{"id":7238,"date":"2023-09-20T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?page_id=7238"},"modified":"2023-09-20T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:50:11","slug":"unit-16-2023-2024-stocktaking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/unit-16-2023-2024-stocktaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 16 [2023-2024] STOCKTAKING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SUSANNE ISA NICK ELIAS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/09\/image-3-1024x960.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7239\" width=\"512\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/09\/image-3-1024x960.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/09\/image-3-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/09\/image-3-768x720.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/09\/image-3.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1960 the critic Reyner Banham wrote an article for the Architectural Review titled STOCKTAKING. We too need to &#8220;take stock&#8221; of the present. Working as a research group, students are asked to consider how Architecture adapts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to meet the demands and challenges of the 21st century. supporting systems, alongside inequalities in availability of resources means that we are poorly equipped to cope now let alone the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Architecture needs to remain relevant in the 21st century. To do this it needs to engage with external disciplines and an understanding of the past and present for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unit 16 is interested in investigating the hinterlands and their relationship to the world we live in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are interested in the trans-disciplinary fields of art, architecture, geology, museology, archaeology, and anthropology to explore the psychology of places, narratives of history, mythologies, rituals and magic and made work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U 16 focuses upon collections, typologies, and curation in order to create episodic, surreal and transformational spaces and landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This presents a profoundly complex matrix of technical, social, political, economic, moral, and ethical questions confronting us all with the necessity to act on preexisting knowledge to avoid an act of &#8216;betrayal&#8217; as put by Greta Thunberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will continue to investigate LAND as a fundamental unit. Land is materially expressible; Land is spatial; Land as unit of measure; Land as an expression of time; Land culturally assigned; Land exploitable for leisure; Land exploitable for capital; Land management. Sites can be seen as frontiers, material and immaterial territories, places at the limit of what has been known, a place that is not a place, that is unknown, a place with no indexes, no roads, no signs, no names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unit Sixteen recognizes there is a need to conserve and preserve there is also a need to rethink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memory of place and journey are different for different users, and we are interested to discover innovative ways to represent things geographically which can create new territories and landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUSANNE ISA NICK ELIAS In 1960 the critic Reyner Banham wrote an article for the Architectural Review titled STOCKTAKING. 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