Architecture has never been solely about the industry of building as environmental performance. Most importantly architecture is a projection of past/future cultural desires materialized in spaces, cities and landscapes. In the last decade neoliberal capitalism has aggressively built a global infrastructure to sustain consumerism demand back in capital cities. This inter-national trend has resulted in persistent communities displacement around the world’s generating a loss not only of land as shelter, but as a built environment of collective myths and memory.
Reacting to that contemporary displacement pattern Scavengers in Promised Lands is a provocative architectural exploration of how radical cultural practices and time base spaces enables a new set of architectural responses. For the last ten years Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski have led AA Intermediate 3 in the pursue of this question through cities, forests and wastelands. Illustrating their approach, the lecture will presents ten years of AA Inter 3 work with an in depth research on how storytelling, collapsing environments and innovation in design shape a innovative understanding of the built environment. With a photographic documentation of unique places on the Planet Earth Scavengers in Promised Lands explores the gripping power of myth and fiction as radical narratives for imagining the near future of cities and forests.
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