futureacademy

Propositions for an architecture of a future arts college: some notes

Tutorial with Clementine Deliss & Lynda Wilson

Initial dialogue
Is Leith ready for an 'obscene' institution? Is Leith an obscene place? The port has traditionally been a place of 'obscene' acts/people/places, with the influx of people, trades, objects. Is this applicable to Leith? What is obscene in Leith at the moment? Ocean Terminal may be described as obscene when 'obscene' is as defined in the language of a typical "morning television programme" because it bears no response or responsibility toward its surroudings. But it is not obscene in the abstract sense, but in a pejorative sense.

We must interview and gather data to support our arguments. Tape the interviews, transcribe the interviews.

Who should be speak to about the future of the art school? All professions have something to add - from photographers to gynecologist. In 50 years time (when the tutors are dead), what will this institution be like?

There is economic worth (in GDP) to defining carefully the future academy.

To what end does the complex architecture of eca determine the difficulty in interdisciplinary working between departments? That combined with fiefdom.

Where is there truly promiscuous space? Heavily programmed

University of Greenwich - tutorials held in the foyer of the National xxxx

Proposed during the tutorial
There are two streams that seem to be emerging from the contemporary art school - one that is technologically based, one that is based on more traditional, manual forms of craft-art (eg. letter press, weaving, printing). I contend that there is still a huge demand and respect for the products and processes of such traditional manual art and that there is a danger that this may be lost. As architects we should be protecting this niche. Is this a Luddite view? Neo-luddite? Conservative neo-luddite? Where is the data to back up this statement? What are the numbers involved in letter press etc? To watch extent is technology involved in these manual processes?

Texts
Jacques Derrida. De l'Hospitalite and L’Université sans condition
Elizabeth Grosz. Architecture from the outside

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