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.
8.5.10
Next Week Tutorials
2nd year tutorials on Monday 10th May Inter Unit 8 space
3.00pm Liza 3.30 Merve 4.00 Olivia 4.30 Stavros
Tutorials on Wednesday 12th May Inter Unit 8 space
3.30 Kayvan 4.00 Yong 4.30 Karl 5.30 Olivia 6.00 Liza
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