POLITICS OF FABRICATION I: Brief 04 W5

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.

19.2.10

Brief 04 W5

W5 Interaction/Participation
22-26 Feb

The ability of skins to work as interfaces that can draw upon individual participation is a recurrent interest in contemporary society. Students will explore this dimension in their designs through performative diagrams.

Readings
Bruno Latour, Making the things Public, Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar (eds), Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bullivant, Lucy (ed.), 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments, AD Magazine, Academy Press, 2007.

References
Rafael Lozano, Body Movies, Rotterdam, 2001.
BIX, installation in the Kunsthaus , Graz, 2003.

POLITICS OF FABRICATION I

19.2.10

Brief 04 W5

No comments:

Post a Comment