The format of your presentation resemble a film noir – black and white, with an almost dystopian, surreal atmosphere. It is possible to follow your interest in the relation between ideology and manifestation/representation of architectural space, and reflect upon if/which certain objects and artefacts that are representing an ideology as form.... The critique from Lefebvre towards soviet urban planning – as a failure, is interesting (and obviously a disappointment for a Marxist) - it’s questioning the ability for an ideology to define its own spatial understanding (as a physical gestalt of political ideas) or if it’s just reproducing generic modernistic means and methods. It is interesting to discuss if the alteration of political ideas will influence and change the architectural approach in a system – the whole idea of an revolution is to make a total alteration and a totally new ideological platform... it was an obvious attempt in the early soviet era with the constructivism to reveal a held back energy and a suppressed need to manifest the revolutionary ideas (which as we know made the ground for an extremely interesting architectural and spatial experiment in the Soviet – until it was crushed under Stalin) – it seems more difficult to reveal the same energy and creativity at the end of an ideology...
I appreciate how you’re collaging your images and the quotes. I have the feeling you are enjoying yourself (which you should!) - and find the result poetic, intriguing and enjoyable as it creates a universe for reflecting upon the issues you are researching. (finding this form for, or representation of, what you want to discuss or search is, I find, a vital part of the work as it holds the potential to launch unexpected and unbounded traces.)
I see that you have found more from de Certeau, his writings on history, memory and mystery - very relevant, I believe, in your investigations on ideology, identity and manifestations. Due to these he has been called the historian of otherness (as you know he was a kind of multi-identity of Jesuit, historian, anthropologist, sociologist, theologian, and co-founder of the Freudian school)
This otherness, or alterity, is something that resonates in your attemps to look into, and behind, the traces of absence or the invisible - keep on doing what de Certeau describes as travels along the borders of [the] present..!
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The format of your presentation resemble a film noir – black and white, with an almost dystopian, surreal atmosphere. It is possible to follow your interest in the relation between ideology and manifestation/representation of architectural space, and reflect upon if/which certain objects and artefacts that are representing an ideology as form....
The critique from Lefebvre towards soviet urban planning – as a failure, is interesting (and obviously a disappointment for a Marxist) - it’s questioning the ability for an ideology to define its own spatial understanding (as a physical gestalt of political ideas) or if it’s just reproducing generic modernistic means and methods.
It is interesting to discuss if the alteration of political ideas will influence and change the architectural approach in a system – the whole idea of an revolution is to make a total alteration and a totally new ideological platform... it was an obvious attempt in the early soviet era with the constructivism to reveal a held back energy and a suppressed need to manifest the revolutionary ideas (which as we know made the ground for an extremely interesting architectural and spatial experiment in the Soviet – until it was crushed under Stalin) – it seems more difficult to reveal the same energy and creativity at the end of an ideology...
I appreciate how you’re collaging your images and the quotes. I have the feeling you are enjoying yourself (which you should!) - and find the result poetic, intriguing and enjoyable as it creates a universe for reflecting upon the issues you are researching. (finding this form for, or representation of, what you want to discuss or search is, I find, a vital part of the work as it holds the potential to launch unexpected and unbounded traces.)
I see that you have found more from de Certeau, his writings on history, memory and mystery - very relevant, I believe, in your investigations on ideology, identity and manifestations. Due to these he has been called the historian of otherness (as you know he was a kind of multi-identity of Jesuit, historian, anthropologist, sociologist, theologian, and co-founder of the Freudian school)
This otherness, or alterity, is something that resonates in your attemps to look into, and behind, the traces of absence or the invisible - keep on doing what de Certeau describes as travels along the borders of [the] present..!
/Magdalena
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