14/1/2021 17.00 Teams
Monday 11/01/21, 19:00 (GMT+2, Athens)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III-V Β: b: Building and Building Program
zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81202330441?pwd=SVMwSThpb2M2Z3pNOWFIMXk2N0N0UT09
Pedro Pitarch (1989) is architect and contemporary musician. He works and lives in Madrid. Occupying a somewhat tangential position within the architectural practice, his investigations focus on the interrelations between society, contemporary culture and media. http://www.pedropitarch.com/
8/1/2021 18:00 MS Teams
7-1-2021, 14.00, Teams
22/12/2020 11:00 Teams
Leda Kyriakou
From the use of architecture in colonial control and identity building to the development of coloniality within the metropolis and shaping the interior enemy in the Paris banlieus.
Thursday December 17th2020, 14:00, Teams
Lecture within the framework of the course South: Space and non hegemonic paradigms of knowledge
Tutor: Iris Lykourioti
Biography
Leda Kyriakou is a graduate of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly (2016), and of the postgraduate program ‘Research in Architecture: Architectural Design - Space - Culture’, of the National Technical University of Athens. On the research project of the undergraduate studies she focused on the use of architecture as a means of control and construction of identities, and subsequently the thesis of the postgraduate program was based on the subject ’The echo of colonialism in the metropolis: the construction of the ‘internal enemy’ in the banlieues of Paris’ (supervisor professor Stavros Stavrides). The subjects have been presented to undergraduate students and to the seminar of the Greek Association of Architects, ’Approaching space by the way of Maria Mantzari’ (March 2019). She works at a technical office and at a digitalisation of image and sound files.
15.12.2020 18:00
Lecture titled «Urban Top(i)ographies», by guest speaker architect Dimitris Kontaxakis, Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as part of the course ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION III-V: Z: The habitable bridge
Host professor: Ioanna Symeonidou
Monday 14 December2020, 18:00 Teams
See the poster.
Thursday 10 December 2020 / Event time: 19.00
As part of our residency program for 2020-2021, we are hosting the philosopher Luce deLire. Due to the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, our residency is organised as a long-distance liability-residency.
Digital Enclosure and it's Revolutionary Other
During the European 14th through 16th century, the great enclosure consisted in the literal fencing in or off of previously commonly used land so as to ensure that it could only ever be used privately from then on. This led to the impoverishment of millions and drove people to move to the cities, where they would sell their labour power. A similar process has been happening in cyber space for about two decades now: platforms are trying to keep you on their vicinity so as to mine your data and force you into subscriptions. In this way, the internet is becoming less and less a common space and more and more an enclosed space that looks like a corporate form of nation states. Digital Echo-Chambers, the radicalization of political conflict on the ground and its judicialization are effects of this overarching process. In a way, we are already living in a multipolar digital world, where Google-Android-land competes with Apple-land and certain other actors (Amazon, Spotify, Facebook) may or may not be more or less compatible with these general digital affiliations. The effect is that people are being deprived of their access to the commons (torrent network, streaming websites, pirate libraries), which are in fact increasingly being illegalized. The artificial scarcity generated by way of such illegalization and centralization necessitates people to flock around the main actors, which benefit greatly from this original accumulation. Thus Apple and the Google Play Stores keep control over which apps will be readily available to users and which are not. Naturally, they take percentages from developers and consumers for their ' services.' This is exactly how original accumulation works: produce scarcity through privatization and illegalization of collective usage of commonly accessible resources and harvest wealth from the desperation of those looking for alternatives.
In this workshop, we will first focus on classical original accumulation and its conjoined manifestations in Europe and its colonies. We will then look at its most current formation – the enclosure of the internet – and a possible queer enclosure, namely the industrialization of the libidinal economy in a pink totaliterian picture. However, although most of these texts are not immediately concerned with the digital enclosure, in our discussion, we will try and focus on the latter, so as to understand the past through the future, which is where it is anyway created.
To register for the workshop or state your interest in auditing please email us on fpmedialab@gmail.com.
Do not hesitate to contact us for more information or for a detailed syllabus of the course/workshop. You can also contact directly Luce deLire at Luce@getaphilosopher.com.
For more information on the work of Luce deLire visit www.getaphilosopher.com
For more information on the work of the Centre and our projects and events you can visit our website http://www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth.gr