TERM 1 PROVOCATIONS
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Anouk Ahlborn Diploma 8 Term 1
TABLE OF CONTENT
EXPANDED DISCIPLINARY FIELD - 5 HISTORICAL NARRATIVES - 13 PROVOCATIONS - 24 GRID VARIATIONS AND THEMES - 54 Formations Organisation Elements Navigation Topos LUXEMBOURG POST-CITY - 133 Voids in the City of Glass
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EXPANDED DISCIPLINARY FIELD
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Art
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7 (BASED ON R. KRAUSS)
Sociology
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9 (BASED ON P. BOURDIEU)
Architecture
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
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Fictional Narratives
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Collective Imagination
Figure/Ground
New Babylon Interior, 1960, Ink on Paper, (32 x 46 cm)
Constant, Trappen en ladders, 1960
Christo and Jean-Claude, The Gates, drawing, 2003
Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984
Cultural Project by Constant Nieuwenhuys
Groep Sectoren, New Babylon’s horizontal sprawl, 1959
New Babylon, Concert Hall for Electronic Music, 1958-1961
Inversion of the sector network, Ruhrgebiet, 1963
Ruhrgebiet, Germany, 1976
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Cultural Project by the Situationists
Miniature Lettrist Universe, collage of the ideogrammatic Guide Psychogeographique de Paris made for Constant by Guy Debord, probably from early 1958
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Constant, Symbolische voorstelling van New Babylon, (1959-1974)
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Archipelago/Network
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19 ground plane vs network of sectors
Ground/Horizon
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21 Constant, Gezicht op Sectoren, photomontage, 1971
Concept/Context
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PROVOCATIONS
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HOMOGENEITY
HETEROGENEITY
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FRIENDS OR ENEMIES? Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City (1968-71)
Andrea Branzi, model for the Die Zeremonien des westlichen Europas seminar,Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, 1988
Andrea Branzi, Archizoom, No-Stop City (model), 1969 Courtesy Frac Centre’s Collection
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Field Conditions: Boundaries
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Meta City
29 Loop City
Boundary City
Linear City
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Meta City
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Loop City
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Boundary City
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Field Conditions: Foreign Elements
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Digital City
Analoguous City
Liquid City
Network City
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Digital City
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Analogue City
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Liquid City
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Network City
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Field Conditions: Index
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Context City
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Index City
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GRID VARIATIONS AND THEMES
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Introduction
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FORMATIONS
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Field Precedent
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61 ARCHIZOOM ASSOCIATI, NO-STOP CITY (1968-71)
Part I: Populating the Field
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step 1: generic grid
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step 2: parasitical disruption
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step 3: artistic formations
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step 4: population of foreign elements
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Part II: Zooming into the Field
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step 5: flooded field
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step 6: dynamic formations
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step 7: evolution of micro cultures
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step 8: morphological configurations
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ORGANISATION
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Layering the Field
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step 1: grid pattern
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step 2: network/field
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step 3: parallel systems
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step 4: composite field
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step 5: grid/moirĂŠ pattern
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PRIMARY ELEMENTS
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Enclosing Spaces
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step 1: grid
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step 2: line
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step 3: wall
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step 4: camp
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NAVIGATION
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hard/soft infrastructure
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I. a. neutral floorplan based on isotropic
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I. b. hard infrastructure on background of neutral floorplan
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II.a. No-Stop City
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II. b. Stoppage City
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TOPOS
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plateaus, archipelagos, topos, non-sites
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conceptual haha on isotropic grid
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archipelago on isotropic grid
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topological specificity
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displacement/gallery lands
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LUXEMBOURG POST-CITY
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How can we reread the city in the digital age?
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VOIDS IN THE CITY OF GLASS
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Floorplan Variations
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step 1: undifferentiated field
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step 2: void core
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step 3: perimeter wall
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step 4: porous volume
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Final Provocation Multiple Understandings
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The Case of Luxembourg
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Possible Approach to Luxembourg
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S I T E L E S S
CONTEXTUAL
C U L T U R A L
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