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.

18.2.10

MADRID WORKSHOP

Inter Unit 8 will be in ETSA Madrid , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, from the 15th to the 19th of February. There we will be working with Madrilean students and tutors.
Sunday 14th
11.00 am
Atocha Train Station
Main Entrance
(Tube station: Atocha Renfe)
Monday 15th
12 am
ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4
Main Entrance
(Tube station: Ciudad Universitaria)
Tuesday 16th
09.30 am
Tuñon & Mansilla Office
(Tube station: Cuatro Caminos)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
10.00 am
ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4

Thursday 18th
5.00pm
Visit to Rafael Moneo Office
Meeting point XS7 ETSAMadrid @4.15pm

Friday 19th
3pm Final Presentation
Aula Magna ETSAMadrid
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK