Over the last three years we have developed a strategic framework to support our spatial thinkers. The following (non-exhaustive) concepts are the basis for all our investigations.
CRISIS
A crisis is a narrative framed through spaces, objects and medias and needs to be defended by taking a position. Crisis response amounts to a declaration of war on a condition requiring actors, tools, resources and strategies. A response proposes the reorganisation of spatial occupation with architecture as its ultimate product. In short, a crisis and its response are design projects.
INSTITUTIONAL ADJUSTMENT
Climate change relentlessly asks us to make that choice: rely on antiquated strategies and die, or, design alternative environments and survive. The current inability to do so has reveals a systemic and global crisis across all our institutions. Once a crisis is declared, the response must advocate for institutional change. Institutional adjustment is about making demands.
COLLATERAL BENEFITS
Pantopia seeks to reflect on the far-reaching consequences of the architectural design project by critically assessing its capacity to shift what we as citizen experience daily as collateral damages into collateral benefits.
LAND
The ‘Land’ is not limited to a physical territory. Instead, it is a condition revealed through a constellation of objects, media, events and histories. It is the capacity to survey not only the geographical extent of a condition, but to reveal its full cultural and anthropogenic dimension.
MACHINE
Climate change relentlessly asks us to make that choice: rely on antiquated strategies and die, or, design alternative environments and survive. The current inability to do so has reveals a systemic and global crisis across all our institutions. Once a crisis is declared, the response must advocate for institutional change. Institutional adjustment is about making demands.
TERRITORIAL BRANDING
The act of creating an effective communication strategy to present the complexities of our environment and frame our demands for institutional adjustment by mobilising architectural evidence. As a tactic it requires us to become media experts, retrofitting our traditional modes and means of architectural production to communicate to the broadest spectrum of citizens and encourage civic engagement.