The Border as Threshold Space of Simultaneities

The contribution spatial analysis should nowadays attempt to make to an understanding of the effects of power on space is precisely located in incorporating this understanding of the border. Without such a model, one will only remain to speculate about the properties of the border. It will, in other words, remain discourse only, rather then discursive production operating towards understanding. It is therefore crucial that the workings of power, and its spatial implementations and implications, are studied in precise detail. In this respect, the objectives for the field of spatial analysis, as described by Foucault, have to consider mechanisms of power in order to identify what is specific about them at a given moment. Borders are moments of demarcation not only in order to allow separation and differentiation. They also allow a space of encounter to emerge as well.ArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen

Place-time discontinuities: Mapping in architectural discourse

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Remote Spatial Investigations: Constructing the Virtual Map of Belgrade

As architecture is considered a projective discipline, its underlying intents are always geared towards acting in and on the world. In other words, even if its discursive actions(evaluations, assessments, critiques, theorizations) are mostly reflexive, architecture aims to transform ‘reality’ both spatially and materially. In order to understand these spatial and material conditions of reality, the ‘field trip’ is considered of vital importance for students of architecture as it allows them to gain insight into the specificities of local spatial conditions and the way these conditions are generated, formed, used, experienced and responded to by local populations. Students being immersed in these local conditions provide the necessary know-how when developing their architectural design intervention proposals. In this paper, we will present our experiences from teaching remotely the Borders & Territories (B&T) MSc2 design studio at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in the 2020 Spring semester. Particularly, we will emphasize the clear distinction between the primordial intent of a studio set in Belgrade before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ultimate results achieved using innovative ‘remote’ research and pedagogical methods imposed by the circumstances. We will then conclude with some reflections on the current state of technology with respect to the virtual field trip, and furthermore sketch future scholarship in the relation to our DRIFT research project whose aim is to develop a digital learning environment in which the architectural field trip can be carried out remotely, while it is also aided by digital tools, allowing the user to access information data-bases and archives remotely and simultaneously.Methods & MatterTheory, Territories & Transition

Conflict, Space and Architecture: Introduction

Footprint 19 focuses on the more recent roles of architecture in the contemporary spaces of conflict. Departing from a spatial understanding of geopolitical, climatological and economical conflicts, the various contributions highlight the large scale and phenomenal transitions in the physical world and in society by extrapolating, through examples, the abundance of relations that can be traced between conflict, territory and architecture. Conflict areas often prove to be fertile grounds for innovation and for the emergence of new spatial forms. The issue reports on the state of perpetual global unrest in architecture through a series of articles and case studies that highlight the consequences of conflicts in the places and spaces that we inhabit. In the introduction, these are discussed as an interlinked global reality rather than as isolated incidents. In doing so, the contemporary spaces of conflict are positioned in the context of emerging global trends, conditions, and discourses in the attempt to address their indicative symptoms while reflecting on their underlying causes.Footprint 19: Spaces of Conflict, ISBN 978-94-90322-72-4OLD Public BuidingOLD History of Architecture & Urban Plannin

Readings and reacting: From the research of border conditions to experimental methods in architectural and urban design

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On Walking, Mapping and Drawing: The 'Moon Walk Mapping'

This article presents the mapping of the Moon Walk as part of an ongoing research project of the Borders & Territories research group in which a number of walks that have changed the course of the history of mankind are investigated and mappedTheory & Territorie

How to spatially mediate conflicts?

Various forms of violence and conflict continue to shape our habitats. What historically has been straightforward and even obvious two-way dependency, in recent years took more subtle and covert form due to sophisticated technological advancements in the fields of media, surveillance and armament. Recognising the detrimental effects of these new developments on the way we experience, conceptualise and build our environments, Footprint27 proposes artistic reflections, cross-media inquiry and counter-tactics as new powerful tools to rethink the complex relationship between conflict, space and mediation. On one hand, the aim of this issue is to deepen and expand theoretical considerations that substantiate investigations of spatial conflicts by making them truly interdisciplinary. On the other, it seeks to empower architects and artists in their pursuit of exposing, critiquing and fighting spatial violence by reclaiming/unlocking the enormous potential of media tools.Issue # 27 | Autumn / Winter 2020 | Conflict MediationsMethods & MatterTheory & Territorie

Editorial: Positions. Shared Territories in Historiography & Practice / Redactioneel: Posities. Gedeelde gebieden in historiografie & ontwerp-praktijk

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Editorial: A magazine of neither: twenty-five years of Oase

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