multitude

mul·ti·tude

ˈməltəˌt(y)o͞ od/ “A multitude is irreducible multiplicity; The singular social differences that constitute the multitude must always be expressed and can never be flattened into sameness, unity, identity, or indifference.”

multitude

accidental architecture

Antonio Negri (multitude, p.104)

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> Network

> The Great Biennale

> Keeping up Appearances

> Amplifier #0000

by Colt Sievers

by nomoreladida

by Amplifier Editor

Col­lec­tive

We, at mul­ti­tude, are fairly excited by the upcom­ing grand open­ing of the Bien­nale of Venice.

There’s noth­ing wrong with rigid plan­ning, as Le Cor­busier

If you want to receive a hard copy of On Work by mul­ti­

1.

Spon­t a­neous asso­ci­a­tion of per­sons united

We can’t wait to have our time­lines filled with field reports

under­lined in his book Air­plane: “To those who love life, I

tude, you’ll prob­a­bly have to print it your­self.

for polit­i­cal or trade union.

from each and every sin­gle Archi­tec­ture blog describ­ing

say pre­pare plans. Make your plans! …”.

2. In a party or a trade union, a group of per­sons

all sec­tions of the exhi­bi­tion, the par­ties, the loca­tion,

We all wish we could make a plan that –on paper– fixes

with liaisons out­side of the party, who deal

how the city is, itself, an exhi­bi­tion space and how dare

all of society’s prob­lems and shows us the path to a bet­ter

with a spe­cific topic or issue.

you to drink my pros­ecco.

life. That’s ok.

Plat­form 1.

Fun­da­men­t al pro­gram at the basis of a com­-

mon action or nego­ti­a­tion car­ried out by a group.

These two words have be­ come the new cliché terms used by archi­tects.

It is prob­a­bly the most impor­t ant event of this year’s Archi­tec­ture agenda.

But to put that in a pub­lic press release 80 years later and con­sider it inno­v­a­tive seems a lit­tle ignorant.

We invite who­ever is inter­ ested, to crit­i­cally address field report

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(pho­tos, tweets, texts, sketches…) con­cern­ing two issues:

> RED LIGHT CHRISTMAS

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1. Biennale’s back­stage and the pro­duc­tion of knowl-

by 100100101

> Haze

edge oper­ated by the mul­ti­tude (actors that all

Now, great Idea. I think it worked, and it can also be that

by Bastille

together have thought, designed, real­ized research

some­one really vis­ited Vicenza because of the light­ing

I already told you mum: it was not an inter­view and I’m

and exhi­bi­tion spaces of pavil­ions, events and so on);

fes­ti­val. But that is where things get a lit­tle weird.

not gonna work for them, but with them…

2. Bien­nale as a place to be rather than a place of

How do you mean?

exhibition;

It’s called fes­ti­val and as such it should dis­play the work of mul­ti­ple artists.

Come on, we already spoke about that. I’m just try­ing to under­s tand if I can start doing some­thing on my own.

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…I’m sick of work­ing for other peo­ple.

> Exchange

Yeah cooky, but you can’t waste your time: it’s the moment

by Hammer

pas­sion­ate par­tic­i­pa­tion, a vari­ety of entries and it is a

for you to seri­ously focus on your­self and on what you really

‘Noth­ing is more basic to the func­tion­ing of cap­i­t al­

way to pro­mote the work of those who, against all evi­

want to do.

ist soci­ety than the ele­men­t al trans­ac­tion in which we

dence, are still try­ing to keep the city alive and kicking.

It’s exactly what I’m doing! By the w ­ ay, remember when

acquire a cer­t ain quan­tity of use value in return for a cer­

City Coun­cil, instead, com­mis­sioned the entire fes­ti­val to

you and Dad told me to start work­ing on my own?

tain sum of money’. 1 This type of trans­ac­tion facil­i­t ates

one office alone.

Yeah, but we meant a real job…

eco­nomic inter­ac­tion between two strangers. But it also

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To involve young archi­tects and design­ers guar­an­tees a

means that you and me don’t have to engage in any­thing more than a very brief moment of exchange, after which we can become strangers again.

We never knew each other, and we will never get to know each other either.

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