New Forms of Social (Re)Production II
If these follies are to perform these causes, can we all think of that which we are missing. Architecture can't provide a solution, but springboards for the recording and inscription of public/social commentary. In this case then Architecture as much as it is Experiment, does not aim to remain, but to attain relevance. How can it be relevant then? By challenging contemporary cultural conditions that we find nasty, or degrading. You name it: binary gender distinctions, alienation from nature, alienation from end product in labour processes, the decimation of social life, the public, and the (physical)public sphere, the lack of transparency of public institutions, etc. This means that Architecture in no sense possesses the ability to propose more transparent institutions, or more levelled gender identities, instead it can only reconsider the interactions between what we consider material culture, and its users. How can then the formation of Architecture, through its processes of production, construction, consolidation, distribution, maintenance and habitation, renegotiate these transactions and their consequences. This means that Architecture will not follow the motto of Art for Art's sake, but that it would have another, more specific social agenda, where the material acts upon new imaginary conditions for its producers, dwellers and consumers.
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