4.312
Advanced Studio on the Production of Space
Fall 2016
Topics
- Presentation of the theme, syllabus structure and assignments
- Discussion: We will discuss different definitions of modeling and relations between models, diagrams and objects. We will examine connections of obedience and modeling within the current realms of captitalist production.
- Studio: Introduction in assignments and discussion on the practice of modeling
- Discussion: We will interrogate production of space as defined by H. Lefebvre. We will explore planning and mapping as two different and sometimes even opposed mechanisms of spatial production?
- Studio: Modelling studio, presenting the list of people to be contacted. Developing the first assignment.
- Discussion: We will explore the agency of growth and efficiency in the era of uncertainty.
- Studio
- Dicussion: We will discuss concepts of multitude, agonistic pluralism and autogestion as possible models for radical production of democracy.
- Studio: Studio time. (See 2nd modeling experiment description.)
- Studio: Discussion and preparation for the second assignment.
- Discussion: We will discuss meanings and relations of sublime and uncanny in the current context of ecological production.
- Discussion: We will discuss socio-political agendas behind distributional and communicational processes across different scales and media. We will interrogate the notion of emptiness and disconnection as models of resistance within the dense realms of networked society.
- Studio: Preparation for the midterm review
- Discussion: We will unfold the notion of network value and discuss how it is being generated through the current dynamics of cognitive capitalism.
- Midterm Presentation - speculate, intersect, fail
- Discussion: We will discuss the concept of habitus and everydayness as a set of personal behavioral patterns and collective rituals. We will analyze production of everydayness through interactions with familiar objects.
- Studio: MIT Museum visit
- Discussion: We will discuss processes and systems through which bodies are normalized, controlled and manipulated.
- Discussion: We will discuss different constructs of time and interrogate ways how they shape phenomena of (self) productiveness and efficacy. We will examine what models of time we rely upon and how we can subvert them.
- Penultimate—develop & build.
- Discussion: We will discuss construction and deconstruction of memory and potential models of overcoming trauma.
- Studio: Studio time instead of the lecture and consultations before the final review.
- Final Review
- Presentations of the final projects. Documentation of student work and overall curation of the models collection.
- Final discussion and planning of the publication
Readings
- SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Presentation of the theme, syllabus structure and assignments · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View . Harper & Row, 1974, pp. 1–13, 153–165.
- Stallybrass, Peter. “Marx’s Coat.” In Border Fetishims: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces . Edited by Patricia Spyer. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415918572.
- SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Studio: Introduction in assignments and discussion on the practice of modeling · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Corner, James. “The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention.” In Mappings . Edited by Dennis Cosgrove. Reaktion Books, 1999. ISBN: 9781861890214.
- Knabb, Ken, ed. Situationalist International Anthology . Revised & Expanded edition. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006, pp. 1–14, 43–46. ISBN: 9780939682041.
- Upton, Dell. “The Grid and the Republican Spatial Imagination.” In Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic . Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780300124880.
- SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Studio: Modelling studio, presenting the list of people to be contacted. Developing the first assignment. · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Daston, Lorraine J. and Peter Gallison. Objectivity . Zone Books, 2010, pp. 11–16. ISBN: 9781890951795.
- Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind . The University of Chicago Press, 1966, pp. 1–33. ISBN: 9780226474847.
- Latour, Bruno. “A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans.” In Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies . Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 174–215. ISBN: 9780674653368.
- Burke, Christopher, Erik Kindel, and Sue Walker, eds. Isotype: Design and Contexts 1925–1971 . Hyphen Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780907259473.
- SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Studio · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. “The Multitude against Empire.” In Empire . Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 393–415. ISBN: 9780674006713.
- Mouffe, Chantal. “What is Agnostic Politics?” In Agnotstics: Thinking The World Politically . Verso, 2013, pp. 1–19. ISBN: 9781781681039.
- ———. “For an Agnotstic Model of Democracy.” In The Democratic Paradox . Verso, 2009, pp. 80–105. ISBN: 9781844673551.
- Hobbes, Thomas. “Of Common Wealth.” In Leviathan . Penguin Classics, 1982. ISBN: 9780140431957.
- SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Studio: Studio time. (See 2nd modeling experiment description.) · READINGS: No assigned readings
- SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Studio: Discussion and preparation for the second assignment. · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Freud, Sigmund. The Uncanny . Penguin Classics, 2003, pp. 123–162. ISBN: 9780142437476.
- Picon, Antoine. “A Productive Countryside.” In French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment . Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780521123693.
- Guattari, Felix. The Three Ecologies . Athione Press, 2000, pp. 23–70. ISBN: 9780485006087.
- SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Studio · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Easterling, Keller. “Disposition.” In Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space . Reprint edition. Verso, 2016. ISBN: 9781784783648.
- Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity . Polity, 2000, pp. 98–110. ISBN: 9780745624105.
- Tinkler, Keith J. Introduction to Graphy Theoretical Methods in Geography (Concepts and Technqiues in Modern Geography; no. 14) . Geo Abstracts, 1977. ISBN: 9780902246683.
- SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Studio: Preparation for the midterm review · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Benkler, Yochai. “Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge.” In The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . Yale University Press, 2007, pp. 1–28. ISBN: 9780300125771.
- Pasquinelli, Matteo. “Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of Common Intellect.” In Deep Search: the Politics of Search beyond Google . Edited by Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder. Studien Verlag, 2009. ISBN: 9783706547956.
- SES #: 16 · TOPICS: Midterm Presentation - speculate, intersect, fail · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Lefebvre, Henri. “The Theory of Moments.” In Critique of Everyday Life . Verso, 2014. ISBN: 9781781683170.
- de Certeau, Michel. “Making Do: Uses and Tactics.” In The Practice of Everday Life . 3rd edition. University of California Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780520271456.
- Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. “Why We Need Things.” In History From Things: Essays on Material Culture . Edited by Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery. Smithsonian Books, 1995. ISBN: 9781560986133.
- Foucault, Michel. “Docile Bodies.” In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Translated by Alan Sheridan. Vantage Books, 1995. ISBN: 9780679752554.
- Mauss, Marcel. “Techniques of the Body.” In Incorporations . Edited by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter. Zone Books, 1992. ISBN: 9780942299298.
- Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic . 13th edition. Edited by Steve Giles, Marc Silberman and Tom Kuhn. Translated by John Willett. Hill and Wang, 1977, pp. 69–76, 136–147.
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management . Harper & Brothers, 1919.
- SES #: 20 · TOPICS: Studio · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Rifkin, Jeremy. Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History . Reprint edition. Touchstone Books, 1989, pp. 88–120.
- Kubler, George. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the HIstory of Things . Yale University Press, 1962, pp. 31–61.
- SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Penultimate—devlop & build. Student presentations. · READINGS: No assigned readings
- Marot, Sebastien. Sub-Urbanism and the Art of Memory . AA Publications, 2003, pp.8–32. ISBN: 9781902902234.
- Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory . Revised edition. Translated by N. M. Paul and W. S. Palmer. Zone Books, 1990, pp. 133–177. ISBN: 9780942299052.
- SES #: 24 · TOPICS: Studio · READINGS: No assigned readings
- SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Studio: Studio time instead of the lecture and consultations before the final review. · READINGS: No assigned readings
- SES #: 26 · TOPICS: Final Review · READINGS: No assigned readings
- SES #: 27 · TOPICS: Presentations of the final projects. Documentation of student work and overall curation of the models collection. · READINGS: No assigned readings
- SES #: 28 · TOPICS: Final discussion and planning of the publication · READINGS: No assigned readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.