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.

19.3.10

Review Portfolios 3rd Term

After the break we will have a review of your portfolios the 22th and 23rd of April in Inter Unit 8 space. You should bring a printed version of your portfolio and the models you have done. The order will be as follows,

22th April
3rd year students
11-1.30pm and 2.30pm-4pm
11.00 Gary
11.30 Karl
12.00 Max
12.30 Uliana
1.00 Atta

2.00 Maud
2.30 Yong
3.00 Kayvan

23rd April
2nd year students
11 am-2 pm
11.00 Costa
11.30 Stavros
12.00 Olivia
12.30 Merve
1.00 Lyza

15.3.10

2nd Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 2st Term Final Jury will be held in 39 Bedfored Square – 1st floor Reading Room in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Jeroen van Ameijde (DRL tutor & Head of Digital Prototyping in AA), Claudia Pasquero (AA Inter Unit 10), Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Melissa Woolford (Director of Nous Gallery), Miraj Ahmed (AA Inter Unit 13), Stefano Rabolli and Goswin Schwendinger (Inter Unit 5) and Tomaz Pipan (Unit tutor in London Metropolitan University).

14.3.10

STAVROS

QUESTIONING SKINS
Dialog


13.3.10

OLIVIA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Ambiguity

LYZA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Sharing

ULIANA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Revolutionized Freedom

GARY

QUESTIONING SKINS
Exchange

MAX

QUESTIONING SKINS
Correspondence

MAUD

QUESTIONING SKINS
Control/Communication

MERVE

QUESTIONING SKINS
Interference

ATTA

QUESTIONING SKINS
Pragmatism

YONG

QUESTIONING SKINS
In-between

KAYVAN

QUESTIONING SKINS
Panopticon

12.3.10

Tutorials next Tuesday 16th March

Next Monday 15th of March we will have tutorials with some of you before the Final Jury. They will be in Intermediate Unit 8 space.
2.30 Karl
3.00 Costa
3.30 Yong
4.00 Liza
4.30 Merve (??)

6.3.10

Pin-up W8

Last Pin-up before Final Jury will be on Friday 12th March in Open Room 3 from 10am to 7pm.

Tutorials W8

Next week tutorials and Pinup

Monday 8th March
11.00 Maud
11.30 Atta
12.00 Kayva

Tuesday 9th March
10.00-12.30 2nd year Open Room 3
Stavros-Merve-Olivia-Liza-Costa

3rd year Intermediate Unit 8 Space
2.00 Max
2.30 Yong
3.00 Uliana
3.30 Atta
4.00 Karl
4.30 Gary

5.3.10

Brief 05 W2

W8 Fabrication
08-12 Mar

Readings
Branko Koralevic & Kevin Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in
Architecture, Routelidge, 2008.
Jennifer Hudson, Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture, Lawrence King, London, 2008
Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK