Fluid Territories: On Rights & Spaces
DIP7 this year dwells in the juridical ambiguity associated with spaces that include ‘non-city’ forms of habitation as well as highly urban conditions – in particular, contested spaces and their correlated geographies. Our position is that these geographies should be seen as politicised territorial entities through which broader political, environmental, economic and societal questions can be addressed.
A key concern within our work throughout the year was the development of architectural devices that are capable of operating on multiple scales and timescales, reclaiming various forms of ‘right to the space’ by challenging the idea of ownership and property. In this way, any spatial proposition – whether landscape, urban or architectural – was challenged and revisited through the lens of territorial networks and their associated temporalities. From pilgrimages in Brittany, the Holy Land or along the Ganges River to an informal network of gig workers in London; all these forces are mobilised to destabilise a specific notion of space, one whose assets are calculated solely based on ideas of productivity and exclusivity.
The research-by-design projects presented here investigate multilayered territorial constructs; they propose new spatial interventions that address the complex yet occasionally obscured juridical, environmental and geopolitical conditions of their chosen sites, where the notion of ‘right to the space’ is disputed. The students therefore engaged with a range of scales; from domestic interiors in London to the western deserts of Australia and the ancestral land of the indigenous communities in Cordillera Mountain, Philippines. These interventions are informed not only by conflict resolution and problem-solving, but also address social degradation, the climate emergency and crises of care and intimacy in multi-species communities. They instrumentalise design as a form of action that inevitably implies a political vision, and they all aim to establish forms of association among individuals, communities and collectives; between forces, space and subjects; and between human and non-human agents.
DIP7 this year dwells in the juridical ambiguity associated with spaces that include ‘non-city’ forms of habitation as well as highly urban conditions – in particular, contested spaces and their correlated geographies. Our position is that these geographies should be seen as politicised territorial entities through which broader political, environmental, economic and societal questions can be addressed.
A key concern within our work throughout the year was the development of architectural devices that are capable of operating on multiple scales and timescales, reclaiming various forms of ‘right to the space’ by challenging the idea of ownership and property. In this way, any spatial proposition – whether landscape, urban or architectural – was challenged and revisited through the lens of territorial networks and their associated temporalities. From pilgrimages in Brittany, the Holy Land or along the Ganges River to an informal network of gig workers in London; all these forces are mobilised to destabilise a specific notion of space, one whose assets are calculated solely based on ideas of productivity and exclusivity.
The research-by-design projects presented here investigate multilayered territorial constructs; they propose new spatial interventions that address the complex yet occasionally obscured juridical, environmental and geopolitical conditions of their chosen sites, where the notion of ‘right to the space’ is disputed. The students therefore engaged with a range of scales; from domestic interiors in London to the western deserts of Australia and the ancestral land of the indigenous communities in Cordillera Mountain, Philippines. These interventions are informed not only by conflict resolution and problem-solving, but also address social degradation, the climate emergency and crises of care and intimacy in multi-species communities. They instrumentalise design as a form of action that inevitably implies a political vision, and they all aim to establish forms of association among individuals, communities and collectives; between forces, space and subjects; and between human and non-human agents.
Unit
Masters:
Hamed Khosravi, Platon Issaias
Students:
Tamir Cohen Aharoni
Ylam Deme
Aiden Domican
Isabelle Doumet
Wenyi (Ellen) Hu
Julia Issler Rittscher
Vedika Kapour
Lynus Hui Ning Lau
Jang-hee Lee
Tzu-shuo (Mark) Wu
Ghita Zahid
Hamed Khosravi, Platon Issaias
Students:
Tamir Cohen Aharoni
Ylam Deme
Aiden Domican
Isabelle Doumet
Wenyi (Ellen) Hu
Julia Issler Rittscher
Vedika Kapour
Lynus Hui Ning Lau
Jang-hee Lee
Tzu-shuo (Mark) Wu
Ghita Zahid