Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation. For this reason, not only do the dominance and promises of the privatization model, the free market and private property have to be questioned, but also the conventions of the space-producing professions that follow and materialize these policies.
In this context the event “Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture” takes up the task of exploring possibilities and conditions of a socially committed architectural practice. Therefore the narrow boundaries of the profession have to be left behind. We hence invite activists, geographers, architects, planners, and economists representing different critical approaches to discuss and develop concepts and practices that not only try to oppose and challenge the capitalist mode of production of space, but also try to go beyond it – strategies of de-commodification, re-appropriation and alternative production of space. We will look at already existing spatial actions of resistance as well as search for possibilities to further theorize them: How can these strategies and alternative practices be turned into social and political forces towards post-capitalist spaces?
From November 12 to November 21, New York City. For more information, click here.
Will there be any scripts and/or videos of the presentations? I would love to hear the debates but cannot afford flying to New York.
1:31 PM Nov 8th
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1:34 PM Nov 8th
"Post-capitalist" spaces?? RT @twiliteprincess Activists,architects join to discuss new methods for production of space http://bit.ly/2jcMzL
1:49 PM Nov 8th
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1:50 PM Nov 8th
RT @twiliteprincess Activists, architects join to discuss Oppositional Architecture http://bit.ly/2jcMzL @archdaily
2:01 PM Nov 8th
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture http://bit.ly/C3Q5n or how socialism is not dead. #architecture #socialism. Architects never learn.
2:14 PM Nov 8th
RT @twiliteprincess Activists,architects join to discuss new ways for the production of space. Oppositional Arch http://bit.ly/2jcMzL
2:30 PM Nov 8th
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2:52 PM Nov 8th
RT @twiliteprincess Activists, architects join to discuss "Oppositional Architecture" http://bit.ly/2jcMzL @archdaily
3:17 PM Nov 8th
RT @phillydesign RT @twiliteprincess Activists,architects join to discuss new methods for production of space http://bit.ly/2jcMzL // holler
8:07 AM Nov 9th
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