critical conversation #3: 10 "mind-bombs" each

our third of five critical conversations was wednesday and was fantastic. everyone's research and work was outstanding and the conversations were all around great and gave us all a good boost of momentum to ride next semester.

the primary question which we all need to now focus on going forward is 'what's next?' our pieces have been set and its time to make some major moves.

the master of science in design research curriculum has certainly allowed the 10 project to grow faster than any of us could have expected. there is a steep learning curve which we all seem to have latched on to and the work is really beginning to move.

while there are many overlapping themes among the projects, each project seems to follow different and singular idea. this aspect is great because it allows us to relate to one another's projects, as well as help one another and build on each other's personalized and singular ideas.

our advisors (jason young and etienne turpin) have been unbelievably helpful thus far in helping us steer our work in a direction that is allowing us to maximize potential and begin to spatialize these sets of social, political, and economic bodies of research.

decoy cities

http://www.deconcrete.org/2011/12/02/a-paris-made-to-be-destroyed/

kudos to jonathan lejune for finding/posting this to twitter.

plans consisting of sham railways and sham factories. drawings for a city's false identity and counterfeit personality.

diggin it.

coffee and techno

sitting in studio. drinking espresso and rocking out to deadmau5, daftpunk, and eric prydz. writing up ideas of where studio goes from here following last week's conversation. attempting to pair with and think up more subjects/institutions/territories.

thoughts thus far...

-pairing with the counterfeiter or the confidence man as a subject.

-thinking of schizophrenic mentality of both the user, but the space in which they occupy.

-the ghost shift-the third shift in which the factory producing the celebrity endorsed products shuts down and opens illegally to produce black market replicas

-temporality and dormancy of a space/person's actions

-illusion of trust generated by the a space

-this clinging to or borrowing from generates the idea of the parasitic relationship within certain aspects (carefully attempting to side-step my thesis here)

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not sure if i need to begin to develop some agency within the work. but i certainly need to begin to stake some claims on behalf of the work and research and begin to develop a discursive relationship within the project.

i am interested in the parasitic and temporary architecture.

the museum is an interesting staging ground for that...the material is curated and assumed true. the counterfeit or temporary confidence mentality could insert itself into this scenario and partner with these ideologies.

more to come. thoughts still brewing.

not sure where it is all going just yet.

-b

lost iterations...or hidden copies

kudos to a colleague of mine who stumbled upon these during our non-causal given research of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. unknown to many, the lost iterations of the home design.

favorite bullet points:

the stairs jetting out of the first floor in project two

the enclosed area on the third floor also in project two

the different garage iterations

the basement plan/section which i found out was real and generally unknown or untaught