ArchiNED has contrasting views on the Projective Landscape conference! First of all, did anyone define what "projective" meant? Is it the new catch-phrase for "post-critical"? Is it the antithesis or antidote to "ideological"? What is a projective practice? Those that deal with the reality of 'what is' while shunning 'what could be'? (No, says Lara Schrijver.) Is Michael Speaks winning the most converts to the "market-as-reality" faith? Read on...
Gideon Boie cites this opposing view by Reinhold Martin: "The idea that the arrival of capitalism opens an immense field of possibility in which the designer can experiment freely is an outstanding example of ideology."
Says Boie: "Speaks in particular felt offended by this criticism, which he heartily laughed away saying, 'The market is something that happens, and what happens is reality, not ideology.'"
Ah, but which gazelle will swoop in and dare challenge this view of "reality"? Christine Boyer, that's who! But will the Speaks camp listen? Boie: "What they conveniently forgot was how Boyer situated this 'militarisation of urban thought' against the background of what she, along with Paul Virilio, denoted as a 'consciousness disaster' within the design world."
Design Intelligence - Speaks & Co in Delft - Gideon Boie
Mirror, mirror on the wall - who is the most critical of them all? - Lara Schrijver
You can watch the videos online.
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I'm always curious about what Reinhold Martin has to say and Googled this little retort from a letter in Architectural Record: "The architecture coverage in the June issue was thoroughly engaging, though it was surprising to see that record had allowed itself to become a forum for political and economic ideology. Such was the impression given by the piece bearing the disingenuous title “After Theory†by Michael Speaks [page 72], which reads like a memo in the culture wars. This humorless, anti-intellectual attack on “theory†was gratuitous at best, cynically opportunistic at worst. Having been told that “theory†is no good for capitalism, can we expect to hear next that it is unpatriotic? It is embarrassing that this posture is being falsely attributed to an entire generation of younger architects and academics. Still, it’s apparently more fun for some to join the market fundamentalist party than it is to risk thinking imaginatively and critically."
, Delft student, organizer of the Projective Landscape conference, and Archinect school blogger breaks it down here in his latest entry (photos coming soon too I belive).
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