MANIFESTO SERIES: Infrastructural Opportunism

January 28, 2011

 

Storefront for Art and Architecture presented Manifesto Series: Infrastructural Opportunism which showcased 100 points [10 speakers] towards a new methodology of action for the 21st century. 

 

While contemporary politics is navigating towards a better understanding of the geopolitical consequences of an increasingly globalized territory through a publicly acknowledgedInfrastructural Investment, architects, simultaneously, have shifted their attention from the object to the territory. Coupling: Infrastructural Opportunism, the last issue of Pamphlet Architecture, is a collection of projects, strategies and methodologies that show us how to learn to see our build environment anew and find new opportunities for action. This event brought together a series of this issue’s contributors and other architects and writers to deliver a series of fresh thoughts towards an Infrastructural Opportunism. 

Presented by INFRANET LAB + LATERAL OFFICE.

 

The event featured:

 

MIMI ZEIGER on manifestos

INTERBORO on exclusion

DIANA BALMORI on realignments

JASON VIGNERI-BEANE on stripping down

LYDIA KALLIPOLITI on remedies

ANDREW BLUM on tubes

JOYCE HWANG on interventions

MAMMOTH on expanding fields

JANETTE KIM on highjacking

INFRANET LAB on contingency

 

 

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The Manifesto Series is part of an effort to encourage the formulation of positions in relation to selected topics and instigate spirited discussion and exchange in a dynamic and polemical context. The format therefore differs from that of a typical symposium.