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The Institute for Provocation (IFP) (IFP) is a Beijing-based workspace and think tank, hosting residencies, research projects, workshops and lectures. IFP aims to be a crossway between disciplines and attitudes in the realm of art, architecture, design and urban studies. As a workspace, IFP focuses on the thinking process before or even beyond the actual creation of an artwork: collection of dramaturgical information, testing of different architectural scenarios, experimenting with new media or disciplines, and so on. With a specific interest in public space, IFP aims to provoke new narratives about the city, its spaces and locales through self-initiated interventions and research projects. Through its wide network of actors, makers and researchers in China and beyond, IFP can provide intelligence to our residents and collaborators who themselves become a part the network. Together with these, IFP is constantly investigating both theoretical and practical issues about the city and its structure, its history, its way of working as an organism.

IFP is the collaborative intelligence of architects/researchers/curators Chen Shuyu and Max Gerthel (Beijing) and editor/curator Els Silvrants-Barclay (Brussels). As an organization, IFP shares their generalist approach to both theory and practice, emphasizing the possibilities offered by interdisciplinary strategies and work modes. As a workspace, IFP focuses on the thinking process before or even beyond the actual creation of an artwork: the collection of dramaturgical information, the testing of different architectural scenarios, experimenting with new media or disciplines, and so on.

With a specific interest in public space, IFP aims to provoke new narratives about the city, its spaces and locales through self-initiated interventions and research projects. By exploring various readings of contemporary public space, IFP tries to open up this field of study to non-academic actors and situationalist approaches. Located in the heart of Beijing's Dongcheng district in between the touristic nanluoguxiang area with its souvenir shops and snack bars, and a very local hutong area, IFP forms a part of a small but growing cluster of non-commercial art spaces within boundaries of the old city. The location provides an insight into the convergence of an ancient dwelling typology and its contemporary incarnation, rapidly transformed into depleted versions of 'cultural industry'.

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激发研究所（IFP工作室）是坐落于北京市的工作空间。作为定期举办驻地艺术项目，研究项目，工作坊以及讲座的智库，IFP工作室旨在位于艺术界、建筑界、设计界以及城市学界的不同学科和态度之间的岔路口。作为一个工作空间，IFP工作室将目光投向艺术家在实际创作前的思维过程：戏剧信息的采集、以不同的建筑情形进行测试、以新媒体或者学科进行试验、等等。IFP工作室的研究侧重于公共空间：它的旨在以自我发起的干预和研究项目而引发关于城市、城市空间以及城市场所的新故事。IFP工作室通过遍布中国乃至于其他地区的若干行动者、创造者及研究者的人际网络，能够向驻地艺术家们以及他们的协作者提供专门知识。因而，后者自然就会融入此人际网络。与此同时，IFP不断地探究有关于城市的结构、历史以及其生物般运行的理论性和实际性议题。

IFP工作室是建筑师兼研究者、策展人陈淑瑜和Max Gerthel（位于北京）以及编辑兼策展人Els Silvrants-Barclay（布鲁塞尔）联合从事脑力劳动的产物。首先，IFP工作室作为机构正如上述创始人对艺术理论及实践的多面对待方式一样强调跨学科战略及工作模式带来的良好机会。其二，作为一个工作空间，IFP工作室将目光投向艺术家在实际创作前的思维过程：戏剧信息的采集、以不同的建筑情形进行测试、以新媒体或者学科进行试验、等等。

IFP工作室的研究侧重于公共空间：它的旨在以自我发起的干预和研究项目而引发关于城市、城市空间以及城市场所的新故事。通过对当代公共空间不同解读的探索，IFP工作室试图把此研究领域扩展至非学问的行动者以及情境主义的方式。IFP坐落于北京市东城区的中心位置，就在游客泛滥而覆盖满了纪念品店、小吃店的南锣鼓巷以及具有地方特色的胡同区域的中间。它是古城界之内数量少而日益增长的一簇非商业艺术空间之一。通过它的地位，我们能够深入了解古老住宅类型如何与其当代存在形式融合，并最终如何迅速形成了枯竭的“文化行业”载体。

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Address:
Institute for Provocation (IFP)
Heizhima Hutong 13, Dongcheng-District (100009)
Beijing, China

地址：
北京激发学会 (IFP工作室)
北京 东城区 (100009) 黑芝麻胡同 13号