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Notes from Re-Tooling May 28

India
electricity is open source>

public declaration:
used politicallly
claiming streets
lighting people
subtle communication betw
people who control the power
what you take permission for and what you end up
doing.

Large lighting piece.
They proposed a declaration to the city.
they said they would light up some building.
then they cahnged the delcaration and made it
more interesting.

but it started by getting contact and access
to the post office. to decorate it, then they
evoloved it to decarate the buildings next to it.
and etc.

Notes from this day May 25, 2007

Second History Lesson:
Re-education
Nora Sternfeld + Peter Grabher

What a history lesson could be for a perspective of the present.

They will present a period after the nazi breakdown.

Peter: historian
colelctive for screnning and discusion
politial cinema
he is at paris where he does phd in middle eaast
conflict in essay films.

showing 3 re-education films:
guided by questions and nazi education in this
context.

VHS tapes. apologize for bad quality.

context: two phases after may 1945
of re-education;
ph. 1: allied in their

Learning from architecture:

May 25, 2007
Anarchitektur, aristide antonas, sandi hilal, nikolaus hirsch, john palmesino, alsessandro petti, srdjan jovanovic weiss, eyal weizman

which architecture
learning from is learning fromsomething else.

architecutre without architects.
in order to break bonds of modernist.

learning "from"
transformation of information fo ideas into tools.
dedicated research
geopolitical, urban ___situations.
still haunted by that promise that a better building
or better practive will emerge.

arch is no longer observing and speculating outside of itself,