Category: Publications
HOUSE SERIES
The ALICE HOUSE series originate from the research projects ‘protostructure’ and the concepts of ‘adapted scaffolding’, including a PhD (Agathe Mignon, 2013–2018), several teaching formats, and diverse case studies in large-group design and build processes. It consists of a series of building-size installations, parallel cultural and scientific events, framed by exhibitions and publications. The HOUSE (…)
PROTOFIGURATION
Julien Lafontaine-Carboni The term prefiguration was first formally defined by Boggs (1977) as ‘the embodiment, within the ongoing political practice of a movement, of those forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal’. Rooted in the Americans’ radical left, prefiguration is a different kind of theory, a “direct theory” (…)
PROTOFIGURATION, GEOMETRIES OF TRANSINDIVIDUATION
15.06.2018 Through the participation ‘Protofiguration, geometries of transindividuation’ at Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, Julien Lafontaine Carboni explored Primary Gestures of Land Division and Archaic Practices of Inscriptions as potential answers to current Complexity of the World. The theory of operations of Simondon, the French technique’s philosopher, allows us to analyse such figures (…)