Kurs aus TUMOnline ( W2022/23)
This seminar will consider 1968 as a turning point in the history of contemporary architecture. The new working class global mobilisation for a new set of values (pluralistic society, global solidarity, direct democracy, questioning established gender identities, anti-authoritarian, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-consumeristic,…), corroborated with a cultural revolution (Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Herbert Marcuse, French existentialism, Jean Luis Godard, situationist, Frankfurt School, jazz, blues, rock, pop, process art, action painting, kinetic art, pop art, op art, new realism, minimal art, environmental art, Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, COBRA,…), had important repercussions on the architect’s profession, so much so that many to quote began to question the role of the architect within society.
In doing this, many of the most progressive architects of the time, began to work on the definition of new operational tools and in particular on the so-called participation, considered here as the involvement of citizens in the definition of architectural projects.
This is a controversial subject whose outcomes have not yet been studied with sufficient attention and today, more than ever, the need to reflect on these practices in order to better understand their full potential is particularly evident. For instance participation processes can be used as a compensation for the process of disembedding, i.e. uprooting social relations from local contexts and transferring them to indefinite and global spatial-temporal arcs.
In doing this, many of the most progressive architects of the time, began to work on the definition of new operational tools and in particular on the so-called participation, considered here as the involvement of citizens in the definition of architectural projects.
This is a controversial subject whose outcomes have not yet been studied with sufficient attention and today, more than ever, the need to reflect on these practices in order to better understand their full potential is particularly evident. For instance participation processes can be used as a compensation for the process of disembedding, i.e. uprooting social relations from local contexts and transferring them to indefinite and global spatial-temporal arcs.
- Dozent: Alberto Franchini