Ethel Baraona | dpr-barcelona

Architect who develops her professional work linked to a number of technical publications in the architectural field.

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“To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits. The history of human progress amounts to a series of Promethean acts. But autonomy is also attained in the daily workings of individual lives by means of many small Promethean disobediences, at once clever, well thought out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely. All that remains in such a case is an equivocal, diluted form of guilt. I would say that there is good reason to study the dynamics of disobedience, the spark behind all knowledge.”                                                   —Gaston Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire Photo: Paris, May 1968 at The New York Times“To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits. The history of human progress amounts to a series of Promethean acts. But autonomy is also attained in the daily workings of individual lives by means of many small Promethean disobediences, at once clever, well thought out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely. All that remains in such a case is an equivocal, diluted form of guilt. I would say that there is good reason to study the dynamics of disobedience, the spark behind all knowledge.”                                                   —Gaston Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire Photo: Paris, May 1968 at The New York Times

“To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits. The history of human progress amounts to a series of Promethean acts. But autonomy is also attained in the daily workings of individual lives by means of many small Promethean disobediences, at once clever, well thought out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely. All that remains in such a case is an equivocal, diluted form of guilt. I would say that there is good reason to study the dynamics of disobedience, the spark behind all knowledge.”

                                                  —Gaston Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire

Photo: Paris, May 1968 at The New York Times

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Drop City

The world economy is in crisis and public trust in financial institutions has hit rock bottom. As commercial banks were bailed out with billions of taxpayers money and continued to practice their old vices, many people lost faith in bank managers and politicians. They got angry at the speculative financial system that brings extreme wealth to a few and instability and unemployment to many.

Could this dissatisfaction lead to social change? Can we imagine viable alternatives? Backlight goes on a worldwide search, with sociologist Manuel Castells and philosopher Peter Sloterdijk.

Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos…Cesare Pavese “Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos-esta muerte que nos acompañade la mañana a la noche, insomne,sorda, como un viejo remordimientoo un vicio absurdo-. Tus ojosserán una vana palabra,un grito acallado, un silencio.Así los ves cada mañanacuando sola sobre ti misma te inclinasen el espejo. Oh querida esperanza,también ese día sabremos nosotrosque eres la vida y eres la nada.Para todos tiene la muerte una mirada.Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos.Será como abandonar un vicio,como contemplar en el espejoel resurgir de un rostro muerto,como escuchar unos labios cerrados.Mudos, descenderemos en el remolino.”Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos…Cesare Pavese “Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos-esta muerte que nos acompañade la mañana a la noche, insomne,sorda, como un viejo remordimientoo un vicio absurdo-. Tus ojosserán una vana palabra,un grito acallado, un silencio.Así los ves cada mañanacuando sola sobre ti misma te inclinasen el espejo. Oh querida esperanza,también ese día sabremos nosotrosque eres la vida y eres la nada.Para todos tiene la muerte una mirada.Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos.Será como abandonar un vicio,como contemplar en el espejoel resurgir de un rostro muerto,como escuchar unos labios cerrados.Mudos, descenderemos en el remolino.”

Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos…
Cesare Pavese

“Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos
-esta muerte que nos acompaña
de la mañana a la noche, insomne,
sorda, como un viejo remordimiento
o un vicio absurdo-. Tus ojos
serán una vana palabra,
un grito acallado, un silencio.
Así los ves cada mañana
cuando sola sobre ti misma te inclinas
en el espejo. Oh querida esperanza,
también ese día sabremos nosotros
que eres la vida y eres la nada.
Para todos tiene la muerte una mirada.
Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos.
Será como abandonar un vicio,
como contemplar en el espejo
el resurgir de un rostro muerto,
como escuchar unos labios cerrados.
Mudos, descenderemos en el remolino.”

“The political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our day is not to try to liberate the individual from the economy … but to liberate us both from the economy and from the type of individualization that is linked to the economy. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.” — Foucault [1983].“The political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our day is not to try to liberate the individual from the economy … but to liberate us both from the economy and from the type of individualization that is linked to the economy. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.” — Foucault [1983].

“The political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our day is not to try to liberate the individual from the economy … but to liberate us both from the economy and from the type of individualization that is linked to the economy. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.”

— Foucault [1983].

Sneak peek of Adhocracy NYC, exhibited at the New Museum until July 7th 2013.

The second part of WAI Think Tank’s animated architectural narrative trilogy is out. 

Wall Stalker narrated the journey of three characters in search of the essence of architecture. After an exhausting odyssey from a city of icons to a mysterious wall, the wanderers were confronted with a blinding whiteness that not only blurred their hope to find what they were looking for, but put in question their true intentions.
 
Continuing where Wall Stalker left, the plot is resumed after the characters (now on a first person point of view) are washed in the whiteness of the wall they initially came to see in their search for answers. Once stricken by a white form of agnosia resulting from the purging experience of the mystical wall, the characters are unable to tell if what they think they see is either a memory of times past or unknown possibilities of new paths to be taken. Going through desolated landscapes, the characters face a dichotomy on which path to take: if the one that points to the uncertain abstraction reminiscing of the wall that left them confused or if to the clearly defined urban iconography that can be recognized in the distance. Once drawn by the hypnotizing sharpness of symbolism, the protagonists are sequestered inside Atlas, an urban maze of unremarkable buildings overlooked by four pyramidal monoliths, one of them containing what will make the wanderers discover—against their will—the last part of their journey.
 
More info: WAI Think Tank

“Understanding the flows of relationships, matter, energy and information that shape a city is a challenge for the authorities that manage the city. And understanding that energy variables that are not measured by efficiency indicators – such as citizen empathy – can bring about spatial change is an even greater challenge. The spaces and citizens mentioned in this post are showing us possible paths that take this into account. To promote the evolution of the factories and offices that were a symbol of the twentieth century, it would be interesting to promote the emergence of a network of citizen maker nodes that can come up with new processes and new forms of work and remuneration, by allowing the temporary occupation of the unused shops and buildings scattered throughout our city.” —César Reyes Nájera [dpr-barcelona] on The City,Space, Work & People who Make Things“Understanding the flows of relationships, matter, energy and information that shape a city is a challenge for the authorities that manage the city. And understanding that energy variables that are not measured by efficiency indicators – such as citizen empathy – can bring about spatial change is an even greater challenge. The spaces and citizens mentioned in this post are showing us possible paths that take this into account. To promote the evolution of the factories and offices that were a symbol of the twentieth century, it would be interesting to promote the emergence of a network of citizen maker nodes that can come up with new processes and new forms of work and remuneration, by allowing the temporary occupation of the unused shops and buildings scattered throughout our city.” —César Reyes Nájera [dpr-barcelona] on The City,Space, Work & People who Make Things

“Understanding the flows of relationships, matter, energy and information that shape a city is a challenge for the authorities that manage the city. And understanding that energy variables that are not measured by efficiency indicators – such as citizen empathy – can bring about spatial change is an even greater challenge. The spaces and citizens mentioned in this post are showing us possible paths that take this into account. To promote the evolution of the factories and offices that were a symbol of the twentieth century, it would be interesting to promote the emergence of a network of citizen maker nodes that can come up with new processes and new forms of work and remuneration, by allowing the temporary occupation of the unused shops and buildings scattered throughout our city.”

—César Reyes Nájera [dpr-barcelona] on The City,Space, Work & People who Make Things

WAI Architecture Think Tank_Battle of the Megastructures_Soutdale Center vs New Babylon More info: L’ordre des Simulacres | What if Capitalism has finally conquered our Utopias? —via: waithinktankWAI Architecture Think Tank_Battle of the Megastructures_Soutdale Center vs New Babylon More info: L’ordre des Simulacres | What if Capitalism has finally conquered our Utopias? —via: waithinktank

WAI Architecture Think Tank_Battle of the Megastructures_Soutdale Center vs New Babylon

More info: L’ordre des Simulacres | What if Capitalism has finally conquered our Utopias?

—via: waithinktank