AA INTERMEDIATE UNIT 8 09-10
Politics of Skin Grafting
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.
24.1.10
Pin up Brief 04 W1
The First Pin-up after our trip to Havana will be on Friday 29th January in Open room 3 Bedford Square building from 10.00 to 7pm aprox. From 4pm to 5 pm Charles Tashima will show Portfolio examples.
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