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Friend/Ships
(2018) continent, continent; dpr, barcelona; Allen, Jamie
Friendship is amongst the most fundamental social practices of humankind. We experience and enact friendship in all its ambiguity—the concurrence of sameness and difference—from early childhood on. In as much as our practices of friendship shape and reflect our relation to the world, our relation to the world is reflected in our understanding of relations, connections, attachments—friendship. The space we give is the space we have. But who are “we” when we talk about “us”? In times of an ever more destructive anthropocentrism, of growing nationalisms, in times of increasing social drift, such false assemblages have lost their innocence. Because what connects “us” might equally separate “us” from one, from the other. There are cracks in any such friendly narratives, cracks through which, as Leonard Cohen reminds, the light gets in. Facing critical developments in France, in Europe and across the globe, “our” evening at Centre Culturel Suisse centers on questions of the political potentials and worldbuilding implications of friendship as a means to navigate an in between space – where I end and you begin. How can the fundamental experience called friendship be mobilized as a political force today? What can democracy – or politics as such – be based on, if it accepts concepts of “difference” and “identity” (and thus: “subjectivity”) not as given categorical representations and pre-defined life categories but as movements of becoming and processes of change, matters of ongoing negotiation? Which friendly modes of doing and orienting together can empower new forms of co-existence that might escape the ways in which contemporary technologies and governing forces preemptively capture emotions and control bodies absorbing them into the exclusionary narratives inscribed into representational democracy? What support structures, modes of collective organization, institutional and technological frameworks could be developed to motivate, sustain and support forms of care and action, in solidarity, that would accommodate multiplicity and difference? Based on previous conversations around the topic in the frame of “Body of Us”, the Swiss contribution to the London Design Biennale 2018, the project’s curator Rebekka Kiesewetter has invited friends to continue the discussion around political friendship: dpr-Barcelona, initiators of the “Parasitic reading room” at the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial 2018, architect Ross Exo Adams, one of the contributors to Body of Us publication, and the continent. experimental publishing collective, initiators of “Reading Friendships Paris“ at Centre Culturel Suisse 2016. At this same venue, three years later, the stage opens for an edition of the “Parasitic Reading Room” and a reprise of “Reading Friendships”, an evening of readings, thinkings, creating and discussion. You are welcome to bring friends and family, and to contribute vividly with your thoughts and note, reference, media, piece, book or object that comes to mind and comes to friendship. A collective reader will be produced, on stage, during the sessions in Paris on March 20th, 2019. Can “we” be friends? curated by Rebekka Kiesewetter in the frame of Body of Us, with continent., Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera (dpr-barcelona)
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Articulating Politics with Design and Technology: Public Space, Computation and Commoning
(2020) Savic, Selena; Miyazaki, Shintaro
If artefacts can have politics (Winner, 1980), and scientific hypotheses can be shaped by political forces (Prigogine and Stengers, 1984) where does this politics come from? Whether we are in autocratic politics or in horizontal decision making based on consensus, design and technology reproduce the principles of the socio-political systems in which they emerged. How does, in turn, design of space and technological artefacts shape the decision making processes in a community? While every kind of social order results in some form of hegemony, Chantal Mouffe (2005) reminds us, agonism reveals the very limit of any rational consensus. In this text, we contrast two extreme hegemonic positions: autocratic design of hostile architectures (unpleasant design) and the (quasi)participative data-driven city management (i.e. smart city); we then discuss an alternative to both, which is driven by a desire for self-organisation, independence and sustainability. In this scope, we discuss an ongoing research project that uses technological artefacts (computational modelling) to probe the agency of these tools in addressing complex topics related to decision making and self-organisation. Touching upon the different hegemonic positions as a starting points for articulating alternatives, we will discuss the connection between sustainable ways of living and technology developed with an emancipatory sensitivity. Working directly with three Swiss housing cooperatives, the research project poses the question of the measure and manner in which new technologies can be not only of use to community efforts but at the heart of their discussions and decision-making.
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Politics and the City: Introduction to Special Issue
(17.11.2020) Savic, Selena
The challenge of this special issue in finding words and coming to terms with contemporary city and contemporary politics is amplified by the difficulty to pin point what and where exactly a city is and how can we perceive political activities in its context. We might be better off asking: what is not city today, which place on Earth is empty of city-ness? This special issue presents four contributions that proceed from the panel City, Civility and Post-political Models of Freedom and Conflict panel held in November 2018 as part of the Scaffolds international symposium organized by ALICE lab from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, supported by the C I.II.III.IV. A, the Kanal Centre Pompidou, and with the participation of several institutions and university departments from KU Leuven, ULB, TU Delft, and TU Vienna. Without pertaining to comprehensiveness, the present collection captures some points in the debate on city and civility informed by questions that originate in design and architecture.
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