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3rd Workshop Review

Tutorials of your installation designs will be on Wednesday 4th November afternoon in our Inter Unit 8 space, Morwell Street building. Reviews will follow this order,

2pm G.1. Gary-Kayuan-Olivia
3pm G.3. Lyza-Max-Stavros
4pm G.2. Amir-Karl-Merve-Uliana
5pm G.4. Costa-Maud-Yong

GARY

2nd Workshop Immediate Governance: Windows, doors, and transits

EXCHANGE

MERVE

2nd Workshop Immediate Governance: Windows, doors, and transits

INTERFERENCE

AMIR

2nd Workshop Immediate Governance: Windows, doors, and transits

PRAGMATISM

6th Seminar Installations

See you on Saturday @ 3.30pm in Inter Unit 8 Space for an informal meeting to talk about Installations with Jose Perez de Lama.

After we will go to the Cuban Restaurant CUBA LIBRE to enjoy Caribbean food and music while drinking some Mojitos. (http://www.cubalibrelondon.co.uk/)

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Merve Anil
Gary Gene Dupont
Max Ulrich Hacke
Karl Karam
Yong Taek Kwon
Stavros Papavassiliou
Costantino Maria Rivetti
Ielyzaveta Rudyk
Kayvan Sarvi
Amir Yousefi

JURY 2nd workshop - Director's office walls

The final Jury of 2nd workshop will be on Friday 30th of November in 37 Bedford square building (FFO3). Please be at 10 am on the first floor. We will have Brett Steele (AA director), Douglas Spencer(LU), Evan L. Greenberg (EmTech), Stefano Rabolli Pansera and Goswin Schwendinger (Inter Unit 5) and Jose Perez de Lama as critics of your work.

5th Seminar-Lecture

Lecture "Hacking in public! From DIY Geopolitics to Urban Space" by Jose Perez de Lama, hackitectura.net
Thursday 29th of October 2009 at 6pm in the Lecture Hall

J. Perez de Lama -PhD in Architecture, Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Seville, Spain. With Pablo de Soto and Sergio Moreno forms hackitectura.net. Their work deals with the interaction of physical space, electronic flows and social networks, from the perspective of hacker culture and free software, and is focused in the production of digital infrastructures and temporary public spaces. Among their productions: /Fadaiat. Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Communication/ (Tarifa-Tangier, 2004 & 2005), /Situation Room/ (Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón, 2008) and /WikiPlaza Bastille/ (Paris, France, 2009). Perez de Lama is the author of the book /Cyborg Becomings. Architecture, Urbanism and Communication Technologies/, 2006, Universidad de Sevilla (Spanish). Hackietctura.net's work was shown in 2009 at the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Spain) and ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany).URLs: http://mcs.hackitectura.net/ <http://mcs.hackitectura.net/> AbstractIn the last decades electronic networks and flows have transformed the environments we inhabit. This becoming is not only a tecnical one, but also an artistic, social and political one. Hackitectura.net explores these new territories from the perspective of hacker culture, free software, and the idea of ecosophic machines.

WikiPlaza Figueres, hackitectura.net, 09.2009

Review 3rd workshop

The first review of the third workshop will be on Tuesday 27th October 2009 in Inter Unit 8 Space. Please work in groups the whole day there.

3rd Workshop

W5-7 Top-Down and Bottom-Up

Top-Down and Bottom-Up are design strategies that express two fundamentally different political attitudes toward governance and representation. Bottom-Up strategies suggest that a politically loaded envelope is constructed by summing up different reactions from a multitude of individuals. Top-Down strategies suggest that a system of rules has to be set a priori; in this kind of approach, individuals can be already imbedded into the structure of the system or can activate this system politically by appropriating its rules. The aim of this workshop is to explore and compare these two strategies by designing two installations—one Top-Down and the other Bottom-Up. Each group of students will submit proposals, and the best entry will be built and showcased for public review.

Readings
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Mary McLeod, “Everyday and “other” spaces” in Architecture and Feminism, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp.1-37.

References
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, 1982.
Peter Eisenman, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, 1998-2005.

Groups

G.1. Gary-Kayuan-Olivia

G.2. Amir-Karl-Merve-Uliana

G.3. Lyza-Max-Stavros

G.4. Costa-Maud-Yong

2nd workshop Pin up

Next Friday 23rd of October we will meet in Open Room 3 , Bedford square building at 10am. We will have a pin-up with all your work for the 2nd workshop, Director´s walls.