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.

2.12.09

1st Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 1st Term Final Jury will be held on Open Room 1 (close to Lecture Hall) from 10am to 6pm. Jury critics will be Stefano Rabolli (Inter Unit 5), Ricardo de Ostos (Inter Unit 3+ Madrid Visiting School), Marina Lathouri ( H&T Graduate program), Mania ( TS Intermediate), Eduardo Rico (LU Graduate program),Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Jorge Rodriguez (SED Graduate program), Dora Sweijd (Inter Unit 11) & Alberto Moletto.

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