POLITICS OF FABRICATION I

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.

26.4.10

Schedule

23.4.10

Tutorials

Tutorials of your skin solutions and advances in your portfolio will be on Thursday 29th of April in Inter Unit 8 Space, Bedford Square Building.

Thursday 29th
3rd year students
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl
12.00 Yong
12.30 Maud
1.00 Kayvan
2.00 Atta

2.30 Session about unit portfolios
Please bring your portfolios with you
2nd year students
3.00 Lyza
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30Stavros

22.4.10

Previews

Lecture Hall
Tuesday 27th Morning Table 5
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl

Wednesday 28th Morning Table 2
10.00 Yong
10.30 Maud
11.00 Kayvan
11.30 Atta

Tutorials before Pre-views

Sunday 25th April
5.30 Max

Monday 26th
11.30 Karl
12.00 Costa
12.30 Yong
1.00 Kayvan
1.30 Merve (?)

19.3.10

Review Portfolios 3rd Term

After the break we will have a review of your portfolios the 22th and 23rd of April in Inter Unit 8 space. You should bring a printed version of your portfolio and the models you have done. The order will be as follows,

22th April
3rd year students
11-1.30pm and 2.30pm-4pm
11.00 Gary
11.30 Karl
12.00 Max
12.30 Uliana
1.00 Atta

2.00 Maud
2.30 Yong
3.00 Kayvan

23rd April
2nd year students
11 am-2 pm
11.00 Costa
11.30 Stavros
12.00 Olivia
12.30 Merve
1.00 Lyza

17.3.10

2nd Term Final Jury

Thanks you to all critics, students, tutors & visitors

15.3.10

2nd Term Final Jury

Inter Unit 8 2st Term Final Jury will be held in 39 Bedfored Square – 1st floor Reading Room in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Jeroen van Ameijde (DRL tutor & Head of Digital Prototyping in AA), Claudia Pasquero (AA Inter Unit 10), Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Melissa Woolford (Director of Nous Gallery), Miraj Ahmed (AA Inter Unit 13), Stefano Rabolli and Goswin Schwendinger (Inter Unit 5) and Tomaz Pipan (Unit tutor in London Metropolitan University).