texts | keyword contents
cold-war, utopia, escapism, power structures, construction of a narrative, urbanism, European Peripheries, socioaesthetics, modernity, mapping, ethnography, urban imaginings, enacting a collective utopia, mythopoeia, the social correlates of collective imaginaries, nationalism as social imaginary
on quantums
escapism
the two reactions of discontent are an individual economical action via exit and a participatory political action via voice -Albert O. Hirschman
+ Exit, voice and loyalty and Exit, voice and the state
'The breeding ground of disobedience does not lie exclusively in the social conflicts which express protest, but, and above all, in those which express defection.
Nothing is less passive than the act of fleeing, of exiting'. -Paulo Virno
on disappearance and erasing (personal/collective) history
on fake identity and constructing a (personal/collective) history
on Social Fabric (under the idea of social fabric)
method
on the living house
on functional city
on mnemotechnics
-spatial scale/body,home,neighborhood,city
-degrees of exclusivity and openness/from the most private to the most public
-modes of social encounter and association with space /personal, interpersonal, impersonal
the afterlife of a house, the memory and the experience of a domestic space.
intimate objects of the everyday
retaining intimacy in objects
the 'Athens Charter' was the result of the 4th meeting of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in 1933, a meeting that was held onboard ship, the SS Patris II, which sailed from Marseilles to Athens.
the conference and the resulting document concentrated on the idea of the 'Functional City', a contribution to what is called "comparative town planning."
the architects and urban planners Jan Chmielewski and Szymon and Helena Syrkus, delegates of the CIAM influenced by the foreign avant garde movement, they adapted the spatial planning concept known as 'Functional Warsaw' (Warszawa Funkcjonalna)
the architects and urban planners Jan Chmielewski and Szymon and Helena Syrkus, delegates of the CIAM influenced by the foreign avant garde movement, they adapted the spatial planning concept known as 'Functional Warsaw' (Warszawa Funkcjonalna)
also on Post-War Warsaw
on mnemotechnics
the most important principle is the dominance of the visual sense in combination with the orientation of 'seen' objects within space.
principles and techniques:
affect/repetition/association/ordo, brevitas, divisio/architectural mnemonic/graphical mnemonic/textual mnemonic/loci method
affect/repetition/association/ordo, brevitas, divisio/architectural mnemonic/graphical mnemonic/textual mnemonic/loci method
on quantums
on Collective Imaginary (under the idea of collective imaginary)
escapismthe two reactions of discontent are an individual economical action via exit and a participatory political action via voice -Albert O. Hirschman
+ Exit, voice and loyalty and Exit, voice and the state
'The breeding ground of disobedience does not lie exclusively in the social conflicts which express protest, but, and above all, in those which express defection.
Nothing is less passive than the act of fleeing, of exiting'. -Paulo Virno
+ A grammar of the multitude
Jan Wnęk
+ flying machines - pioneer aviation
wormhole/Iron Curtain/black hole
+ anatomy of a black hole
Jan Wnęk
+ flying machines - pioneer aviation
wormhole/Iron Curtain/black hole
+ anatomy of a black hole
on disappearance and erasing (personal/collective) history
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