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* We think everything are discreet objects. But all objects are actually liable to lose their form. To stop being discreet. Even the most inert looking objects can split, decay, transform, break into microscopic forms. Bits of an object transfer itself to other things, becoming other things. --> DD: DUST! SOIL! | * We think everything are discreet objects. But all objects are actually liable to lose their form. To stop being discreet. Even the most inert looking objects can split, decay, transform, break into microscopic forms. Bits of an object transfer itself to other things, becoming other things. --> DD: DUST! SOIL! | ||
* A thing is not a fixed essence. It could be affected by all sorts of other entities. | * A thing is not a fixed essence. It could be affected by all sorts of other entities. | ||
| + | * he went to a ruin. 6 months later, it changed, the ruin itself. people graffitied it. plants colonised it. the materiality of it also decayed at incredible rate. depending on what the buildling was made, obviously. | ||
| + | * what are the properties of the stuff the building is made. what is the quality of material? | ||
Revision as of 09:22, 14 May 2014
Tim Edensor - RUINS ARE EVERYWHERE
- Writer of 'industrial ruins'
- He made a paper last year, when he submitted it they said the reference list too long, also now this year outdated - testament to the area's popularity
Ruination is only being held at bay for now
- Ruins are everywhere - decentering it by suggesting ruins is everywhere
- Illusion of fixity of place - even though we think of them to be the same, even if they were constructed centuries ago. What is the state of flux keeping it seemingly ephemeral and permanent at the same time? - Maintenance: a repetative maintenance that maintains the shape of our urban world.
- "while you are there it is actually falling down around you (but hopefully very slowly)"
- Durability and consistency - eg the last supper is constantly restored as a painting. We know it to be da vinci's work. but probably no speck of paint is actually original anymore! (but this is not about authenticity)
- Alan Weisman's The World Without Us - what would happen to the urban environment if we weren't there - ruination would immediately start with the stoppage of maintenance!
- How buildings are all liable to become Ruins. They fall apart unevenly, due to the quality of various materials they are composed of.
- Building is a process. structure to house systems. buildings as hybrid things. different physicality of different material. Building as emergent mosaic. Different temporalities of a building.
What shapes the process of ruination
- We think everything are discreet objects. But all objects are actually liable to lose their form. To stop being discreet. Even the most inert looking objects can split, decay, transform, break into microscopic forms. Bits of an object transfer itself to other things, becoming other things. --> DD: DUST! SOIL!
- A thing is not a fixed essence. It could be affected by all sorts of other entities.
- he went to a ruin. 6 months later, it changed, the ruin itself. people graffitied it. plants colonised it. the materiality of it also decayed at incredible rate. depending on what the buildling was made, obviously.
- what are the properties of the stuff the building is made. what is the quality of material?
