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- Torisson, Fredrik
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Utopology : A Re-Interrogation of the Utopian in Architecture
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Utopia – the word is simultaneously evocative of hope and dread. As a concept it is stupendously problematic, and yet despite its alleged passing into irrelevance, utopia still remains a household word. Why is this so?Utopia has been reduced to a category. We place a solution in the category of the utopian or, conversely, the not-utopian. Without fail, discussions involving utopia will eventually veer toward debates on whether a book, project, or building is utopian or not.Utopia reduced to such a category invokes both a problematic universality and a convoluted end of history – perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of architecture. However, if we begin with the problem to which the solution is a response rather than the solution being proposed, we soon realize that utopia is more complicated than a simple image of a perfect future.The study at hand re-interrogates the utopian concept. The question is not what architecture is utopian, but how and why architecture is utopian. Utopia is reinterpreted as a concept predicated on survival and a desire for a better way of living, rather than on immortality and perfection. Utopia in this sense is monstrous; its function is to challenge the presuppositions that define the horizons of our imagination, and to show us that the future is not predetermined: the future is fundamentally open.What assumptions, then, are formative of how architects relate to the future and utopia when projections of that future perfect have become irrelevant?If the projection of a perfect future is impossible, yet intimately associated with the architect, utopia becomes paradoxical for architects. Utopian desire is instead expressed in other ways, consciously or unconsciously. The study argues that the present worldview is dominated by what is here dubbed the Network-image; we think of everything in terms of networks, privileging connections over form, and the architect is again assuming a new role for herself as a manager, rather than an expert.Networks offer different ways of working with architecture. Rather than specifying the forms of the future (projections), architects can and do work by defining and elaborating protocols that enable and cultivate connections which, according to the prevalent narrative, build transversal collectives that can potentially transform the world.However, there are other implications linked to these new opportunities. Any network is governed by multiple protocols, and the architect as manager becomes inscribed in a logic of control. There is an implicit notion that architects can produce architecture that is self-governing, participatory, and implicitly egalitarian (and instrumental in opening up the future) through designing protocols. This assumption urgently needs to be interrogated.The discussion in this study centers on the need to challenge the Network-image itself, and not only to take our role in it as given. The dissertation is an argument for considering the how of imagining the future with more scrutiny, and it offers a set of principles and a terminology for discussion to enable further research on the subject.
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- Gerthel, Max, et al.
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Introduktion & Meta-manifest
- 2023
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Ingår i: MANI-FEST : 15 svenska arkitekturmanifest - 15 svenska arkitekturmanifest. - 9789198887600 ; , s. 3-9
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Gerthel, Max
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MANI-FEST
- 2023
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kärrholm, Mattias, et al.
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Meeting places of the Univer-city : On serendipitous encounters in a growing university area
- 2024
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Ingår i: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - 2590-2911. ; 10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we investigate the ways in which a university, taking on the scale of a city of its own, affords meetings for researchers and teachers between disciplines. How does the continuous transformation and expansion of the university’s physical environment affect the everyday lives and serendipitous encounters of the researchers active within it? The aim of the paper is to develop a conceptualization to facilitate discussions and analyses of urban transformations and its relation to serendipitous and informal meetings in urban areas. The paper takes Lund University as a case and uses different methods, such as time-geographical notations and Perecinspired observations studies, to develop five different aspects that allow us to take measure of urban configurations and their potential for serendipitous meetings and encounters.
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- Kärrholm, Mattias, et al.
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The infraordinary life of researchers : Meeting places and scientific culture in the Univer-city of Lund, Sweden
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we are interested in how the growing University, i.e., the University as a place of increasingly urban dimensions, affects the infraordinary life of researchers. We here focus especially on the transformation of mundane meeting places (old and new), where researchers across disciplines might meet. In the paper, we are thus looking into changing territorial landscape of research and disciplines and its relation to everyday life, including the effects of new interdisciplinary venues, the introduction of new public spaces and transport within the University area, etc. The paper takes Lund University as a case and uses different methods, such as Perec-inspired observations studies and time-geographical notations. Lund University is currently undergoing a large-scale expansion and transformation in relation to the building of the European Spallation Source (ESS), which allow us to contrast the infra-ordinary chores of researchers with the large-scale visions and strategies of European and Swedish research politics.
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Mani-fest : 15 svenska arkitekturmanifest
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Kan arkitekter använda det skrivna ordet till att förändra världen?MANI-FEST bjuder in ett antal unga svenska arkitektkontor till att formulera sig i korta och slagkraftiga meningar. Har manifestet någon betydelse för dagens och framtidens arkitekter? Vilka frågor engagerar en ung svensk arkitekt just nu? Detta är en reflektion över ordets makt, manifestets möjligheter och vad som är viktigt för dem verksamma inom arkitektur och stadsbyggnad.
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- Runting, Helen, 1982-, et al.
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Managing the Not-Yet : The Architectural Project Under Semiocapitalism
- 2017
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Ingår i: Architecture and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2050-7828 .- 2050-7836. ; 5:2, s. 213-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under conditions of semiocapitalism - wherein signs, rather than goods or even services, are the main output of abstract production - the architectural "project" has become the primary technology for organizing architectural labor. The project, we argue, also acts as a capture device capable of linking economic production and the production of subjectivity, facilitating both the reproduction of (architectural) labor, on the one hand, and the financing of schemes, on the other. Both outcomes, we posit, are dependent on the production of anticipatory affects that imbue legitimacy by citing the past and factoring in the future.
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- Runting, Helen, et al.
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Pop Theory : The Architecture of Late Night Shopping
- 2017
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Ingår i: Architecture and Culture. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2050-7828 .- 2050-7836. ; 5:3, s. 513-524
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inviting audiences into the late-night, precarious world of (photo) shopping, we explore the way in which the ghostly figures of the Photoshop world - its exhausted architects, indebted consumers, and the two-dimensional cut-outs that populate its spaces - are all put to use in a project of producing subjectivities through environments. Feminist critiques of visuality provide a basis in understanding the play between bodies and worlds that set this production in motion. By looking at the mechanics of "pre-occupation" that allow us to inhabit such images, we speculate: could a re-theorization of this most commercial of "extra-architectural services" (visualization) allow the activity of shopping be put to more radical use?
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