Ant Farm, Convention City 1976, 1972, printed 2012. © Ant Farm
In projects like Reliquary and Objects III & IX Stasus resemble a sort of Perec; a writer collecting fragmentary domestic and urban pieces to arrange narratives resembling nests or sections of piano showing its cords and hammers. This careful compilation and later composition deal us to think on what is going to happen with all the stuff we have been incessantly generating and collecting in our homes and cities. What about all the things we will be unable to fit into our Domesticated Mountains? Our mental fixation to grow indefinitely has spatial urban effects materialized in over measured infrastructures and vacant housing buildings while the capitalist logic keep on generate evictions when seeing humans like “slow payers” instead of “persons”.
From: Disposophobia | A claim for a “Perec-esque” inventory of urban stuff at dpr-barcelona BLOG
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Looking at the contemporary state of the design discipline, it’s safe to say that we’re observing a boom of new practices which are making the field return to an open, collaborative, system-oriented approach: flying drones which create temporary wifi networks in isolated areas; DIY construction kits; manufacturing at home through personal 3D printers; a Wikihouse with open-source plans that can be replicated, improved and updated anywhere; and countless other examples. These unconventional projects respond to a need of “going beyond” the traditional flow of making things, and are representative of the deep transformations occurring in industry. With an incredible amount of interesting stories coming from forward-thinking collectives to individuals, from hackers to artists and activists, the term design has come to embody only a fragment of what is being produced — our aim with Adhocracy is to bridge that ideological gap and spark the discussion for an updated definition of what design means.
From “An Ad-hoc Revolution“ a text by Elian Stefa and Ethel Baraona for The New City Reader — Istanbul Design Biennial edition
Jules Guerin, xnihpS ehT (The Sphinx), from Robert Hichens’ Egypt and Its Monuments, 1912.
via: triplecanopy
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Robin Hood Gardens + The Orbit
In the rooms of Archivio di Stato di Torino, on show from May 30th the city as a space for experimentation of theories expressed by Italian radical architecture.
Thanks Fosco!
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