{"title":"From vulnerable to resilient: ‘Fixing’ mechanisms and ‘unfixing’ practices in Onehunga, Auckland","authors":"B. Sybil, Yu Yue","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.687","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores “fixing” mechanisms initiated by “unfixing” practices: de-paving, stepping back from the shoreline, decommissioning, repurposing industrial facilities, blurring property lines, and eliminating maladaptations. Through a speculative masterplan for the Auckland suburb of Onehunga, the paper proposes a shift in community investment to prioritise ecological and social infrastructure that responds to climate change and population growth pressures. In particular, it explores the spatial possibilities provided by nomadic and (un)fixed inhabitation models. Acknowledging the property-rights paradigm of modernity, it speculates on a different land-use strategy that shifts away from the anthropocentric lifestyle underpinned by our capitalist economy and society. Instead of storing property value, the paper aims to cache resources, skills, and experiences in the landscape, ultimately building adaptability across various scales.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122833356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Twose Simon, Moloney Jules, Globa Anastasia, Harvey Lawrence
{"title":"Drawing the unfixed","authors":"Twose Simon, Moloney Jules, Globa Anastasia, Harvey Lawrence","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.694","url":null,"abstract":"This article reflects on creative practice employing multi-modal architectural drawing to sketch natural phenomena: expanded drawing. The work explores unfixed, intangible conditions within phenomena, conditions at the cusp of awareness, spatially felt as much as known by other means. Through multi-sensory drawing installations, phenomena such as oceanic immensity, seismic latency, and shapeshifting bushfires are sketched. The installations immerse participants within virtual, sculptural, and sonic sketches, intensifying phenomena’s abstract presence in a sympoiēsis of human and more-than-human dynamics. Three projects in the series are reflected upon as to their strategies for capturing unfixed conditions in expanded, hybrid sketches. Architectural drawing’s traditional openness, material dynamics, and capacity for imaginative projection, are shown to be intensified, through physical and digital sketch media, crossing unfixed drawing with unfixed phenomena.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122356927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The politics of the pile: Material imagination and improvisation in the 1871 Paris Commune","authors":"D. Carl","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.690","url":null,"abstract":"In the Paris Commune of 1871, collectives, collective action, and shared spaces were imagined through metaphors of mounding and scattering. This article explores the material imagination that underlies these metaphors and several improvised urban constructions through which they manifested. In particular, it refers to a mound of sticks and manure built to cushion the fall of the monumental Vendôme Column, heaps of meaningless consumer goods, impromptu barricades piled up in the streets, stellar matter imagined by Auguste Blanqui, conjugations of terms in poems by Arthur Rimbaud, and ultimately the piled bodies of the Communards themselves. This shared preoccupation, I suggest, enabled collective improvisation and the “articulation work” of cobbling together a new public world (Star and Strauss, 1999: 10).","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128478232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallax projections: Decay, entropy and obsolescence at Wangi Power Station","authors":"C. Michael, Burke Timothy","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.691","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the architecture of Wangi Power Station through a range of different modes of representation that document the decay, entropy, and obsolescence of industrial heritage. The paper discusses a series of drawing projects that use photography, drone photogrammetry, and analogue drawing practices to explore conditions of ruination, dereliction, and abandonment as a counternarrative to regimes of fixing, maintenance, and care. By positioning these documenting processes within a broader context of architectural drawing and its theory as a form of architectural knowledge, the paper explores the contemporary role of drawing in recording industrial decay and its history. The paper considers the discourse of modernism and industrialisation as having been underpinned by a dialectic of the obsolete machine and its advanced mechanistic representation, and examines the drawings of Wangi to propose an alternative reading of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"34 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120843925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pharmakon landscape: An emerging territorial model for deep-time, geo-bio-chemical governance","authors":"Brina Luciano","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.684","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a further development of the contents and topics from a homonymous microfilm produced in mid-2020, in the context of The Terraforming postgraduate programme at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow. In that sense, it aims to bring the speculations depicted in the film closer to their realisation, by means of territorial initiatives and key facts. Pharmakon landscape intends to be a model of intense territorial intervention for climate change mitigation and geo-bio-chemical governance. Dedicated to ecological services fulfillment and its management, it converges in waste manipulation, infrastructural repurposing, rewilding, and direct human intervention limiting. It is a geodesign initiative that challenges the clear boundaries between what remedy, poison, and scapegoat mean: here, poisoning equals accelerated remediation, so that the ambivalent coexistence of this conceptual triad becomes co-dependency.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"37 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126703432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interiority of caring relations in the mangokal holi ritual","authors":"Ujung Verarisa","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.688","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores how Batak, one of Indonesia’s many ethnic groups, perform interiority by caring for the dead. It examines the fixing of social relationships, as an act of spacing, by considering the Batak mangokal holi tradition in North Sumatra, foregrounding indigenous knowledge, experience, and ways of being. It offers a reading of mangokal holi by crossing architectural theories of interiority with ethnographic theories of ritual and caring. Ritual passages define the progress and transitions of life (such as birth, marriage, and death), delineating a sociocultural order. In mangokal holi, ritual care for the dead fixes roles, relationships, obligations, and settings; it frames space, time, and bodies by marking thresholds.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129826422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interstices Issue 21: Fixing CFP","authors":"Editor Issue","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.701","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>***</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122620630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Almost-always-falling-apart","authors":"S. Twose, D. Carl, Budgett Jeanette","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.683","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>***</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132751601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the service of…","authors":"Preston Julieanna","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.689","url":null,"abstract":"In the service of … recalls ground maintenance, a live art performance enacted at the 2013 Plenitude and Emptiness Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland. This essay takes the form of a series of letters written to the commercial cleaner who was responsible for maintaining the space on an everyday basis. Invoking an empathy-inducing method to build a relational affinity with the cleaner and her labour, the letters perform a next iteration of caring for the interior space on her behalf, specifically, sweeping the gallery and presentation room over the three-day event. Documented in a video, this durational gesture raised greater awareness of the invisible yet material labour so key to the university’s delivery of learning services and to the ongoing life of the building. It amplified the low-tech spatio-political and material agency of the broom and dirt’s long social history in relation to a woman’s everyday work on the interior’s surfaces of a public architecture.","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132301713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aaron Paterson, Sarosh Mulla and Marian Macken Drawing room","authors":"Nees Tim","doi":"10.24135/ijara.vi.697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24135/ijara.vi.697","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>***</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":403565,"journal":{"name":"Interstices: journal of architecture and related arts","volume":"258 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116197287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}