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

Next Monday 3rd of May (Bank Holiday) we will have tutorials outside AA in Myhotel , close to AA, in the following order.
10.00 Karl
10.30 Yong
11.00 Liza
11.30 Olivia
12.00 Merve
12.30 Maud
13.00 Atta
13.30 Stavros
14.00 Gary
14.30 Max

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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK