In the last several years, a crisis of capitalist development has redefined our understanding of cities in terms of international policy making, political constituencies and individual and collective political expressions in the urban realm. Inter Unit 8 has been experimenting with possible new scenarios for this political readjustment at a global scale, departing from its most basic expressions in the city. As a result, students have constructed innovative political arguments by experimenting with the relationship between everyday material activities–such as waiting for a bus, dancing, chatting in the streets, or wheeling and dealing in the city squares–and a particular material organization. In these common everyday practices, students have found the materials from which to reconstruct the political experience in the city. Manifested in public and constructed as a physical material expression, these everyday practices acquire a political value — understanding the political as what Hannah Arendt described as action in public — and redefine new models of the interaction between the individual and the collective in the public arena.

23.12.09

Movies

There are three movies in the AA Photo Library about Havana,

Habana Blues - Benito Zambrano
Soy Cuba - Mikhail Kalatozov
Buena Vista Club Social - Wim Wenders

Enjoy them!
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22.12.09

MAUD

BUILDING A POLITICAL ARGUMENT



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ULIANA

Brief 2 Reassesing Disciplinary Tools

VOID: People as Construction




FULL: Construction as people
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1st Term work

REASSESSING THE IMMEDIATE

Based on AA school’s everyday life, three small workshops will reassess the relation between the individual and the collective. With a special focus on governance, the aim of these three exercises will be to dismantle previous assumptions in order to reconsider the relation between architecture and politics in everyday, seemingly banal situations. (5 weeks)

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11.12.09

1st Term Final Jury

Thanks you to all critics, students, tutors & visitors





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Review Portfolios

Portfolios review will be on Saturday 12th of December in Inter Unit 8 space (Morwell Street building). Please bring your work till date and your proposal for an A3 portfolio.

10.30 Amir/Olivia/Costa/Kayvan/Karl
2.00 Uliana/Liza/Yong/Max/Stavros/Merve
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2.12.09

1st Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 1st Term Final Jury will be held on Open Room 1 (close to Lecture Hall) from 10am to 6pm. Jury critics will be Stefano Rabolli (Inter Unit 5), Ricardo de Ostos (Inter Unit 3+ Madrid Visiting School), Marina Lathouri ( H&T Graduate program), Mania ( TS Intermediate), Eduardo Rico (LU Graduate program),Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Jorge Rodriguez (SED Graduate program), Dora Sweijd (Inter Unit 11) & Alberto Moletto.

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6th Workshop Tutorials II

Last tutorials before the final Jury will be in Open Room 3 on Monday 7th December in the following order,
Morning
9.00 Uliana
9.30 Gary
10.00 Max
10.30 Karl
11.00 Amir
11.30 Yong
12.00 Maud
12.30 Kayuan
Afternoon
1.30 Stavros + Costa
2.00 Liza + Olivia
2.30 Merve
Please be on time for reviews.
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1.12.09

6th Workshop Pin-up

Pre-Final Jury will be held on Friday 4th December from 10 to 7pm in Open Room 3.
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Cuban Visa

Tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd December there is a meeting about the travel to cuba at 10.30 in Open Room 3. Please bring your passports with you.
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Meeting about travel to Cuba - Rescheduled

Cristian will join us on Thursday 3th December in Open Room 3 @ 5pm to have some drinks and talk about our trip to Havana.
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK