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Camp for Oppositional Architecture The small part of the built environment that is subject to planning at all is almost completely controlled by the claims of capitalistic utilization: globalized markets and cultures ask for commodified spaces, nation states and corporations require spectacular architectures for representative purposes, the multitude of consumer subjects demands room for individualized privacy. What’s left to do? From June 25th till 27th 2004, An Architektur organizes the "Camp for Oppositional Architecture" - an international, open congress on the possible ways of resistance within the scope of architecture and planning. The Camp will seek to find, explore and discuss oppositional perspectives of agency that criticize the demands of a capitalistic production of the built environment and try to take a non-affirmative part within this powerful contiguity. How could politically relevant and emancipative work on the basis of planning and architecture or with the means of their critique look like today? Are there any possibilities to challenge and oppose the social order from within the field of planning in a productive way? What are the relevant oppositional stances, practices, strategies or coalitions that might be imagined and realized today? During the Camp a variety of approaches will be discussed all of which enable political agency by linking planning to participation and protest. An Architektur invites theorists, offices, initiatives and other groups active within these fields to present and develop their positions together. The Camp will take place in the centre of Berlin in a former production building. An “indoor village” designed and built by students of the University of the Arts (faculty of architecture) will provide overnight accommodation as well as private and working space. The Camp will start on Friday evening with a public event to outline the possibilities and conditions of critical agency in planning and architecture. Over the weekend the Congress will progress with short statements by all participants and internal workshops. Topical working groups envisaged are on new clienteles/alternative construction industry, open source planning/participation, architecture as a form of protest/oppositional ways of building and on concepts for widening the scope of the profession. Results will subsequently be presented to the public in a kind of topical fair or exhibition. The contributions to and results of the Camp will be published in An Architektur 14. |