| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

FrontPage

This version was saved 12 years, 1 month ago View current version     Page history
Saved by dominique.elie@...
on February 7, 2012 at 7:53:07 pm
 

oembed errorPlugin error: This URL is not valid for embedding: <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/11139540?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/11139540">Animaris Umerus walking - June '09</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3650395">Strandbeest</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>  

ARCH 269X UCB CED Sprg 12 wed 9am inst mk a’son (wds = $)

 

Nothing.Much.Happening

 

Isn’t it too bad that nothing is happening? Some people are getting mad, and that’s a start, getting some vague itch about maybe doing something. Architects believe that the world can be built. The world can be occupied. We have big ideas, we make big things, we live large. Except that then there are the rules, Oh Yes!, and the naysayers, Oh No!. And then there is the money. Where is the money? So we wait.

 

Or make a study of it.

 

Or not. The problem with times like these is that when the money runs out we think we are tired and out of energy and out of hope. Do we run on money? No, we are makers; we make the money (this line of thinking is no longer popular in polite society, but the world for some time revolved excitingly and dangerously around these questions: who makes the money? who gets the money?). But that is only context for our project. If we are going to be in the world, we might as well occupy it. In fact, if we are architects, how we occupy the world is the very essence of our life’s investigation. Just now, occupation is again a popular question. What can we make of it?

 

It is certainly very practical to make a small occupation. Smallness is less disturbing, and far less occupying for everybody. I suppose that will be OK, if that is what we decide to do. Smallness will certainly be appreciated when we are only building for ourselves and our friends and neighbors, rather than building for money.

 

I myself have had some interesting experiences with ambitious construction projects, money and no money. Sometimes these projects fly, and sometimes they fizzle. Right now I am tired and beaten down too, and wary of a flop. Maybe we should only draw something, or just write it down? Interestingly enough, I believe there are mechanisms by which building projects might be made always to fly, in some concocted, predictable form. Or there are other ways to try setting things in motion, seeing how they take off, seeing where they land. This other way is risky hard work, and probably the only likely path toward architecture. But again, the risk of making nothing is only context for our project, not our stifling fear. Three words to occupy our minds: Nothing. Much. Happening. What can we make of it?

 

FrontPage SideBar Mark Anderson

 

 

 

A manifesto

 

The existing framework of the city cannot subdue the growing dissatisfaction among the people with their loss of control and disempowerment. To truly fight the alienation and oppression in our society, our cities need a radically new framework.

Cities and architecture must allow for participation. Reactivation of urban spaces necessitates that the public regains control of the spaces which now control them. Architecture must be manipulated by people, not institutions, and our cities must facilitate the art of interaction. A new architecture will build itself upon the wreckage of our society's public space, parasitizing and reorganizing the city.

To those who don't understand us properly, we say with an irreducible scorn, “Those of us who you judge will once day judge you. Soon the people will reverse the balance of power and regain control over the spaces which now contain them.” *

 

22 Jan 2012

sean phillips

*borrowing heavily from the Situationist Manifesto

 

Free speech rafts are public space, soap boxes, free-for-all. They float together, collect, drift apart. Aggregation creates conversation. Recycled formwork tubes or wine barrels from near by Napa. Light-weight "Textable Ticker" could be linked to the weight of the humans broadcasting their ideas on scrolling marquees.

genniferem 24Jan2012

 

 

Our intervention must straddle the line between clearly designed + clearly impromptu. A polished, thoughtful intervention will be taken more seriously by outsiders and critics, but may also risk limiting freedom of expression and alienating the intended audience.  On the other hand, a spontaneous, all-inclusive intervention may encourage more participation and creative input, but may also be easier to dismiss as the work of nonsensical hippies. Our intervention must therefore mediate the chasm between these two extremes, essentially playing both sides, in order to encourage creative participation while simultaneously reinforcing the validity of the movement.

Caitlin Alev, 23 January 2011

 

 

 


 

We occupy machines for living as Le Corbusier defines the built environment. However, today these machines are simply buildings, not Architecture. Most buildings are modular, unchangeable, and less aesthetics. The cityscape is developing radically without organization or distinction. This is due to rapidly increasing populations and technology. Especially in South Korea, people work faster and faster in every filed such as construction, technology, and so forth. More and more people in the world are able to experience ideal life online through development of IT and social networks. Meanwhile, in the real world, people love in slums.

In today’s aging society, we should live leisurely, develop slowly, and make space for enjoying. We need to make healing space, free spaces to work, and artistic spaces to counter the developed, fixed, and mechanical spaces of the present.

 

Chaewoo 01Feb2012

 

 

Martha Graham's Lamentations

https://www.google.com/search?q=martha+graham&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnsolb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=s-cxT6yWGYWsiQKttuC-Cg&ved=0CEEQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=705#hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=martha+graham+lamentation&pbx=1&oq=martha+graham+lamentation&aq=f&aqi=g1g-S3&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=32695l34106l0l34367l12l12l0l9l9l0l134l251l2.1l3l0&fp=1&biw=1366&bih=705&cad=b&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb

 

 

 

Welcome to PBworks

This is a real workspace!  Please edit this page, create new pages, and invite others to use this workspace with you.

 

Get Great Ideas!

  • Learn what makes a good collaboration project and see how other PBworks customers are using their workspaces. Check out our PBworks educator community.

 

Need Help? We're here for you:

  • The PBworks Manual can help show you how to edit, add videos and invite users.
  • The best way to get your support questions answered is to click the help link at the top of this page. Our support gurus will get back to you asap. 

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.