bodies and buildings nyu itp 11 24 2014
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BODIES &
BUILDINGS
NYU ITP LECTURE COURSE SPRING 2014
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
JEN VAN DER MEER @JENVANDERMEER WWW.JENVANDERMEER.COM
ASSIGNMENTConcept development:
Now that you have identified a problem, how will you solve
it?
Who will your solution address?
What levers do you need to pull?
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CONCEPT MAPPING
BODIES & BUILDINGS
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CONCEPT MAPPING
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HOW WE GOVERN
RECONNECTING
BUILDIGNS TO BODIES
Foucault
Cities
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HOW DOES CHANGE
HAPPEN?
How do we regulate basic aspsects of our lives through
design, intentional interactions, architecture of the built
environment.
Who will get to draw the blue prints for the connected city?
How do we manage the risks of innovation to our bodies, and
to our earth?
We look at architecture as a global metaphor – to see how
substantial cultural trends are adopted, what is valued, what
is our connection to history, what do we see in the future.
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GOVERNMENTALITY
Foucault:
The combination of protocols, rules, structures, and
institutions through which our desire to be governed is
cultivated and channeled.
The happens not only through the state – but also through
the mechanisms that mediate power to regulate our conduct.
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GOVERNMENTALITY
Mitchell Dean
Governmentality works through a multiplicity of public and
private agencies, standards, forms of knowledge, effects,
outcomes, and consequences.
“mobile, changing, and contingent assemblages”
continuially ‘constructred, assembled, contested, and
transformed.”
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MIDDLING MODERNISM
Paul Rabinow
A middle ground where social technicians areculate the
norm.
Seeking to find scientific and practical solutions to public
problems.
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HOW WE EAT
HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR
CITIES
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HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR
CITIES
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Carolyn Steele: City of Ur – argritculture and urbanism
HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR
CITIES
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And as you can see from these maps of London, in the 90
years after the trains came, it goes from being a little blob
that was quite easy to feed by animals coming in on foot, and
so on, to a large splurge, that would be very, very difficult to
feed with anybody on foot, either animals or people. And of
course that was just the beginning. After the trains came
cars, and really this marks the end of this process. It’s the
final emancipation of the city from any apparent relationship
with nature at all.
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HOW WE SIT
MEASURE OF MAN
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MEASURE OF MAN AND
WOMAN
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Henry Dreyfus
Reversal of Taylorism – man at the center.
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MAN AS MACHINE
HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR
CITIES
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REVERSE INNOVATION – COLD
STORAGE AND THE SELL BY DATE
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WHO CAN PUT FOOD IN
THE CENTER OF SOCIETY?
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HOW WE OWN AND OWE
HOMES AND OWNERSHIP
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LEVITTOWN 1948
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HOMES AND OWNERSHIP
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HOW WE GET THERE
LEVITTOWN 1948
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ANTI PEDESTRIAN
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ANTI SUBURBANISM
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The problem with the suburbs is the same problem as the
city: they had a bad 5 or 6 decades of urban design. Cities in
the same period saw urban renewal, mostly mediocre
architecture, replacement of buildings with surface parking
lots, and a general hollowing out. It’s not because it’s the city
that this is a problem, it’s because there were some terrible
design (planning, engineering) memes out there which got
implemented as policy, while operating in a market that just
had no taste.
David Levinson at Streets.mn
REBURBIA
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OR HAVE NO HOME
SYSTEM OF
HOMELESSNESS
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HOMELESSNESS NYC 2014
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In 2014, the number of homeless people in the city reached
67,810, with all but about 3,000 living in shelters, slightly
higher than the 64,060 recorded the previous year. In 2010,
when the federal government expanded its efforts to address
homelessness, there were 53,187 homeless people in New
York.
More than half of the city’s homeless population, 41,633
people, were in families, all of them living in shelters
. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/nyregion/homelessness-rose-in-new-york.html?_r=0
SUBURBAN
HOMELESSNESS
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DATABASE OF SOLUTIONS
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ASSIGNMENTFinal project:
What is the problem?
What is the system, mapped?
What lever will you pull?
What resources do you need?
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