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Title Statement Did someone say participate? : an atlas of spatial practice : a report from the front lines of cultural activism looks at spatial practitioners who actively tresspass into neighbouring or alien fields of knowledge
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) MIT Press , Cambridge, Mass. ; 2006 : c2006
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Physical Description 331 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) : 25 cm.
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Did someone say we need yet another anthology of essays? According to the editors of Did Someone Say Participate?, the answer is an emphatic--or hysterical--"YES!" In fact, they'd go further and argue that the shifts that have taken place in the practice and pedagogy of architecture have been mirrored in other fields, and that this has happened to such an extent that an emerging generation of artists, activists, economists, curators, policy makers, photographers, editors (and, of course, architects) is reshaping how we look at contemporary social and political reality. Despite their apparent disciplinary differences, these professionals are all spatial practitioners. What was once seen as the defensive preserve of architects--mapping, making, or manipulating spaces--has become a new "culture of space" situated in the global market and media arena. Did Someone Say Participate? showcases a range of forward-thinking practitioners and theorists who actively trespass into neighboring or alien fields of knowledge in activities that range from collaborative forms of interdisciplinary practice to identifying practices of ethical terror. For the first time, architecture is here presented as the architecture of knowledge. Participation--social, political or personal--is once again at the forefront of research. Together, the contributions form an atlas of spatial practices resembling the early medieval maps that attempt to show the entire known world. Did Someone Say Participate? will be essential reading not only for those involved in the future of architectural research and practice, but for anyone interested in navigating through current forms of cultural inquiry and debate. Contributors: Abake, Shumon Basar, Johanna Billing, Celine Condorelli & Beatrice Gibson, Keller Easterling, Francesca Ferguson, Justin Frewen, Stephen Graham, Joseph Grima, Mauricio Guillen, Michael Hirsch, Bernd Kniess & Meyer Voggenreiter, Armin Linke, Brendan McGetrick, John McSweeney, Markus Miessen, Matthew Murphy, Lucy Musgrave & Clare Cumberlidge, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bas Princen, Wendy Pullan, Frank van der Salm, Luke Skrebowski, R&Sie(n) with Pierre Huyghe, Peter Weibel, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Eyal Weizman.
Endpapers: A War Alphabet Preface: Participation Lasts Forever p. 14 Introduction: Did We Mean Participate, or Did We Mean Something Else? p. 22 The Professional Amateur p. 30 Too Smart to be Right: The Stunning Political Successes of Special Stupidity p. 35 Augmenting Reality: Pervasive Computing, Spatial Practice Interface Politics p. 42 Terra Incognita p. 52 Don't Fuck the Authorshiplessness p. 57 Moving in the Margins p. 59 Glimpses of a Future Architecture p. 68 Thurrock: A Visionary Brief in the Thames Gateway p. 80 Did You Mean: Outsourcing p. 88 Armin Linke p. 96 Locating the Civic in the Frontier: Damascus Gate p. 109 Architecture Minds the Gap: Berlin's Fragmented Urbanisation p. 123 Spaces, Places, Faces: Snapshots of a U.N. Worker's Year in Iraq and Beyond p. 136 Bas Princen p. 145 Magical World p. 153 Toward a Multi-lectics of Himalayan Water: Nepalese Hydro-politics and the Maoist Peoples War p. 161 The Museum of the Future p. 173 Topoi: Policies of Assertion p. 187 Remember Fallujah: Demonising Place, Constructing Atrocity p. 202 Frank van der Salm p. 217 Island Hopping: Politics of Visibility in Contemporary Mexico p. 234 School of Missing Studies p. 241 Architecture, Power Unplugged: Gaza Evacuations p. 257 Spatial Practices in the Margin of Opportunity p. 273 The Space of Community: Between Culture And Politics p. 290 Mumbai City Dictionary p. 305 Biographies p. 323 Acknowledgments p. 331