User:Trashpuppy/A1
Assessment1
"histories are made by irreversible events; by mapping these events and remapping their politics, social structures can, perhaps, evolve to accommodate, both alternative pasts and radical futures." (Jaojoco 2020, p. 16)
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"surrounded by screens we live a cinematic life" (Metahaven)
Example: Rotta: The Deluge and the Dutch origin myth
Assessment2
Thesis
THE CURRENT : ON READING ROTTERDAM THROUGH HYDROCOMMONS
Research questions:
How does the access, excess, and control of water reflect broader politics?
And how can these politics be analysed and reimagined - drawing on water as a repository of knowledge?
Everybody is a Rotterdammer: Welcome to Rotterdam
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"histories are made by irreversible events; by mapping these events and remapping their politics, social structures can, perhaps, evolve to accommodate, both alternative pasts and radical futures." (Jaojoco 2020, p. 16)
The demolition of the Tweebobsuurt, like many urban restructuring projects, is a literal top-down, imperial way of building a world. The existing life and architecture is forcibly erased, evicted. Translated into blank slates, to be built upon in the name of modernist progress