Let’s start with matter as a way of reconsidering the material imaginary of architecture in ways that question economic logics and that looks not at the quantitative “performance” of materials but the behavior and misbehavior of an assemblage, a practice or a machine. Matter eschews nature/culture oppositions, insofar as matter (both the material and immaterial) can be simulated, projected and invented in ways that create new feedback loops with environmental systems and networks. Animal, vegetable, mineral—you can design them all. We accept that the Earth and earth are already de-natured and inauthentic. Today dissimulations surround us: material and aesthetic simulations that preserve the reality principle. Tectonics reaffirm, but matter satisfies desires, weaponizes fears and plays with memory. We aspire to bad tectonics, alt-materiality, corrupted aesthetics, fuzzy connections and unethical assemblages. We look for flaccid strength, weak structures, dirty ecologies, and low-brow logics. Matter is what you make of it.
May 6, 9:00 AM
- Kyle Simmons
Insurgent Architecture: A Destructibles Guide for the Hijacking Space - Camila Andino & Daniela Andino
Uncomfortably Numb: Manifesto for the Paradox of Discomfort - Peter Anthony Maffei
Form Follows Famous: A Critical Reconstruction of Influencer Space - Sachio Badham
Lurid, Lucid and Unintelligible: Six Sickly Schemes Challenge Six Symbols
Additional Reviewers:
- Kyle Miller
- Valerie Herrera
May 6, 1:00 PM
- Aditya Mehta
Efficiency of Trans-resolutional Legibility: Re-possessing the Subjectively Contrived - Andres Feng Qian & Yu Qian Wang
The Rare Myth: Visualizing Anthropogenic Processes - Natasha Liston-Beck & Yundi Wendy Zhang
Continuous Interior Space Architectures: An Omni-orientational Archive of Interfaces - Anna Korneeva & Irmak Turanli
Earth Choreographer: Remediating Obsolete Grounds of the Future - Yunhao Yang
Embrace the Othering: An Un-anthropocentric Park at the North Sea
Additional Reviewers:
- Lori Brown
- David Shanks
