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Programme 08-09:
The globalization of fear has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Mike Davis – The Flames Of New York
It’s good to have something to live for you’ll find. Live for tomorrow
Live for a job and the perfect behind. High Time
The Sundays - Cant Be Sure
This year Unit 15 questions whether the
utopian ambitions of the enlightenment and more specifically
the modernist project itself, can still be maintained in light
of the political, economic and environmental challenges that
we now face. Global warming, terrorism, religious dogmatism,
ethnic cleansing, economic meltdown and pandemic viral
catastrophe are issues that we cannot ignore and yet we feel
powerless,as individuals, to really addressthem. It is obvious that the culture of
‘business as usual’, as espoused by many in the
architectural profession, doesn’t ring true. The
architecturalprofession may still posit a future of
‘bigness’, a world of bright shiny
mega-structures; of full employment, of equality and global
harmony and unlimited growth and expansion, but shouldthis
view be met with incredulity? If the reality isnot as rosy as
it is pictured in the latest computer renderings from the
‘corporate architectural complex’, then what type
of planet do we face? Is the future
bright? Is it orange? Or, is it all doom and gloom? Are we
perhaps on the verge of a new spirit in architecture and
design, where the uncritical belief in consumerism and
unbridled growth, has to be questioned? At the very least
should we accept the need for a very different kind of world
that requires a different type of thinking and a different
type of architecture? The Near Future
will be an examination of a number of possible near futures,
positingpossible high-tech, low-tech and even no-tech
alternatives to current prognostications. Timetable 08 - 09 A Film For An Event: 29th September – 8th
October
Green Screen Project: 8th October – 29th October
Year 4 – Design Realisation Project
The Near Future: Adaptations
Design Phase: 30th October – 14th January
Design Realisation Report: 15th January – 27th February
Film: 28th February – 26th May
Year 5 – The Near Future: Thesis Projects
Phase One Term 1
Phase Two Term 2 & 3
Unit 15 uses film, animation and motion graphics to
generate, develop and represent new architectural and
spatial possibilities
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