Barricade 2017

AN UPPER POOL INTENSIVE STUDIO IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA N DURANDIN, AND GWYLLIM JAH WITH FRANÇOIS ROCHE, BENOîT

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A DISCUSSION BETWEEN A PROUDHONIST AND THOREAU-IST?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS table of contents INDIVIDUAL WORK 3

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s c e n a r i o v . 4 . 2 : f i l m s c r i p t s c e n a r i o v . 4 . 2 : s t o r y b o a r d f i n a l p r e s e n t a t i o n : p a n e l s f i n a l p r e s e n t a t i o n : f i l m s t i l l s f i n a l p r e s e n t a t i o n

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3 GATION BEGAN THE INTERRO INTERROGATION WITH INTERROGATION

WHO CARES WHO CARES WHO CARES WHO CARES MEDINI IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED AND TOUTED AS A NEW URBAN CENTRE OF MALAYSIA

LOCAL AND OVERSEAS PRACTICES, ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS, AND INDIVIDUALS WERE ENCOURAGED TO PROPOSE SCHEMES THAT WOULD MAXIMISE FUNCTION WHILE COMPLEMENTING THE EXISTING SITE AND CREATING BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. THE PROPOSALS WOULD BE EXHIBITED IN THE MALAYSIAN BIENNIAL, AN INITIATIVE THAT WOULD INTRODUCE MEDINI AS A CITY OF THE FUTURE.

“ARCHITECTURE IS DEAD AS SOON AS IT’S BUILT. WE’RE INTERESTED IN THE CITY AS A TOOL OF

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SO LOOK INTO

POLITICAL INFILTRATION,

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES OVER TIME ROBOTICS AND TECHNOLOGY.”

(ROCHE, JULY 2017)

TIME MACHINE

urbanism process of urbanisation

metropolis and megalopolis

industrialisation

preurbanised state

metropolis megalopolis

cities as examples of changing urbanism

The vast urban complex known as a megalopolis was created suburbs continued to grow and merge with other suburbs and metropolitan areas, forming a virtually continuous region.

Suburbs continue to grow and develop, many becoming economic centres in their own right.

Offices, hospitals, and factroies coexist with shopping malls, sports complexes, and housing subdivisions. In this way, many suburbs have essentially become small cities. Because of all this growth, many suburbs have developed urban problems, such as air and water pollution, traffic congestion, and gangs. As a result there is an interest in urban renewal (gentrification), turning some slums into decent areas in which to live and work.

As economic woes increasingly plagued cities in the latter half of the 1900s, many families decided to move out of their inner-city neighbourhoods and into the suburbs. Commuting presented a downside, but most people felt that the tendency for the quality of life in inner cities to decline, was well worth any hassles, given the fact that suburbs tended to offer nicer and larger homes, better schools, less crime, and less pollution than cities provided. economic woes increasingly plagued cities in the latter half of the 1900s, many families decided to move out of their inner-city neighborhoods and into the suburbs.

Lands outside the city limits (usually with separate governance). While some suburbs become distinct cities in and of themselves, they retain strong geographic, economic, and cultural ties to their “parent” city. Many metropolitan areas house a million or more residents.

The industrial revolution was the transition to ne wmanufacturing processes, which included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system. Textiles became the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested. An icrease in the standard of living for the general population was also observed, with increased sanitation, access to food, housing, and transportation.

Between 1700 and 1900 increasing numbers of people moved into the cities, resulting in an urban revoltion; by the 1900s the majority of people in Britain were living in the cities and the United States and other European countries soon attained similar levels of urbanisation.

Residential and commercial districts were not as sharply separated as they are in present cities, with traders and artisans working at home, and people with the same trades living in the same areas of town. Segregation according to class, ethnicity and religion was also prevalent, with little or no chance for social mobility or interaction.

Cities were first established on fertile lands along rivers in the Middle East, Egypt, and China. Pre-industrial cities were small compared to today‘s cities, housing fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. Others, like Rome may have contained at most several hundred thousand people.

Early man was nomadic up until 10,000 years ago, hunting and gathering in one area until there was no longer enough resources in that area and moving on to the next fertile region. Eventual technological improvements such as simple tools and domestication allowed people to establish permanent settlements and a surplus of food. The resulting food surplus led some to engage in other non-agricultural activities, such as pottery, weaving , and art, creating trade, commerce, and the eventual rise of cities.

architectural urbanism of hong kong

manila

cultural impact

locals

tropical

grit

negritos of the philippines

wealth gap

jeep

Around 1875, accessoria and viviendas, single or two-storey high buildings with multiple units came into use as well as school buildings such as the colegio and unibersidad which were configured in a rectangular configuration with a central courtyard.

cultural influences

transportation methods

geography of hongkong

retailers

Nightlife + Festivals

Creative industries

Hong Kong has a highly developed and sophisticated transport network, encompassing both public and private transport. 90% of citizen‘s daily journeys are relying on the public transport, the highest in the world.

The history of Hong Kong urbanism can be divided into several sections: 1. Imperial China Era 2. Colonial Hong Kong era 3. British colonisation era 4. Japanese occupation era 5. Nowadays Hong Kong 6. Modern Hong Kong under Chinese rule

Ferries

Bicycles >motorcycles

showroom

green hills

pop-up establishments

government office

divisoria

infrastructure centre

mixed use

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- Throughout 1990s, Berlin’s club scene was made the premier nightlife destination of Europe.

- After the fall of the berlin wall (1989), many historic buildings in Mitte(the former city center of east berlin) were illegally occupied and re-built by young quatters // became fertile ground for undergroung and counterculture gatherings - The Labelle discotheque in Friedenau became widely known as the location of the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing - Berlin is known for its notable length of its parties. Clubs are often run well into the morning or all weekend.

24,000 people

1880s

colonial hongkong (1800s - 1930s) era

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Berlin news

Film haus

Berlin has germany’s largest numbers of daily newspapers

city structural mainly focussed on residential occupancy Han dynasty architecture

The Hong Kong history was incorporated into China during the Qin dynasty during 221 - 206 BC.

The earliest sketches of the island colony show a compact town of two to three storey buildings hugging the lower slopes of Mount Victoria. Due to limited source of materials, the foundation designs could not cope with the steep and hilly topography.

Simple cemented brick structures with short timber floor joists and rafters placed severe limitations on building heights.

Prior to British colonization in Hongkong in 1841, Architecture in Hongkong was predominately Cantonese or derived from the architectural style of the Lingnan region.

283,978 people

1910s

Most high-rise buildings afterwards were to be build for business purposes, such as the HongkongBank, 1935, or the HSBC Main Building, 1985.

First high-rise tower to be constructed was between the early years of 1900s, consisting of 5 major buildings, each stacking 5 to 6 stories high.

emergence of towers

1900s

Map of hongkong islad in 1844

Han dynasty architecture

The Hong Kong history was incorporated into China during the Qin dynasty during 221 - 206 BC.

During the Mongol period, Hongkong saw its population started to boom as Chinese refugees entered the area due to war and famine, or seeking employment

Archaeological evidence indicates the population increased during Han dynasty. In the 1950s, the tomb at Lei Cheng Uk from the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD) was excavated and archaeologists began to investigate the possibility that salt production flourished in Hong Kong around 2000 years ago, although conclusive evidence has not been found.

pre settlements

there were 6000 artefacts found in a slope in the area and it is believed that the ancient people collected tools from the lithic manufacturing site in Wong Tei Tung to the settlement in near Tolo Harbour and Mirs Bay.

the inter war years

publishing houses

This change was relevant as the massive amount of refugees kept on growing rapidly, after the Communist revolution in China in 1949.

- Two major german-language publishing houses - Publishes books, periodicals, multimedia products

die welt

berliner morgenpost

1920s - 1930s

It was the start of standardised structures which offered fire and flood resistant construction to prviously vulnerable hut dwellers.

focuses on paintings of the Old Masters from the 13th

springer

neues Deutschland

junge welt

walter de gruyter

der tagesspiegel

population decrease due to repatriation

community life

The existence of tong laus was a culmination of a series of historic forces from economic development of Hong Kong, Second World War as well as the influx of Chinese migrants to Hong Kong

die tageszeitung

The post-war boom and influx of immigrants meant Hong Kong ran short of housing. Tong lau were seen as a solution and many of these buildings were renovated to become rental units.

Festivals

From 1661 to 1669, the territory was affected by the Great Clearance, ordered by the Qing dynasty‘s Kangxi Emperor, which required the evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong. What is now the territory of Hong Kong became largely wasteland during the ban

land reclamation started around this period, where the city expands, as many new buildings were mostly built on reclaimed land.

a group of hongkongnese forming a guerilla foce of 6000 soldiers to reinforce anti Japanese east river forces.n the wake of the British retreat, the guerillas picked up abandoned weapons and established bases in the New Territories and Kowloon.

The pioneers resulted in social responsibility, form following function, rationality, technology expression, building economy, less ornamentation, and machine aesthetics.

Modernist ideals of architecture were found to be applied in housing strategies, influenced by the Modernist architectural ideas that took place in Europe in the 1920s.

1. gay and lesbian street festival in Berlin-Schoneberg 2.Kreuzberg Pride in June

1. in Schoneberg 2. close to Nollenendorfplatz 3. in Prenzlauer Berg at the Schonhauser Allee subway station.

kowloon brigade

- Down under Berlin was founded in 2011 - Dedicated to the presentation of Australian and New Zealand film - Europe’s largest film festival - Held at Kreuzberg’s “Moviemento” cinema in 2014

3,959,000 people

1970s - 1980s

To support these changes, skyscrapers designed by international architects were erected to soar over the central business district (CBD). Landmark buildings served as headquarters for multinational companies, and were glorified as physical landmarks.

international architects

chinese architectural beliefs

growth of cultural facilieties

economic booming = skyscrapers soaring

In January 1942 the HK-Kowloon brigade (港港港 港) was established from the Guangdong People‘s anti-Japanese Guerilla force. Local residents were armed with 30 machine guns and several hundred rifles defeated the British forces

1971 Hongkong‘s economic miracle started during this period.

As private investments surged into this newbie territory of the free capitalist world, manufacturing moved to the mainland, and the space freed up by disused factories gave way to office towers.

soldiers of the Hong Kong and Kowloon independent brigade

the new city emerges

An important aspect of the general urban scene was the narrow streets that served, in part, as communal outdoor living spaces, and also as throughfaresfor mostly traffic, due to the combined efforts of private developers.

1. easter fetish week 2. Christopher street day (Berlin Pride) 3. Folsom Europe and Hustlaball (Central Europe’s largest gay-lesbian pride event celebrated on the last weekend of june)

1964-1970S The public sector on housing managed to house 60% more than the private sector housing, which is much higher than the annual housing production in Hongkong 21st century.

an example of a densely packed residential/commercial complex in Kowloon which reflected back hong kong‘s colonial past. the Walled City was once thought to be the most densely populated place on Earth, with 50,000 people crammed into only a few blocks, situated in Kowloon The city was a phenomenon with 33,000 families and businesses living in more than 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, all constructed without contributions from a single architect.

kowloon walled city

Houses were erected with the intention of providing as much ;living spaces as possible, with the lease profit.

Houses were built back to back to achieve the greatest economy in th euse of land, with little thought of the roads and drains.

Despite these tribulations, Hong kong continued to thrive.

The constant demand for more urban land prompted the implementation of a major reclamation scheme to expand the naval base, and finally reducing to 26 hectares of available land space.

Dongjiang Guerillas fighting in trenches

Henry Pottinger made his way to Asia in 1841 to eventually become the first Governor of Hong Kong under British rule by 1842, thus ending the reign of Imperial China over Hong Kong.

anti japanese resistance

Former Yamen Building walled city cannons

absence of infrastructure to create order - kunst haus tacheles - techno clubs tresor - WMF - Ufo - E-werk - KitKatClub - Berghain, Linientreu (in business since the late 1980s)

There were very few public hospitals during the Japanese occupation as many of them were forced to be converted to military hospitals. With the inadequate supply of resources, Tung Wah Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital still continuously offered limited social services to needy persons.

In June 1943 the management of water, gas and electricity was transferred into private Japanese hands.

- Berlin has a long history of gay culture and influence on popular entertainment - According to some authors in the 1920s, the city was the gay capital of Europe - Berlin is leading Europe in the number of fetish clubs

Mitte and surrounding boroughs were home to many nightclubs

During the occupation, hospitals available to the masses were limited.

The Kowloon Hospital and Queen Mary Hospital were occupied by the Japanese army. Though funds were provided, they still had great financial difficulties.

Failure to collect rents and the high reparation costs forced them to promote fundraising activities like musical performances and dramas.

The period of transition During the Japanese invasion, a considerable amount of damage was made. A survey indicated in 1946, there was about 8700 units destroyed and 10,300 units damaged.

construction techniques breakthrough, a lot of foreign and international architects came to Hongkong that shaped Hong kong‘s architectural skyline

1,800,000 people

1950s - 1960s

1961consequently, within 5 years of a low-cost government housing was introduced, about 67000 people had managed to secure those housings.

Immediately after the war, the priority placed on settling the refugees gave rise to large-scale public-housing developments, and community infrastructure such as hospitals and schools.

After the 1960s, many tong lau were demolished to give way to taller apartment and commercial buildings.

Comparatively few tong lau are found in Hong Kong today.

19th century tong lau reflected Chinese and European architectural features.

With its Chinese component based on building design from southern China, and european influences from the Neoclassical era.

By the 1847s the population Additionally, there was a need to provide housing had reached almost 23,900. with an adequate amount of This dramatic increase safety for lightning fires of population was not and cooking food. expected, and as a result, domestic and living space quickly became extremely congested.

post war architecture

low rise tenement buildings used to be the predominant form of the city.

early 20th century tong laus

The British decided the answer would be to lease a buffer zone around Hong Kong that would make the island less vulnerable to invasion.

During the second half of the 19th century the British had grown increasingly worried about the security of their free port at Hong Kong. It was an isolated island, surrounded by areas still under Chinese control.

population growth

Hong kong buffer zone surrounding the island from invasion

kwong wah hospital

Hong Kong architecture post-1946 was shaped by government policies, local, social and technical forces, and products created by local and expatriate planners, architects, and builders

The tenement, Tong Lau, was constructed so that each level was undivided; it was arranged in a way that maintain its tight space as effectively as possible.

Each floor would usually be leased and resublet to random tenants/ families, as severe crowding was a way of life back then.

Ground levels are typically filled with shops, and the apartments with little balconies on the above. These Tong Lau became the primary rearrangement of Hong KOng arhcitecture until at least World War 2.

Life was hard for people under Japanese rule. As there was inadequate food supply, the Japanese rationed necessities such as rice, oil, flour, salt and sugar. Each family was given a rationing licence, and every person could only buy 240 g of rice per day.

Following liberation by the British, the city was flooded with refugees and a population devastated by war began to swell. People needed housing, and they needed jobs. Mass-construction was the answer to both. Thus began decades of rapid urbanisation

750,000 people

mixture commercial and residential tenement

example of tong lau in sai ying pen, hong kong

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the shore of Guangdong were very vulnerable to pirates‘ attackes. Some villages used cannons to protect themselves

british lease of HK

Former Yamen Building walled city cannons

During the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty, Hong Kong saw its first population boom as Chinese refugees migrated to the area. ite the immigration and light development of agriculture, the area was still relatively barren and had to rely on the salt, pearl and fishery trades to produce income.

16th century captured Hongkong‘s earliest foreign visit of the Portuegese, they eventually invaded and military clashes between china and portugal ensuedwere expelled.

Many shanty apartments form solid blocks of three or four story rooms. The shanty apartments are located along major streets of the metropolis, such as Quirino, Osmeña and Araneta Avenues, and in the notorious slum areas of Leveriza and Baseco.

Quezon City has an even larger slum population than Manila. Access to community water and electrical systems appears to be minimal or, if available, are shared by many.

In Metro Manila, the next larger shelters of 10 to 19 sq m or about 14.5 sq m on average are what we call unstructured makeshift apartments. They make do with whatever materials they could avail themselves of.

a row of tenement house in wan chai, hong kong

Saw an increasing amount of public housing estates with cramped conditions, hurriedly built to accomodate the homeless; meanwhile private apartments, still densely packed into the city blocks of Tong Lau, had grown over 20 stories high by the mid 1960s.

berliner zeitung

After the Shek Kip Mei fire in 1953, the governor launched a new public housing programme which introduced the idea of multi storey building for the immigrant population living there.

In the residential sector, multi story buildings did not appear very much due to restrictions law which limit the buildings height, until the Buildings Ordinance in 1955 lifted the height limit of residential buildings, in order to stimulate greater intensity of land use.

The years before WW2 started, saw the booming ofpopulation growth by 79%.

A housing commission was appointed to consider what the best measure was to housing planning that would increase he quantity while decreasing the cost of residential accomodation

the disastrous fire that hit shek kip mei

local broadsheets

major tabloids

Three to four storey high buildings, very tightly packed in city blocks arrangement, which combined both Chinese and European architectural elements.

After the British established the transhipment port of Victoria City, the local population increased substantially, as a result, there were a increasing number of Tong Lau, or tenement, began to appear.

Kat Hing Wai is a rectangular (100 m x 90 m) walled village that serves as a family stronghold. In the Qing Dynasty, a five-metre high blue brick wall and four cannon towers were added to defend against bandits.

Some clans, both Punti and Hakka, built walled villages to protect themselves from thieves, rival clans, and wild animals. It is characterised by row houses arranged in a square or rectangular block, where the parallel rows of houses are seperated by narrow lanes

Chinese buildings that existed both in rural regions and new urban Hong Kong as part of the architectural manifestation of south China tradition

housing strategies

Historic plan of Kat Hing Wai walled village in Kam Tin

Lo Wai Outside Walled villages

Lingnan arhcitecture mostly consisted of decorative elements such as the addition of relief carvings, curved vertical potruding walls,

1918 1940

historic hongkong tenement sites

Lo Wai Outside Walled villages

shanty apartments three or four storeys high

interior of a tomb in the immperial era

In 1276, during the Mongol invasion, the imperial court of the Southern Song dynasty moved to Fujian, then to Lantau Island and later to today‘s Kowloon City. By the end of the Song dynasty, the first major clan to arrive was the Tang‘s.

Despite the immigration and sparse development of agriculture, the land was hilly and relatively barren. People had to rely on fishery trading to produce income.

The latest findings dating from the Paleolithic suggest that Wong Tei Tung is one of the most ancient settlements in Hong Kong.

barricade methods

mostly youth engaged in the establisment of It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit. It also hosts the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank. The Philippines is considered to be an emerging market and a newly industrialized country, which has an economy transitioning from being one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing.

Excavated Neolithic artefacts suggest a difference from northern Chinese Stone-Age cultures, including the Longshan.

Excavated sites in Hong Kong were largely located on the western shores of Hong Kong. This location was most likely chosen to avoid strong winds from the southeast and to collect food from the nearby shores. Settlement can be found in Cheung Chau, Lantau Island and Lamma Island.

people commuting to work

Han dynasty architecture

stone circle in fan lau

rock carving found in the stone age

the philippines as a newly industrialised country

The country’s poverty appears to be most serious in housing than in the other basic needs. Slums are widespread in Metro Manila but also exist in smaller cities and towns. Most slums are located in public lands and abandoned private properties that are close to the poor’s sources of livelihood, such as dumps for scavenging, roadsides for itinerant vending and residential areas for domestic services.

In Metro Manila, slums proliferate along riverbanks, clogged streams, railroad properties, roadsides and parks—all public domain.

- Home to more than 1000 film and television production companies and 270 movie theatres.

- 300 national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every year - Home of the European film academy and the german film academy - Hosts the annual berlin international film festival (founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in Feb since 1978. With over 430,000 admissions, it is the largest publicly attended film festival in the world.

1900s

imperial era

small laneway in hongkong

There were ar Archaeological findings suggesting human activity in Hong Kong date back over 30,000 years. Stone tools from the Old Stone Age have been excavated in Sai Kung in Wong Tei Tung. The stone tools found in Sai Kung were perhaps from a stone tool making ground. Religious carvings on outlying islands and coastal areas have also been found, possibly related to She people in the Neolithic.

stone age

mobility

Advances in computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing technologies allowed for the implementation of green architecture to reverse the negative impact of buildings on human health and on the environment

It also became common practice for renowned international firms to bestow „designer labels“ to large commercial and residential towers

The new millenium ushered in skyscraper cities that adopted tripartite divisions of columnar architecture (tower-on-podium): the podium, the shaft, and the crown. There was also a rise in the number of master-planned micro-cities in expensive residential and commercial areas.

The oil crisis of 1973 gave rise to a movement for energy-efficient designs called Tropical Regionalism.

Incorporation of some modernist formal principles by employing local materials and referencing vernacular traditions; this led to the pursuit of a singular national architecutral style to concretise the official maxim of isang bansa, isang diwa.

The 1950s also brought in Space Age aesthetics and streamline moderne which allowed for the experiementation of the structural plasticity of poured concrete to come up with soft and sinuous organic forms with the use of thin roof shells.

In 1947 a corps of architects and engineers were tasked to study the modern United States mand LatinAmerican capitals to formulate a master plan for Manila.

The three-year Japanese occupation stopped all architectural production, and the practice of architecture resumed after the end of the Second World War. In 1946 the independent Philippines expressed its identity by implementing modernism through the utilisation of reinforced concrete, steel and glass, the predominance of cubic forms, geometric shapes and Cartesian grids, and the absence of ornament.

American architects Edgar Bourne and William Parsons steered Philippine architecture in the modernist route; their works were characterised by unembelished facades with large windows. Parsons also promoted the use of the Kahn system of concrete reinforcements and concrete hollow blocks, the use of termite resistive Philippine hardwood and the concept of mass fabricating standard building types.

In 1908, the concept of a well-planned neighbourhood called the sanitary barrio was introduced and led to the formation of the tsalet, a combination of the tropical features of vernacular buildings with hygienic structural principles and modern materials

imperial China era (221 BC - 1911

japanese occupation era

slum areas near riverbanks

As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, there followed in quick succession the Philippine Revolution, which spawned the short-lived First Philippine Republic, followed by the bloody Philippine–American War of conquest by US military force. Aside from the period of Japanese occupation, the United States retained sovereignty over the islands until after World War II, when the Philippines was recognized as an independent nation. Since then, the Philippines has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy, which included the overthrow of a dictatorship by a non-violent revolution.

pre historic era (221 BC - 1911

hospitality

services

macarthur‘s arrival at pearl harbour

- Around 22,6000 creative enterprises, predominantly SMEs, generated over 18.6 billion Euro in total revenue.

- Berlin’s creative industries have contributed an estimated 20% of Berlin’s gross domestic product in 2005.

1960s - present Taxis >private taxis

1933 - present Buses operation >public light buses

1979 - present MTR operation

1904 - present Hongkong Tramways > Furnicular railways

The landscape of Hong Kong is fairly hilly to mountainous with steep slopes. The highest point in the territory is Tai Mo Shan, at a height of 958 metres.

The Kowloon Peninsula to the south of Boundary Street and the New Territories to the north of Hong Kong Island were added to Colonial Hong Kong in 1860 and 1898 respectively.

Han dynasty architecture

The Central area on the island is the historical, political and economic centre of Hong Kong.

The narrow body of water separating Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula, Victoria Harbour, is one of the deepest natural maritime ports in the world.

Hong Kong Island has 3 main territories; 1. Hong Kong Island 2. Kowloon 3. New territories

university belt

the collective

streets as urban spaces

church

factory

offices

shanty

MRT / train

Several agencies—the Department of Agrarian Reform, Department of Social Welfare and Development, National Anti-Poverty Commission, Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), and even the Department of Education and Department of Health—have been set up to address particular facets of poverty but have sufficiently fulfilled their mandates.

Hiya is a painful emotion of deep shame arising from a realisation of having failed to live up to the standards of society. It is the currency applied within society, controlling and motivating a person‘s social behaviour.

Hong kong, a british administered territory on the southers coast of China, consisting of Hong Kong island, the kowloon penninsula and the New Territories. The island was ceded to the British in 1841, providing business enterprises with a base for trade in Southern China.

Although Hong Kong was first developed as a transhipment port and a naval base, in recent decades, it has established itself as an important international manufacturing and financial centre.

Its 150 years of colonial rule from 1841 to 1997 have made Hong Kong unique.

In addition to its values, cultures and lifestyle, Hong kong also has its own socil, political and economic systems. Hong kong’s architecture nowdays has become a primarily contemporary architecture based, as older buildings have been demolished to make space for newer, and larger buildings,

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entreport and naval base in hongkong‘s early years of colonial period

small laneway in hongkong

hiya

religion

The combination of desire for foreign culture and its consumption often results in the importation of foreign products and trade; people are willing to pay a premium for the convenience of accessbility and this is visible from stores to services and civilian mobility.

shopping centre

apartment

tricycle

The economy’s higher and more stable growth in the past decade has failed to raise enough jobs for the rapidly growing population and improve the wage rates of the employed. There is serious inequality in poverty rates across regions.

The hybrid type of construction called arquitectura mestiza was implemented (1583), wherein wood was used in the upper floor and stone in the lower floor, house posts or haligues supported the second floor, stone floors at the ground floor acted as a solid curtain concealing the inner wooden framework, and wooden pegs and dovetail joints connected the wooden structural system together . These were eventually succeeded by the bahay na bato, which were typically two stories high, with the ground level made of massive cut stone or brick walls and upper level built of hardwood.

The Laws of the Indies was prescribed (1573), stating that every town should adhere to a gridiron design (cuadricula) with a central square (plaza)

Early mosques, the masjid, langgal, and ranggar also emerged as Islam was established in Sulu (14th century) and Mindanao (15th century).

Early pre-hispanic houses were characterised by rectangular structures elevated on stilt foundations and covered by voluminous thatched roofs ornamented with gable-finials and its structure could be lifted as a whole and carried to a new site.

The Philippines has four types of climates: tropical rainforest, tropical savanna, tropical monsoon, and humid subtropical characterised by relatively high temperature, oppressive humidity and plenty of rainfall. This, together with country‘s geographic location allows for a diverse ecosystem and surrounding.

bus

motorcycle

Scattered areas consisting of a combination of residential, commercial, industrial, and slum infill areas. They are typically situated around important civic centres such as the marketplace, church, town hall, and schools.

Recent micro-cities have been planned and designed by renowned international firms, bestowing „designer labels“ on these developments

Planned entire mini metropolises which have their own commerical and residential zones typically consisting of multi-storey buildings. They occupy a fourth of the total area of a city centre and have no industrial zones.

Gated residential communities typically situated near small commercial centres in suburban areas; not in close proximity to city centres but easily accessible to the city via large main roads. These communities typically have their own amenities such as fitness centres and leasable spaces.

Adoption of the American academic calendar (schools beginning their semesters in August) and educational structure consisting of an integrated primary and secondary education.

Primary and secondary educational system separated into 6 years of primary school and 4 years of secondary school

malate (red recto avenue light district)

maginhawa street

cubao expo

night / street market

hospital

warehouse

house

hospitality

private car

The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Homonhon, Eastern Samar in 1521 marked the beginning of Spanish colonisation. The Philippines became part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years. This resulted in Roman Catholicism becoming the dominant religion. During this time, Manila became the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade connecting Asia with Acapulco in the Americas using Manila galleons.

- It is recognized as a world city of culture and creative industries.

- Berlin has established itself as a popular entertainment center in Europe - The expanding cultural role of Berlin was underscored by the relocation of the Universal Music Group who decided to move their European headquarters and main studios to the banks of the River Spree.

- The city has a diverse art scene and is home to over 700 art galleries.

- 2005 – Berlin was awarded the title “city of design” by UNESCO

conservativism

illegal

community

art

hybrid

civic

industrial

residential

commercial

private transport

public transport

K - 12 system

Primary and High School system

Negritos arrived in the Philippine archipelago 30,000 years ago and were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples, including exchanges with Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Islamic nations. The influx of people caused the establishment of several competing maritime states under the rule of Datus, Rajahs, Sultans, or Lakans.

convenience

Development and city planning has moved towards an international taste, with areas laid out similar to overseas master plans without regard to local topography and mobility

Affinity towards foreign culture has led to the prevalence of foreign businesses such as commercial chains, heavy industry, and foreign-led infrastructure.

Notions that regard anything foreign, or that is not of one‘s own as better.

Foreigners are treated with more respect and care than locals who have shared similar backgrounds, experiences, and hardships.

dirty, chaotic, incoherent mess of unfinished urban areas and slums

slum infrastructure

boroughs

programmatic occupancy

transportation

structuring of the city based on cultural treatment

foreigners

accessibility

history

culture

urbanism and cities

urban charm

architectural development

history

interaction with cities

attitudes towards

pre-colonial colonial

gated communities micro-cities

post-colonial

culture

architectural history

general history

modernism (1900 - 1950s) post-modernism (1950s - present)

Treating others as competition and preventing them from achieving something out of envy.

general history

stone age era

lower income areas

During the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the increase in the wealth of the richest families in the Philippines, amounting to 47.39%, comrpising 76.5% of GDP increase for that year. Thus, the benefits of the economic growth has not yet trickled down to the poorer segments of the population

history history

stone age neolithic bronze age

Despite allotting only 16.11% of the national budget on education, the Philippines has a simple lietracy rate of 95.6% and a functional literacy rate of 86.45%.

landscape

architectural existence

education

rail transport maritime transport road transport

brief summary hong kong skyline over the years

precolonial early findings

population growth

song dynasty 960 1279 ad landscape lingnan architecture housing

walled villages Kat Hing Wai

wealthy individuals can structure the city film + television newspaper

housing laws changes in housing laws shek kip mei

village cannons

In 2009, the poorest 20% of the population only had a share of 4.45% of the national income

brief summary

ming dynasty 13681644

wealth gap

ldegalerie

existence of tong laus

about tong lau overview

yuan dynasty 1271 - 1368 life in fear

buffer zone early tong lau post war tong lau

construction techniques period of transition

qing dynasty 16441842 start of the imperial era

demographics

charity and social services

brief summary health and hygiene

east river column

92,097,978 people as of 2010, with 50.45% of the population female and 49.55% of the population male. The population is composed of seven different ethno-linguistic groups (Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Visayans, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray), with at least one-third of the population having partial Hispanic ancestry and another third having partial Chinese ancestry. As of 2010 60% of the population was above the age of 18.

nightclubs gay culture

urban scenes

population composition

examples

government actions housing layout solutions Gay clubs & Festivals

THE STUDIO WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS AND EACH GROUP IS TO CREATE A TREE DIAGRAM THAT SHOWS THE RELATIONSHIPS OF TOPICS TO EACH OTHER. THIS IS DONE TO INVESTIGATE THE IDEA OF BARRICADES AND ITS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS IN THE STUDIO. Annual gay highlights

EXERCISE DONE WITH SARITA MISTRY, JONAS PEDROTTI, JASMINE SIM, AND REGINE TJAN Largest gay areas

EXERCISE 1: TIME MACHINE DIAGRAM Australian Film Festival

RESEARCH OUTLINE FOR STRUCTURING THE TREE DIAGRAM.

4. Re-occupation​ ​of​ ​ruins,​ ​the​ ​kind​ ​of​ ​niches​ ​and​ ​cultures​ ​that​ ​do so ii.

Manila iii.

Hong​ ​Kong iv.

Berlin 5. Cities​ ​under​ ​siege​ ​or​ ​rapid​ ​cause​ ​of​ ​change a. Conditions​ ​of​ ​conflict​ ​or​ ​rapid​ ​change b. Urban​ ​changes​ ​as​ ​a​ ​reaction​ ​to​ ​conflict​ ​or​ ​rapid​ ​change c. Barricades i.

Political​ ​reasons​ ​for​ ​barricades 1. Protests 2. War 3. Restriction ii.

Types​ ​of​ ​barricades 1. Temporary?​ ​Permanent?

2. Purpose iii.

Metabolism​ ​of​ ​the​ ​barricade/city 1. Natural​ ​barricades​ ​(biever​ ​dam) 2. Communication 3. Porosity 4. Funtionalism iv.

Materiality 1. Improvised​ ​materials 2. Symbolic​ ​value​ ​(umbrella​ ​protests) 3. Which​ ​properties​ ​are​ ​needed​ ​for​ ​each​ ​situation? v.

Occupation 1. Square​ ​occupation/protests 2. Tactical​ ​house​ ​occupation​ ​(battle) 3. Symbolic​ ​occupation​ ​of​ ​government​ ​buildings​ ​(odessa​ ​ukraine)

a

iii.

Hospitality iv.

Business v.

Health​ ​care 2. Transportation 3. Geography a. Ghettos​ ​and​ ​suburbs 4. Climate a. Erosion,​ ​storms ii.

Manila 1. Transportation 2. Programmatic​ ​Occupancy a. Expected​ ​occupation​ ​(institutional​ ​buildings,​ ​civic centres,​ ​commercial​ ​buildings) b. Unexpected​ ​occupation​ ​(festival​ ​grounds,​ ​night markets,​ ​slum​ ​areas) 3. Slum​ ​infrastructure​ ​and​ ​“getting​ ​creative”​ ​with​ ​the​ ​built environment iii.

Hong​ ​Kong iv.

Berlin d. Art​ ​and​ ​expression​ ​and​ ​entertainment​ ​documentation​ ​of​ ​the​ ​city 1. Rio​ ​De​ ​janeiro a. Film i.

International​ ​and​ ​local​ ​industry b. Photography c. Literature d. Hobbys i.

What​ ​encourages​ ​these,​ ​urban/natural landscape,​ ​locally​ ​produced​ ​items,​ ​western influence​ ​on​ ​entertainment 2. Manila a. Film b. Art​ ​(visual​ ​art) c. Tribal​ ​art​ ​(tattoos,​ ​sculpture,​ ​etc) d. Music​ ​(OPM,​ ​influence​ ​of​ ​foreign​ ​music​ ​on​ ​local​ ​music scene) e. Art​ ​boroughs 3. Hong​ ​Kong 4. Berlin 4. Ruin,​ ​materials​ ​of​ ​the​ ​city​ ​and​ ​decay a. Culture i.

Rio​ ​De​ ​janeiro 1. Local​ ​materials​ ​and​ ​their​ ​application​ ​to​ ​architecture​ ​and infrastructure 2. Introduction​ ​of​ ​new​ ​materials 3. Conservation​ ​and​ ​value​ ​over​ ​times​ ​of​ ​various​ ​political​ ​groups and​ ​communities

chinese architects

ii. Transport​ ​aircrafts iii. Borders iv. packages 5. Gaza​ ​strip a. Political​ ​situation b. metabolism 2. Time​ ​as​ ​a​ ​construct a. Definition​ ​of​ ​time​ ​(what​ ​is​ ​the​ ​period​ ​of​ ​comparison​ ​to​ ​say​ ​that​ ​cities​ ​have changed?​ ​years/architecture​ ​movements/occupancy?) b.

3. People​ ​and​ ​Cities​ ​over​ ​Time a. Demographics i. Rio​ ​De​ ​janeiro 1. Cultures 2. Socio​ ​economic​ ​spectrum.​ ​Demographics​ ​over​ ​time​ ​and​ ​the places​ ​they​ ​inhabited a. Social​ ​awareness​ ​and​ ​political​ ​uprisings ii. Manila 1. Population​ ​composition​ ​(ethnicity,​ ​sexes,​ ​age​ ​groups) 2. Intellectual​ ​capacity​ ​(educated​ ​vs.​ ​non-educated​ ​population) 3. Wealth​ ​gap? iii. Hong​ ​Kong 1. Population​ ​density​ ​over​ ​time​ ​(and​ ​other​ ​factors) 2. How​ ​the​ ​dense​ ​population​ ​affect​ ​its​ ​cities​ ​urbanism iv. Berlin v. Israel b. Culture i. Rio​ ​De​ ​janeiro 1. Local/native/tourist​ ​experience 2. Historical​ ​events/uprisings ii. Manila 1. What​ ​is​ ​it​ ​like​ ​to​ ​live​ ​in​ ​Manila​ ​as​ ​a​ ​local 2. What​ ​is​ ​it​ ​like​ ​to​ ​live​ ​in​ ​Manila​ ​as​ ​a​ ​foreigner 3. Influence​ ​of​ ​the​ ​population’s​ ​views​ ​on​ ​the​ ​structuring​ ​of​ ​the​ ​city (intentional​ ​and​ ​unintentional​ ​structuring​ ​of​ ​commercial, residential,​ ​and​ ​industrial​ ​areas) iii. Hong​ ​Kong 1. How​ ​social/​ ​human​ ​relations​ ​affect​ ​and​ ​continue​ ​to​ ​produce particular​ ​types​ ​of​ ​built​ ​forms​ ​over​ ​time? iv. Berlin c. How​ ​do​ ​people​ ​interact​ ​with​ ​cities? i. Rio​ ​De​ ​Janeiro 1. Local/native/tourist​ ​business a. Specified​ ​districts​ ​in​ ​the​ ​area, i. Entertainment ii. Retail

fengshui in arhictecture

In the olden days, Strong Fengshui and cantonese culture influenced how the architecture was built, which results in how most Lingnan style arhitecture was built.

6,300,000 people

As the years go by, Hong kong has became one of Asia‘s popular tourist spot. Inevitably, cultural and recreational facilities have increased overwhelmingly. > ocean park > the HK Stadium > the HK Arts Centre > the HK cultural centre audiotorium

temporary dragon hole - an essential feng shui feature of high rise architecture in hong kong

which is why gaping holes carved in the center of many high rise towers, because it is believed that dragons would go through the building into the mountains. Buildings that have no holes, would be considered to bring bad luck as the famous Bank of China have been blames, for making many companies out of business.

to conclude

human barricades

Street demonstrations, protests, site full of a cluster of things joined together as scluptures that form as barricade in between protests to serve as a political awakening for many young Hong Kong citizens.

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6HxbHY86CZc

Over the years, there have been numerous series of street protests and ometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, where many people, esp students, fight fight for a plan to reform Hong Kong‘s electoral system to push for democracy and universal suffrage.

to be continued...

Hong Kong has proved to the world that high-density living can be both functional and enjoyable for urban populations, if it is skilfully designed. The city’s architectural firms are now so well-staffed with local talent that they are no longer so reliant on foreign expertise.

hong kong protest site

2014 Hong Kong Protests

7,167,403 people

2000s

protests

Hong Kong has naturally good feng shui. It faces the water and is protected by mountains behind and across from it. Legend holds that dragons live in the mountains and hold positive and powerful energy. This energy blows through Hong Kong daily as the dragons make their way from the mountains to the sea to drink and bathe.

With the quality of Hong Kong’s cityscape now defined, the late 1980s onwards began to shape everything we see today.

MTR mixed-use developments, satellite CBDs outside of Central, and the creation of new towns. In summary, the core financial district further evolved, with construction of landmark buildings like the Lippo Centre, designed by American architect Paul Rudolph, and Exchange Square by local firm Palmer & Turner (P&T).

Most of Chinese deisgned buildigns were influencec by and reflecting the architectural style that was popular back then.

As a result, most of the buildings at the time demonstrated a sense of elegance and simplicity, with a lot of emphasis on its elevations, reflecting the brutalism style popular in those era.

1990s

soldiers of the Hong Kong and Kowloon independent brigade

“Old school” architecture firms like Palmer & Turner and Leigh & Orange were already long established, but according to Xue, clients, led by HSBC, were demanding international design expertise. This led to the construction of some of the city’s most iconic buildings: the Hong Kong Club by Viennese-born Australian modernist architect Harry Seidler, completed in 1984; the prism-like Bank of China Tower by Chinese-American architect I M Pei (completed in 1990); and Norman Foster’s famous HSBC headquarters (completed in 1985).

emergence of contemporary architecture schemes

the sites of ocean park

Among the very few Chinese design firms was the Chau & Lee, which became the largest Chinese design firm in the 1950s. Most popular building including the Vice -Chancellor‘s house at HKU. Vertical line and horizontal curves can be seen on the external walls, reflecting the taste of commercial eclecticism and modernist movement of the 1950s

The British companies gradually returned to Hong Kong and contributed to the postwar reconstruction after 1946.

The most prominent architectural firm in the 20th century was Palmer & Turner, who designed 12 of the 23 heritage buildings in Hong kong. They undertook a leading role in the design of the Hongkong city, with its design method evolving from Victorian Gothic Revival to Neo-classical from Art Deco to modernism, from contemporary-classicism“ to free form.

tourist attraction spots

1. Urbanism​ ​and​ ​Cities a. Definition​ ​of​ ​urbanism - The​ ​characteristic​ ​way​ ​of​ ​life​ ​of​ ​city​ ​dwellers - The​ ​study​ ​of​ ​the​ ​physical​ ​needs​ ​of​ ​urban​ ​societies - The​ ​development​ ​and​ ​planning​ ​of​ ​cities​ ​and​ ​towns b. Urbanism​ ​as​ ​a​ ​process i. Stages​ ​of​ ​urbanisation​ ​(generalised) 1. Pre-urbanised​ ​state 2. Building​ ​of​ ​infrastructure​ ​(roads,​ ​dwellings,​ ​town​ ​buildings) 3. City​ ​planning​ ​anurd​ ​events​ ​that​ ​may​ ​have​ c​ aused​ ​them​ ​(wars, famine,​ ​growth,​ ​etc.)

4. Development​ ​and​ ​re-development​ ​of​ ​the​ ​existing​ ​urban​ ​state ii. Cities​ ​as​ ​examples​ ​of​ ​a​ ​changing​ ​urbanism 1. Rio​ ​De​ ​janeiro a. Brief​ ​historical​ ​outline​ ​of​ ​colonisation,​ ​what​ ​were​ ​the civilisations​ ​located​ ​around(water,​ ​ocean,​ ​rivers​ ​etc.) i. Indigenous ii. Portuguese​ ​colonisation(empire) iii. Empire​ ​of​ ​Brazil iv. Republic​ ​of​ ​Brazil b. Comparative​ ​summary​ ​of​ ​architectural​ ​and​ ​urban development​ ​both​ ​pre-colonial​ ​and​ ​colonial​ ​planning and​ ​architecture c. Political​ ​buildings​ ​and​ ​slum​ ​houses d. Advancements​ ​in​ ​engineering​ ​infrastructure,​ ​sewerage, transportation,​ ​cable​ ​cars 2. Manila a. Brief​ ​history​ ​and​ ​colonial​ ​background b. Comparison​ ​of​ ​pre-colonial​ ​(huts,​ ​mud​ ​dwellings,​ ​etc.), colonial​ ​architecture​ ​(spanish​ ​and​ ​european-style architecture),​ ​post-colonial​ ​architecture?​ ​(traits​ ​of current​ ​philippine​ ​architecture) c. Characteristics​ ​of​ ​the​ ​city​ ​of​ ​Manila​ ​(what​ ​makes​ ​the city​ ​unique​ ​versus​ ​other​ ​cities) 3. Hong​ ​Kong a. Brief​ ​summary​ ​of​ ​Hong​ ​kong’s​ ​historic​ ​architectural timeline b. The​ ​comparative​ ​characteristics​ ​and​ ​evolution​ ​of​ ​Hong Kong’s​ ​architecture 4. Berlin a. Brief​ ​city​ ​history​ ​and​ ​political​ ​background b. The​ ​berlin​ ​wall​ ​as​ ​a​ ​permanent​ ​barricade c. Metabolism​ ​of​ ​the​ ​fenced​ ​off​ ​cityparts i. Tunnels the dragon hole

Time​ ​Machine clutters

future urban growth

4

southeast asia

population shift from rural to urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to the change

1. characteristic way of life of city dwellers 2. the study of the physical needs of urban societies 3. the development and planning of cities and towns

One change I would like to see on the city’s architectural scene is more support for creative design among private developers, to shift the focus from maximising profit.

there will be a high level of dependenceon mechanized technology, thus it would be necessary to use efficient and costly maintenance systems.

urban designers will strive to create visually exciting and innovative projects incorporating the latest technology.

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metabolism

political

materiality

temporary

restriction

war

protests

improvised

symbolic

properties

occupation

temporary temporary permanent

thread?

natural

fluidity

functionalism

porostiy

occupation of buildings

Semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture

tribes

indiginous cultures

threads

against certain politics

socio economic issues

beaver dam

communication

growing

tunnels

borders

military occupation

poloitical overhall

occupation of public/ symbolic spaces

settlements and dwellings

occupation of infrastructure

collonisation

sight protection

vehicle blockade

field fortification

rulers/dictators

Refugees living in the refugee camp Calais try to stop Trucks, to get inside the load area in order to get to the United Kongdom.

gaza strip

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system sketch

transport aircraft

packages

berlin

egypt 1948–1967

Rio becomes the capital of the portugese empire as the king is encouraged and decides to reside in Brazil.

1808

Community becomes the seat of the government of the southern captaincies (Portuguese administrative units) of Brazil.

1660

In 1568 in Rio, the settlement was laid out in the form of a medieval citadel, protected by a bulwark and cannons.

SETTLEMENT

tanks

transport aircraft berlin

Czech hedgehogs are idustrial produced blockades to fend off tanks. The production is slightly complicated, yet highly effective.

However some tanks nowadays are nevertheless able to get through a field of czech hedgehogs.

snipers

The July revolution saw the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. It marked the shift from one constitutional monarchy, under the restored House of Bourbon, to another, the July Monarchy

PERNAMBUCAN REVOLT

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ghaza strip map

colonial capital was transferred from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro in 1763, the town expanded farther, far beyond its walls.

Former village became a town of 24,000.

1749

Brazilian independence achieved .

INCREASE IN POPULATION

Operated in secret societies.

Black population revolting against sugar cane shortages.

Also fighting for more independance of colonies from portugese.

Brazilian independence achieved .

1821

Wanted more autonomy over their land & provinces.

Used regions as safe haven barriades against the monarchy driven leaders.

These regions solidified their rights and political position fashioning a baricade of farming infrastructure VS political and business based provinces.

drones

first 60 km built in 1994

The central avenue (called Avenida Rio Branco from 1912), still the most important of the Centre, was opened during that period; Avenida Beira-Mar, running parallel to part of the south shore, was built on reclaimed land; and several other important avenues were opened.

tunnels

rafah crossing

hamas

decay and rejuvernation

informal districts

Town had extended both northward and southward.

1821

URBAN PLANNING

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City’s original appearance was being transformed; 600 houses and 100 country houses were built, many older buildings were restored. Many streets were lighted and paved, more land was reclaimed, new roads were opened, and new public fountains were installed.

1808 to 1818

farming

SEWERAGE WAS INSTALLED IN 1864, AND TELEPHONE SERVICE BEGAN IN 1877.

TRANSPORTATION

administrators and technicians drained swamps, cleared slums, paved and widened streets, and markedly improved health conditions, notably by reducing cases of yellow fever and smallpox.

TRANSPORTATION

populist politicians ascended to power on both the national and local stage championing a platform of poverty alleviation where public housing units are an alternative to slums, which were thought to breed not only disease, illiteracy, and crime, but also moral corruption and political radicalism.

French

gaza strip site view

urban density

urban

The crossings of the gaza stripe are the only legal way to enter the gaza strip.

These are crucial when it comes to economy and the daily needs of the people.

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gaza strip site view

Since the palestinian inhabitants of the gaza strip are forced to live inside of the barrier, the density is in a status of constant growth. The site map reveals the contrast in terms of urban density in comparison to the neighboring territories.

slums

segregation

FAVELA “GHETTO”

The community keeps expanding and moving up into native forests and deforestation is rampant, as the Favelas continue to expand.

FAVELA “GHETTO”

Contours of the land seperates these clusters.

Density of the shantytown segregates itself from wealthier realestate. Occupying vast cliffs where the wealthy can’t or wont inhabit.

FAVELA “GHETTO”

Loosely incorporated squatter settlements that sprang up organically in order to house internal migrants and itinerant laborers.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s “Economic Miracle” of the 1960s and 70s had people pouring into the city from the country’s interior, and the 1964 opening of Avenida Brasil running northwest from downtown Rio led to a development boom along that corridor and jobs for people who could move bricks and pour cement.

public housing compounds 1960s

1838 THE FIRST PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION—HORSEDRAWN BUSES—BEGAN TO RUN TO THE DISTRICTS OF SÃO CRISTÓVÃO, ENGENHO VELHO, AND BOTAFOGO. IN 1868 THE FIRST TRAMCARS, ALSO DRAWN BY ANIMALS, WERE INTRODUCED. A STEAMBOAT SERVICE TO NITERÓI BEGAN TO OPERATE IN 1835. THE FIRST RAILROAD WAS BUILT IN 1852 TO PETRÓPOLIS, AND A LINE REACHED QUEIMADOS IN THE NOVA IGUAÇÚ AREA IN 1858

TRANSPORTATION

FAVELA “GHETTO”

populist politicians ascended to power on both the national and local stage championing a platform of poverty alleviation and national modernization. A central part of their program was providing modern, sanitary, public housing units as an alternative to slums,

real estate interests pressured policy makers to pursue an aggressive course of favela eradication in the 1960s and 70s.

Many favelas were located on precious inner city land in Rio?s most affluent neighborhoods, making them ripe territory for lucrative commercial and residential construction ventures

High rates of violent crime throughout the city

ECONOMIC EFFECTS

SLUM REALESTATE

As they became more numerous and increasingly populated by a burgeoning urban underclass, favela residents began to organize internally, forming associações de moradores, or residents? associations.

FAVELA “GHETTO”

BANDITOS IN THE SLUMS

house occupation

after construction

during construction

before construction

Timeline

Heritage Monuments

Examples

Oldest of the three, opened in 1742

builds motercycles

second largest German airline

The Brazilian census has five (broad and oft-criticized) categories for race: “branco,” Portuguese for white; “pardo,” literally brown for mixed-race with African descent; “preto,” or black; “amarelos” or yellow (yes, unbelievably) for people of Asian descent; and “indigeno” for indigenous peoples.

“The Zona Sul [South Zone] of Rio is about 80 percent white — 80 percent!” Barbosa said. “I knew it would be high, but I didn’t think it would be that stark.”

ethnicity based mapping

a global 500 and DAX listed company is partly headquartered in Berlin

density

october 3 – the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany.

Berlin once again became the official German capital.

CITY OF GOD

Kiosks, gyms, and various types of social and commercial spaces were implemented to activate the dead space in between housing units, transforming the mono-functional neighborhood into a dense and complex area, combining residential and commercial functions at different scales. Its hybridized mass as a whole can look homogenous due to limited material resources; yet no two buildings in City of God resemble one another because of their customization to specific needs.

public housing compounds

façades have been transformed into multi-layered commercial and social interfaces for passers-by. One-story houses have developed into two to three-story structures, with architectural additions such as covered patios, terraces and verandas, forming buffer zones between public and private spaces.

Consequently, in a matter of years after its completion, informal architectural activities took place to adapt the space to the needs of City of God’s residents. Today, an aerial view of the neighborhood would appear as rationally similar as the initial plan was, composed of geometric housing lots of equal sizes. However, City of God’s original spatial configuration is hardly recognizable in a smaller scale point of view.

City of God today has a strong local identity, having its own currency since 2011 (created to stimulate local commerce) and a capacity to self-govern through community association networks.

- Germany has resumed its place at the heart of Europe, politically, economically and even geographically – reunification and the expansion of the European Union eastwards has seen Germany move from the eastern edge of Europe to its center.

- Despite this year’s economic slowdown, Germany is the euro zone’s undisputed “economic strongman”, representing roughly one quarter of the area’s economy - With reunification, West Germany began the major task of bringing the standard of living in the former German Democratic Republic into line with its own, and incorporating its controlled economy into the West’s modern capitalist one.

- Combating unemployment – averaged 870,000 in eastern Germany in 2013, the lowest number since reunification

Post Wall

the day the wall fell (after 28 years.) on the 9th of November//Today, the east side gallery preserves a large portion of the wall

the German Parliament (Bundestag) decided to move the seat of the federal government back to Berlin

1. The Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin with 33,000 students 2. The Freie Universitat Berlin with about 33,000 students 3. The Technische Universitat Berlin with 33,000 students 4. The universitat der Kunste has about 4,000 students 5. The berlin School of Economics and Law has about 10,000 students 6. The Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft has about 13,000 students.

CITY OF GOD

Berlin Wall

Strenuous program of restoration in order to claim the historical rights to celebrate Berlin’s 750th anniversary (last big struggle between western and eastern part)

Universities

Schools

a bilingual German-American public school located in Zehlendorf.

It is particularly popular with children of diplomats and the English-speaking expatriate community

founded in 1689 to teach the children of Huguenot refugees, offers German/ French instruction

- Berlin is well known for its highly developed bicycle lane system - It is estimated that Berlin has 710 bicycles per 1000 residents - 2010 – around 500,000 daily bike riders accounted for 13% of total traffic - Riders are allowed to carry their bikes on REgionalbahn, S-Bahn, U-Bahn trains, on trams, and on night buses is a bike ticket is purchased.

- Cyclists have access to 620km of bike paths

- 2015 – both airports handled 29.5 million passengers - 2014 – 67 airlines served 163 destinations in 50 countries from Berlin - The new Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) – currently under construction – will replace Tegel Airport as single commercial airport of Berlin. The airport will intergrate Schonefeld (SXF) facilities and is scheduled to open not before autumn 2017

- Long distance rail lines connect Berlin with all of the major cities of Germany and with many cities in neighboring European countries - Regional rail lines of the Verkehsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg provide access to the surrounding regions of Brandenburg and to the Baltic Sea - The Berlin Hauptbahnhof is the Largest grade-seperated railway station in Europe - Deutsche Bahn runs high speed ICE trains to domestic destinations such as Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main and others. It also runs an SXF airport express rail service as well as trains to several international destinations like Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Warsaw, Budapest, Amsterdam.

channeling the informal (to maximize diversity); grafting the informal (to use the popular to network public spaces); underpinning the informal (to use infrastructure as a catalyst); stratifying the informal (to densify the city in layers); luring the informal (to stimulate identity through references); and embracing the informal (to negotiate an open-ended process).

Allowing police forces into the Favelas makes Favelados concerned due to mistreatment. Some officers refuce to patrol armed as a way of establiushing peace and trust amongst locals in light of past abuse to the Favela community.

This is an attempt to gain control and erase the illegal drug trade.

The police have occupied nearly all of the city?s largest and most volatile favelas, including City of God, Rocinha, and Complexo do Alemão.

public housing compounds

Conjuntos have historically varied in quality; in the higher-quality complexes, many new residents could not afford the price of rent and utilities and so did not stay for long.

public housing compounds 1960s

Rios established Operação Mutirão, which for the first time deemed resident participation necessary in community upgrades and relied on their own labor.

The government provided engineering assistance and materials left over from other construction sites.

public housing compounds 1960s

east Germany began the building of the Berlin Wall

Types

Examples

- Berlin’s transport infrastructure is highly complex, providing a diverse range of urban mobility - otal of 979 bridges cross 197km of inner-city waterways - 5,422km of roads run through Berlin – 77km are motorways - 2013 – 1.344 million motor vehicles were registered in the city // 377 cars per 1000 residents - Berlin as a Western global city has one of the lowest numbers of cars per capita

place where Medieval and Baroque monuments are situated (Berlin’s oldest church aka the 13th century Nikolaikirche)

CITY OF GOD

Yet because favela removal failed to address the root causes of Rio?s housing shortage, the city?s favela population continued to grow steadily during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Public housing compounds experinced constant neglect after the initial stages of resettlement.

public housing compounds

military occupation

The removals of the 1960s and 70s had displaced about 140,000 people and exacerbated the city?s housing problem, as it had further marginalized the poor both geographically and socio-economically.

Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the access to and from West Berlin because the Western Allies extended the currency reform in the Western zones of Germany

Examples

a 150m tall lattice radio tower in the fairground area, built between 1924 and 1926. It is the only observation tower which stands on insulators and has a restaurant 55m and an observation deck 126m above ground, which is reachable by a windowed elevator.

(in Kreuzberg) – large collection of historical technical artifacts

- Recent history of Berlin is reflected in the New Wall - a partial reconstruction of 70metres of the BerlinWall in Bernauer Strasse and Acker Strasse. (incorporates segments of the original wall but is mainly made of steel and has tiny holes through which visitors may take a look to the other side) - The memorial to the murdered jews of Europe (2711 columns symbolising gravestones in central Berlin) – designed by architect Peter Eisenman, erected for the 60th anniversary of the end of world war ii.

Spring 2006 re-opened in the Zeughaus with an overview of German history through the fall of the Berlin Wall In 1989

the two types of housing built in City of God– were too rigid for the new residents and not planned for collective use.

public housing compounds The state government undertook a large-scale slum removal program paired with a massive relocation effort in which displaced favelados were settled in public housing compounds located on the city?s periphery.

urban sprawl

Ethno based privilege

location and geography

public housing compounds

Growing conflicts of interest between the victorious powers with regard to the postwar order in Europe in general and Germany in particular put an end to the Allies’ joint administration of the city. Berlin becomes a Cold War hotspot.

(after world war ii) Berlin was immediately divided into four zones of occupation, each of them administered by one of the Four Powers (Soviet Union, United States of Amerika, Great Britain and France)

end of war and berlin is nothing but rubble // city is then divided into four

Residents of numerous other communities were ultimately unable to resist removal, but the extent of their defiance was remarkable considering the very limited power they wielded against the federal government of Brazil. favelas were entirely neglected after eradication and represented a significant step in the favelados? hard-fought battle to be recognized as the rightful residents of their chosen plots of land.

favelas

- Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power a.The NSDAP rule diminished Berlin’s Jewish community from 160,000 to 80,000 (between 1933 to 1939) b.After Kristallnacht (where they destroyed and ransacked jewish schools and stuffs) in 1938 – thousands of the city’s Jews were imprisoned in the nearby Sanchsenhausen concentration camp c.Early 1943 – many were shipped to death camps (eg.

Auschwitz)

- Berlin has 878 schools that teach 340,658 children in 13,727 classes and 56, 787 trainees in business and elsewhere.

- The city has a 6 year primary education program and after this, students continue to a comprehensive school or a college preparatory school.

- Berlin has a special bilingual school program embedded in the Europaschule in which children are taught the curriculum in German and a foreign language, starting in primary school and continuing in high school.

- The Berlin-Branderburg capital region is one of the most prolific centres of higher-education and research in Germany and Europe - Historically, 40 Nobel prize winners are affiliated with the Berlin-based universities.

- The city has 4 public research universities and more than 30 private, professional and technical colleges, offering a wide range of disciplines.

- Among 18% of students enrolled in the winter term of 2015/2016 were international students

proletarian parks

adaption

Berlin’s most iconic bridge, crossing the River Spree. It was a former East-West border crossing and connects the boroughs of Friedrichain and Kreuzberg.

It was completed in a brick gothic style in 1896. The center portion has been reconstructed with a steel frame after having been destroyed in 1945. The bridge has an upper deck for the Berlin U-Bahn line U1

standing exhibition on two millennia of German-Jewish history

The German Museum of Technology

History

New national gallery built

by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) specializes in 20th century European painting.

it is a compelling image of a Danse Macabre

exhibits natural history near Berlin Hauptbahnhof (It has the largest mounted dinosaur in the world // and a preserved specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx)

an open-air exhibition of art painted directly on the last existing portions of the Berlin Wall. IT is the largest remaining evidence of the city’s historical division

an iconic landmark of Berlin and Germany.

It stands as a symbol of eventful European history and of unity and peace

distinctive red-brick architecture

home of Berlin Symphony Orchestra, stands between the two cathedrals, the Franzosischer Dom and the Deutscher Dom.

Berlin’s Roman Catholic cathedral

a neoclassical square in Berlin, the name of which derives from the headquarters of the famous Gens d’armes regiment located here in the 18th century

the traditional seat of the German Parliament. It was remodelled

by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

a fountain featuring a mythological group of Tritons, personifications of the four main Prussian rivers and Neptune on top of it

emperor William II’s ambitious attempt to create a Protestant counterpart to St. Peter’s Basillica in Rome

The Neue Nationalgalerie

1. The Brandenburg Gate 2. World famous boulevard Unter den Linden 3. The Gendarmenmarkt, the French and German Cathedral – the highest examples of the city’s classicist architecture 4. The Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam (find famous terraces designed

by Knobelsdorff) 5. The Nueues Palais 6. Orangerie 7. The Schiller statue (reminds the visitors of the city’s powerful literary tradition) 8. The monumental Pergamon Museum (resembles an ancient temple) – since 1989, you can get there by a boat-ride on the spree river/ on foot, strolling through the historic inner city 9. The Charlottenburg Palace – offers enormous museum collections and royal apartments 10. The Schlossgarten Charlottenburg is an example of beautiful landscape architecture 11. The Mausoleum (tombs of Friedrich Wilhelm ii + Queen Louise – serves an important memorial to the history of the Royal Family of Prussia) 12. The building of Kongresshalle & the Philharmonie – designed according to the trends of mid 20th century architecture

- at Alexanderplatz in Mitte - among the tallest structures in the European Union at 368m - Built in 1969 - The city can be viewed from its 204m high observation floor

Religious Heritage

Examples

founded in 1952, located in East Berlin

Architecture Museum

(located in Moabit) exhibits a major collection of modern and comtemporary art

to the 18th centuries

Deutsches Historisches Museum

The Gem - The modern history of medicine has been significantly influenced by scientists from Berlin - Rudolf Virchow was the founder of cellular pathology - Robert Koch developed vaccines for anthrax, cholera and tuberculosis - The Charite complex – largest university hospital in Europe (1710). It is spread over four sites and comprises 3300 beds, around 14000 staff, 7000 students and more than 60 operating theatres.

IT has a turnover of over one billion euros annually. It is a joint institution of the Freie Universitat Belin and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

manufactures cars

Buildings

located in West Berlin

Symphony Orchestras

residents were given identity cards and had to check in with guards before gates closed at 10pm each night. At 9pm, an administrator would give a speech over the loudspeaker reflecting on the events of the day and sharing lessons he had for the residents, and at times the government organized demonstrations of support for president Getúlio Vargas’s Estado Novo programs.

Parks were not properly maintained and their management style was quite unpopular among their residents, the parks were abandoned within several years after their first occupation.

The ?proletarian parks? of the 1940s, the brainchild of mayor Henrique Dodsworth (1937-1945),

proletarian parks

“The city is not facing the real issue, which is housing for poor people; social housing. There is this idea that the poor people, the black people, are dangerous,” says the professor, from the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning of Rio De Janeiro.

RACISM

The first favela in Rio was founded in 1897 by veterans of the Canudos war, and the hundreds that followed throughout the 20th century similarly met the needs of self-starting urban migrants faced with the city’s lack of affordable housing.

NEW SETTLEMENT

•Built on hills that are too steep to support homes safely.

•Made of cardboard, corrugated iron or scrap wood, offering little protection from the elements.

•Lacking in water, electricity or a safe means of sanitation.

•Far from shops, schools or transportation routes.

•Usually inhabited by large families that have many children.

•Prone to disease outbreaks due to bad sanitation.

•Susceptible to crime and violence due to a desperate lack of money as well as the thriving drug trafficking industry.

NEW SETTLEMENT

Ethnicity based geography

Turkish and Arab culinary traditions – the doner kebab, falafel, lahmacun (has become common fastfood staples) a.The modern fast food version of the doner was invented in Berlin in 1971.

traditionally specialised in operattas

the Greater Berlin Act incorporated dozens of suburban cities, villages, estates around Berlin into an expanded city. This act increased the area of Berlin from 66 to 883km2 (Population almost doubled to 4 million)

The city’s most prestigious South Zone neighborhoods, it’s clear that whites are a vast majority along the beaches, where real estate prices are highest, and that other racial groups are a minority and are clustered together in certain neighborhoods:

ethnicity based mapping

inhabitants refuse to leave after living cost enhancement

intruders occupy the unfinished buildings and try to stop the completion

barricades to keep the protesters/intruders out

barricades to keep the protesters/intruders out

Germany was proclaimed a republic with Berlin as the capital of the so called ‘Weimarer Republik’.

Education

Health

Examples

1. The Deutsches Theatre in Mitte (built in 1849-1850) 2. The Volksbuhne at Rosa Luxemburg Platz (built in 1913-1914) 3. The Berliner Ensemble, famous for performing the works of Bertolt Brecht (established in 1949) 4. The Schaubuhne (founded in 1962) in a building in Kreuzberg but in 1981, moved to the building of the former Universum Cinema on Kurfurstendamm 5. Largest show palace in Europe, the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin Mitte (with a seating capacity of 1895 and a stage floor of 2854 square meters)

1. The State Opera (1955) 2. Charlottenburg Palace (1957) 3. Main monuments of the Gendarmenmarkt (1980s), Kommandantur (2003) 4. The project to reconstruct the baroque facades of the City Palace

Examples

Major Opera Houses

Through Bismarck’s politics, the German Empire was founded// Berlin has 826,815 inhabitants within the city boundaries and 105,169 in its suburbs.

SLUM REALESTATE

West zones of rio are mostly occupied by Favelas.

FAVELAS

Vila Nova (known as Lixão, or trash, because it was built on a landfill site), have cement speed bumps built to slow down the police.

City and state governments failed to extend many public services to the favelas, community members, led by their local associations, banded together to provide sanitation, medical care, and transportation to their friends and neighbors.

FAVELA “GHETTO”

Both companies offer electric power and natural gas supply.

Some of the city’s electric energy is imported from nearby power plants in southern Brandenburg

Examples

The new Berlin Town Hall is completed and because of its red-brick construction, quickly dubbed the “ red town hall “.

discrimination

social breakdown

quarantine

medini site

The Berlin State Opera

- For several years, Berlin has been recognized as a major center of business founders - In 2015 – Berlin generated the most venture capital for young startup companies in Europe

- Berlin is known for its numerous beach bars along the river Spree. (together with the countless cafes, restaurants and green spaces in all districts, this becomes an important source of recreation and leisure) - Berlin has established a high-profile reputation as a host city of international sporting events.

- Berlin is home to a diverse gastronomy scene reflecting the immigrant history of the city - 12 restaurants in Berlin have been included in the Michelin guide – which ranks the city at the top for the number of its restaurants having this distinction in Germany - Berlin is one of the cities with the most vegetarian and vegan restaurants in the world.

- Many local foods originated from north-Germany culinary traditions (includes rustic and hearty dishes with pork, goose, fish, peas, beans, cucumbers, potatoes)

Examples

The inauguration of the Prussian Monarchy increased Berlin’s governmental functions.

opened in 1912 inCharlottenburg

- Berlin’s architecture cobines elements from almost all periods and styles - Fun fact: even though much of the great art collections of former Berlin suffered the consequences of World War ii, many paintings were saved stored in salt mines.

- Some pieces of art were preserved in the eastern part of the country, including a collection of ancient treasures discovered by 19th and early century 20th century German archaeologists and later were distributed among Berlin’s numerous museums

Berlin is home to more than 50 theatres

companies

war on drugs

kowloon walled city|hong kong 1970s

Artificial intelligent robots will eventually emerge into a transhuman being.

tecnological barricade?

a barricade from reality?

sterile lifestyle

In the movie „her“ a man develops a relationship with an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice.

Artificial intelligence could be able to imitate human behavior in such a precise way, that at some point they would be indistinguishable.

„sophia“|2015

her|2013

analog society?

Hugo Gernsback|1963

minority report|2002

From an architectural point of view, it is the intrinsic qualities of the existing site–which through flexibility provide a high residential density and a mixed land use, as well as a pedestrian and cyclist oriented traffic, reducing the amount of cars and consequently energy consumption in the district–that led the team from ETH Zurich to consider working with the informal within the community to be the key to its future sustainable development.

The israelian government destructed most of the hamas tunnels and is building new underground walls to prevent the palestinians from digging new tunnels.

The cost of this wall are estimated US$568 million.

Since the palestinian inhabitants of the gaza strip are forced to live inside of the barrier, the density is in a status of constant growth. The site map reveals the contrast in terms of urban density in comparison to the neighboring territories.

underground wall|2005

transportation

antibiotic resistant bacteria

Electors of Brandenburg took residence in Berlin, this is where the long history of Berlin as a seat for government began

In 1972, animal behaviorist John Calhoun built a mouse paradise with limitless food and withot any thread. After 560 days the mouse population reached 2,200.

The combination of this overpopulation and unemployment lead to a dystopian scenario. shortly after a new social type, the so called beautiful, emerged.

It had completely lost touch with social behaviors, including having sex or caring for their young. At the same time females refused to reproduce. On day 1780 the last mouse died.

FAVELA “GHETTO”

no natural pollination

no ownership

poverty

intelligent robotics

transhuman relationship

big brother

virtual reality

augmented reality

universe 25

Berlin and Colln form a union in order to protect and expand their rights against the margrave. They share a town hall.

Each town has its own administration and budget, maintaining internal independence while presenting a united front to the outside world.

- First documented in the 13th century, situated at the crossing of two important historic trade routes - In 1920 – Berlin was the third largest municipality in the world - After world war ii – the city was divided by the Wall (1961-1989) 1.East berlin became the capital of East Germany 2.West Berlin became a defacto West German exclave - After reunification in 1990 – Berlin once again became the capital of all-Germany

- Early 20th century – Berlin had become a fertile ground for the German Expressionist movement (refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany, before the First World War) - New forms of artistic styles were invented (Architecture painting, cinema) - Weimar era – Berlin underwent political unrest due to economic uncertainties // but also became a renowned centre of the Roaring Twenties - World War ii – large parts of Berlin were destroyed (1943-45 air raids and Battles), around 125,000 civilians were killed.

- End of war in Europe in May 1945 – Berlin received large numbers of refugees from the Eastern provinces - Berlin was divided into four sectors – US, UK, France formed West Berlin // Soviet sector formed East Berlin (all 4 allies shared administrative responsibilities for Berlin)

Timeline

un transport aircraft

Since the palestinian inhabitants of the gaza strip are forced to live inside of the barrier, the density is in a status of constant growth. The site map reveals the contrast in terms of urban density in comparison to the neighboring territories.

The so called hamas tunnels are tunnels, which undermine the israeli barrier.

Those slim corridors allow to smuggle objects into and out of the gaza strip.

The israeli government sees those tunnels as a major thread, because they claim that terrorists use this routes to bring bombs and firarms into the territory.

erez crossing

second walls&fences|2005

Lived in country houses scattered in the Tijuca area farther westward.

landscape

AT THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY, THE TOWN’S ECONOMY, AS WELL AS THAT OF THE COLONY AS A WHOLE, WAS IN A CRISIS BECAUSE OF THE DECLINE OF THE MINES AND COMPETITION FROM CENTRAL AMERICA FOR THE WORLD SUGAR MARKET.

END OF MINING, NEW CRISIS

THEREBY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE OF EUROPEAN ANCESTRY. THE FORMER VILLAGE BECAME A TOWN OF 24,000 IN 1749.

BROUGHT ABOUT REMARKABLE CHANGES IN THE COLONY’S ECONOMY AND MIGRATION FROM EUROPE,

Merchants and English bankers chose to live around the Outeiro da Glória and Praia do Flamengo areas in the south, or they established their residences in the nearby Botafogo and Laranjeiras districts.

second walls&fences|2005

karni crossing

Cotton, Cacao and rice also started mass cultivation in more regional parts of Brazil. +TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.

bees die

floodings

kangbashi „ghostcity“

city as an financial investment

posthuman capitalism

artifiial intelligence

social media

alienation

robots take over most of the work

18TH CENTURY, GOLD AND DIAMOND MINING

Merchants and English

climate change

economy

Pre-war Nazi

The thirty years’ war – 1618 to 1648 devastated Berlin a.One of the longest and most destructive conflicts b.Deadliest European religious war in history c.Resulted in 8 million casualties d.One third of the houses were damaged/destroyed e.City lost half its population

-Earliest evidence of settlement: wooden rod dated from approximately 1192 and leftovers of wooden houseparts dated to 1174 (found in a 2012 excavation in Berlin Mitte) -Central part of Berlin traced to 2 towns: Colln and Fischerinsel (first mentioned in a 1237 document) – the two towns, over time, formed close economic and social ties and profited from the staple right on the two important trade routes a.Via Imperii b.From Bruges to Novgorod -1237 is considered the founding date of the city

Berlin is given a new town seal depicting, for the first time, two bears.

War

Largest Power Plants

Largest Energy Providers

- From the rubble of the Cold War and Second World War, a new ultra modern capital city is emerging.

- Berlin originated from the sister communities Colln and Berlin (in the 13th century). It advanced quickly due to the waterways and trade routes - Berlin was the center of Nazi activities and the starting point for both World War II and the Holocaust.

- Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

- Has a population of approximately 3.7 million - It is the second most populous city proper in the European Union - The 7th most populous urban area in the European Union

1993 – the power grid connections in the Berlin-Brandenburg capital region were renewed

Berlin’s transport infrastructure is highly complex, providing a diverse range of urban mobility

Berlin City Centre

Official founding date, the year of the first recorded mention of Colln

Recreation & Sprots

- In 2015, the nominal GDP of the citystate Berlin totalled (~$142) billion - Berlin’s economy is dominated by the service sector, with around 84% of the companies doing business in services.

- In 2015, the total labour force in Berlin was 1.85 million.

- From 2012-2015 Berlin, as a German state, has the highest annual employment growth rate. Around 130,000 jobs were added in this period.

- Important economic sectors in Berlin include life sciences, transportation, information and communication technologies, media and music, advertising and design, biotechnology, environmental services, contruction, e-commerce, retail, hotel business, and medical engineering

- More than 60% of Berlin residents have no registered religious affiliation - Largest denomination in 2010 was the Pretestant regional church body - In 2009, estimated 249,000 Muslims resided in Berlin making up 7.2% of the population - In 2016, the number of Muslims was estimated at about 350,000 people which portrays 9.5% of the city population. Between 1992 to 2011, the Muslim population almost doubled.

Fischerinsel

17TH CENTUARY SUGAR BOOM

evolution of tecnologie

The black lives matter movement may be the first protesting movement started by social media, using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.

Reason was the shooting of African-American teen Trayvon Martin.

Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization. They govern the gaza strip since they were elected in 2007. They are in a constant conflict with the israelis.

1237 overpopulation

Brief history

About Berlin

Energy

Transport

Economy

Religion

- German is the official and predominant spoken language in Berlin.

- It is a West Germanic language that derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family - German is one of the 24 languages of the European Union, and one of the three working languages of the European Commission - Berlinerisch / Berlinisch is not a dialect linguistically, but has features of Laustizisvh-neumarkisch dialects. It is spoken in Berlin and the surrounding metropolitan area.

The dialect is now seen more as a sociolect, largely through increased immigration and trends among the educated population to speak standard German in everyday life

- Around one-third of the city’s area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals, lakes.

- Berlin’s history has left it with a polycentric organization and a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings - Each of the national governments based in Berlin – the Kingdom of Prussia, the 1871 German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany, and now the reunified Germany – initiated ambitious reconstruction programs, with each adding its own style to the city’s architecture.

- Berlin was devastated by bombing raids during WWII - A number of new buildings are inspired by historical predecessors/general classical style of Berlin. Eg: Hotel Adlon

Cuisine

Architecture

The Deutsche Oper

1995 – a Berlin art fair “Art Forum Berlin” was first held.

1998 – Berlin Biennale for contemporary artists began (held every june) 1841 – it was designated a “district dedicated to art and antiquities” by a royal decree

The philharmonic Orchestra

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Performing Arts

Vattenfall

Languages

brief summary 12th to 16th c.

17th to 19th c.

12th to 16th c.

1280

GASAG

SXF

TXL

Schools that teach Latin and Classical Greek

Schonefeld Airport (SXF) is located just putside Berlin’s south-eastern border in the state of Brandenburg. It is an important destination for airlines like Germania, easyJet, Ryanair

Tegel Airport (TXL) is situated within city limits. It is an important transfer hub for Air Berlin as well as a focus city for Lufthansa and Eurowings

Events

Gardens

Held in the Olympiastadion

Berlin was the host city for the 2006 FIFA

event ISTAF for athletics held in the Olympiastadion

- Held in the Olympiastadion - August 2009

Berlin hosted the 1936 Olympics

located in Kreuzberg, provides a good viewing point over the southern part of inner city Berlin

Berlin’s largest park located in Mitte, designed

by Peter Joseph Lenne

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- located in Friedrichshain - opened in 1848, is the oldest park in the city.

- Its summit is man-made and covers a Second World War bunker and rubble from the ruins of the city - At its foot is Germany’s main memorial to Polish soldiers

- Includes the Botanic Museum Berlin - An area of 43 hectares (110 hectars) - Around 22,000 different plant species - One of the largest and most diverse gardens in the world

founded in 1955 on the grounds of Schloss Friedrichsfelde in the Borough of Lichtenberg

located beside the Spree in Treptow has a monument honouring the Soviet soldiers killed in the 1945 Battle of Berlin

Site of the 1985 Bundesgartenschau and the Erholungspark Marzahn promoted under the name “Gardens of the world”

- Includes the Botanic Museum Berlin - An area of 43 hectares (110 hectars) - Around 22,000 different plant species - One of the largest and most diverse gardens in the world

- founded in 1844 - presents the most diverse range of species in the world - home of the captive-born celebrity polar bear Knut, born in December 2006

- Berlin is the first ever host of Lollapalooza in Europe - Held in 2015

The Viktoriapark

- Currently at the leading edge of the global contemporary art scene - Over 600 art galleries in the city - Estimated that 6000 to 7000 artists live in the city (a quarter of them being from outside of Germany) - Beginnings of the modern boom in Berlin’s art scene were during 1990s - Berlin is home tto 153 museums - The ensemble on the Museum Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (situated in the northern part of the Spree Island between the Spree and the Kupfergraben)

1869

info

Climate

1307

The Heizkraftwerk Mitte 1871

The Komische Oper The city state of Berlin

Tierpark Friedrichsfelde The Tiergarten

Museums + Galleries

1918

The 15th century Gothic Marienkirche

- Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate - Summers are warm and sometimes humid with average high temperatures of 22-25c and lows of 12-14c - Winters are cool with average high temperatures of 3c and lows of -2 to 0c - Spring and autumn are generally chilly to mild - Berlin’s built-up area creates a microclimate (with heat stored by the city’s buildings and pavement) – temperatures can be 4c higher in the city than the surrounding areas.

- Annual precipitation is 570 millimeters (22 in) with moderate rainfall throughout the year - Snowfall mainly occurs from December through March

1470

The Heizkraftwerk Reuter West 1701

The Heizkraftwerk Lichterfelde BANDITOS IN THE SLUMS

The Heizkraftwerk Wilmersdorf ethnicity based mapping

Daimler

The local public transport provider BVG Investitionsbank Berlin

Deutsche Bahn The Federal Government of Germany Berlin Chemie

The hospital provider Charite and Vivantes Axel Springer SE

bmw Air Berlin The Heizkraftwerk Chalottenburg

Landesbank Berlin Zalando

Deutsche Telekom 1933

Siemens Bayer Health Care 1920

The Konzerthausorchester Berlin 8 May

Rocket Internet

The Fernsehtum

The Bauhaus Archive St. Hedwig’s cathedral

The Reichstag building 1946-1949

1945

The Konzerthaus

The Neptunbrunnen The Gendarmenmarkt

The museum fur naturkunde The Brandenburg Gate

The Rotes Rathaus The East side gallery The Funkturm Berlin

1961

Berlin Cathedral The Oberbaumbrucke

The Hamburger Bahnhof 1948

The Nikolaiviertel 1989

Road Rail Airport Cycling

Berlin’s Botanisher Garten GIFA World Cup Final

The Jewish museum 1987 After 1989

Goethe Gymnasium

Cityscape

threads of the future?

black lives matter movement oakland california|2014

racism

medini

singapore 2.0?

The best way to not get killed by a drone attack is to not be seen in the first place.

Syria has lots of underground tunnels, to protect the warriors from th drones.

SLUM REALESTATE

syria underground tunnel

The remains of the monumental Roman-style aqueduct Arcos (“Arches”) built at this time still stand in the city.

aqueduct

counter disease

With the growing accuracy of snipers, sight protection has become a tactical instrument in position battles. Their main purpose is not to be a physical barricade, but to prevent to be seen by a sniperer or another hidden warrior. These examples were photographed in Aleppo in 2015.

anti aircraft system s-500

In present battles it has become normal to build barricades out of improvised materials, such as stacked busses, with the combination of sandbarriers, which are easier and faster to build than trenches and protect from missiles.

executive

egyptian protests tahrir sq cairo 2011

Young civilians forming a human barricade to keep Bab el-Louk and Tahrir Square safe during the egyptian revolution in 2011.

Berlin

poverty

sand barriers aleppo

Led by wealthy landowners opposing early reforms by, Emperor Pedro I.

CONFEDERATION OF THE EQUATOR

sniper sight blockade|aleppo 2015

Gaza was part of the Ottoman Empire, before it was occupied by the United Kingdom (1918–1948), Egypt (1948–1967), and then Israel, which in 1994 granted the Palestinian Authority in Gaza limited self-governance through the Oslo Accords.

gaza stripe border checkpoint charlie 1965

israel 1967-now

SURROUNDING FERTILE LAND, ALLOTTED TO PORTUGUESE SETTLERS

BY THE PORTUGUESE KING IN ENORMOUS PLOTS CALLED SESMARIAS, WAS PLANTED WITH SUGARCANE.

LAND DISTRIBUTION

Introduction of european diseases leads to mass death epidemic. Hispaniola’s indigenous inhabitants fell victim to terrible plagues of smallpox, influenza, and other viruses.

EPIDEMIC

City settled in 1763

PORTUGESE OCCUPATION OF RIO DE JANEIRO

Fought the french and dutch for parts of brazil.

EUROPEAN BATTLES

Since the invention of weapons and explosives, sight protection got crucial to field battles. It has its own connection logic and was used in uncountable tactical battles throughout the history.

tiananmen square|Beijing 1989

pedestrian barricade|oslo 2016 pedestrian barrier|berlin 2017

czech hedgehogs|dday normandy 1944

ww1 field fortification

weaponed soldiers

rio de janeiro

sewage

Early field fortifications had the porpuse to fend off soldiers and calvary. They are relatively easy and fast to build, yet highly effective.

ottoman empire united kingdom 1918–1948

Petersburg 1865

cavalry

feminist poster 1943

sexism

The July revolution saw the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. It marked the shift from one constitutional monarchy, under the restored House of Bourbon, to another, the July Monarchy

avalanche barriers

The July revolution saw the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. It marked the shift from one constitutional monarchy, under the restored House of Bourbon, to another, the July Monarchy

calais|france 2015

great wall of china bodiam castle|england

sand barriers

july revolution|paris 1830

farmer protests|france 2016

anti terror

maidan protests kiev|2013

umbrella protests hong kong 2014

security

catastrophy

colonisation of Brazil

1990

The Franzosisches Gymnasium Berlin The John F.Kennedy school Steglitzer Gymnasium 1991

Treptower Park

Lollapaloo Zoologischer Garten Berlin Olympics The IAAF World Championships in Athletics The annual AF Golden League

Britzer Garden The annual Berlin marathon

Berlin’s Botanisher Garten The Volkspark

Evangelisches Gymasium zum Grauen Kloster

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urbic EXERCISE 2: CASE STUDIES IN VIOLENT URBANISM

EXERCISE DONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH SARITA MISTRY, JONAS PEDROTTI, JASMINE SIM, AND REGINE TJAN FROM THE PREVIOUS EXERCISE, EACH STUDENT IN EACH OF THE THREE GROUPS WAS ASSIGNED AN INDIVIDUAL TOPIC OR CASE STUDY RELATED TO THEIR UMBRELLA TOPIC FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. VIOLENT URBANISM AND URBICIDE AROSE AS UNEXPECTED TOOLS THAT MOULD ARCHITECTURE, CITIES AND THEIR OCCUPANCY.

cide and violent urbanism (WEIZMAN IN CONTENT, 2004)

DEATH SQUARED: THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH AND DEMISE OF A MOUSE POPULATION JOHN CALLHOUN IN JULY 1968 FOUR PAIRS OF MICE WERE INTRODUCED INTO THE UTOPIAN UNIVERSE. THE UNIVERSE WAS A 9-FOOT (2.7 M) SQUARE METAL PEN WITH 54-INCH-HIGH (1.4 M) SIDES. EACH SIDE HAD FOUR GROUPS OF FOUR VERTICAL, WIRE MESH “TUNNELS”. THE “TUNNELS” GAVE ACCESS TO NESTING BOXES, FOOD HOPPERS, AND WATER DISPENSERS. THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF FOOD OR WATER OR NESTING MATERIAL. THERE WERE NO PREDATORS. THE ONLY ADVERSITY WAS THE LIMIT ON SPACE. INITIALLY THE POPULATION GREW RAPIDLY, DOUBLING EVERY 55 DAYS. THE POPULATION REACHED 620 BY DAY 315, AFTER WHICH THE POPULATION GROWTH DROPPED MARKEDLY. THE LAST SURVIVING BIRTH WAS ON DAY 600. THIS PERIOD BETWEEN DAY 315 AND DAY 600 SAW A BREAKDOWN IN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND IN NORMAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. AFTER DAY 600, THE SOCIAL BREAKDOWN CONTINUED AND THE POPULATION DECLINED TOWARD EXTINCTION. DURING THIS PERIOD FEMALES CEASED TO REPRODUCE. THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS WITHDREW COMPLETELY, NEVER ENGAGING IN COURTSHIP OR FIGHTING. THEY ATE, DRANK, SLEPT, AND GROOMED THEMSELVES – ALL SOLITARY PURSUITS. SLEEK, HEALTHY COATS AND AN ABSENCE OF SCARS CHARACTERIZED THESE MALES. THEY WERE NAMED “THE BEAUTIFUL ONES”.

LIBIDINAL ECONOMY

JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

JUDY RIFKA : LIBIDINAL ECONOMY, 2006; ACRYLIC PAINT, OIL STICK, CRAYON ON PAPER; 30 X 22”

KIJONG-DONG, NORTH KOREA

LYOTARD’S DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE LIBIDINAL BAND IS A THEORETICAL FICTION WHICH PROVIDES AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WORLD WORKS THROUGH THE INTERPLAY OF INTENSE, EXCITED LIBIDINAL ENERGIES AND THE STABLE STRUCTURES WHICH EXPLOIT THEM AND DAMPEN THEIR INTENSITY. THE BAND IS THE SPACE ON WHICH LIBIDINAL INTENSITIES MEET DISPOSITIFS, OR LIBIDINAL SET-UPS. THESE SET-UPS CHANNEL ENERGY INTO MORE OR LESS STABLE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES, AND THEREFORE ALL DISPOSITIFS, ALL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES, CAN BE DESCRIBED IN TERMS OF THE SLOWING AND COOLING OF THE BAND. AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE WAY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS CHANNEL DESIRES TO CHANGE SOCIETY AWAY FROM VIOLENT, DISRUPTIVE ERUPTIONS TOWARDS MORE MODERATE, LESS DISRUPTIVE MODES OF ACTION. SYSTEMS EXPLOIT LIBIDINAL INTENSITIES

BY CHANNELING THEM INTO STABLE STRUCTURES. AND YET, THESE SYSTEMS DENY THEIR OWN ORIGINS IN INTENSE AND ALEATORY LIBIDINAL ENERGY, TAKING THEMSELVES TO BE PERMANENT AND STABLE.

PHARMACOPORNOGRAPHY BEATRIZ PRECIADO WHAT WAS IT LIKE TAKING TESTOSTERONE DURING THIS TIME? I ACTUALLY CONTINUE TAKING IT. WHAT I THINK IS INTERESTING ABOUT ANY MOLECULE, NOT JUST TESTOSTERONE, IS THAT EVERYTHING IS A QUESTION OF DOSAGE. WITH THIS SAME MOLECULE, SOME OF MY FRIENDS HAVE BECOME SOMETHING VERY CLOSE TO WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CIS MALE. IN MY CASE, I TAKE VERY LOW DOSES, SO THAT I MAY CONTINUE THE WAY THAT I AM FOR A LITTLE BIT, MAYBE NOT MUCH LONGER. I DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I’LL DO NEXT. SOME PEOPLE ASK ME, DO YOU WANT A GENDER REASSIGNMENT? I DON’T KNOW—PROBABLY, IF I KEEP TAKING TESTOSTERONE, THERE WILL BE A POINT WHERE I WILL PROBABLY SAY YES, BUT THAT’S NOT EXACTLY MY AIM. I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT THE PROJECT AS A KIND OF COLLECTIVE ADVENTURE, IN A SENSE, BECAUSE I’M THINKING ABOUT THE BODY, NOT EVEN JUST MY OWN, AS THIS KIND OF A LIVING POLITICAL FICTION. THAT’S HOW I SEE THE BODY, AS A LIVING POLITICAL ARCHIVE. YOU ALREADY HAVE THIS ARCHIVE. IT’S NOT LIKE YOU CHOOSE THINGS THAT ARE MORE OR LESS OUTSIDE OF YOURSELF TO ADD ONTO IT. YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR BODY IS REALLY DENSE, STRATIFIED, AND HUGE. THERE ARE CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE. IF YOU CAREFULLY LOOK AT IT, YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR BODY ARCHIVE IS CONNECTED TO THE HISTORY OF THE CITY, THE HISTORY OF DESIGN, TECHNOLOGIES, AND GOES BACK TO THE INVENTION OF AGRICULTURE LIKE EIGHTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO. YOUR BODY IS THE BODY OF THE PLANET. WHEN I ADD A FEW MOLECULES OF TESTOSTERONE, IN A HUGE LIVING ARCHIVE, WELL THAT’S JUST A MINOR DETAIL. IT’S A WAY OF INTENSIFICATION IN TERMS OF A COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE—SUDDENLY YOU ARE INTENSIFYING PROCESSES THAT ARE ALREADY GOING ON IN YOUR BODY.

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NORTH KOREA THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT IS THAT THE VILLAGE CONTAINS A 200-FAMILY COLLECTIVE FARM, SERVICED BY A CHILD CARE CENTER, KINDERGARTEN, PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND A HOSPITAL. HOWEVER, OBSERVATION FROM THE SOUTH SUGGESTS THAT THE TOWN IS AN UNINHABITED VILLAGE BUILT IN THE 1950S IN A PROPAGANDA EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE SOUTH KOREAN DEFECTION AND TO HOUSE THE DPRK SOLDIERS MANNING THE NETWORK OF ARTILLERY POSITIONS, FORTIFICATIONS AND UNDERGROUND MARSHALLING BUNKERS THAT SURROUND THE BORDER ZONE. THE TOWN WAS ORIENTED SO THAT THE BRIGHT BLUE ROOFS AND WHITE SIDES OF THE BUILDINGS NEXT TO THE MASSIVE DPRK FLAG WOULD BE THE MOST DISTINGUISHING FEATURES WHEN VIEWED FROM ACROSS THE BORDER. SCRUTINY WITH MODERN TELESCOPIC LENSES, HOWEVER, HAS LED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE BUILDINGS ARE CONCRETE SHELLS LACKING WINDOW GLASS OR EVEN INTERIOR ROOMS, WITH BUILDING LIGHTS TURNED ON AND OFF AT SET TIMES AND EMPTY SIDEWALKS SWEPT BY CARETAKERS IN AN EFFORT TO PRESERVE THE ILLUSION OF ACTIVITY. MASSIVE LOUDSPEAKERS MOUNTED ON SEVERAL OF THE BUILDINGS DELIVER DPRK PROPAGANDA BROADCASTS DIRECTED TOWARDS THE SOUTH. ORIGINALLY THE CONTENT EXTOLLED THE NORTH’S VIRTUES IN GREAT DETAIL AND URGED DISGRUNTLED SOLDIERS AND FARMERS SIMPLY TO WALK ACROSS THE BORDER TO BE RECEIVED AS BROTHERS.EVENTUALLY, AS ITS VALUE IN INDUCING DEFECTIONS PROVED MINIMAL, THE CONTENT WAS SWITCHED TO CONDEMNATORY ANTI-WESTERN SPEECHES, AGITPROP OPERAS, AND PATRIOTIC MARCHING MUSIC FOR UP TO 20 HOURS A DAY. FOR A PERIOD FROM 2004 TO 2016, BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH AGREED TO END THEIR LOUDSPEAKER BROADCASTS AT EACH OTHER. THE BROADCASTS HAVE SINCE RESUMED AFTER ESCALATING TENSIONS AS A RESULT OF THE JANUARY 2016 NUCLEAR TEST.

EXERCISE 3.1: PROPOSE A SCHEME! USING THE CLASS’ RESEARCH FROM THE PREVIOUS EXERCISES PROPOSE A SCHEME FOR THE SITE AND HOW IT SHOULD BE DEVELOPED. THIS SCHEME IS MEANT TO SERVE AS A MEANS OF GENERATING DISCUSSION OR CREATING CONDITIONS OF CONFLICT. LOOK AT PRECEDENTS AND USE THEM TO DESCRIBE HOW YOU WOULD DO YOUR PROPOSAL.

CAPITALIST DEGENERATION? THE VIBRANT CAPITALIST FRONT DEGENERATES UNTIL IT DISAPPEARS, SIGNIFYING THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM.

TOWER OF BABLYON, BARNABY BARFORD

DUST PROJECT, ROMAN VEILLON

CAPITALIST DEGENERATION? THE VIBRANT CAPITALIST FRONT DEGENERATES UNTIL IT DISAPPEARS, SIGNIFYING THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM. TOWER OF BABLYON, BARNABY BARFORD

DUST PROJECT, ROMAN VEILLON

TOWER OF BABLYON, BARNABY BARFORD

DUST PROJECT, ROMAN VEILLON

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MATERIAL DEGRADATION: STEEL CORROSION IS A NATURAL PROCESS, WHICH CONVERTS A REFINED METAL TO A MORE CHEMICALLYSTABLE FORM, SUCH AS ITS OXIDE, HYDROXIDE, OR SULFIDE. IT IS THE GRADUAL DESTRUCTION OF MATERIALS (USUALLY METALS) BY CHEMICAL AND/OR ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTION WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT GALVANIC CORROSION

WELD DECAY

MICROBIAL CORROSION

PITTING CORROSION

CREVICE CORROSION

METAL DUSTING

EXERCISE 3.2: MODIFY YOUR SCHEME! AND HOW DO YOU BUILD IT? MODIFY THE PREVIOUS PROPOSAL ACCORDING TO FEEDBACK AND INVESTIGATE TYPES OF MATERIAL THAT YOU CAN POTENTIALLY USE. DOCUMENT VARIOUS PROCESSES THE MATERIAL CAN UNDERGO AND HOW IT CAN ALTER THE MATERIALS’ FORM.

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WOOD DESPITE ITS HIGHLY INTEGRATED MATRIX OF CELLULOSE, HEMICELLULOSE, AND LIGNIN, WHICH GIVES WOOD SUPERIOR STRENGTH PROPERTIES AND A MARKED RESISTANCE TO CHEMICAL AND MICROBIAL ATTACK, A VARIETY OF ORGANISMS AND PROCESSES ARE CAPABLE OF DEGRADING WOOD. THE DECAY PROCESS IS A CONTINUUM, OFTEN INVOLVING A NUMBER OF ORGANISMS OVER MANY YEARS. WOOD DEGRADING AGENTS ARE BOTH BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC, AND INCLUDE HEAT, STRONG ACIDS OR BASES, ORGANIC CHEMICALS, MECHANICAL WEAR, AND SUNLIGHT (UV DEGRADATION) BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS

WATER DAMAGE

PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL DAMAGE

CONCRETE CONCRETE DEGRADATION MAY HAVE VARIOUS CAUSES. CONCRETE CAN BE DAMAGED BY FIRE, AGGREGATE EXPANSION, SEA WATER EFFECTS, BACTERIAL CORROSION, CALCIUM LEACHING, PHYSICAL DAMAGE AND CHEMICAL DAMAGE (FROM CARBONATATION, CHLORIDES, SULFATES AND DISTILLED WATER)

AGGREGATE EXPANSION

CORROSION OF METAL REINFORCEMENT

THERMAL EXPANSION

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BACTERIAL CORROSION

PHYSICAL DAMAGE

GLASS STRESS AND ABRASION CAN AFFECT GLASS, AND LIME GLASS (FROM WHICH GLASS WINDOWS AND CONTAINERS ARE TYPICALLY MADE) CAN BE ATTACKED BY WATER. IF TINY FLAWS OR WEAK POINTS IN THE GLASS ARE EXPOSED TO WATER OVER TIME THE WATER ATTACKS THE TIPS OF THE CRACKS AND DRAMATICALLY DECREASES THE STRENGTH OF THE GLASS. CAUSTIC CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS AND EXTREMES OF TEMPERATURE CAN ALSO DEGRADE GLASS, THOUGH SOME TYPES OF GLASS ARE HIGHLY RESISTANT TO THESE FACTORS. STRESS AND ABRASION

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PITCH Societal divisions in the internet age run along lines of political and philosophical ideals. Lines are cut through the centre of every country between left and right, Marxists and capitalists, anarchists and democrats. In the new economic hub of Medini, an objectively ideal city and pure conception of a post-capitalist system, a group of anarchists and socialists have removed themselves from society in search of a deeper meaning in the way they live. They rely on new technologies, robotic extruders and sensory inputs tracking their thoughts and emotions, seeking a new subjective truth in built form. Shunned by the outside world and its obsession with an outward projection of image, the new society searches ever inwards, addicted to the expression of their true selves through the forms of their creation. Exploring the limits of their sexuality and the depths of their minds, the space is a constant reaction to their discoveries, always encouraging more.

PLOT A young man and resident of this new society is visited by his lover, who has aligned herself with the city of Medini. They have fundamental disagreements in terms of their ideal worlds and are convinced of each other’s fallacies. The woman is attempting to convince the man to leave his space and come back to the city where everyone is free to do as they wish. The man is convinced that the people of the city are trapped in the perpetuation of post capitalism and that he has found a way of escaping it. He finds true freedom in his space but is unable to leave due to conflicts between residents on either side. The interaction between the man and the woman shows they have a strong intimate connection, however the woman is unable to connect properly with the space he has created, as it is a projection of his consciousness which she is unable to share in. A conversation will ensue about whether the objective or subjective environment is better and which person is more free.

The conversation and movie themes can lean on ideas about anarchism vs governments of control, introspection vs external projection of image, top down vs bottom up urbanism, objectivity vs subjectivity, addiction, representations of personality, the feedback loop of thinking and reflecting, and the use of technology for the creation of space and the exploration of self.

SCENARIO V. 1: PLOT AND PITCH THE FIRST SCENARIO REVOLVED AROUND THEMES OF SUBJECTIVISIM AND OBJECTIVISM, AS REPRESENTED BY ARISTOTLE AND PLATO, RESPECTIVELY. THE TWO TOPICS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE CHARACTER OF A MAN AND HIS LOVER WHO TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO LEAVE HIS BIOSTRUCTURE AND RETURN TO NORMAL SOCIETY.

Robot guy is hooked up to the machine, he is in a symbiotic relationship with it has learnt a measure of control over it. But not complete.

He has rejected the western capitalist environment of Medini as a dystopia of control. He rejects the top down way of constructing (society) and the lack of input anyone has in it. He has developed a robot which creates an environment around him as an extension of himself.

The thing is his thoughts and feelings manifest in all their relation of control and uncontrol, focused thoughts and wild transects of the imagination are all manifest within the structure. They can move around it and within it with extreme grace, smoothly and with ease. They know the layout of the structure in its every detail, even the new elements just created, as they are a manifestation of him.

The counterpart enters. These people are in an intimate relationship and that is evident through their interactions. Person to person they have a strong visible connection, yet the outsider is awkward and strange in the space. They run in to things, and can’t move through it properly and have a feeling of discomfort. They want to leave and they want “robot guy” to come with them.

From their view “robot guy” has encased himself within this environment, it has become so embedded within his being that he is completely dependent on it.

The outsider cannot understand why they are doing, they are completely encasing themselves, sinking in to the structure and losing track of their own identity. Like a person sinking in to an all consuming bout of depression and though they can be intimate with another, they can’t let them into the depths of their mind.

The outsider tries to convince the robot guy to come and remove themselves from the structure and rejoin normal society where people can walk around freely and do as they please. But robot guy is convinced he is living a free life, in a world which is a manifestation of himself, he has constructed his ideal environment and is completely convinced of its worth. He claims this structure is the ultimate architecture. this is what all the other architects are trying to achieve but they don’t have the tools to do it.

 Plot twist: plato is robot guy and he is using the robot to express his emotion  the robot is depicted in the beginning of the story as a tool for objectivity

SCENARIO V. 1: SCENARIO SUMMARY THE FIRST SCENARIO REVOLVED AROUND THEMES OF SUBJECTIVISM AND OBJECTIVISM, AS REPRESENTED BY ARISTOTLE AND PLATO, RESPECTIVELY. THE TWO TOPICS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE CHARACTER OF A MAN AND HIS LOVER WHO TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO LEAVE HIS BIOSTRUCTURE AND RETURN TO NORMAL SOCIETY.

He’s in an apartment – the urban hermit Feels like a robot in society, acting out the same routine every day. He initiates the process with the robot in an effort to become more human. He does this within his own apartment.

He has been through a process with his robot of becoming more and more isolated, convinced of his Individualist ideals, he locks himself away in his apartment, to be alone with his creation, condemning larger society as being sheep, slaves and naïve. He is in pursuit of an individualist ideal in isolation, an experimentation of self-exploration, an effort to find a way to become more human, find a meaning, a purpose for being here.

He begins with a criticism of capitalism and his reasons for leaving…

Do you take me for the ideal man?

Have you found some secret key? Plundered some objectified Platonic realm?

How gracious of you to share it with the world.

Oh no please, we couldn’t pay enough…

Because all of this comes with a promise, does it not?

I’m given the ideal world, and now I can become the ideal man.

If only I could make myself so…

But then who would I be… in this world of ideal men.

One amongst thousands, fighting for the title.

In the service of self, we would destroy each other for another’s gain.

Until such a point when we become that other.

The hermit talks about his state of solitude, even though he is surrounded by other people.

But he does not need the validation from others. To become a “real” human, he just needs his own validation. To achieve this “uebermensch” state he has to exclude himself from all forms of society, because society is the cause of all bad things: fight, gossip, conflict, supression. Its not enough to just become an anarchist. (opposing Collectivism) He is praising the freedom of individualism. This allows him to explore his inner world, to bring his inner feelings to the outside. This state of translucency is becoming an addiction.

Yet there is something missing..

The hermit suffers from his solitude. This solitude renders him mad. The human as a “herd animal” needs to socialize(maybe first clear outsider-dialog), yet he refuses this thoughts.

To abbandon this state of solitude would destroy this “ideal” individualism(his belief is to strong).

The opposing dialog becomes clearer and more intense. del fin Firm belief in individualism as an ideology which gradually degenerates in to an overwhelming loneliness.

Begins to talk to himself – refers to himself as “you” Talks about how people choose different systems because they think they benefit from it The dialogue becomes slowly more contradictory until he seems to be arguing with himself about the worth of individualism Speaks about his addiction – humans are meant to be addicted to something Glorifies individualism I don’t need your opinion to tell me I’m worthy

SCENARIO V. 1: DIALOGUE STRUCTURE THE FIRST SCENARIO REVOLVED AROUND THEMES OF SUBJECTIVISIM AND OBJECTIVISM, AS REPRESENTED BY ARISTOTLE AND PLATO, RESPECTIVELY. THE TWO TOPICS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE CHARACTER OF A MAN AND HIS LOVER WHO TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO LEAVE HIS BIOSTRUCTURE AND RETURN TO NORMAL SOCIETY.

Monologue Draft - Spoken by main character and played over the starting sequence.

- The idea is for him to be describing the new society they have created, with the use of the machine, in an overly glorified way. This will juxtapose the dark and eerie shots of the space, shots of the female character entering, her unease in this environment, other residents in the space, close ups of the robot constructing the space.

- This monologue could line up with close ups of the robot constructing the space or images of the form in a way which suggests the walls tell the story of its inhabitants.

- The monologue will start as description of their new society, as if trying to convince someone to join them, and gradually dissolve in to a sort of drug induced looping where the description becomes out of touch with reality and suggests the lengths to which the inhabitants have embedded their lives in this structure and its process, slowly losing control of themselves and their environment. (whispering at the beginning and slowly increasing in intensity) (in Malay) What if you could reflect yourself on to your environment?

What if your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions could all be traced on to the walls?

What if the space around you could tell the story of your consciousness?

The ultimate architecture.

Pure expression.

The image projected around you comes from who you are, not how you want to be seen.

An abstracted form, twisting, merging, warping, surrounding you, blending with you, an extension of your being. (intensity of the voice increases) What if you could read it?

Understand it?

A constant playback of your essence written in the world around you.

Immediate reflection.

Like someone reading back to you your every emotion. (speed of monologue increases slightly) And what if you could share it?

An open and accepting society, your true selves on display.

Sharing.

Joining.

Connecting.

Anything goes as long as you plug in.

There’s no hiding behind some constructed exterior.

What you see is what you get.

Share it.

Share it all.

Put yourself all the way out there.

Naked before the world.

Let everyone see who and what you are.

You need not be afraid, because you are nothing before you come in here.

SCENARIO V. 1: DIALOGUE THE FIRST SCENARIO REVOLVED AROUND THEMES OF SUBJECTIVISM AND OBJECTIVISM, AS REPRESENTED BY ARISTOTLE AND PLATO, RESPECTIVELY. THE TWO TOPICS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE CHARACTER OF A MAN AND HIS LOVER WHO TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO LEAVE HIS BIOSTRUCTURE AND RETURN TO NORMAL SOCIETY.

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Not nothing, but not really anything yet either. (speed and intensity of voice increasing further) (background voice comes in, still spoken by the main character, the two are overlapping – shown in brackets) (background music is also increasing in intensity… something atmospheric, dense) This is where it starts.

Just plug in.

(Think) (Feel) (Be) (Then learn) (Reflect and react) Who are you, why are you here?

(Think. Feel. React.)

Let yourself free, let the mind run wild.

(Read. Learn. React.)

Work out your flaws and in your aspirations.

(Read. Reflect. React.)

What do you want, who do you want to be?

(Think. Feel. Learn.)

What could you be? Who could you be?

(Think. Learn. Reflect.)

You won’t know until you try.

(Do. Be. Read. React.)

Open up the expanse, dive deep in to the abyss.

(Be. Feel. Reflect.)

You will learn things about yourself you never thought were possible.

(Do. Learn. Reflect.)

Push the boundaries. Try anything. Everything.

(Be. Learn. React.) (the voice is getting quite fast now – background noise is getting loud) You don’t know what you might be capable of.

(Explore. Learn. Reflect.)

Broaden your thoughts. Experiment. Enhance.

(Try. Be. Reflect.)

Move beyond yourself. Outside yourself.

(Feel. Reflect. React.)

Become your environment. Surround yourself.

(Are. Read. React.)

Fill every crack and every crevice.

(Spread. Expand. Read. React.)

Expand and merge and surround and spread and be and feel and connect and reflect and consume and dissolve and join and be and be and be….. (at this point the film is showing the female character in the room of the main character, watching him, seemingly unconscious, lounging on his creation. She reaches out and touches

the structure, the instant her fingers make contact the monologue and the background music cut off and the main character moves, opens his eyes and realises his lover is here)

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SCENE 1 - CLOSE UP OF THE SHIT; SETTING THE SCENE

SCENE 2 -

SCENE 3 - THE SHIT HAS GROWN TO SURROUND THE MAIN CHARACTER

SCENE 4 - THE MAIN CHARACTER’S LOVER ARRIVES AT SHIT VILLE

THE MAIN CHARACTER IS PLUGGED INTO THE ROBOT AND CONNECTED TO THE SHIT

SCENE 5 - A THIRD PERSON BRINGS THE LOVER INSIDE SHITVILLE

SCENE 6 - THIRD PERSON RETREATS TO HIS OWN SHIT HOUSE, SHOWING THE ORIENTATION OF THE SHIT HOUSES, AS WELL AS THE MAIN CHARACTER’S SHIT HOUSE

SCENE 7 - THE LOVER TOUCHES A STRAND OF THE MAIN CHARACTER’S SHIT HOUSE AND TRIGGERS HIM TO “AWAKEN”

SCENE 8 - CLOSE UP OF THE EXTRUDER SHITTING

SCENE 9 - LOVER TRIES TO CONVINCE THE MAIN CHARACTER TO LEAVE SHITVILLE IN THEIR DIALOGUE

SCENE 10 - MAIN CHARACTER’S ENDING MONOLOGUE

SCENARIO V. 1: STORYBOARD THE FIRST SCENARIO REVOLVED AROUND THEMES OF SUBJECTIVISM AND OBJECTIVISM, AS REPRESENTED BY ARISTOTLE AND PLATO, RESPECTIVELY. THE TWO TOPICS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE CHARACTER OF A MAN AND HIS LOVER WHO TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO LEAVE HIS BIOSTRUCTURE AND RETURN TO NORMAL SOCIETY.

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Story Overview

A young man, a resident of a new society, is visited by his lover who has aligned herself with the City of Medini.

The woman is attempting to convince the man to leave this new place and return to the city where there is order, social hierarchy, and all the necessities and consumptions he would require and desire. The man is convinced that the people of the City of Medini are trapped in the perpetuation of post-capitalism and he believes that this new place provides the complete freedom he desires.

The people in this new society are connected to each other through a machine which reads their thoughts and emotions, relaying information between individuals as well as independently responding by extruding shit. The shit defines the environment in this new place and takes on the sensory ability of each person, becoming an extension of all the bodies and feeding back receptions in a continuous loop.

The lover is unable to understand the dynamic of this new society, let alone the symbiotic relationship between men and machine. She feels uncomfortable.

The man senses her discomfort, sees through to the thoughts indicating her discomfort, and the fundamental beliefs that set them apart. All this is magnified in her touch which washes over him in concurrent waves of affection, confusion, helplessness and indifference.

He tells her she should leave and she does.

Themes

Societal divisions in the internet age run along lines of political and philosophical ideals. Lines are cut through the centre of every country between left and right, Marxists and capitalists, anarchists and democrats. In the new economic hub of Medini, an objectively ideal city and pure conception of a post-capitalist system, a group of anarchists and socialists have removed themselves from society in search of a deeper meaning in the way they live. They rely on new technologies, robotic extruders and sensory inputs tracking their thoughts and emotions, seeking a new subjective truth in built form. Shunned by the outside world and its obsession with an outward projection of image, the new society searches ever inwards, addicted to the expression of their true selves through the forms of their creation. Exploring the limits of their sexuality and the depths of their minds, the space is a constant reaction to their discoveries, always encouraging more.

The conversation and movie leans on ideas about anarchism vs governments of control, introspection vs external projection of image, top down vs bottom up urbanism, objectivity vs subjectivity, addiction, representations of personality, the feedback loop of thinking and reflecting, and the use of technology for the creation of space and the exploration of self.

SCENARIO V. 2.1: SCENARIO SUMMARY THE SECOND SCENARIO DEALT WITH CAPITALISM AND MODERN SOCIETY VERSUS AN ABSENCE OF PROPERTY AND ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE PHILOSOPHIES OF THOREAU AND PROUDHON ARE ALSO DISCUSSED AND THE PLOT REVOLVES AROUND A MAN WHO CREATES A ROBOT, BECOMES PHYSIOLOGICALLY INSEPARABLE FROM THE ROBOT, AND BECOMES MAD FROM ISOLATION.

03 SCRIPT

SCENE 1

Details of the “shit” are shown to give an impression, but not to give away everything.

The background is black, bokeh is focusing on the “shit”.

The camera movement is lightly shaking. *malaysian monologue starts*

SCENE 2

A detail shot is showing how the main character is hooked up to his robot/the shit.

The look is similar to the environment of a hospital.

Tubes, blood containers and different sensors blinking. A part of the human body is shown to give the hint, that this setup is connected to. *malaysian monologue intensifies* [thoughts are overlapping]

SCENE 3

The shot shows the main character sitting inside his “shit”. He is in an altered state of self exploration. He is not moving. In the background we hear the robot expressing the main character thoughts and feelings: *01110000 01101100 01100001 *malaysian monologue* [overlapping of monologue and binary subtitles]

SCENE 4

A detailshot shows how the robot is printing the “shit”. The robot itself is not shown, but the movement and the tool give away, that it is a robot. The robot is communicating with the human. *... 01110000 01101100/malaysian monologue* [it gets louder]

SCENARIO V. 2.1: DIALOGUE THE SECOND SCENARIO DEALT WITH CAPITALISM AND MODERN SOCIETY VERSUS AN ABSENCE OF PROPERTY AND ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE PHILOSOPHIES OF THOREAU AND PROUDHON ARE ALSO DISCUSSED AND THE PLOT REVOLVES AROUND A MAN WHO CREATES A ROBOT, BECOMES PHYSIOLOGICALLY INSEPARABLE FROM THE ROBOT, AND BECOMES MAD FROM ISOLATION.

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SCENE 5

We get a glimpse of multiple people wandering through shit town. This makes us understand that there is a whole part of the society, which reject the “normal” top down society. *... 01110000 01101100* *malaysian monologue* [climax]

SCENE 6

We see the main character from an other angle from the outside. His lover is touching the shit. This is the first time, that the main character is reacting. This shows that not only the robot reacts to the main characters emotions, but that there is a loop of reaction.

The human and the robot/shit are in a symbiosis. [noises/monologue suddenly stops]

SCENE 7

We see the main character from the front perspective. Behind the main character a crack opens in the “shit” and the lovers face is seen. It is dark and almost not recognisable. The focus is still on the main character.

SCENE 8

The lover enters the room. She tries to convince him to leave. She touches him. *chinese monologue*

02 STORYBOARD

SCENARIO V. 2.1: STORYBOARD THE SECOND SCENARIO DEALT WITH CAPITALISM AND MODERN SOCIETY VERSUS AN ABSENCE OF PROPERTY AND ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE PHILOSOPHIES OF THOREAU AND PROUDHON ARE ALSO DISCUSSED AND THE PLOT REVOLVES AROUND A MAN WHO CREATES A ROBOT, BECOMES PHYSIOLOGICALLY INSEPARABLE FROM THE ROBOT, AND BECOMES MAD FROM ISOLATION.

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Story Overview (Plot 3)

In the newly established urban centre of Medini, a man finds himself overtaken with an illness he cannot identify. The illness makes him confused and restless with a burning urgency spreading from the pit of his stomach down to the soles of his feet.

He fashions a machine that he implants in his body, certain that the malaise is caused by an imbalance of a corporeal nature but the feeling of unease continues to consume him. It tells him to leave the populated metropolis and to find comfort in isolation.

He feels that the people of Medini are trapped in the perpetuation of capitalistic social organisation, and consumption, and believes that the current system will never be able to give him the complete freedom he desires. He believes that only by disengaging and serving only himself does he experience true freedom.

The machine, altered by the man’s metabolism, forms a symbiosis with his thoughts and emotions. They begin to grow and project from his body as horn-like outgrowths, ever increasing in size until he becomes enclosed in a gnarled root-like cell. The extrusions continuously increase in size until they tower over him. He becomes addicted to this affirmation, plunging into an egotistical hypnosis that causes the robot to continue to build the prison around him.

The structure begins to enclose him, encroaching closer and closer. His new reality becomes this prison and it drives him to question whether his convictions were correct. The conflict between his utterly strong belief and the upcoming thoughts of uncertainty cause a cognitive dissonance.

Whilst he does not want to refuse his beliefs, his doubts grow and finally create a personification of his lover. She reaches towards him and tries him to pull him out; she tells him of the fallacies of his decision and the benefits of taking her side.

The structure presses up against his skin.

He laughs maniacally and thrashes against it, causing pieces to break off.

He picks one up, breathes in the heady smell,

Laughing.

SCENARIO V. 2.2: SCENARIO SUMMARY REVISION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT, DIALOGUE, AND STORYBOARD.

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Opening scene showing the man being restless.

Monologue talking about his decision to remove himself from capitalist and then anarchist society.

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The outgrowth is beginning to enclosing him.

A part of the main character beginns to lose its certitude.

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He breaks off part of the structure (Showing the struggle)

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He injects the machine into him (showing the implant and some blood dripping off)

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His opposing thoughts become more and more contradictory. The main character gets mad.

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Horn like outgrowth coming out of his forehead.

Early stage of growth. The machine has become a part of him and extrudes out from his body.

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Outgrowth intensifies in his hands (similar to a disease).

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Outgrowth coming out of his limbs and forming an enclosure around him.

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A woman is approaching the man. She is a result of his strong inner conflict. Since the outgrowth reflects his inner thoughts and emotions, it gets more and more out of control, as he himself loses his certitude/control.

She touches the outgrowth. The outgrowth has become a barricade between the personalities of his splitted mind.

The girl is trying to free him from the structure, but she fails. His beliefs are too strong.

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The lover disappears.

SCENARIO V. 2.2: STORYBOARD REVISION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT, DIALOGUE, AND STORYBOARD.

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Walden

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

or, Life in the Woods

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1840 SEMINAL TEXTS BY PROUDHON AND THOREAU REFERENCED FOR THE SCENARIO.

Henry David Thoreau 1854

Neo-individualism and Neo-collectivism Is individualism nowadays a myth? The notion of living as a recluse is more complex nowadays.

Physical isolation is not sufficient due to the presence of technology and social media in our daily lives. Unlike individualism, collectism is more prominent in our contemporary societies.

It can be argued that premodernist anarchist concepts evolved from anti-statism to antiThe Internet technology. Both Kaczynski and crypto-anarchists respond to the same issue of Bookmobile technology being an instrument of government control and surveillance through internet, technology and social media.

Contemporary references Ted Kaczynski contemporary (individualist) In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without

electricity or running water in Montana, where he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient. After witnessing the destruction of the wildland surrounding his 1 cabin, he concluded that living in nature was untenable and began his bombing campaign.

Kaczynski states that technology has had a destabilizing effect on society, has made life unfulfilling and has caused widespread psychological suffering. He argues that because of technological advances, most people spend their time engaged in useless pursuits. He further argues that erosion of human freedom is a natural product of industrial society

Crypto currency (collectivism) One motive of crypto-anarchists is to defend against surveillance of

computer networks communication. Crypto-anarchists try to protect against government mass surveillance, such as PRISM, Tempora, telecommunications data retention, the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, Room 641A, the FRA and so on. Crypto-anarchists consider the development and use of cryptography to be the main defense against such problems, as opposed to political action. A second concern is evasion of censorship, particularly Internet censorship, on the grounds of freedom of expression. To build and participate in counter economics, which includes development of viable alternatives to banking systems, and development of alternative financial systems which provide the user with options for greater privacy or anonymity.

SCENARIO V. 3.1: THEMES THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

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The Hermit

The Collectivist

introverted misanthrop (has lost his faith in humanity) freedom (no rules/beyond anarchism) individual (only in solitude he feels free) protective (outgrowth protects him from the outside) exclusion (excludes himself ) technology (uses technology for his freedom) belief/ideology (believes this is the only way) expression (outgrowth expresses his emotions) narcissism (he becomes his own world/reality) extension (outgrowth is a part of his body) mysticism (spirituality or self exploration) addiction (becomes addicted to his self exploration) madness (conflict->cognitive dissonance ->dissociative) identity disorder autotrophic (self-dependent)

extroverted thinks hermit is a hostage of his own desires collective (collectivism is the only way) prison (hinders him from leaving his world) inclusion (being part of a whole) humans (transcendetalist)

altruism (coming together for a common interest) rationality (based on proof, reason, or logic) freedom

symbiotic (mutually beneficial relationship between hermit, robot, and outgrowth)

autopoiesis (independent from the outer world)

Individual Anarchism

Mutual Anarchism

exclusion from collective private property true individuals the individual as the highest entity

inclusion in collective personal property real community the individual as part of a greater group

SCENARIO V. 3.1: THEMATIC OPPOSITIONS THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

01. Scenario He’s in an apartment – the urban hermit Feels like a robot in society, acting out the same routine every day. He initiates the process with the robot in an effort to become more human. He does this within his own apartment.

He has been through a process with his robot of becoming more and more isolated, convinced of his Individualist ideals, he locks himself away in his apartment, to be alone with his creation, condemning larger society as being sheep, slaves and naïve. He is in pursuit of an individualist ideal in isolation, an experimentation of self-exploration, an effort to find a way to become more human, find a meaning, a purpose for being here.

He begins with a criticism of capitalism and his reasons for leaving.

SCENARIO V. 3.1: SCENARIO SUMMARY THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

02. Characters The Hermit He feels Malaysia is heading in the direction of modern society: a cyclical system which harbours a belief in the individual as the most important while simultaneously funneling people into lives of slavery under the guise of “ambition.” They are convinced of their purpose as they cannot see outside the options presented to them, a herd mentality of everyone’s doing it so it must be right. He considers the people who have sold themselves for wage labour to be slaves, prostituting themselves for another’s gain while convinced it is in the service of themselves.

He sees himself as above all of this. He is not one of the crowd, not sucked in by all the flashy imagery or empty promises of success. He longs for the pursuit of greater things; the discovery of his own mind and human nature.

He puts himself against the world in a search for this and bases his singularity on his refusal to conform. He is perpetually trying to stand out but is unable to recieve validation as he refuses to acknowledge the opinions of slaves.

Who can validate him then, when he respects no one but himself? Only him.

He views anarchists in a similar way: dreamers with ridiculous ideas about the world, completely romanticising the idea that all humans will be able to live in a self-governed world ruled by nothing but mutual respect. He does not believe that a society is capable of living like this as he himself cannot bear to live like this. He sees no reason why he should respect their wishes when he knows that they are wrong and he is right.

Similar to how left and right view each other in an overly generalised way, he lumps groups together and condemns them to a single fate. This aspect becomes a commentary and political division. He would claim that he would be able to show respect for others, because he is fundamentally a good person, but uses his own prejudice and disbelief as an excuse to be static.

As a person with a somewhat transcendentalist view, he views the collectivism of anarchism as an impurity of a group of individuals. By banding together with a common goal each of the individuals within a collective society are allowing part of themselves to die in order to serve some common good. While he can agree on the aim of the anarchists, and would surely join them were it to come to some ultimatum between capitalism and anarchism, he cannot willingly submit himself to a collectivist society. He refuses to allow any part of himself to submit to another, to budge even an inch when it comes to a situation of compromise.

He rejects the ideas of capitalism and moves to become an individualist with his own ideals, but through the internal examination of collectivism he comes around to the idea that his individualist ideals are the very thing that perpetuates capitalism. This is the core conflict, his selfish ideals are the root of the very problem he is rebelling against.

SCENARIO V. 3.1: CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

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02. Characters The “Collectivist” The character of the collectivist is a paranoid projection of the individualist’s schizophrenic mind triggered by severe environmental isolation and lack of social contact. The character appears when the individualist comes to a figurative fork in the road when he realises that individualism as a political system will not work, especially when there is a limitation on space and resources.

The collectivist tries to convince the hermit to join a collective. He is convinced that achieving someone’s goals is only possible if multiple people work in cooperation, and personal benefit can even become greater in a collective. he strives for progress and sees no conflict between the collective and the individual subjects it is made up of. For him the human is meant to live in symbiosis with other humans, the human is not supposed to live solely by himself. She despises this selfishness, but sees also an opportunity to gain a new member.

He thinks that freedom is not restricted by rules, but rather that those rules are needed in order to achieve a society which is peaceful. He does not deny that individualists can feel and act free in their own way, but he is convinced that this personal freedom inflicts harm to other individuals (amensalistic), and can thus be compared to capitalism.

He realizes the hermit’s real problem: his solitude, which can only be cured by rejoining society, but since he opposes capitalism as well, there is just one solution for him.

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0 minutes

Opposing Capitalism (Opposing Collectivism) Hermit feels alone, despite being in a metropolis with thousands of people He builds a robot as an expression of this sentiment

1.0 minute

Praising Individualism He isolates himself from the world, as a rejection of materialism This freedom allows him to explore himself, to reach a transcendental state He thinks does not need validation from others; he is right and everyone is wrong This spiritual state becomes an addiction.

He begins to talk to his robot (still alone)

2.25 minutes

2.5 minutes

Realization that individualism does not work when there are multiple people in a limited space.

Inner Conflict (Individualist vs. Collectivist) hypocriticism: rejection of a regime but building their own regime continuum of fabrication dependent/independent individual lost in collective - individuals losing their identities like ants in an ant heap temporary feeling of satisfaction in revolutions ignorance of outside world brought about by solitude conflict over definition of property progress - conflicting ideas of individualistic and collectivistic progress benefits - advantages and disadvantages of each system freedom - conflicting definitions of each system

4:00 minutes

SCENARIO V. 3.1: DIALOGUE STRUCTURE THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

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The hermit is in his apartment. He has isolated himself and his robot from the outside world, convinced of his individualist ideas.

Hermit: Do you take me for the ideal man?

Have you found some secret key? Plundered some objectified Platonic realm?

How gracious of you to share it with the world.

Oh no please, we couldn’t pay enough…

Because all of this comes with a promise, does it not?

I’m given the ideal world, and now I can become the ideal man.

If only I could make myself so…

But then who would I be… in this world of ideal men.

One amongst thousands, fighting for the title.

In the service of self, we would destroy each other for another’s gain.

Until such a point when we become that other.

(He speaks of Plato’s ideal man and ideal object, in reference to the world Medini is trying to sell. The story is told that everything here is perfect, everything here embodies the ideal life, the life you want to live. He refers to the inheritance of these ideals, as offered up freely by the system, as a kind of debt which cannot be paid. The work we undertake is in the effort to create from ourselves the ideal man to fit in this ideal world we are presented with.

Only through the work can we achieve this. The promise goes to all, but can only be delivered to a few… those ruthless enough to subject others to their will in order to create around themselves an imagined ideal. He rejects these ideas as he strikes out on his own, determined to create for himself his own image of an ideal…)

The hermit starts seeing a projection of himself and starts a conversation with him. The hermit defends his individualistic sentiments while his projection vocalises his collectivist thoughts.

Conversation begins… (malay - individualist) (chinese - collectivist) (mumbling quietly to himself) Individualist: Where does a free man go in a world made for slaves?

(Trying to discern his place in the world - it is obvious from the shot that he has decided that a free man must make his own world – I think this is too obvious a beginning)

SCENARIO V. 3.1: DIALOGUE THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

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Collectivist: To submit would be death. (it is unclear where the second voice is coming from, it is equally quiet, with a similar pitch and tone) Individualist: Yes. A death every day.

Collectivist: Until nothing is left. (he believes that becoming part of a capitalist system would be the equivalent of death, as it would not allow for the full exploration of his self) (pause) Individualist: To die without knowing you are dying… (musing to himself) (his lack of respect for people living this life is clear in his tone) Collectivist: At least you can tell….

Individualist: I won’t die without learning how to live. (still to himself) (his commitment and resolve to an individualist life, and his reason for isolating himself) Collectivist: And who will teach us?

Individualist: There is only me.

Collectivist: No others?

Individualist: Some amalgamation? (taken aback – disgusted) Individualist: Part him, part her, part them. “I” becomes “us”. (alluding to the idea that if he took advice or input from external sources it would mean him becoming less himself) Collectivist: Death.

Individualist: Death. (agrees) (pause) Collectivist: So? (getting back to the question…)

Individualist: My ears speak to me, my mouth feeds me and my eyes show me. What else do I need? (attempting to suggest that all incoming information goes through the sensory lens of each person, interpreted by them alone) Collectivist: And what do they tell you now? (referring to the space he sits in) Individualist: There is only me.

Collectivist: In a cage…

Individualist: In liberation.

Collectivist: And evolution.

Individualist: The only way, as far as I can see.

Collectivist: And what makes you think you can see very far at all? (testing)

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Individualist: What makes you think I need to? (an individualist only needs himself and what’s in front of him, he has no need for many material goods, but is intent on claiming what he deems necessary) Collectivist: To the end of your fingertips… is that how you put it?

Individualist: And to the other side of whatever I happen to be touching.

(A phrase the character uses to describe his view. He sees his property selfishly as his own) Collectivist: And what if that leads to another’s fingertips? (raising the question of property, what belongs to who and how is it decided) Individualist: Well what would he be doing there? (incredulous) (a complete lack of consideration for what another person may be doing) Collectivist: The same thing as you I assume.

Individualist: Why would he be touching my things?

Individualist: Why would he think they’re yours?

Individualist: I suppose that’s his right. (he is forced to admit another’s claim to property because he believes in his own, however this doesn’t stop him from continuing to suggest that the object belongs solely to him) Collectivist: It wouldn’t change a thing would it.

Individualist: Not in my mind. (the only important opinion is his own, the will of someone else does not come in to consideration) Collectivist: And that’s what matters. (resigned) Individualist: Agreed. (firm) (presents this as a universal truth, though not being able to explain it) Collectivist: Does he not deserve the same?

Individualist: He can take what he can take.

Collectivist: And if he took from you?

(The problem that arises when a society is full of selfish individuals – they must share or deprive) Individualist: Well that would make him no better than the rest of them. (capitalists) Collectivist: So he shouldn’t?

Individualist: No. Collectivist: And you?

Individualist: Well what’s the solution then?

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(pause)

Collectivist: Join him, against the rest of them. (anarchism – collectivism) Individualist: Death as well. And only for a short trip to denial and back. (spoken matter of factly) (considers any form of inhibition of his self to be terrible… will only accept complete freedom) Collectivist: Perhaps. (suggestive) (the collectivist is starting to make his own suggestions) Individualist: What good is a holiday when you’re dead?

Collectivist: Maybe you would be alive for the holiday.

Individualist: But you surely wouldn’t…. (looks pointedly around the room (at the robot?), despite obviously talking to someone) (Suggesting that if he were to join a collectivist group he would have to depart from some part of himself, meaning his schizophrenic manifestation might not survive. He clearly cares for whoever he’s talking to, which he identifies as separate from himself) (pause)

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1-opening monologue closeup of the mc, we hear voices, but cant see him speak, his mouth is not visible

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3-closeup of the hermits eyes he is looking at something inside of his structure

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5-we see the collectivists eyes.

6- begin of shot reverse shot discussion

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4-the hermit examines a part of the outgrowth. it is a result of his inner feelings, thus a part of his world. We hear the second character, but can’t see it.

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7-reverse shot discussion (repetition of shot reverse shot)

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8-shot of the two characters talking.

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4-we see the “dressed up” robot printing. this suggests the ongoing process of production

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SCENARIO V. 3.1: STORYBOARD THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

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outgrowth coming out of limbs

outgrowth covering hermit

grimy/dirty face from isolation

transition from normal to tired / stressed state

SCENARIO V. 3.1: COSTUME AND MAKEUP THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

07. outgrowth test

SCENARIO V. 3.1: PROSTHETICS TESTING THE THIRD SCENARIO DEALT WITH INDIVIDUAL ANARCHISM VERSUS MUTUAL ANARCHISM, BRINGING ABOUT A DISCUSSION ON INDIVIDUALISM AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS WERE MORE CLOSELY EXAMINED, AND THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND AN URBAN HERMIT WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION, AND A COLLECTIVIST WHO FINDS HIM AND TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

Proudhon I. Beginning

Walden

She is sent by the collective to convince him. They want him specifically as they want his machine She knows that he is not going to join them (resigned)

II. Dispute

She states that his ideals/technology can be shared for mutual benefit in a collective They want to use the machine as a method of democratic urbanisation.

This machine should belong to everyone She also agrees to come because she cares about him (there is a personal relationship). She does not want to see him lock himself away, but is still in favour of the collective She sees the outgrowth as a manifestation of his ego which he has positioned to simultaneously protect and imprison him From her point of view total individualism restricts the personal freedom

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Sees her as pawn of the collective (she did not choose to be here) Rejects the collective as a new regime of control (sees the collective as another system that is doomed to fail)

In a larger democratic group technology (and other elements) can be easily corrupted by individuals that refuse to act in accorance to the group’s positions Explains that solitude is the only way.

Tells her that he is independent (free) while she is not “I don’t need you, you are dependent on your group, you don’t even act and think by yourself ” He wants to hear what she is thinking, not what the collective wants her to say “Just this once be yourself !”

“You need other people like you need me”

III. Intimacy

They remember their past intimacy and their time together. They remember their shared ideals.

Desire to be together is an argument for the collective.

She tells him that nothing would change for him if he lets other people use his technology. She is disgusted by the outgrowth, yet lets Walden pull her hand in its direction to touch it

Outlines his individualist ideals.

Thinks his ideals/technology could be misused , when used by a larger group.

He takes Proudhons hand and guides/ forces her to touch his outgrowth. He wants her to feel his world He likes the idea of anarchism as an utopian idea, but is too pessimistic to believe in it in the real world

IV. Inclusion/Resignment

By sacrificing some of their beliefs they could create a hybrid between collectivism and individualism. Collectivism inside the structure but autonomous from the outside.

She is almost lured into becoming a part of his world, but she quickly realises its selfish nature. She realises that she will always just be a part of his world.

She pulls away

V. Separation

Refusal to abandon the others - keeps her belief in freedom for all.

She can’t just be a part of his world, this would result in a perverted form of sharing.

Pulls her closer to him (potential of robot process). He truly believes that he could sacrifice some of his convictions but not all of it He needs her

The fact that she is leaving is a loss of his property. The solitude renders him mad, he gets furious

She leaves

SCENARIO V. 3.2: DIALOGUE STRUCTURE REVISION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT, DIALOGUE, AND STORYBOARD.

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SCENE 1 – Meeting between WALDEN and PROUDHON Camera: Close up of WALDEN, camera is focussed on him. Everything in frame is shown at chest height and above with background visible but out of focus. WALDEN is positioned to the leftmost part of frame.

WALDEN is seen sitting on the ground with his forearms resting on his knees. He has been forced into this position by the blackened heavy growths fruiting out of his hands and feet. They are heavy and have caused him to be practically immobile.

He is in his outgrowth-structure, shut out from the rest of the world in self-imposed isolation. He feels that the newly-established urban centre of Medini is heading in the direction of modern society: a cyclical system which harbours a belief in the individual as the most important while simultaneously funnelling people into lives of slavery under the guise of “ambition.” He rebels against it by completely disengaging and going deep into himself. We see him at the end of this self-exploration, a converted megalomaniac and severe individualist.

Delirious from isolation, WALDEN begins to converse with an ex-lover (PROUDHON), a fictitious projection of his deranged narcissitic mind who plays both devil’s advocate and ally of his split beliefs.

PROUDHON: Alienation, surrendering, spoiling your soul. (enters scene, in background of frame) WALDEN: (sweet) Ah, you. (regular tone) Chosen by them to convince me in this last chance temptation of hypocrisies. Tell me, envoy, how have they instructed you to bridle me?

PROUDHON: slowly

(ignores question posed by WALDEN and

approaches structure where he is) I suppose they need you, and your extraordinary bullheadedness to refresh the system.

WALDEN: I’m useless! Useless for your community of selfcomplacent anarchist guinea pigs. (spits in her direction) If you were really here to “save me” as all of your like claim, come here and face me. (pause) We were equals once before. Talk to me now like you would talk to an equal.

SCENARIO V. 3.2: DIALOGUE REVISION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT, DIALOGUE, AND STORYBOARD.

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PROUDHON: (angrily approaches, walking fast. She pushes her hands into the structure, creating a hole in it so she can see his face; they stare at each other) WALDEN: Ah

(cynical laughter) You are the same. (romantic thought, a touch of tenderness in his voice) PROUDHON: (gazes at WALDEN with affection) WALDEN: But

(he wakes up) Using this strategy, you as a trojan horse. Never imagined they could succeed.

PROUDHON: (resigned) I never did. I know you too well.

WALDEN: Ha!

(laughing) so she does have a mind, you should let it show more often.

PROUDHON: (starts to get mad) What am I to you? A messenger? A fragment of the Hive?

WALDEN: The ant knows only his work and his neighbours.

What concept does he have of the colony?

PROUDHON: And you? The rogue? The maverick? Or the craven, refusing to fight.

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44 WALDEN: Fight for what? Freedom? Liberation? (still snickering as though he has all the answers) A short trip to denial and back is all your efforts would achieve. (pause) A great party (gesturing recklessly) For that I would join you. A time of glory, for sure.

They would cry revolution in the streets while the seeds are planted for the next regime - to pretend your quest is anything but temporary is dangerous ignorance.

PROUDHON: I would rather be an ignorant fool that sought recourse than to be an emotionless coward.

WALDEN: Don’t you get tired of caring for others? Others who wouldn’t even wish the same for you? (pause) Stay with me. (pause) We could have everything. And concern ourselves with the only things that matter – you and me.

PROUDHON: Don’t you already have everything that matters to you? You, yourself, and your robot? I know what’s important to me. I want a place in society. (pause) Imagine how much others can benefit from what you’ve created. Nothing would change if you shared this technology; your vision would not only remain untouched but it would be multiplied in space.

WALDEN: I’ve forgotten how amusing your optimism was. This is precisely why none of this will work. It only takes one turncoat to topple the whole pyramid; if even one person choses to think alternatively or in opposition of your golden grand scheme everything is fucked.

This technology is wonderful if you have the right intentions and bloody in any other way. Moreover, why would I care to give everyone else the same opportunities as me? I’m ahead and I’ve worked hard to be at this advantage.

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PROUDHON: That’s the beauty of community; there is no concept of being at an advantage. All is shared: property, technology, economy, is everyone’s to use as they wish.

WALDEN: Realistically there won’t be enough space nor enough resources. You underestimate peoples’ greed.

PROUDHON: I’ve heard enough of your pessimistic drivel. I would always take a fool’s optimism.

WALDEN: And so here you are.

PROUDHON: Here I am - To ask for something you would never give (pause) But also – (pause) To see you. (she turns her gaze to the structure, regards it for a long moment, we see close ups of different sections of the structure, its connection to Walden’s arm, the camera sees this as if viewed through her eyes) WALDEN: You hate this thing don’t you?

PROUDHON: Look how it smothers you (pause) Like some necrosis WALDEN: From a certain perspective (he closes his eyes) PROUDHON: You were always a recluse – but this?

WALDEN: What use do I have for others? A distraction? A diversion? (trails off mumbling)

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46 PROUDHON: (cuts in over his mumbling) Isolation will kill you WALDEN: We are all isolated. Inaccessible conscience. Forced to make sense of a world we can’t say exists PROUDHON: Do we not speak, share… feel together WALDEN: Impressions and ideas. who is to say? I’m looking, trying to find – (pause) The gap between the object and perception (pause) Inner sense and being (pause) Where do I sit?

(Walden seems to become lost in his thoughts, he begins to study the structure closely) WALDEN: Impressions and Ideas. Impressions and ideas (quieter) Just a reflection

PROUDHON: (she reaches in towards him through the structure) WALDEN: (he grabs her hand and tries to pull her in) Stay. I can’t – (pause) I can’t – (pause) I can’t – PROUDHON: (pulls her arm back) WALDEN: (gets angry, thrashing against the structure)

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The character is sitting inside his structure. He seems to be in an altered state. We hear a voice, he opens his eyes.

A person is seen slowly approaching the outgroth. Due to the darkness and the bokeh the face is hardly recognizable. The dispute begins.

Close-up of Waldens mouth behind the outgrowth. Walden is talking about the collectivist as “revolutionaries”. He is despising their attitude and shows it by the way he is speaking.

“A short trip to denial and back is all you and your “revolutionaries” would achieve.”

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Proudhon reveals her personal intentions. She cracks open a hole into the structure in order to see Waldens face.

Walden reacts to her tearing a hole in his structure. He is connected to it and therefore feels it. *cracking noises*

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We see the robot producing.

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In contrast to the last scene the outgrowth grows from his hand. The producing as a physical and the growing as an emotional situation create a heterotopic space, in which the outgroth comes from the robot, but is an emotional extension of Walden.

Walden takes Proudhons hand and guides/forces her to touch his outgrowth. She resists, but gives in eventually.

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Walden pulls Proudhon closer. But she realizes his selfish intentions and pulls back.

“Join my world. Our world”

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Walden suddenly becomes really angry, he loses control over his emotions and acts madly.

Walden breaks a chunk of the outgrowth. His solitude has rendered him mentally ill.

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SCENARIO V. 3.2: STORYBOARD REVISION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO WITH FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT, DIALOGUE, AND STORYBOARD.

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BARRICADE LED BY FRANÇOIS ROCHE, BENOÎT DURANDIN, GWYLLIM JAHN

WITH STUDENTS:

DANIEL ANDERSON MATTHEW BEANLAND CHRISTOPHER HOW VONG LEUNG CHEUN JULIEN DIO SARITA MISTRY JONAS PEDROTTI ROHINI SADDUL JASMINE SIM HOI FUNG TAM CHEN ANN TAN REGINE TJAN BEN VERZIJL HANNAH ZHU

SEMESTER 2, AY 2017

SCENARIO V. 4.1: FILM SCRIPT EXTENSION OF SCENARIO V. 3.1. THIS FINAL VERSION OF THE SCENARIO STILL DEALT WITH INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS COLLECTIVISM, STILL LARGELY REFERENCING THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS. IT ALSO DISCUSSES CAPITALISM AND ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND A MAN WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION; HE BUILDS A BIOSTRUCTURE AND HIS LOVER WHO IS PART OF A COLLECTIVE SEEKS HIM OUT TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

Page 2 of 10 SYNOPSIS In the newly established urban centre of Medini, a man (WALDEN) finds himself in deep discontent; he is convinced that the people of Medini are trapped in the perpetuation of capitalistic social organisation and consumption, believing that the current system will not ever be able to give him the complete freedom he desires. WALDEN rebels against it by completely disengaging and going deep into himself. This self-exploration turns him into a severe megalomaniac and extreme individualist.

Delirious from isolation, he begins to converse with an ex-lover (PROUDHON) who has come to see him on behalf of an anarchist group. The group sees the potential of his robot for the democratic production of space - a new form of futuristic urbanism. PROUDHON knows, however, that WALDEN will never give up his robot and has come to discover the power of the tool for herself. This technology creates a rift between them and she’s left wondering whether the man she loved still exists within its black convoluted depths.

CHARACTERS ·

WALDEN

WALDEN was a resident of Medini. He has grown tired of the constant cycle of living and working and seeks an alternative lifestyle. He wants the freedom of being able to do as he desires under a regime that satisfies his own personal ideals of how society should operate.

He believes that the only way for him to be happy and continue existing is to live by himself, governing himself, and surrounding himself with himself.

He creates the robot to satisfy this last requisite and the robot validates his beliefs by producing extrusions and outgrowths based on his thoughts and emotions.

He is a person who deconstructs everything he sees, criticises the collectivists for just being a fragment of the whole. Yet his main objective is to become a whole (a kind of Ubermensch, but he is doing it in a way where he deconstructs everything; de-emotionalises everything; and ends up being unable to see the whole for his obsession with the parts. He gets lost in his own world, convinced no one fully understands him or his created world, he is a highly narcissistic person. ·

PROUDHON

PROUDHON is WALDEN’s ex-lover who is part of an anarchist group. She and her community want to use WALDEN’s robot and the technology he has created to speculate on a new way of living. Describe this new type of urbanism? She is also personally invested in salvaging the remnants of their relationship, hoping she’s not too late to convince WALDEN of the pitfalls of his extreme individualism. She agrees to mediate between WALDEN and her community, determined to succeed at convincing him but knowing she’ll probably fail.

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50 Page 3 of 10 SCENE 1 – Meeting between WALDEN and PROUDHON EXT. WALDEN’S OUTGROWTH STRUCTURE

CHOIR Look at her, look at him, both of them believe that they are free, but freedom is not something you possess, it's something that you should always jeopardize (or that you should always seek for) PROUDHON: (somewhat hesitant to see WALDEN, enters in the background of the scene) WALDEN: (sweet and sarcastic) Ah - cikara (normal speaking tone) Here to convince me in this last chance temptation of hypocrisies. *dismissive* PROUDHON: (irritated by his remark, she slowly approaches the structure, raising her eyes) Hypocrisies? You cry kebebasan while glued the floor. *points out that he is the hypocrite* (short pause) They think this tenaciousness would be useful to our movement. *she dislikes his stubbornness, sarcastic* WALDEN: I won’t be concerned with the opinions of self-complaisant anarcho guinea piss *jaded but his emotional involvement slips out when he talks about the anarchists* PROUDHON: Through my “sacrifice” or your selfexclusion, we still seek a common goal.

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CHOIR: They used to work together at the construction of a barricade in the very heart of the city, a territory opens to the social, political, aesthetic, fluctuant desires of its inhabitants.

PROUDHON: (While the choir speaks we see her approach the structure and sit down opposite Walden. Him inside and her outside) WALDEN: Ah

(cynical laughter) You’re the same. *sweet, the same as you were before* But still. You’re the same. (slower) *sweet tone drops away* (the same as “them”, even you can’t understand me) CHOIR: and I am another

SCENE 2 – Dispute EXT./INT. WALDEN’S OUTGROWTH STRUCTURE

WALDEN: Using this strategy, you as a trojan horse.

Never imagined they would succeed. *disappointed, he expected better from her* PROUDHON: I’ve watched you build this cage since before it took a physical form.

I know why you’ve come here. *concerned, speaks softly, shows personal involvement* WALDEN: Yes, for my own autonomy. *euphoric* Something you can’t achieve with your insistence on inclusion.

52 Page 5 of 10 PROUDHON: Hanya melarikan diri (she spits the word at him in ridicule) You’re just rationalizing theft and neglect.

WALDEN: Better than surrendering your will until you’re nothing but a mindless shell.

PROUDHON: Is that what I am? Just some fragment of (Walden cuts in) the hive. *gets mad at Walden, doesn’t let herself get reduced* WALDEN: The ant knows only his work and his neighbours. What concept does he have of the colony? *breaks rhythm of the conversation, speaks slower, almost as if he was praying, he is fed up* PROUDHON: He has a concept of responsibility, of respect, and mutual benefit. *she speaks euphoric, with pride, this is what she believes in* You are just a penakut, refusing to bend and refusing to fight. *blames him for leaving them, leaving her* WALDEN: Fight for what? Freedom? Liberation? *outburst of anger* A short trip to denial and back is all your efforts would achieve. (pause) They would claim a revolution while the seeds are planted for the next regime (The sound is muted by the choir) *gets emotional, gets angry, but backs off as soon as he realizes that he lost his temper* SCENE 3 – Intimacy EXT./INT. WALDEN’S OUTGROWTH STRUCTURE

53 Page 6 of 10 CHOIR: They are irreconcilable, Proudhon believes that the common interest prevails above all kind of inputs when Walden believes that if he cannot be himself in this system and make his own mistakes then he is no better than others.

PROUDHON: (creates a hole in the outgrowth to see WALDEN clearer) You’ve been in the barricade. You know it’s different. *the tone becomes calmer and softer, she tries to calm him down, she is nostalgic* WALDEN: At first, but it would be ignorant to believe it’s not temporary. *protective and soft, he doesn’t want to hurt her* PROUDHON: And this is the alternative? Look at what you’re doing to yourself (touches his hand gently) (short pause) Imagine how much others can benefit from what you can do. Your vision would remain untouched, just proliferate in space. *hopeful, is not blaming him* WALDEN: Your compassion will only lead to corruption. Imagine the liberation you would find if you’d just abandon it. *softly, also hopeful that she will agree* CHOIR: They fear to lose what they had achieved, it makes them believe that the future has never happened.

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WALDEN: (Walden closes his eyes. His voice becomes calm, like he is in a state of zen. He reaches out and grasps her hand, which is still resting on the structure) It’s just me here. My inner sense, my apperception. The things that can’t be reached when you’re constantly looking outwards.

PROUDHON: You find instead? *curous*

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WALDEN: Yes, the structure… my metabolism… it tells me everything *slightly surprised, as if he didn’t realise where he was, what he was surrounded by* (Walden moves Proudhon’s hand over the structure, as if showing her its hidden meaning) WALDEN: I alone define it. Then it defines me. Until we are the same. (short pause) Do you understand? (it seems unclear whether Walden is asking Proudhon, or if he is speaking to no one or himself) *he really wants her to understand his situation, but shows unintentionally his selfishness and delusion* PROUDHON: I think I understand. (quietly, almost a whisper)

55 Page 8 of 10 WALDEN: They would just give a man his freedom and stifle him with equality.

(He still looks as if he is lost in his own world, he is convinced that Proudhon understands and agrees with him) CHOIR: (singing Beasts of England) Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the Golden future time.... (and then the choir whistle the tune) SCENE 4 – Separation EXT./INT. WALDEN’S OUTGROWTH STRUCTURE

PROUDHON: My faith in others is not as shattered as yours. *realizes that he is a broken human being, feels pity for him* WALDEN: I’ve never had a reason to trust others. *reveals his weakness of being unable to socialize, he wants her to know* PROUDHON: You trust me.

WALDEN: (softens his gaze, lets emotions slip) I could only be myself with you. No one else would allow me complete control

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CHOIR: Nobody knows, even Walden, if the structure is an extension of his body or if his body became a part of the barricade. Let's see.

PROUDHON: There’s no place for me here. (quietly, to herself) (pulls her hand away) You’ve pushed everything away, even yourself, in favour of this perverted objectification. And now you need it to feel anything at all. (looks at him square in the eye) WALDEN: I – I – I don’t need, I don’t need (starts becoming restless, blinks fast, eyelids fluttering) You! need! me! (laughs) Look where I am! The only thing I need is… is… (looks painfully at the structure again) *confused, angry* (covers his face, rocking back and forth, starts laughing out of madness. choir continues in the background) CHOIR: (louder now, more defined) Obviously they are in a trap, but they will find unexpected lines of escapes.

It's a game, game of life and flesh, reactive to sensible and fragile structures, made of pheromonal complex mixes. You can smell the city's pulse, its inner contradictions, it's oscillations between different states.

It's never close, never completely

57 Page 10 of 10 certain. Obviously they are in a trap, but they will find unexpected lines of escapes. It's a game, game of life and flesh, reactive to sensible and fragile structures, made of pheromonal complex mixes.

You can smell the city's pulse, its inner contradictions, it's oscillations between different states. It's never close, never completely certain.

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1 All black, we hear the choir.

CHOIR Look at her, look at him, both of them believe that they are free,

2.1 Detail of outgrowth coming frome the hand. Should not be too obvious.

CHOIR but freedom is not something you possess

2.3 The camera moves outside the structure and we get glimpses of Walden sitting. POV of Proudhon.

CHOIR it’s something that you should always jeopardize.

3 We see someone moving behind the structure. We don’t recognize anyone. She is out of focus.

SCENARIO V. 4.1: STORYBOARD EXTENSION OF SCENARIO V. 3.1. THIS FINAL VERSION OF THE SCENARIO STILL DEALT WITH INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS COLLECTIVISM, STILL LARGELY REFERENCING THOREAU AND PROUDHON’S SEMINAL TEXTS. IT ALSO DISCUSSES CAPITALISM AND ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE PLOT REVOLVED AROUND A MAN WHO SOUGHT FREEDOM IN ISOLATION; HE BUILDS A BIOSTRUCTURE AND HIS LOVER WHO IS PART OF A COLLECTIVE SEEKS HIM OUT TO CONVINCE HIM TO JOIN THEM.

WALDEN

Ah - cikara Here to convince me in this last chance temptation of hypocrisies.

4 Detail of Waldens lower face behind some strands of the structure.

PROUDHON Hypocrisies? You cry kebebasan while glued the floor. (short pause) They think this tenaciousness would be useful to our movement.

5 A shot through the hole shows Proudhons face, getting closer.

WALDEN I won’t concern myself with the opinions of self-complaisant anarcho guinea piss

6 Detail of Walden’s lower face behind some strands of the structure.

PROUDHON Through my “sacrifice” or your self-exclusion, we still seek a common goal.

7 Detail of Proudhond’s face through the structure.

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CHOIR They used to work together at the construction of a barricade in the very heart of the city, a territory opens to the social, political, aesthetic, fluctuant desires of its inhabitants.

8.

Proudhon gets closer to the hole/camera.

Ah. You’re the same. (pause) But still (pause) the same.

WALDEN

9 Detail of Walden’s face behind some strands of the structure. He turns around to look at her.

WALDEN Using this strategy, with you as a trojan horse. Never imagine they could succeed.

10 Detail of Walden’s face shot within the structure.

PROUDHON I’ve watched you build this cage since before it took a physical form.

I know why you’ve come here.

11 Shot of Proudhon over her shoulder, she is laying her hand gently on the structure.

WALDEN

Yes, for my own autonomy.

Something you can’t achieve with your insistence on inclusion.

12 Detail of Walden’s face behind some strands of the structure.

PROUDHON Hanya melarikan diri (she spits the word at him in ridicule) You’re just rationalizing theft and neglect.

13 Detail of Proudhond’s face through the structure.

WALDEN Better than surrendering your will until you’re nothing but a mindless shell.

14 Detail of Walden’s face shot through the hole.

PROUDHON Is that what I am? Just some fragment of (Walden cuts in) the hive.

15 Detail of Proudhon’s face shot through the hole.

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WALDEN The ant knows only his work and his neighbours. What concept does he have of the colony?

16 Detail of Walden’s face shot within the structure.

PROUDHON He has a concept of responsibility, of respect, and mutual benefit. (pause)

You are just a penakut, refusing to bend and refusing to fight.

17 Detail of Proudhond’s face through the structure.

WALDEN Fight for what? Freedom? Liberation?

A short trip to denial and back is all your efforts would achieve. (pause) They would claim a revolution while the seeds are planted for the next regime.

18 Detail of Walden’s face shot through the hole.

CHOIR They are irreconcilable, Proudhon believes that the common interest prevails above all kind of inputs when Walden believes that if he cannot be himself in this system and make his own mistakes then he is no better than others.

19 Proudhon opens the hole more widely to see his face properly.

PROUDHON You’ve been in the barricade. You know it’s different.

20 Detail of Proudhond’s face through the structure.

WALDEN At first, but it would be ignorant to believe it’s not temporary.

21 Detail of Walden’s face through the structure.

PROUDHON And this is the alternative? Look at what you’re doing to yourself

22.1 Shot over Proudhons shoulder. She touches his hand in the hole gently.

PROUDHON Imagine how much others can benefit from what you can do. Your vision would remain untouched, just proliferate in space.

22.2 Detail of Proudhond’s face through the hole.

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WALDEN Imagine how much others can benefit from what you can do. Your vision would remain untouched, just proliferate in space.

23 Shot over Waldens shoulder.

CHOIR They fear to lose what they had achieved, it makes them believe that the future has never happened.

25 Walden looks at his other hand. We see the starting process of necrosis.

WALDEN It’s just me here. My inner sense, my apperception. The things that can’t be reached when you’re constantly looking outwards.

26 Walden looks at his hand while speaking.

PROUDHON You find it in this structure instead.

27 Detail of Proudhond’s face through the hole.

WALDEN Yes, the structure… my metabolism… it tells me everything

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28 Walden moves Proudhon’s hand over to the structure.

WALDEN I alone define it. Then it defines me. Until we are the same. (pause) Do you understand?

29 Walden looks again at his other hand. Seems to speak to himself. something

PROUDHON

30 Shot through the hole. She shakes her hand lightly while speaking.

WALDEN They would just give a man his freedom and stifle him with equality.

31 Waldens face shot through the hole.

CHOIR (singing Beasts of England) Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the Golden future time.... (and then the choir whistle the tune)

32 Walden moves Proudhon’s hand over to the structure.

PROUDHON My faith in others is not as shattered as yours.

33 Shot through the hole.

WALDEN I’ve never had a reason to trust others.

34 Shot through the hole.

You trust me.

35 Shot through the hole.

PROUDHON

WALDEN I could only be myself with you. No one else would allow me complete control.

37 Shot through the hole.

CHOIR Nobody knows, even Walden, if the structure is an extension of his body or if his body became a part of the barricade. Let’s see.

38

PROUDHON There’s no place for me here.

You’ve pushed everything away, even yourself, in favour of this perverted objectification. And now you need it to feel anything at all.

39 Shot over Proudhon’s shoulder. She pulls her hand away.

Monologue.

40 Shot of Walden from outside of the structure.

WALDEN

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CHOIR Obviously they are in a trap, but they will find unexpected lines of escapes. It’s a game, game of life and flesh, reactive to sensible and fragile structures, made of pheromonal complex mixes. You can smell the city’s pulse, its inner contradictions, it’s oscillations between different states. It’s never close, never completely certain. (x2)

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Page​ ​1​ ​of​ ​9 THE​ ​CHORIZO​ ​SYNDROME

BARRICADE LED​ ​BY​ ​FRANÇOIS​ ​ROCHE,​ ​BENOÎT​ ​DURANDIN,​ ​GWYLLIM​ ​JAHN

WITH​ ​STUDENTS:

DANIEL​ ​ANDERSON MATTHEW​ ​BEANLAND CHRISTOPHER​ ​HOW​ ​VONG​ ​LEUNG​ ​CHEUN JULIEN​ ​DIO SARITA​ ​MISTRY JONAS​ ​PEDROTTI ROHINI​ ​SADDUL JASMINE​ ​SIM HOI​ ​FUNG​ ​TAM CHEN​ ​ANN​ ​TAN REGINE​ ​TJAN BEN​ ​VERZIJL HANNAH​ ​ZHU WHITNEY​ ​YEOW​ ​CHONG

SEMESTER​ ​2,​ ​AY​ ​2017

SCENARIO V. 4.2: FILM SCRIPT FINALISATION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO.

71 Page​ ​2​ ​of​ ​9 SYNOPSIS In the newly established urban centre of Medini, a man (WALDEN) finds himself in deep discontent; he is convinced that the people of Medini are trapped in the perpetuation of capitalistic social organisation and consumption, believing that the current system will not ever be able to give him the complete freedom he desires. WALDEN rebels against it by completely disengaging and going deep into himself. This self-exploration turns him into a​ ​severe​ ​megalomaniac​ ​and​ ​extreme​ ​individualist.

Delirious from isolation, he begins to converse with an ex-lover (PROUDHON) who has come to see him on behalf of an anarchist group. The group sees the potential of his robot for the democratic production of space - a new form of futuristic urbanism. PROUDHON knows, however, that WALDEN will never give up his robot and has come to discover the power of the tool for herself. This technology creates a rift between them and she’s left wondering whether the man​ ​she​ ​loved​ ​still​ ​exists​ ​within​ ​its​ ​black​ ​convoluted​ ​depths.

CHARACTERS ·​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ W ​ ALDEN WALDEN was a resident of Medini. He has grown tired of the constant cycle of living and working and seeks an alternative lifestyle. He wants the freedom of being able to do as he desires under a regime that satisfies his own personal ideals of how society should operate. He believes that the only way for him to be happy and continue existing is to live by himself, governing himself, and surrounding himself with himself.

He creates the robot to satisfy this last requisite and the robot validates his beliefs by producing extrusions and outgrowths based on his​ ​thoughts​ ​and​ ​emotions.

He is a person who deconstructs everything he sees, criticises the collectivists for just being a fragment of the whole. Yet his main objective is to become a whole (a kind of Ubermensch, but he is doing it in a way where he deconstructs everything; de-emotionalises everything; and ends up being unable to see the whole for his obsession with the parts. He gets lost in his own world, convinced no one fully understands him or his created world, he is a highly narcissistic person. ·​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ P ​ ROUDHON PROUDHON is WALDEN’s ex-lover who is part of an anarchist group. She and her community want to use WALDEN’s robot and the technology he has created to speculate on a new way of living. ​Describe this new type of urbanism? She is also personally invested in salvaging the remnants of their relationship, hoping she’s not too late to convince WALDEN of the pitfalls of his extreme individualism. She agrees to mediate between WALDEN and her community, determined to succeed at convincing him but knowing​ ​she’ll​ ​probably​ ​fail.

SCENE​ ​1​ ​–​ ​Meeting​ ​between​ ​WALDEN​ ​and​ ​PROUDHON

72 Page​ ​3​ ​of​ ​9 CAMERA: Close up of WALDEN with the camera focussed on him. Everything in frame is shown at chest height and above with the background visible but out​ ​of​ ​focus.​ ​WALDEN​ ​is​ ​positioned​ ​to​ ​the​ ​leftmost​ ​part​ ​of​ ​the​ ​frame.

WALDEN is seen sitting on the ground with his forearms resting on his knees.

He has been forced into this position by the blackened heavy growths fruiting out of his hands and feet. They are heavy, and have caused him to be practically​ ​immobile.

He is in his outgrowth-structure, shut out from the rest of the world in self-imposed isolation. ​We are seeing him at the end of his self-exploration, a​ ​converted​ ​megalomaniac​ ​and​ ​severe​ ​individualist.

EXT.​ ​WALDEN’S​ ​OUTGROWTH​ ​STRUCTURE CHOIR Look at her, look at him, both of them believe that they are... ​free​, but it’s not something you possess, it's something that you should always jeopardize (Proudhon somewhat hesitant to see WALDEN, enters in the background of​ ​the​ ​scene) WALDEN: Ah​ ​-​ ​cikara..​ ​Where​ ​are​ ​you?

Here to convince me in this chance​ ​temptation​ ​of​ ​hypocrisies? *surprised, tries to control emotions*

last his

PROUDHON: (she​ ​wanders​ ​around​ ​him) Hypocrisies, hypocrisies, hypocrisies You cry kebebasan while glued to the floor. *playful,​ ​sarcastic* I chose to come here at nightfall to talk secretly before the official meeting. *disappointed,​ ​frustrated* WALDEN: I’m no longer concerned with opinions of​ ​your​ ​anarcho​ ​factory. *doesn’t want to talk about this bad memory​ ​to​ ​save​ ​their​ ​relationship*

73 Page​ ​4​ ​of​ ​9 PROUDHON: Through my altruism or your self-exclusion, we still seek a common goal. *shows​ ​her​ ​generosity,​ ​her​ ​empathy* CHOIR: They used to work together at the construction of a barikat in the very heart of the city, a territory opens to the social, political, aesthetic and fluctuant desires of its inhabitants.

(The camera swings from her hand down and​ ​we​ ​see​ ​Walden​ ​through​ ​the​ ​hole) WALDEN​: Ah You​ ​seem​ ​so…​ ​so…​ ​you *reminiscent,​ ​in​ ​love* (pause) but​ ​frozen,​ ​stone​ ​in​ ​their​ ​illusion... *gets defensive, the last sentiment was​ ​too​ ​far​ ​fetched* CHOIR: ...we​ ​are​ ​not​ ​concerned...

SCENE​ ​2​ ​–​ ​Dispute CAMERA: Everything in frame shown at chest height and above, camera positioned behind WALDEN’s shoulder looking through towards PROUDHON. When WALDEN speaks, we see PROUDHON through his point of view through the outgrowths, and when PROUDHON speaks we see WALDEN from her point of view through the outgrowths. They continue from the last positions of the previous​ ​scene.

Having done away with niceties, WALDEN and PROUDHON engage in a snipy discourse of their respective politics. They try to convince each other of their own views, peppering each statement with underhanded remarks that imply the history of a failed relationship. The conversation reminds them of their past,​ ​and​ ​emotions​ ​soon​ ​begin​ ​to​ ​seep​ ​into​ ​their​ ​exchanges.

EXT./INT.​ ​WALDEN’S​ ​OUTGROWTH​ ​STRUCTURE

74 Page​ ​5​ ​of​ ​9 PROUDHON: I’ve watched your disease growing... day after day... entropic physiology… trapping you… I know… why don’t you remember? *concerned,​ ​proof​ ​of​ ​affection* WALDEN: mh.. I remember the need to reclaim my autonomy,​ ​my​ ​self-dependence.

Not something I could achieve with your​ ​insistence​ ​on​ ​inclusion. *remembers his suffering, escape from it* PROUDHON: Hanya​ ​melarikan​ ​diri (she spits the word at him in ridicule) You’re just rationalizing theft and neglect. *critical​ ​on​ ​his​ ​egoism* WALDEN: Better than obedient surrender... your conviction​ ​dissolving​ ​in​ ​complaisancy *arrogant​ ​and​ ​proud​ ​of​ ​it* PROUDHON: My conviction symbiotic *idealistic*

is to and

the whole now… collective...

WALDEN: The ant knows only his work and his neighbours. What concept does it have of​ ​the​ ​colony? *asks for explanation, opens the dialogue*

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PROUDHON: Co-relation, co-dependances, self organisation, self determination ...bottom up rhizomes.. the makings of a​ ​republic​ ​of​ ​the​ ​commoners, *honest, reveals her truth, her pathos* (pause) without the delegation of power opposite of your civil disobedience...

And now you enter a state of contemplation, “reverie solitaire”, self​ ​satisfied​ ​romanticism *pulls​ ​back,​ ​critical* You​ ​used​ ​to​ ​be​ ​a​ ​maverick,​ ​a​ ​badass.. *nostalgic,​ ​she​ ​admired​ ​him* now look at the morbid maggot you became,​ ​dead​ ​alive... *extremely​ ​disappointed,​ ​pitiful* WALDEN: Unintentional consequences of naive utopia appear to have triggered the worst of society...the path to hell is paved with good intentions...nothing to abolish our miserable desire for voluntary​ ​servitude… *from​ ​philosopher..* (pause) Anthropocentric supremacy ignores the rights of the earth… claiming revolution is a vanity for the next regime… and your “comrades” seems to face now the inborn failures... its rotten​ ​DNA... *..to​ ​master,​ ​abuse​ ​of​ ​power*

SCENE​ ​3​ ​–​ ​Intimacy CAMERA: Everything in frame shown at chest height and above, camera looking over PROUDHON’s shoulder through towards WALDEN. They continue from the last​ ​positions​ ​of​ ​the​ ​previous​ ​scene.

CHOIR:

76 Page​ ​7​ ​of​ ​9 They are irreconcilable, She believes that the common interest prevails above all kind of inputs when He believes that his singularity, integrity and even anomaly cannot be maintained​ ​in​ ​the​ ​system.

PROUDHON: (creates a hole gently in the outgrowth​ ​to​ ​see​ ​WALDEN​ ​clearer) Cannibalising​ ​your​ ​own​ ​flesh In​ ​this​ ​Sadhu​ ​position What potential does this self-serving necrosis​ ​have​ ​in​ ​isolation? *disgusted,​ ​disqualifying* WALDEN: Embrace the temporary nature of your community… claim what euphoric delusions you can muster - and leave it​ ​alone. *indifferent​ ​on​ ​his​ ​own​ ​resignation* PROUDHON: Imagine its proliferation… open your selfish barricade to co-dependence… accept​ ​its​ ​evolution​ ​to​ ​the​ ​multitude *conditional, complaining, because it will​ ​never​ ​happen* WALDEN: I surrender my compassion, it’s time for​ ​you​ ​to​ ​face​ ​its​ ​absence *accepts​ ​that​ ​there​ ​is​ ​no​ ​future* CHOIR: They fear to lose what they had achieved, it makes them believe that the​ ​future​ ​has​ ​never​ ​happened.

77 Page​ ​8​ ​of​ ​9 WALDEN: Ia hanya saya, it’s just me here. My inner sense, my apperception. The things that can’t be reached when you’re​ ​constantly​ ​looking​ ​outwards. *accepts​ ​his​ ​nature,​ ​peaceful* PROUDHON: In​ ​this​ t ​ umour? *gently​ ​ironic* WALDEN: Ye​ ​(pause)​ ​it’s​ ​my​ ​metabolism.

I​ ​alone​ ​define​ ​it Then​ ​it​ ​defines​ ​me Until​ ​we​ ​are​ ​the​ ​same *acceptance​ ​defeat​ ​of​ ​human​ ​being* PROUDHON: Ah… Autopoiesis becomes symbiosis. like​ ​the​ ​barricade. (quietly​ ​to​ ​herself)

Just

*understanding, transforming, enjoys th sublimation, the intoxication, erotic* WALDEN: Hmm… Climax​ ​of​ ​memories…​ ​protest…​ ​risk… illusions…​ ​danger…​ ​sex…​ ​ecstatic… *feels​ ​again​ ​his​ ​existence* It​ ​has​ ​been. (smile,​ ​laughter) *hopeless,​ ​delusion*

CHOIR:

78 Page​ ​9​ ​of​ ​9 (singing​ ​Beasts​ ​of​ ​England) Beasts​ ​of​ ​England,​ ​Beasts​ ​of​ ​Ireland, Beasts​ ​of​ ​every​ ​land​ ​and​ ​clime, Hearken​ ​to​ ​my​ ​joyful​ ​tidings Of​ ​the​ ​Golden​ ​future​ ​time.... (and​ ​then​ ​the​ ​choir​ ​whistle​ ​the​ ​tune) SCENE​ ​4​ ​–​ ​Separation CAMERA: Everything in frame shown at chest height and above, camera looking over PROUDHON’s shoulder through towards WALDEN. They continue from the last​ ​positions​ ​of​ ​the​ ​previous​ ​scene.

WALDEN's emotions betray his mental state and PROUDHON realises the extent of his insanity. She begins to fear for his and her own safety; she wants to fulfil her mission but accepts the fact that she will not leave here with him or​ ​his​ ​robot.​ ​CHANGE​ ​DESCRIPTION

(Walden and Proudhon look and each other, but they are speechless. Shot reverse​ ​shot.​ ​We​ ​hear​ ​their​ ​breathing) CHOIR: Obviously they are in a trap, but they will find unexpected lines of escapes.

It's a game, a game of life and flesh, reactive to sensible and fragile structures, made of psycho-pheromonal complex mixes. You can smell the city's pulse, its inner contradictions, between the democratisation of the state and the construction of social counter power... those political oscillations are now freezing in the trap their initial utopian gangues of capitalism’s antidote .... becoming its predictable​ ​symmetry…​ ​…

The both, symptoms of political genres and​ ​strategies,​ ​are​ ​now​ ​speechless...

They ignored the Fictional keys, knotting_unknotting realities and subjectivities,​ ​in​ ​real​ ​time...was​ ​the only​ ​way​ ​to​ ​escape...

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CHOIR: Look at her, look at him, both of them believe that they are... free, but it’s not something you possess, it’s something that you should always jeopardise

WALDEN:

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CLOSE UP OF PROUDHON TOUCHING WALDEN’S HAND OUTGROWTH

Ah cikara Here to convince me in this last chance temptation of hypocrisies

PROUDHON: Hypocrisies? You cry kebebasan while glued to the floor. I chose to come here at nightfall to talk secretly before the next meeting

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CAMERA MOVES DOWN FROM THE HANDS TO SHOW PART OF THE STRUCTURE WALDEN: I’m no longer concerned with opinions of your anarcho factory

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CAMERA CONTINUES TO MOVE DOWN AND WALDEN’S FACE INSIDE THE STRUCTURE

SCENARIO V. 4.2: STORYBOARD FINALISATION OF THE PREVIOUS SCENARIO.

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PROUDHON: Through my altruism or your self-exclusion, we still seek a common goal

CHOIR:

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P2 | SHOT FROM INSIDE THE STRUCTURE, LOOKING OVER WALDEN’S SHOULDER

They used to work together at the construction of a barikat in the very heart of the city, a territory opens to the social, political, aesthetic, fluctuant desireds of its inhabitants

PROUDHON: (While the CHOIR speaks we see her approach the structure and sit down opposie WALDEN, him inside and her outside)

WALDEN: Ah

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ah you seem so - so - you but frozen, stone in their illusion

P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

You seem so - so - you But frozen, stone in their illusion

CHOIR: We are not concerned

PROUDHON: I’ve watched your disease growing

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I’ve watched your disease growing day after day entropic physiology - trapping you I know - why don’t you remember?

P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT) hmmm... I remember the need to reclaim my autonomy, my self-dependence not something I could achieve with your instence on inclusion

Day after day Entropic physiology - trapping you I know - why don’t you remember?

WALDEN: Hmmm... I remember the need to reclaim my autonomy, my self-dependence Not something I could achieve with your insistence on inclusion

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hanya melarikan diri you’re just rationalising theft and neglect

P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

PROUDHON: Hanya melarikan diri You’re just rationalising theft and neglect

WALDEN:

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Better than obedient surrender Your conviction dissolving in complacency

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P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT) PROUDHON: My conviction is to the whole now The symbiotic collective

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P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT) WALDEN: Just so The ant knows only his work and his neighbours.

What concept does he have of the colony?

PROUDHON: Co-relation, co-dependences, self-organisation, self-determination - bottom-up rhizomes - the makins of a republic of the commoners

10 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

PROUDHON (continuation of previous line): Without the delegation of power opposite of your civil disobedience And now you enter a state of contemplation, “reverie solitaire”, self-satisfied romanticism You used to be a maverick, a bad-ass Now look at the morbid maggot you became, dead alive

11 P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

WALDEN: Unintentional consequence of naive utopia appear to have triggered the worst of society The path to hell is paved with good intentions Nothing to abolish our miserable desire for voluntary servitude Anthropocentric supremacy ignores the rights of the earth

12 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

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P1 | FOCUS ON WALDEN EATING PART OF HIS STRUCTURE

Claiming revolution is a vanity for the next regime WALDEN (continuation of previous line): Claiming revolution is a vanity for the next regime And your “comrades” seems to face now the inborn failures

13 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POSTPRODUCTION EDIT)

Its rotten DNA *eating* rotten DNA

CHOIR: They are irreconcilable, She believes that the common interest prevails above all kind of inputs when He believes that his singularity, integrity and even anomaly cannot be maintained in the system PROUDHON:

15 P2 | SHOT FROM INSIDE THE STRUCTURE, LOOKING

Cannibalising your own flesh - in this Sadhu position - what potential does this self-serving necrosis have in isolation?

OVER WALDEN’S SHOULDER, WITH PROUDHON CLOSER TO WALDEN THAN IN SCENE 4

embrace the temporary nature of your community claim what euphoric delusions you can muster and leave it alone

WALDEN: Embrace the temporary nature of your community Claim what euphoric delusions you can muster And leave it alone PROUDHON:

imagine its proliferation open your selfish barricade to codependence accept its evolution to the multitude

16 P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN

Imagine its proliferation Open your selfish barricade to co-dependence

FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON Accept its evolution to the multitude WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT), BOTH CLOSER THAN IN SCENE 4 (SHOW MORE MOVEMENT OF LIPS)

this erosion of my own control to the bloodied hands of future usurpers I surrender my compassion, it’s time for you to face its absence

Ia hanya saya, it’s just me here. my inner sense, my apperception. The things that can’t be reached when you’re constantly looking outwards

17 P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN

WALDEN: This erosion of my own control to the bloodied hands of future usurpers I surrender my compassion, it’s time for you to face its absence CHOIR: They fear to lose what they had achieved, it makes them believe that the future has never happened

WALDEN (continuation of previous line): FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT), BOTH CLOSER THAN IN SCENE 4 (SHOW MORE MOVEMENT Ia hanya saya, it’s just me here. my inner sense, my apperception. The things that can’t be OF LIPS) reached when you’re constantly looking outwards PROUDHON: In this tumour?

18 P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

WALDEN: Ye, it’s my metabolism I alone define it Then it defines me Until we are the same

19 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

PROUDHON:

21 P1 | START ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON’S LIPS AS SHE SAYS “AH AUTOPOIESIS” (LIPS EVENTUALLY FILL ENTIRE FRAME)

20 P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POSTPRODUCTION EDIT)

ah autopoiesis

Ah Autopoiesis becomes symbiosis Just like the barricade (lips fill entire frame)

WALDEN:

23 P1 | START ZOOM-

ING INTO WALDEN’S LIPS AS SHE SAYS “CLIMAX OF” (LIPS EVENTUALLY FILL ENTIRE FRAME)

22 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POSTPRODUCTION EDIT)

Hmmm...

Climax of memories Protest - risk - illusions - danger - sex

Ecstatic, it has been (lips fill entire frame) climax of memories

CHOIR: (singing Beasts of England) Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time (choir continues the tune, whistling)

24 FADE OUT TO WHITE WALDEN AND PROUDHON: (breathing heavily, as if exhasuted)

25 FADE IN FROM WHITE, BOTH CHARACTERS BREATHING HEAVILY AS IF EXHAUSTED, CONTINUOUS SHOT FOR 15 - 30 SECONDS

CHOIR (over WALDEN and PROUDHON’s breathing): Obviously they are in a trap, but they will find unexpected lines of excapes. It’s a game, a game of life and flesh, reactive to sensible and fragile structures, made of psycho-pheromonal complex mixes. You can smell the city’s pulse, its inner contradictions, between the democratisation of the state and the construction of social counter power Those political oscillations are now freezing in the trap their initial utopian gangues of capitalism’s antidote Becoming its predictable symmetry - the both, symptoms of political genres and strategies are now speechless

26 BOTH CHARACTERS CONTINUE TO BREATHE HEAVILY AS IF EXHAUSTED

They ignored the fictional keys, knotting, unknotting realities and subjectivities, in real time Was the only way to escape

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SCENE 2 – DISPUTE

Having done away with niceties, WALDEN and PROUDHON engage in a snipy discourse of their respective politics. They try to convince each other of their own views, peppering each statement with underhanded remarks that imply the history of a failed relationship. The conversation reminds them of their past, and emotions soon begin to seep into their exchanges.

EXT./INT. WALDEN’S OUTGROWTH STRUCTURE

SYNOPSIS

A dispute between the incarnations of Henry David Thoreau and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, one facing his political isolation to re-discover a ‘monist’ relationship, the other promoting the success of a bottom up urban social contract in which they have both participated in the past, sharing their protest, illusions and utopian ideals on the barricade.

The Thoreau avatar has developed a tree disease, which he uses to protect and feed him... as shelter and cannibalism in a monstrous physiological proliferation of branches.

The Proudhon avatar affectively and vainly tries to convince him to return to the city they created a few years ago. A city of a social model which “Thoreau” renounced and abnegated.

We face two systems of “anarchia”, of political choices: the multitude of bottom up, music of the swarm as Rimbaud talked about in the ‘commune of Paris’ revolt; versus its “dandyism” antidote, through an individualistic disobedience and intellectual-physical regression, to (re)discover a naturalist daily routine, an ecological relation with the beats of mother earth. A choir assists in this ontological dispute.

CHARACTERS

He is a person who deconstructs everything he sees, criticises the collectivists for just being a fragment of the whole. Yet his main objective is to become a whole. He gets lost in his own world, convinced no one fully understands him or his created world, he is a highly narcissistic person.

PROUDHON PROUDHON is WALDEN’s ex-lover who is part of an anarchist group.

She and her community want to use WALDEN’s robot and the technology he has created to speculate on a new way of living. Describe this new type of urbanism? She is also personally invested in salvaging the remnants of their relationship, hoping she’s not too late to convince WALDEN of the pitfalls of his extreme individualism. She agrees to mediate between WALDEN and her community, determined to succeed at convincing him but knowing she’ll probably fail.

SCENE 1 – MEETING BETWEEN WALDEN AND PROUDHON CAMERA: Close up of WALDEN with the camera focussed on him. Everything in frame is shown at chest height and above with the background visible but out of focus. WALDEN is positioned to the leftmost part of the frame.

WALDEN is seen sitting his knees. He has been heavy growths fruiting and have caused him to

on the ground with his forearms resting on forced into this position by the blackened out of his hands and feet. They are heavy, be practically immobile.

He is in his outgrowth-structure, shut out from the rest of the world in self-imposed isolation. We are seeing him at the end of his self-exploration, a converted megalomaniac and severe individualist.

WALDEN: mh.. I remember the need to reclaim my autonomy, my self-dependence.

Not something I could achieve with your insistence on inclusion. *remembers his suffering, escape from it* PROUDHON: Hanya melarikan diri (she spits the word at him in ridicule) You’re just rationalizing theft and neglect. *critical on his egoism*

PROUDHON: (she wanders around him) Hypocrisies, hypocrisies, hypocrisies You cry kebebasan while glued to the oor. *playful, sarcastic* I chose to come here at nightfall to talk secretly before the ofcial meeting. *disappointed, frustrated* WALDEN: I’m no longer concerned with opinions of your anarcho factory. *doesn’t want to talk about this bad memory to save their relationship* PROUDHON: Through my altruism or your self-exclusion, we still seek a common goal. *shows her generosity, her empathy* CHOIR: They used to work together at the construction of a barikat in the very heart of the city, a territory opens to the social, political, aesthetic and uctuant desires of its inhabitants.

(The camera swings from her hand down and we see Walden through the hole)

SCENE 4 – SEPARATION CAMERA: Everything in frame shown at chest height and above, camera looking over PROUDHON’s shoulder through towards WALDEN. They continue from the last positions of the previous scene.

WALDEN:

WALDEN’s emotions betray his mental state and PROUDHON realises the extent of his insanity. She begins to fear for his and her own safety; she wants to full her mission but accepts the fact that she will not leave here with him or his robot.

Better than obedient surrender... your conviction dissolving in complaisancy *arrogant and proud of it*

(Walden and Proudhon look and each other, but they are speechless.

Shot reverse shot. We hear their breathing)

PROUDHON:

CHOIR:

My conviction is to the whole now… symbiotic and collective... *idealistic*

Obviously they are in a trap, but they will nd unexpected lines of escapes. It’s a game, a game of life and esh, reactive to sensible and fragile structures, made of psycho-pheromonal complex mixes.

You can smell the city’s pulse, its inner contradictions, between the democratisation of the state and the construction of social counter power... those political oscillations are now freezing in the trap their initial utopian gangues of capitalism’s antidote .... becoming its predictable symmetry… …

The both, symptoms of political genres and strategies, are now speechless...

WALDEN: The ant knows only his work and his neighbours. What concept does it have of the colony? *asks for explanation, opens the dialogue* PROUDHON: Co-relation, co-dependances, self organisation, self determination ...bottom up rhizomes.. the makings of a republic of the commoners, *honest, reveals her truth, her pathos* (pause) without the delegation of power opposite of your civil disobedience... And now you enter a state of contemplation, “reverie solitaire”, self satised romanticism *pulls back, critical* You used to be a maverick, a badass.. *nostalgic, she admired him* now look at the morbid maggot you became, dead alive... *extremely disappointed, pitiful* WALDEN: Unintentional consequences of naive utopia appear to have triggered the worst of society...the path to hell is paved with good intentions...nothing to abolish our miserable desire for voluntary servitude… *from philosopher..* (pause) Anthropocentric supremacy ignores the rights of the earth… claiming revolution is a vanity for the next regime… and your “comrades” seems to face now the inborn failures... its rotten DNA... *..to master, abuse of power* SCENE 3 – INTIMACY CAMERA: Everything in frame shown at chest height and above, camera looking over PROUDHON’s shoulder through towards WALDEN. They continue from the last positions of the previous scene.

CHOIR:

(creates a hole gently in the outgrowth to see WALDEN clearer)

Ah - cikara.. Where are you?

Here to convince me in this last chance temptation of hypocrisies? *surprised, tries to control his emotions*

Hmm… Climax of memories… protest… risk… illusions… danger… sex… ecstatic… *feels again his existence* It has been. (smile, laughter) *hopeless, delusion* CHOIR:

Look at her, look at him, both of them believe that they are... free, but it’s not something you possess, it’s something that you should always jeopardize

WALDEN:

WALDEN:

(singing Beasts of England) Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the Golden future time.... (and then the choir whistle the tune)

CHOIR:

(Proudhon somewhat hesitant to see WALDEN, enters in the background of the scene)

*understanding, transforming, enjoys th sublimation, the intoxication, erotic*

PROUDHON:

They are irreconcilable, She believes that the common interest prevails above all kind of inputs when He believes that his singularity, integrity and even anomaly cannot be maintained in the system.

EXT. WALDEN’S OUTGROWTH STRUCTURE

Ah… Autopoiesis becomes symbiosis. Just like the barricade. (quietly to herself)

I’ve watched your disease growing... day after day... entropic physiology… trapping you… I know… why don’t you remember? *concerned, proof of affection*

WALDEN WALDEN was a resident of Medini. He has grown tired of the constant cycle of living and working and seeks an alternative lifestyle. He wants the freedom of being able to do as he desires under a regime that satises his own personal ideals of how society should operate. He believes that the only way for him to be happy and continue existing is to live by himself, governing himself, and surrounding himself with himself.He creates the robot to satisfy this last requisite and the robot validates his beliefs by producing extrusions and outgrowths based on his thoughts and emotions.

PROUDHON:

CAMERA: Everything in frame shown at chest height and above, camera positioned behind WALDEN’s shoulder looking through towards PROUDHON. When WALDEN speaks, we see PROUDHON through his point of view through the outgrowths, and when PROUDHON speaks we see WALDEN from her point of view through the outgrowths. They continue from the last positions of the previous scene.

PROUDHON:

Cannibalising your own esh In this Sadhu position What potential does this self-serving necrosis have in isolation? *disgusted, disqualifying* WALDEN: Embrace the temporary nature of your community… claim what euphoric delusions you can muster - and leave it alone. *indifferent on his own resignation* PROUDHON: Imagine its proliferation… open your selsh barricade to co-dependence… accept its evolution to the multitude *conditional, complaining, because it will never happen* WALDEN: I surrender my compassion, it’s time for you to face its absence *accepts that there is no future* CHOIR: They fear to lose what they had achieved, it makes them believe that the future has never happened.

WALDEN: Ia hanya saya, it’s just me here. My inner sense, my apperception.

The things that can’t be reached when you’re constantly looking outwards. *accepts his nature, peaceful* PROUDHON: In this tumour? *gently ironic*

WALDEN:

WALDEN:

Ah You seem so… so… you *reminiscent, in love* (pause) but frozen, stone in their illusion... *gets defensive, the last sentiment was too far fetched*

Ye (pause) it’s my metabolism.

I alone dene it Then it denes me Until we are the same *acceptance defeat of human being*

CHOIR: ...we are not concerned...

They ignored the Fictional keys, knotting_unknotting realities and subjectivities, in real time...was the only way to escape...

EXTENDED DISCUSSION - ABSTRACT Freedom and equality, in relation to individual and collective ideals, appear inherent in the formation of society through the Social Contract given in its inception.[1] We experience this rst at an individual level, in all examples, but most readily through the system in which we currently reside, namely through the political ideal of Liberalism.[2] Here we see a fundamental right placed on individual freedom, dened negatively as freedom from external coercion,[3] which immediately sets up a necessary despotism, in both reliance and deance, to equality, the given force dening the limits of our autonomy... the power of government and the democratic collective.[4] Though the tempting desire to resist this subjugation persists, the move from a “law of nature” to a “law of reason”, as Spinoza describes,[5] is to our greater self-interest, with Hobbes depicting a life under the sole rule of liberty as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”.[6] This negative denition of freedom, however, leaves us devoid of any overarching moral code, that onus being placed on the individual, giving rise to a stumbling quest for values to which capitalism willingly provides. The relatively new concept[7] comes in replacement of an alternate denition, employed by the Greeks, stating that true freedom is the liberation from one’s own desires, and the pursuit of a virtuous life.[8] In a potential forecast of the deep future, Plato warns against the dangers of excessive liberty overturning social order, leading to lawlessness and culminating in tyranny,[9] and yet we see through Christianity this ideal of virtuous freedom devolving itself in to a method of control,[10] and eventually giving rise to our modern conception of liberalism.[11] Freedom in moral servitude is replaced by servitude to desire and its moral ambiguity, as a dened value, and we experience the polarity of humanity. Yet liberal freedoms of a capitalistic age have, for better or worse, produced the most rapid expansion of human technology ever seen.[12] Inherent in this process is the intensication of social relations, and as a consequence of necessity, the expansion of culture, through the division of labour and diversication of social roles.[13] The ideal for each to nd their place, in individualistic freedom, as a cohesive part of the whole, is warped by the system, yet remains at the basis of a desired equilibrium... dened in density, intensity and diversity.[14] Such a state, a utopian ideal based in subjectivity, could be attained, and indeed may have been, dependent on our legitimate commitment to deliberation between social values vs norms, rights vs morals, and an adherence to its inherent processes.

“While being an effect of necessary causes, civilization can become an end, an object of desire, in short, an ideal”.[15] And so it becomes, in our progress towards late-capitalisms commodication of everything. In the construction of urban spaces, we tend towards a disposition of simplicity, an adherence to scientic method as response to current norms, and an insistence on applying tabular rasa to complex ecosystems. When we can dene, in absolution, the ill health of society, designing towards that system can be seen as nothing but malicious perpetuation. Instead, an adherence to a sense of natural process, in terms of ideal social structure and growth, which embeds architecture within societies ux.

Democracy, being a hypocrisy through the use of bottom up values as a façade; plebeians are led to believe that they had a contribution to policy making and economy when in fact they are dictated by the elite. This paradox is illustrated in the architectural educational system through a protable institution that brainwashes young minds into anarcho guinea pigs (inculcating non-materialistic values) to be exploited by the capitalist economy. The economic unrealism and arrogance of participatory architecture solely based on social drivers and pursuit of hedonistic values. How can a negotiation between top down and bottom up approach be formulated; anarcho-capitalism/ capitalist bottom up approach.

[1] – “...the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or argument among them to form the society in which they live” - “Social Contract Theory | Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy”. 2017. Iep.Utm.Edu. http://www.iep.utm. edu/soc-cont/#SH2c.

[2] - “Liberalism | Denition, History, & Facts”. 2017. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/liberalism.

[3] – “Liberty is neither more nor less than the absence of coercion. This is the genuine, original, and proper sense of the word Liberty. The idea of it is an idea purely negative. It is not anything produced by positive Law. It exists without Law, and not by means of Law.” - Rosen, Frederick Rosen. 2003. Classical Utilitarianism From Hume To Mill. New York: Routledge.

[4] – “Liberty is the space wherein action is unimpeded, while law imposes limits on freedom of action. Hence the more man’s action comes under the control of law, the less free he is” - Rosenthal-Pubúl, Alexander. 2016. “Reections On Ancient And Modern Freedom”. Modern Age 58 (1). https://home.isi.org/reections-ancient-and-modern-freedom.

[5] – “And since it is the supreme law of nature that each thing strives to persist in its own state so far as it can, taking no account of another’s circumstances but only of its own, it follows that each individual thing has a sovereign right to do this” - Isreal, Jonathan. 2007. Cambridge Texts In The History Of Philosophy, Benedict De Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise. 1st ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.

[6] – Hobbes, Thomas, and C. B Macpherson. 2003. Leviathan. London: Penguin.

[7] – “If we may call liberalism that political doctrine which regards as the fundamental political fact the rights, as distinguished from the duties, of man, and which identies the state with the protection or safeguarding of those rights, we must say that the founder of liberalism was Hobbes.” – Strauss, Leo. 1992. Natural Right And History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[8] – “Then do you think that the man is free who is ruled by bodily desires and is unable to do what is best because of them?” Xenophon., and Charles E Moberly. 1889. Memorabilia. London: Rivingtons.

[9] - “Thus democracy for Plato is essentially indifferent on the question of virtue and vice—all modes of life enter into the polis in a position of equality. The liberation of all desires and appetites, moreover, overturns social order and leads to a condition of lawless anarchy that eventually culminates in tyranny.” - Rosenthal-Pubúl, Alexander. 2016. “Reections On Ancient And Modern Freedom”. Modern Age 58 (1). https://home.isi.org/reections-ancient-and-modern-freedom.

[10] - “Christianity is called the religion of pity. Pity stands opposed to the tonic emotions which heighten our vitality: it has a depressing effect. We are deprived of strength when we feel pity. That loss of strength which suffering as such inicts on life is still further increased and multiplied by pity. Pity makes suffering contagious” - Nietzsche, F.W. 1923. THE ANTICHRIST. Translated by Mencken H.L. 1st ed. New York: Vail-Ballou Press.

[11] - Immanuel Kant’s attack on heteronomy—any law that is not self-legislated—as “the source of all spurious principles of morality.” – Kant, Immanuel. 1998. Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals. Translated by Gregor. M. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[12] – “The Rise Of Capitalism | The Socialist Party Of Great Britain”. 2017. Worldsocialism.Org. https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/ socialist-standard/2010s/2011/no-1284-august-2011/rise-capitalism.

[13] – “Civilization is itself the necessary consequence of the changes which are produced in the volume and in the density of societies. If science, art, and economic activity develop it is in accordance with a necessity which is imposed upon men.” - N. Bellah, Robert. 1973. Emile Durkheim On Morality And Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/undergraduate/introsoc/durkheim9.html

FINAL PRESENTATION: PANELS

PANELS DONE WITH HOI FUNG TAM, CHEA YUEN YEOW CHONG, AND REGINE TJAN PRESENTATION OF THE FINAL FILM WITH ACCOMPANYING PANELS TO ILLUSTRATE AND CLARIFY UNDERLYING THEMES, ROBOTIC PRODUCTION, SET DESIGN AND FILMING PROCESS.

89 ROBOTIC FABRICATION

In francois’ text the social protocol he proposed to use contour crafting (khoshnevis, 2013) to produce architecture that solves these social issues as well as creating structures for living in; contour crafting allows the structure to be continuously malleable during production (material composition, how it can be changed to reflect feedback [feedback loop], altering scripts to reflect response to social issues) Architects use technology in naive and

conventional ways to solve issues, the often-repeated functionalist formula of the “machine for living” echoes a naive mechanical interpretation of science as fixed, logically demonstrable, mathematically indisputable and invariable truth” (Bruno Zevi, Architecture as Space, 1949), our studio tries to 1/ proposing a new way of using technology by creating architecture with robots; not a traditional way of producing architecture where you

look at precedent circulation etc, creating plans - spaces can still be produced from abstract ideas by incorporating it into a script 2/ create ideal illusions in terms of perfection of performance, whilst being extremely imperfect ourselves/// embracing the imperfection of robotic production/// and being realistic in what we can do.

WATER COOLING

TEMPERTURE CONTROL TO CONSOLIDATE THE EXTRUDED MATERIAL

Collective Thoughtless “soncumer societies” “As the ambassador of new bringers of advantage, early advertising was the general training medium for contemporary performance collectives thoughtlessly denounced in culture-conservative milieus as 'consumer societies'. The aversion to advertising that pervades the saturated infospheres of the present, however, is based on the correct intuition that, in most of its manifestations, it has long since become a form of downward training.”

P. Sloterdjik

ORIGINAL PATH

THE PROPOSED PATH THAT CAN NEVER BE ACHIEVED

DISTORTED PATH

CONNECTED TO ARDUINO HEART BEAT SENSOR

RESERVOIR

CONTAINING PLASTIC PELLETS & SAW WASTE (MAX. 4KG)

DRILL

HOMOGENIZE THE MATERIAL WHICH AFFECTS THE PHYSICAL STATE OF THE MATERIALS

HEAT BANDS

HEATING UP TO 200+ DEGREE CELCIUS, FULLY MELTING THE MATERIAL PELLETS

Sensors NOZZLE

DEFINE THE FORM OF THE EXTRUSION

POINTCLOUD

GENERATED THROUGH 3D SCANNING, DEFINING THE FEEDBACK LOGIC OF THE PRODUCTION (HEIGHT, PATH...)

Barricade resists using robotics as “efficient” and “precise” production… Using sensor as disturbance to the original path of robot movement, we anticipate the resistance created by robot’s struggle to obey the rigid logic

Human emotion involvement/// Structure as physical sedimentation of the occupants, constantly generating and building/// Heart beat, being a continuous multitude thread through the scenario/// A slow extrusion speed with a patient sensor...

MATERIAL Wood, as an another multitude (“noise”) affecting the outcome of the extrusion with its physical transformation under varied temperatures, affects the way we are involved in the production.

Plastic Pellet// Saw Waste

COMPETING AGAINST TIME The only real constraint is time.

No actually ... Research budget, internet interference, material suppliers, moody Melbourne weather, safety MSDS, smoke sensors, working hour limitation, robotic arm’s weight limit, ducts and air flow noise, and students’ duty for other classes as well.

The reality is that we’re caged to perform in a safe and healthy RMIT Australia environment which ever prevents a studio or team atmosphere becoming “obsessive” (similar to places where Laser cutting is not proceeded 24-hours and demand supervision). As a result, the first three week were intense research (at this point the studio was thought to be a 14-week process), then changed to “dirty factory” BKK production from week 3 to week 7. Meanwhile, lack of experience and confusion in particular responsibilities led

STUDIO TIMELINE

to the robot being locked up and denied students’ access for a whole week. The material in mind that had being tested in performance has not been successfully sourced in Australia (suppliers refuse to provide small portions of samples and any material required safety instruction before testing at RMIT) led to some pretty upsetting moments in the studio. Ultimately, these issues were created partially out of the geological dislocation of New Territory BKK electives to RMIT Melbourne City as a studio. I need to go for a dentist appointment … I have parents visiting from overseas … I have two other classes that I haven’t ever showed up to … The weather today is so great for the beach …

It’ fair to say that within this environment we’ve gotten used to losing our animalistic drive, a thirst for endless creations and

testing. We would never achieve an “obsessive” effect here. Would there be a better outcome if the studio could extend beyond the constraints listed above?

Possibly not. On the contrary, RMIT and usual student tardiness brings forth another dimension to the linage of BKK “dirty factory” productions. The stupidity and reality of what we students are situated within inserts a sense of generosity, a sort of empathy and struggle in trying to perform the exact same procedures in a vastly different set of conditions.

It will never work. It is naively great. The real effect of competing against time may also be performed in BKK let’s not forget about that, it’s constraints however limited to a perfect vacuum setup

by New Territories. Eventually, the tiger will have to come out of the mountains.

FRANCOIS ARRIVES IN MELBOURNE (FIRST VISIT) INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

STUDIO INTRODUCTION AND EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

EXERCISE 3

SET DESIGN

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CRITICAL TEXT

STORYBOARD PROUDHON:

WALDEN:

Through my altruism or your self-exclusion, we still seek a common goal

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THE STUDIO’S AIM IS TO PRODUCE A FILM IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN ARCHITECTURE THAT CRITIQUES THE PREVAILING URBAN FORMAT. THE WHOLE PROCESS REVOLVES AROUND THE STRATEGY OF REBOOTING ARCHITECTURE WHICH DISOBEYS THE USUAL REGIMES OF URBANISM BY EXPLORING VARIOUS MEDIUMS BETWEEN REALISM AND FICTION, NARRATIVE AND TOPOLOGY AND OF THE MIND AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT.

Better than obedient surrender Your conviction dissolving in complacency

CHOIR:

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4

P2 | SHOT FROM INSIDE THE STRUCTURE, LOOKING OVER WALDEN’S SHOULDER

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P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

PROUDHON:

PROUDHON:

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CHOIR: Look at her, look at him, both of them believe that they are... free, but it’s not something you possess, it’s something that you should always jeopardise

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My conviction is to the whole now The symbiotic collective

WALDEN: Ah ah you seem so - so - you but frozen, stone in their illusion

WALDEN:

1

CLOSE UP OF PROUDHON TOUCHING WALDEN’S HAND OUTGROWTH

5

Ah cikara Here to convince me in this last chance temptation of hypocrisies

P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

You seem so - so - you But frozen, stone in their illusion

9

P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

CHOIR:

WALDEN:

We are not concerned

PROUDHON:

2

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What concept does he have of the colony?

PROUDHON:

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CAMERA MOVES DOWN FROM THE HANDS TO SHOW PART OF THE STRUCTURE

Just so

PROUDHON:

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I’ve watched your disease growing day after day entropic physiology - trapping you I know - why don’t you remember?

P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT) hmmm... I remember the need to reclaim my autonomy, my self-dependence not something I could achieve with your instence on inclusion

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Co-relation, co-dependences, self-organisation, self-determination - bottom-up rhizomes - the makins of a republic of the commoners

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10 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

PROUDHON (continuation of previous line):

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Without the delegation your civil disobedience

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CAMERA CONTINUES TO MOVE DOWN AND WALDEN’S FACE INSIDE THE STRUCTURE

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SHOWS

hanya melarikan diri you’re just rationalising theft and neglect

PROUDHON:

P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

WALDEN:

this erosion of my own control to the bloodied hands of future usurpers I surrender my compassion, it’s time for you to face its absence

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17 P1 | SHOT WITH BOTH PROUDHON AND WALDEN IN

FRAME, CAMERA ALTERNATING FOCUS BASED ON WHO’S SPEAKING (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT), BOTH CLOSER THAN IN SCENE 4 (SHOW MORE MOVEMENT OF LIPS)

WALDEN (POSTPRODUCTION EDIT)

You’re just rationalising theft and neglect

Now look at the morbid maggot you became, dead alive

11 P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POST-PRODUCTION EDIT)

WALDEN:

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WALDEN:

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This erosion of my own control to the bloodied hands of future usurpers

22 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POSTPRODUCTION EDIT)

Hmmm...

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CHOIR: (singing Beasts of England)

PROUDHON:

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13 P1 | ZOOMING INTO

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OVER WALDEN’S SHOULDER, WITH PROUDHON CLOSER TO WALDEN THAN IN SCENE 4

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Until we are the same

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25 FADE IN FROM WHITE, BOTH CHARACTERS BREATHING HEAVILY AS IF EXHAUSTED, CONTINUOUS SHOT FOR 15 - 30 SECONDS

19 P1 | ZOOMING INTO WALDEN (POST-PRODUCTION

2SHQ \RXU VHOÂżVK EDUULFDGH WR FR GHSHQGHQFH Accept its evolution to the multitude

CHOIR (over WALDEN and PROUDHON’s breathing):

PROUDHON:

21 P1 | START ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON’S LIPS AS SHE SAYS “AH AUTOPOIESIS�

(LIPS EVENTUALLY FILL ENTIRE FRAME)

PROUDHON: imagine its proliferation RSHQ \RXU VHOÂżVK EDUULFDGH WR FR dependence accept its evolution to the multitude

(breathing heavily, as if exhasuted)

WALDEN:

PROUDHON:

15 P2 | SHOT FROM INSIDE THE STRUCTURE, LOOKING

WALDEN AND PROUDHON:

18 P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POST-PRODUCTION

20 P1 | ZOOMING INTO PROUDHON (POSTPRODUCTION EDIT)

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Those political oscillations are now freezing in the trap their initial utopian gangues of capitalism’s antidote Becoming its predictable symmetry - the both, symptoms of political genres and strategies are now speechless

26 BOTH CHARACTERS CONTINUE TO BREATHE HEAVILY ah autopoiesis

AS IF EXHAUSTED

NEW TERRITORIES INTEND TO CHALLENGE THE NOTION OF TOP-DOWN URBANISM BY POSTULATING A NEW TYPE OF ARCHITECTURE IN HIS TEXT THE SOCIAL PROTOCOL(LE PROTOCOLE TERRITORIAL).

THIS NEW ARCHITECTURE IS TO BE AGGREGATION OF ALL THE PREVIOUS PROTOTYPES PRODUCED IN HIS STUDIOS AND PRACTICE- THE SYMBOL OF AN ONGOING MOVEMENT. IT IS TO BE GENERATED BY CONTOUR CRAFTING (KHOSHNEVIS, 2012) BUT IN PROCESS THAT PERMITS IT TO BE CONSTANTLY MALLEABLE AND RECEIVE NUMEROUS TYPES OF VARIOUS INPUTS THAT CORRUPTS THE PREDICTABLE PROGRAMMED WORK. THE RESULTING FORM AND ENTIRE PROCESS OF ASSEMBLY THUS BECOMES INDETERMINISTIC, THE POLITICAL ANTIDOTE TO ANTICIPATORY MODES THAT MAKE SPACE A SYSTEM OF CONTROL.

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CHORIZO SYNDROME IS A SCENARIO ABLE TO TRIGGER A FILM OR A URBAN NON-PLANNING THAT SPECULATES ON THE ORIGIN, ON THE PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS THAT ORGANIZE THE ‘LIVING TOGETHER’ SHAPE OR SHAPELESS . THE STORY REVOLVED AROUND A MAN WHO HAS EXCLUDED HIMSELF FROM WHAT HE CALLED ‘THE COLLECTIVE SYNDROME OF SOCIETY’ TO DISCOVER THE BIOSTRUCTURE, IN ITS DIVERSITY AND ANTAGONISM. THE SHELTERING, AS AN INDIVIDUALISTIC PLATO GROTTO, IS PRODUCED IN THE MOVIE BY HIS OWN PHYSIOLOGY, THROUGH A KERATIN PATHOLOGY. SIMULTANEOUSLY IT IS PRODUCING AN ARCHITECTURE FRAGMENT BY A ROBOTIC PROCESS, WITH SENSORS, DETECTORS OF HIS OWN PSYCHO REACTION(SWEATING, HEART BEAT).ALSO, THE STRUCTURE RESPONDS TO HIS THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS, CHANGING SHAPE AND ADAPTING TO RECEIVE STIMULI. HE IS VISITED

BY A RESIDENT THE ‘’COLLECTIVE SYMPTOM� , ON THE SIDE A FORMER LOVER, WHO ENGAGES HIM IN A POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION ON THE IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF HIS CHOICE TO ISOLATE HIMSELF AND CREATE THE STRUCTURE.

FILMING

SCENES FROM THE FILM

FRANCOIS RETURNS TO MELBOURNE (SECOND VISIT) FILMING

EDITING AND POSTRATIONALISING

PRESENTATION TO PUBLIC

FINAL PRESENTATION: THE CHORIZO SYNDROME FILM STILLS FROM THE FINAL VERSION OF THE CHORIZO SYNDROME.

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