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SEMINARS 2008
Urban Situations. Executive Units SEMINAR
Santiago Cirugeda
This seminar will work on strategies of urban occupation and urban intervention, ranging from legal to non-legal conditions: Some of the questions to be addressed are the following:
- Ephemeral and expirable architecture/ design
- New forms of life and new temporalities
- Buldings’ prothesis, extension of capacities to build
- Modifying and exciting of street space, from public art to advertising campaigns
- Occupation of built structures, invisible architecture, and recycling strategies
- Urban reservations of public space, extension of the citizens’ capacities
- Building from institutionalized conditions –deviating institutional situations
- Sistematic redefining of urban and civil codes
- Camouflaged action –witnesses’ protection
- Approximations to commercial, political, and advertising systems