| Description |
Time capsule found on the dead planet
The environment is woven into the architecture and vice versa; one changes with the other. We read a story about five ages of a changing planet, reported on the last day of its existence through a time capsule. From age to age, increasing destruction has characterized the relation between the inhabitants and their planetary world. Margaret Atwood tells this mini-science-fiction that will inform and structure our project, and we follow her when she asserts that ”this isn’t climate change – it’s everything change.”
Margaret Atwood: "Time capsule found on the dead planet", https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/26/margaret-atwood-mini-science-fiction (published September 26, 2009, last accessed August 5, 2024)
We understand architecture as a socially engaged transformative spatial practice to imagine and create a more just collective life. We see in it the potential to represent the world beyond individual buildings that exist along with various living and non-living beings, bodies, actors, times, geographies, societies, and cultures. We believe that architecture can contribute to other future worlds, and to different relationships we have with living beings, things, land, and resources. We think architecture should neither be limited nor restricted by professionalism nor neoliberal motivations.
How do we thus begin with architecture? How do we use representations and design methods to pose spatial, social, and ecological questions? Which visual-cognitive, imaginative practices help us address the production of space and the social, material, and historical structures —the ways we inhabit the world? How do we define what is informal and formal space-making? What can we learn from architecture that is built without architects?
In the project, we aim to open up, test, learn, fail and discuss a spectrum of concrete methods to practice representation and design as spatial analysis and synthesis techniques. In addition to material experiments, cartography, drawing, and model making, we use text, photography, video, storytelling, food and machine learning. To explore the possibilities of approaches to architectural representation and image-making beyond the Eurocentric conceptualizations, we will look at historical and contemporary representation methodologies from Asia, Oceania, Africa and Latin America. Accompanied by guest lectures and workshops we will move together towards a collective and expanded understanding of the discipline of architecture. |
| Literature |
– Margaret Atwood: "Time capsule found on the dead planet", https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/26/margaret-atwood-mini-science-fiction (published September 26, 2009, last accessed August 5, 2024).
– Walter Mignolo, Rolando Vazquez: “Decolonial AestheSis: Colonial Wounds/Decolonial Healings”, https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/decolonial-aesthesis-colonial-woundsdecolonial-healings/(published July 15, 2013, last accessed August 4, 2024).
– Ariane Lourie Harrison (ed.): Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory, Abingdon, Taylor & Francis, 2012. |
| Certificates |
Abgaben und Präsentationen im 1. KM, die in fünf Schritten erarbeitet werden.
Werte, Kriterien
- Prozessualität und Offenheit (besonders in Bezug auf Ergebnisse)
- Konzeptionelle und formale Konsistenz
- Dialogfähigkeit (über gemeinsame Themen und Fragen)
- Reflexivität und Kritikfähigkeit in Bezug auf unsere "partielle Perspektive" (Haraway), unsere Prämissen, Lösungen, Konzepte und Formen
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Submissions and presentations in the 1.KM that will be evolved in five steps.
Values, Criteria
- Processuality and openness (especially with regard to results)
- Conceptual and formal consistency
- Capacity for dialog (on common topics and questions)
- Reflexivity and criticality with regard to our "partial perspective" (Haraway), our premises, solutions, concepts and forms |
