Members of the nomadic swarm, I salute you all.
It’s been quite some time, almost three months since I last posted in my blogspot. But here I am again, and I shall be reiterating here every now and then more quite often.
But what have I been doing lately?
Work, work and work.
The first work is trying to attain what usually people in the world of architecture (business architecture) call, work experience. You go into the office from 9 till 6. You work and work. Sometimes you are an employer, at other times you are the manager of your own work. Sometimes you get introduced to crucial issues in the uncanny world of architecture. This is work 1.
The second kind of work is kind of an acculturation issue. What a better place to acculturate in than the Internet Relay Chat. Nevertheless, chatting on irc wasn’t a major concern, rather than the social ecology that keeps fascinating me till this time is what matters the most. But what is highly speculative in this web space is the people’s ability, from all over the world, different cultures, come to interact in one space, following one constitution, abiding by the same rules...all in all, one state. A war machine, an abstract machine, the State. But what if the war machine, this striated space is manipulated into a smooth state, a space not entangled by the rules, at least rules can exist, but only for the amelioration of the state. When can we not rely to verbosity to acculturate? It seems the feasibility of replacing a verbose interaction into a socio-spatial harmony of affects. Whereby one system affects the other, one user is affected by the system, and the user adds to the system, modifies it, upend it. Can it become a space of literally a physical matter? Can IRC become a hyperspace, whereby interaction is physical next to being verbose? In fact, we can remove the usage of verbose interaction from IRC, and it’ll just become a space, an entity, a rhizome, a form, a Rhizomatic form...I know my speculations are not tectonized by any rigid theory, at least not for the time being, nevertheless, as an advocate to Deleuze’s a Thousand Plateaus, any amendment later on is highly plausible.
As for the 3rd type of work I was indulged in, was just a competition, well in fact a priori lost competition. The Rifat al Chadirji competition. The rules to apply to the competition are that the university shall pick the diploma project that it thinks reflects a social dimension, i.e could be any place that directly addresses social issues in lebanon. I know, what an absurd word to ask for an architectural designer. I mean the word social by itself is not absurd, but, I still can’t figure that fact that there exist projects that are still not social, nor do they favour social interaction. Anyhow, after much discussion, I was allowed to present the project, not as a wining paper for the al Chadirji competition, but as later on a piece of work to be exhibited after the competition at the order of engineers and architects in Lebanon, in an attempt to pin-point or at least just initiate those who claim they know it all, about the existence of yet another form of architecture, rhizometecture, an architecture that is highly speculative on the post-tectonic architecture that is currently tantalizing the uncanny world of architecture. So it was sort of beneficial ;)
I shall not add more, but do have a peak at some panels of the senior project I exhibited. You’ll definitely enjoy this ARCHITECTURAL MASTURBATION.
