected it on a bed sheet inside the exhibition. The completed sheets were hung in the back yard of the exhibition space.

3. "Contrasts in Samara" by Tolik (a d.i.y. guide)
Tolik was fascinated by the big contrasts in the city of Samara. He developed a kit consisting of stickers, instructions and a specially designed, empty booklet. Visitors were asked to take a walking tour and create compositions based on the views that Tolik had chosen. Some stickers referred to old Samara, and some referred to modern Samara. The visitor is free to decide how to make the compositions, but is forced to look at these differences because of the ingredients of the kit.

4. "Reflections of Samara" by Ana and Dima (a series of photos)
Ana and Dima developed a tool that they could use to create special images. They cut bottles of typical drinks in two and looked at the different reflective properties of the liquids. In the end they created a photo series of special locations and routs in the city of Samara reflected on Pepsi Cola, Samara beer, Kvas (a traditional Russian drink made with fermented bread) and pure water.


Link to this project:
poly-luna.com/the-accidental-tourist