Form-Trans-Inform: the ‘poetic’ resistance in architecture

Stratford, Helen; Petrescu, Doina; Petcou, Constantin

doi:10.1017/s1359135508001036

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“…For instance, the civic and performative tactics used by the young Romanian architects in the 1980s, Form-Trans-Inform, resisting the Ceausescu regime. The control of the regime went beyond the social structure of Romania towards political and educational institutions (Stratford et al, 2008). This in turn, has impacted Romanians' everyday experiences.…”

Section: Civic Pedagogic Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translation of Civic Pedagogical Tactics to Critically Produce Public Spaces in Amman

Yaghi

2020

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This paper asks how can we re-think and critically produce alternative ‘public’ spaces through translating forms of civic pedagogical tactics in Amman? Our neoliberal contemporary cities and political agendas, with its Arabic versions, have produced socially, spatially polarised and de-politized spaces. In fact, what we inhabit today are spaces that are pseudo public. Those spaces prompt critiquing the role of the architects, practitioners and architecture educators to intervene, mediate and response collectively. Trying to form a resistance to this problem, the responding approach is informed by reviewing and critiquing how architectural pedagogies are performed in Jordan, focusing on evaluating their civic engagement and the political and neoliberal influence. The paper then moves to focus on key relevant pedagogical models with envisioning the action plan that are adopted and tailored to the specific cultural, political and social context of Amman. This paper framework will start reflections from some critical pedagogical theories to evaluate and critique the current architectural pedagogical approaches in Amman-Jordan contexts and analysing the various actants such as political policies, civic interventions and processes that affect architecture education. Furthermore, it generates some important lessons and reflections from practices, such as the interventions used by Romanian architects in the 1980s, Pseudo Public Space Studio-UK, live projects-UK, triggering and resisting the challenges on civic practices. The study will conclude by proposing methodological framework for translating civic pedagogical tactics that prompt to provoke and draw the public attention towards the right to the city and its space, while resisting the challenges that are facing the context of Amman- Jordan. The process of translation is adopted and tailored to Amman-Jordan context, rather than imported and colonised. These tactics opened up possibilities and generated a new and alternative form of publicness, as well as a resilient and resistant community.

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Translation of Civic Pedagogical Tactics to Critically Produce Public Spaces in Amman

Yaghi

2020

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“…This includes re-defining the role of architects for civic society, both socially and politically. The authors provide examples, such as Santiago Cirugeda, Centre for Urban Pedagogy, Foundation for Achieving Seamless, Territory (FAST) and Jeanne van Heeswijk, and Jonathan CharleyÕs work which embraces alternative forms to capitalism, Stratford, Petrescu and Petcou (2008) remind us of the performative work of Romanian architects in the 1980s, this time in a different political context, critically discussing architectsÕ spatial practices which questioned orthodoxies in Architecture, challenged the Ceausescu totalitarian regime and proposed alternative approaches to architectural pedagogy.…”

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Performative interventions to re-claim, re-define and produce public space in different cultural and political contexts

Yaghi

Petrescu

Nawratek

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ask how forms of “performative” interventions can prompt processes of re-thinking, which can, in turn, instigate the critical production of public space. Most importantly, it also asks how this methodology can manifest within various cultural and political contexts. Today, public spaces tend to be controlled either by the state or by private corporations. Neoliberal policies promote commercial interests, which subsequently drives inequality and determines what can and cannot be accessed by the public. The public spaces that are currently present in the neoliberal cities are, in fact, “pseudo” public spaces. Design/methodology/approach In an attempt to form new understandings of this problem, the authors’ approach is rooted in feminist theories of performativity, which focus on how identities are persistently re-produced through performance. These theories consider how the “self” is always entangled within everyday life interactions and how it is shaped by both societal and bodily practices. Framing spaces as shapable, informed by the embodied dialectic relations between spaces and social relations, the study uses forms of performative methodology to create productive disruptions and “constructed situations” (Debord, 2012). This methodology consists of intervention within these spaces in order to produce alternative public space and forms of publicness. Based on research conducted at the Sheffield School of Architecture, as well as a four-day invited workshop at the Floating University Berlin, this study investigates applications of performative practice methodology in the cities of Amman and Berlin. Findings The paper will begin by exploring how the two cities are regulated through various political and planning policies that affect public spaces. This line of enquiry will also involve questioning physical, social and political access to public space in these contexts and analysing the various actants, performative actions and processes that were involved in producing performative interventions. Originality/value The paper will conclude by discussing the potential and limitations of applying and translating such approaches in public spaces within different cultural and political contexts. As such, the study proposes a new methodological framework for re-thinking and provoking the critical production of public space through forms of performative spatial practice.

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Form-Trans-Inform: the ‘poetic’ resistance in architecture

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Translation of Civic Pedagogical Tactics to Critically Produce Public Spaces in Amman

Translation of Civic Pedagogical Tactics to Critically Produce Public Spaces in Amman

Performative interventions to re-claim, re-define and produce public space in different cultural and political contexts

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