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Fluid Territories: On Division & Distribution

The presented DIP7 research-by-design projects investigate multi-layered 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 notions of division of space and distribution of rights are often disputed. The students are therefore engaged with multiple scales; from the interior of gentlemen clubs in London to Kati Thanda-Lake basin in Australia, or Lazy bed fields in Ireland. These multi-scalar interventions are informed not only by conflict resolution and problem-solving, but propositions that address social degradation, climate emergency and the crises of care and intimacy in multispecies communities. They instrumentalise design as action that inevitably imply a political vision; 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.