| This body of work began with questioning the built form of cities. In a time when the needs of the moment are in constant flux, how does architecture choreograph or encapsulate social performances? If sociocultural norms are reproduced through built form, with whom does the power reside in forming the environment in which our daily experiences and internal dispositions are structured? Approaching the same question from a different perspective: how are margins of agency within habitual modes of operation extended or constricted by the technological, institutional and spatial reproductions of their scaffoldings?;Centered in the field of spatial justice, this research is intertwined with investigations in spatial politics, political artifacts, media of social reform and sociospatial revolution. As such, the investigation follows a lineage of predecessors who have blazed a trail with their penetrating insights and compelling consensuses, but one that ends abruptly in an expansive tundra; symbolizing the struggle in circumventing normalized modes of operation in the transition from theory to practice. This restrictive power construct is intertwined with a multiplicity of political interests and institutional practices to such a degree that it is hard to discern a mode of action that operates to disseminate it through truly revolutionary appropriation of its trappings. How does one bend a scaffolding, having been institutionalized into its modes of thought, perception, expression and practice?. |
