Archinect - Features 2024-05-03T04:36:02-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149979146/tweaking-the-city-the-politics-of-urban-interventions Tweaking the City: the Politics of Urban Interventions Nicholas Korody 2016-11-23T12:14:00-05:00 >2016-11-27T19:44:26-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/iw/iwnek54m8dh9li0r.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>&ldquo;We know that we are living in a crisis,&rdquo; states Mathias Klenner, one of five members of the Santiago-based architectural collective <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/143595050/next-up-mini-session-16-toma" target="_blank">TOMA</a>. &ldquo;We also know that the neoliberal political and economic system is so deep inside our minds and inside our bodies that we cannot think of any solutions. And yet you see that sometimes people have actually managed to gather together, like in the Occupy movement. But the question is: how do you create possibilities? How do you think about the future? And how do you connect these different groups of people?&rdquo;</p>