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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Grasshopper Seminar

The first seminar of Grasshopper by Jheny Nieto will be from 11am to 1pm next Wednesday 3rd February in Open Room 4. Please bring your laptops to the seminar.

The next seminars will be in the following order,

11am-1pm Sat. 6th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Wed. 10th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Wed. 24th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Sat. 27th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Wed. 3rd March Open Room 3
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Design and research work of Intermediate Unit 8 Architectural Association School of Architecture London UK