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.

22.10.09

5th Seminar-Lecture

Lecture "Hacking in public! From DIY Geopolitics to Urban Space" by Jose Perez de Lama, hackitectura.net
Thursday 29th of October 2009 at 6pm in the Lecture Hall


J. Perez de Lama -PhD in Architecture, Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Seville, Spain. With Pablo de Soto and Sergio Moreno forms hackitectura.net. Their work deals with the interaction of physical space, electronic flows and social networks, from the perspective of hacker culture and free software, and is focused in the production of digital infrastructures and temporary public spaces. Among their productions: /Fadaiat. Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Communication/ (Tarifa-Tangier, 2004 & 2005), /Situation Room/ (Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón, 2008) and /WikiPlaza Bastille/ (Paris, France, 2009). Perez de Lama is the author of the book /Cyborg Becomings. Architecture, Urbanism and Communication Technologies/, 2006, Universidad de Sevilla (Spanish). Hackietctura.net's work was shown in 2009 at the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Spain) and ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany).URLs: http://mcs.hackitectura.net/ <http://mcs.hackitectura.net/> AbstractIn the last decades electronic networks and flows have transformed the environments we inhabit. This becoming is not only a tecnical one, but also an artistic, social and political one. Hackitectura.net explores these new territories from the perspective of hacker culture, free software, and the idea of ecosophic machines.

WikiPlaza Figueres, hackitectura.net, 09.2009
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