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.

23.4.10

Tutorials

Tutorials of your skin solutions and advances in your portfolio will be on Thursday 29th of April in Inter Unit 8 Space, Bedford Square Building.

Thursday 29th
3rd year students
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl
12.00 Yong
12.30 Maud
1.00 Kayvan
2.00 Atta

2.30 Session about unit portfolios
Please bring your portfolios with you
2nd year students
3.00 Lyza
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30Stavros

22.4.10

Previews

Lecture Hall
Tuesday 27th Morning Table 5
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl

Wednesday 28th Morning Table 2
10.00 Yong
10.30 Maud
11.00 Kayvan
11.30 Atta

Tutorials before Pre-views

Sunday 25th April
5.30 Max

Monday 26th
11.30 Karl
12.00 Costa
12.30 Yong
1.00 Kayvan
1.30 Merve (?)
Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK