DIPLOMA UNIT 17 - ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Latent territories: Knowledge Spaces Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Swejd INFORMAL HOST: ERODING KNOWLEDGE SPACES No designed space is ever finalized or permanent. No component of that space is a final product or should be considered as finalised in relation to its occupyers. Neither should the spaces that host specific activities be designed with singular strategies as they most certainly will be affected by the ever evolving rythm of substituition of built space. The life span of our built environment is being reduced at a pace which suggests a constant programmatic and typological shift within urban landscapes.The urban fabric as a pre designed entity, with predefined roles is undergoing a dismantling. We are reminded of this ephemeral quality of spaces we interact with, at the cost of the often intensive wear and tear we apply to those spaces and the material layers that compose them. In parallel to this, our direct relation to material use is increasingly superficial, engaging mostly at the tactile finite degree of their ultimate fabrication resolution, rather than acknowledging or even suggesting the realm of the latent sedimentation or fibrosity that they bear.
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