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.

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Tutorials B04 W2

Next week tutorials will be in Inter Unit 8 Space following this order,

Tuesday 2nd February
10.00 Kayvan
10.30 Atta
11.00 Maud
11.30 Liza
12.00 Merve
13.30 Gary
14.00 Stavros
14.30 Costa
15.00 Olivia
15.30 Karl

Wednesday 3rd February
13.30 Max
14.00 Yong
14.30 Uliana
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK