Production of Architecture

A course at the Royal Institute of Technology running from October 27th until December 9th

Architecture Television is about using lo-fi, simple and open source technologies to examine borders, possibilities and limitation to the mediatization of architecture. Architecture Television is televised architecture and architecture televised.

Technology not only surrounds us but has also become incorprated in our everyday lives, working as extensions of ourselves, shaping our experiences and our methods for creative production. This seminar takes its starting point in some classical texts in the field of new media theory. We will discuss how the formation of space, image, identity and language have been informed by the development of ever more sophisticated technologies.

Friday the 21st October 15:00 to 17:00

Monday the 13th October 15:00 to 17:00

This seminar consists of two parts, first Håkan Nilsson will give a lecture on how virtuality as concept is operating and understood through different practices of cultural production. The second part is your presentations and a follow-up discussion.

Here are all the presentations for the mid-review in the course UNREAL. The presentations took place at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, October 3:rd 2008.

UNREAL is a course at the Royal Institute of Technology running between September 8th until October 24th 2008

When faced with the discussion about “real” and “virtual” architecture one encounters many different traces. One is leading towards a way of addressing architecture as a result from various “forces” or “powers”, where the constructed space is understood as something that manifests the predominating one. As a consequence, architects and theorists have been using the idea of the virtual and the network as a tool to resist powers or at least make the powers in question visible; to the beholder, but also to the producing architects. Terms like “open source” and “share-ware”, borrowed from computer science, has been popular in the field of visual arts as well as in architecture.

”We redefine the position of Tensta, putting it in the centre of Stockholm instead of in the periphery. With four different colours, we not only build a structure of around 490 000 000 square meters but we also enable all of us to inhabit new mental territories.”

cities are made of this
BBQ OPENING AT TENSTA KONSTHALL FRIDAY MAY 30 at 6 PM

cities are made of this starts April 8th 10 AM at Tensta Konsthall

The course cities are made of this aims to develop an understanding for alternative processes in the production of urban conditions. We will look into how non-planning and positions between fast forward late capitalism and residues of traditional planning methodologies have started to produce new understandings of our urban environment. We will introduce and propose new concepts and tools to work on topics of urban development. Away from traditional models of planning and ill-disguised cynical trends towards a more down to earth, active and participatory approach to urban and spatial questions.

Sunday 6 APRIL International Festival and students from the School of Architecture brought together a new piece CAPITALISM! Bring It On Again NAIF at Nederlands Architectuurinstituut

“International Festival dresses up, addressing concepts of costume between architecture and performance, in combination with "thing" and expectation, projection and containment. CAPITALISM! Bring It On Again is another dress code for present day production of relations, a series of in situ productions laid out as grid where landslide and curtain raiser is parallel, and suit and suite is perpendicular to silicon and rubber boots. International Festival will remix dance group with sweatshop together with a team of architects, dancers and others to create a compilation celebrating haute couture, striptease, down dressing and facades.”

Technology not only surrounds us but has also become incorprated in our everyday lives, working as extensions of ourselves, shaping our experiences and our methods for creative production. This seminar takes its starting point in some classical texts in the field of new media theory. We will discuss how the formation of space, image, identity and language have been informed by the development of ever more sophisticated technologies.

The theme for this seminar revolves round notions of technology and identity. How do our technologies influence our understanding of identity? Does new technologies challenge old ideas, or are these two separated? How does art and architecture respond to technological development?

The assignment consists in reading and discussing a text within the group and then to present the text and the author/movement to the rest of the class on Friday, relate the text to your interests in contemporary architecture, both as buildings or as practise. Try to connect the different theories to your own experiences. The presentation should be no longer than 45 and no shorter than 30 min.

The assignment is about place. How do we appreciate places, what politics, economy, gender, social behaviour does a certain place generate and how do interact with it? Can we resist the politics of a certain place? Should we?