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Stupid Togetherness
Silja Komulainen, Lilo Nöske, Marion Renard, Pascaline Robinot, Agca Saglam, Galyna Sukhomud
2022
Keywords: public space, embodied knowledge, collaborative practice, urban pedagogy, playful urban exploration, subversion, psychogeography, commonness
Threads: Cooperating with(in) arts and culture, (Un)framing Knowledge, Inquiring
Short description
The project Stupid Togetherness seeks to question existing spatial mechanisms and explore the possibilities for collaborative engagement within the urban spaces. Inspired by theories and artistic approaches such as urban studies, affect, and urban hacking, the approach of stupid togetherness was developed. During the Winter School, the group invited participants to a workshop exploring an embodied experience of space, where spatial power hierarchies are subverted in unexpected ways. The experiences were collected in the end and worked into a manifestos.
Personal appreciation
International and interdisciplinary, our group consists of students of architecture, cultural management, media studies, and urban studies from four different countries. The members share a common, yet multifaceted interest in the various struggles and negotiations within the city space and territory.
Contribution to the "Who knows?" handbook
To explain our understanding of these hierarchies, we define space as produced through knowledge created by dominant economic, social, and political groups. Other voices remain marginalized in the official channels of spatial production. Our workshop invited participants to challenge this hierarchy-creation and exclusion mechanism and instead re-imagine it through manifestos. Normally a tool of declaration used by architects, social thinkers, and urban planners, manifestos are rarely created by diverse groups of citizens. Appropriating this academic and exclusive tool, we wanted to subvert the dominant ways of spatial production by giving a voice to everyone.
Material(s)
These manifestos were created by a group of students involved in the Shakin project after a workshop exploring an embodied experience of space, where spatial power hierarchies are subverted in unexpected ways.
Link to material #2 - (Part 2/3)
Link to material #3 - (Part 3/3)
Additional Information
Location | De-centralized project held in Belgrade, Serbia, Weimar, Germany and Lyon, France Experimentation held in Lyon, France |
Original language(s) | English |
Existing translations | |
Length | Fall 2021-Summer 2022 |
Project runtime | 2021 - 2022 |
Institution of affiliation | Bauhaus Universität Weimar Université Lumière Lyon 2 |
Sponsor(s) | Sharing subaltern knowledge through international cultural collaborations (SHAKIN') EU’s Erasmus+ program |
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