EXERCISE: SEMINARE PARIS/LOS ANGELES

DUE 11/12 AVRIL IN STUDIO PLEASE WRITE 1-2 DOUBLE-SPACED TYPED PAGES ANALYSIS OF NON-LIEU PROJECT THAT ADDRESSES THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1. YOUR MOTIVATION (REASON) FOR CHOOSING THE SITE: Have you chosen the site for its potential --historic interest --economic importance --political role --environmental importance --cultural potential --social change --ethnic complexity --infrastructural role --security issues --connectivity 2. YOUR STRATEGY FOR MEDIATING THE SITE: Discuss your approach to the site, your manner of working and mode of analysis as: --historic --archeologique --diagrammatic --environmental --enthnologic (memory) --structural/post-structural (signification/spectacle) --psychological --technical --a derive, desorientation --a question of revitalization --a question of identity --based on the social imaginary --based on the body remember: each way of working represents a different kind of “eye”--consider, for example, that the eye of the police is not the eye of human justice. Defend your approach. 3. YOUR HYPOTHESIS This section should clearly state the problem you have outlined above as a resolution: What will be the result of your intervention? Remember this exercise is not meant simply to produce an architectural response to a place. We are working with ideas we hope will change your reflexes as architectures, will offer a new kind of program, and a new way of working that are addressed to real social/urban problems. How does the non-lieu help us rethink new forms of urban life; what does your project bring into focus. 4. LIST YOUR PRINCIPAL RESOURCES IN LITERATURE, THEORY, AS WELL AS THE DOCUMENTS YOU WILL CONSULT (this is the critical/intellectual foundation for your work; the pragmatic documentation should be a part of the site analysis you are doing for Eddie) REMEMBER: A NON-LIEU IS a fulcrum/microcosm of the competing demands of urban space. A NON-LIEU IS imbricated in-between, entre: real/imaginary good/evil utopia/dystopia construction/destruction local/global present/past production/negation spectacle/ruin center/edge nature/culture objectivity/need time/stagnation empirical/psychological memory/forgetting empathy/indifference THE NON-LIEU IS the perfect post-modern allegorical space determined by appropriation site specificity accumulation hybridity impermanence DO NOT FORGET TO CONSULT THE BIBLIOGRAPHY I GAVE YOU AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO CONSULT (all in French): guy deborde (study of the derive) Jean Baudrillard (on Consumer Society; in Collected Writings see, On Seduction, Simulacra/Simulations, and Fatal Strategies) Jean-François Augoyard (Pas à Pas) Georges Bataille (in Visions of Excess, essay on the EYE)