Today's Radical Proposal (after digesting the revelatory introduction of de Certeau's "The Practice of Everyday Life" (which I am only beginning, for now, to scan, appropriate and assimilate (good words)), which also happens to further frame Peabody Intervention as an observation test case: The thesis prep document becomes a tactical manual for resistance for the Allston community in the face of Harvard's expansion, a tactical assemblage for "renting" and therefore exerting political control over its geographic (maybe no longer legally...) space, and The Thesis becomes either the exercising of these tactics in a war-game mock scenario to create seeds/holdouts, or better (maybe) the provision of the infrastructure for such operations to utilize ("a body of constraints stimulating new discoveries, a set of rules with which improvisation plays") as a complement to the manual, or maybe better even the deployment of a parasitic architecture that leeches off the existing architecture/infrastructure to improve the conditions to nourish such new modes of consumption.
2 comments:
love it. thank you also for the entry above -- it seems extremely instructive to read through such a mass of studio descriptions (i.e., program briefs) in just one or two sittings. . .so you start to read them as methodologies, not as descriptions. The more I start to think about situating my thesis the more it seems that heavy borrowing/influence from competition + studio briefs can be extremely productive.
I also love this idea. esp. war games!
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