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.

18.5.10

3rd Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 3rd Term Final Jury will be held in 38 Bedford Square Room G01 (Ground floor front room) in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Edgar Gonzalez (Brisac & Gonzalez Architects), Ludovico Lombardi (Zaha Hadid/Bartlett Urban Design Master Tutor), Nathalie Rozencwaig, Michel Da Costa Goncalves (Inter Unit 5), Marco Poletto (Inter Unit 10), Lucy Bullivant (Communicating Architecture), Evan Greenberg (AA EmTech Master Tutor), Alberto Sabater Alloza (IDOM), Mark Campbell (Inter Unit 1) and Mauricio Puentes (Universidad de Valparaiso).


Thanks to all guest critics, students and staff

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