Friday, October 10, 2014

In ETH Zürich, School of Architecture,  7th/14th October 2014
Elena Rocchi Run a Workshop on Radical Representation of Ideologies in Studio of Profesro Heinrich Wolff.

Ideologies

Freedom Charter (SA)
Constitution (SA)
Apartheid (SA)
Blocking out (SA)
In situ upgrade

Incremental security of tenure (Urban landmark)
Land trust / collective land tenure
Subsidised housing (SA)
Village Economy (Mahatma Gandi)

The new landscape (Charles Correa) 
Organopónicos (Cuba)
Situationists (Constant Nieuwenhuys)
Imperialism (Edward Said)

Modernisation
War
Revolution
Public Health (urban disease control)

Communism
Feudalism
Monotheism
CSR (corporate social responsibility)

Mass production

Capitalism for the poor (de Soto)
Freedom to build (John Turner)
Ujamaa (Julius Nyerere)
Development of underdevelopment (Frank) 
Garden city
Late-capitalism (Frederick Jameson)
Neo-liberalism



7th October 2014
All students open the discussion on investigations of their ideology.


8th/14th October RADICAL REPRESENTATION exercise

I have asked each student to send me a "postcard" from their city of Ideology. during the 7th, a brief introduction on what emerges from the postcard will be done. The postcard is a potential of the ideological to be constructed.

The Workshop will involve exercises in radicalising our ways of representing ideas and the city. New techniques of representation will assist in generating new conceptions of the city.

The exercises is not abstract and the representation is based on the explorations on the postcard’s insights. The idea is to focus on the conclusions of that exercise and to find techniques and media that would express these insights.

The workshop runs for one week; it starts on Wednesday 8 October and will be presented on Tuesday 14 October. There will be two extensive, all-day workshops.