{"id":6500,"date":"2019-09-06T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?page_id=6500"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:29:19","slug":"march-unit-20-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/march-unit-20-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"MArch Unit 20: We Object! Jake Moulson &amp; David Hemingway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Lovelock-Fish.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6595\" width=\"595\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Lovelock-Fish.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Lovelock-Fish-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><figcaption>James Lovelock, <em>Fish<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018<\/em><em>The day is coming when a single carrot,\nfreshly observed, will set off a revolution.\u2019 <\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Paul Cezanne <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, Unit 20 is beginning by looking at objects, specifically tools. \u2018Tool\u2019 comes from the German \u2018to prepare\u2019. If we are entering an era that requires a radical rethinking of the world around us and our relationships to it, we need to form new resources or ways of thinking about resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018Design\npresents itself as serving the human but its real ambition is to redesign the <\/em><em>human<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Beatriz Columina &amp; Mark Wigley, <em>Are we Human?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can\nwe extrapolate from our tools? What can they teach us about ourselves and about\nour needs? How might we invert or subvert them so that we are as much fashioned\nby them as they are by us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018To think about design demands an archaeological approach. You have to dig. Digging, documenting, dissecting, discussing &#8211; digging, that is, into ourselves.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Beatriz Columina &amp; Mark Wigley, <em>Are we Human?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the\nformation of new kinds of datascapes and electrical ecosystems comes unknowable\n\u2018abstract\u2019 or\nsurreal new imagery or thoughts beyond logical comprehension. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As disparate and classically unassociated information and material accumulates, it builds new scapes of seemingly uncontrollable complexity that may be almost grotesque to our understanding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is Unit 20\u2019s postulation that this too is a kind of tool for examination and that, by tuning into it, new kinds of exchanges are possible. The question is: how? How can we hear other languages and other voices and adopt and adapt them into new languages and propositions? What changes are required to our immediate environment \u2013 housing, communal space, distribution of resources? What would it mean for humans to renege their authority to other kinds of intelligence and ways of thinking the world? What kinds of constructions would be needed? What are the consequences for architecture and for architects? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.\u2019 &#8211; Paul Cezanne Again, Unit 20 is beginning by looking at objects, specifically tools. \u2018Tool\u2019 comes from the German \u2018to prepare\u2019. 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