{"id":6492,"date":"2019-09-06T16:28:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?page_id=6492"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:28:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:28:05","slug":"march-unit-16-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/march-unit-16-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"MArch Unit 16: Managed Retreat… The Edge of Empire. Simon Herron, Jonathan Walker & Andrew Lavelle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Image: Jason Orton, Mersea Island, Essex, February 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

UNITSIXTEEN continues its restless exploration into the myths of the\nnear future. Reflecting again on the complex physical and immaterial boundaries\nof Wealth and Power at the centre of state in the age of the POST-ANTHROPCENE.\nJames Lovelock argues that the anthropocene – the age in which humans acquired\nplanetary-scale technologies – is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age\n– the NOVACENE – has already begun. An era when new beings will emerge from\nexisting artificial systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAST YEAR we explored the mechanisms, apparatus, and instruments central to TRADE. The protective ownership of ideas through Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks, which attempt to traverse the modern complexities and distinctions between the material and immaterial nature of matter. Our focus was on the heart of empire, Trafalgar Square, and the surrounded institutions of state, and the bridges to capital. Considering imports, exports, frictionless trade, and tariifs and their consequences on the economy, society, and the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS YEAR we shall explore further the invisible FORCES that surround\nTRADE. The transactional arrangements and the exchanges of ENERGY fundamental\nto the notion of trade. This time directing our gaze at the uncertainty of the\nedge of nation and the rise of historical models for fiscally hawkish trade\nposts and enclaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRADE POST TOWNS in medieval northern europe controlled the most successful\ntrade alliance in history. The Hanseatic League created coastal enclaves which\nacted as monopolies providing negotiating privileges for member towns, allowing\nthem freedom to trade together and the reassurances that the exchange of goods\nwould be regulated. Systems of common standards such as agreed \u2018schedule of weights and measurements\u2019\nand \u2018rules of origin\u2019 protected the Hansa merchants. Those trade\nlinks have now been reborn and coastal towns across Europe are reforming links\nincluding towns along the coast of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will focus our studies at the EDGES OF EMPIRE, coastal towns where\nCLIMATE CHANGE, coastal erosion, and disenfrancised communities are facing\nuncertainty and decommision. A shifting landscape of opportunity and prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TUTORS:<\/strong> Simon Herron + Jonathan Walker + Andrew Lavelle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRACTICE TUTOR:<\/strong> Adam Bell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIELD WORK:<\/strong> British coastline<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BLOGOSPHERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar Systems And Restrooms – http:\/\/unitsixteen.blogspot.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[External window into the work and interests generated within unitsixteen]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UnitSixteen Work – http:\/\/unitsixteenwork-2012.blogspot.co.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Internal unit workspace and speculative forum for the active exchange\nof ideas within the unit].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KEY READING:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collected Writings of Robert Smithson<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lapham\u2019s Quarterly Volume XII No.2 TRADE <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lapham\u2019s Quarterly Volume XII No.4 CLIMATE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Catalogue Fall 1968<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Catalogue Spring 1969<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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