Intermediate 5 – 2011/12 Samantha Hardingham & David Greene
Supersensible speculations – or - Everything I don’t know.
Here is what we have to offer you...confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. Gordon Matta-Clark c.1973 Intermediate unit 5 explores the architecture of the new nature that is evolving from a culture whose dominant raw materials exist outside of the visible spectrum. It is interested in an architecture that is conditioned by the processes and technologies of search and retrieval. What we look for, where we look, how we find it and what we do with that information is influenced by a heightened sense of inquiry and the ability to make choices. What are the architectural consequences now of a culture of continuous ventilation and circulation of information? S
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What does it mean to search when you don’t always know what you are looking for? What are you looking for? Where do you look? Why? How often do your desires change? Why? What do you want to keep and for how long? Why? Where will you put it? Why? Who else will use it? Why? • • • • •
All work this year will demonstrate dynamic properties/qualities: movies in every medium. Past, present, future links will be made by means of essential re-reads of outof-date and incomplete information: search not research – as employed by investigative journalists, archivists, collectors, fine artists and architects. Projects will engage in information, communication, function, location and people: we will travel within the UK. Design: the architectural consequences now of a culture of continuous ventilation and circulation of information. A visual feast.