Readings..

Politics and the Situationist International
Winters, E., 2007. Politics and the Situationist International. in. Aesthetics and architecture, London ; New York: Continuum. pp92-98.

Once again there is a look into this undeniable connection of architecture and the social. "Eyck sought to provide depth to the institution of architecture by relating its practise to an understanding of the social constitution of man" (92). Architecture can never be separated from the social aspects, otherwise it is simply a building and it will never reach deeper.

It's not really a new idea, but something good to be reminded of as we continue to work out our future plan and think about moving towards architectural solutions later.

"It is with the politicization of existentialism that we can begin to see how the notion of freedom might influence artists and architects; and persuade them to connect their work to the project of insurgency or, at least, civil disobedience" (95). The idea of architecture and the freedom of human nature is something I'd never really thought of. But it makes a lot of sense, that architecture might pose as a societal rebellion.

Eyck created a fiction, not dissimilar to some of ours, about this derive and detournement. A different way that people should interact with the architecture. An interesting concept, as i find myself stuck in old patterns of architecture and the use of spaces, i find it hard to step outside the box and think how it might be used differently socially in this future Woodfordia.