Featuring the work of Yasmine Abboud, Olympia Anesti, Nick Axel, Jacob Burns, Jesse Connuck, Rodrigo Delso Gutierrez, Yi-Hui Lin, Frank Mandell, Basima Sisemore, and Alan Yates.

The event of recognition in many ways is an acknowledgement of the legitimacy of a particular legal entity. As a precondition, recognition is also detection, identification. Lastly, the “re-” of recognition points to an act of translation by which things are thought differently.

This exhibition starts from these premises of recognition to unearth some of the conflicting sets of circumstances, decisions, controls and landscapes of the world we live in. The work presented seeks not to examine a common sense of spatial and political destabilization, but rather to initiate an engagement and re-evaluation, a recognition and re-cognition, with contemporary spatial politics.

“Home is a 3-year shelf stable pizza” by Jesse Connuck.

“Grounding Deregulation” by Nick Axel

By recognizing, we:
- Present Beirut’s contested history through the city’s structural rolling blackouts. Explore Thessaloniki’s social and architectural interface with the Roma.
- Expose the legal geography of industrial deregulation in the United States.
- Meditate on the effectivity of violence and the digital mediation of “terrorism.”
- Reflect on the relation between the home and war through military food rations.
- Frame in-vitro fertilization as a Palestinian movement of political resistance.
- Challenge the legitimacy of civil engineering metrics as a perceptive device
- Render the distinction between life and the circus unrecognizable.
- Reveal shifting axes of identity in facial recognition technology and Syrian militia defections.
- Use time variables to turn the infrastructure of urban environments over to its inhabitants.

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re-cognitions
Centre for Research Architecture
MA Research Architecture 2013-2014 Exhibition

19-25 June. 10am-6pm daily

Richard Hoggard Building (RHB) 312
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW

/// Header image: Jacob Burns: “‘Everyone Can See the Fate of Spies”
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Relying on the use of digital diagramming and mapping, we will unfold the metabolism of wine production and dissect techniques and technologies involved in the processes. Underlining the characteristics of time information and feedback, we will recognize the potential of the use of Control Systems as an essential design tool. Concluding the research, we will address the spatial and organizational attributes of the process to envisage, through the production of drawings, digital and physical models, potential architectural solutions for a contemporary bodega.

/// Faculty:
Directors: Edouard Cabay, Carles Sala
Coordinators: Relja Ferusic, Pablo Ros
Tutors: Edouard Cabay, Relja Ferusic, Anna Ramos, Pablo Ros, Carles Sala, Mar Santamaria

/// Fieldwork:
Fieldwork on the vineyard: data collection, mapping, diagramming.
Fieldwork in the winery: data collection, mapping, diagramming.
Control Systems: visit to the MediaTIC building, guided by Enric Ruiz-Geli
Digital tools: professional guided visit to the Sagrada Familia construction site.

/// Archi/tech/e/nologies. Open Lectures Series
Keynote lecturer and jury special member: Sir Peter Cook (confirmed)
Lecturers: Enric Ruiz-Geli, Vicente Guallart, Enric Batlle & Joan Roig, Jaime Coll. (confirmed and subject to change)

You can read the complete programme here:

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With this vision we are getting closer to the step from utopias to reality. What we call TOPIAS.

In our next 8th edition we intend to analyze the following subjects:
• New uses for urban public space: from self-management, empowerment and projects of collaboration.
• Housing in crisis situation (politic, economic, environmental, demographic): solutions to evictions, to family regrouping in developed countries, analysis of temporary uses of non-used spaces, solutions for emergency housing.
• Evolution of the working space: co-working as a space-model and new working and collaboration methods.
Network communication helps us to share the good praxis. Generalizing these practices has several stages:
• Establish a legal recognized framework: analyzing the new financial association of interchange and, for example, giving value to the concept of generating welfare in society, etc.
• Support education by introducing before mentioned new concepts in universities.
• Convey communication and awareness to the public through the media, social networks and creation of open spaces accessible to all. Not only in big cities but also in medium small or isolated communities with less resources.
• Transmit this vision with empathy and trust, in order to observe, receive and project in an open-minded and sensitive way.

By analyzing, debating, proving, making mistakes and sharing we will achieve that the public intelligence shows that utopia can become a reality.

Presentation / aperitivo EME3_2013 : TOPIAS utopias becoming real + Call for projects
by Javier Planas, director
with an example of TOPIA by David Juarez, Straddle3

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The Foundation’s citation regarding the decision to award the 2013 prize to Joan Fontcuberta reads as follows:

“Joan Fontcuberta is one of the most inventive contemporary photographers, with an over 30-year achievement of constantly investigating and questioning the photographic medium. His work is distinguished by original and playful conceptual approaches that particularly explore photographic conventions, means of representation and claims to truth. He challenges concepts of science and fiction in interdisciplinary projects that extend far beyond the gallery space. In addition to his photographic practice, Joan Fontcuberta’s capacities as a writer, teacher and curator have been greatly inspirational to the younger generation.”

This year’s award committee, which submitted its proposal to the Foundation’s board of directors, consisted of:

- Ute Eskildsen (chair), Professor – Head of the Department of Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany until 2012.
- Thomas Joshua Cooper, Professor, Photography Department, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Great Britain.
- Marcel Feil, Deputy-Director, Artistic Affairs, Foam Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Agnès Sire, Director, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France.

More info: Hasselblad Foundation