The City: Third Millennium
Joan of Arc(hitecture) presents: A Tale of Three Cities; of the 1st, 2nd, and the 3rd world.

Econstructive proposition
  1. an architectural experiment concerned with self-sustainable and transdisciplinary place-making developed through performances, workshops, screenings, and self-generated design actions
    (see: actionSpace forum and information lighthouse prototype)
  2. an attempt at humanistic reconciliation of ecology, economy, context, and construct within a transdisciplinary and transcultural development of urban habitat
    (see: I. transfusion, II. acupuncture, III. symbiosis)
  3. an antidote to philosophy of territorism (see below) based on communally and individually originated democratic urban interaction independent of academia & civic bureaucracy.

Urban architecture and Econstructive action
I. as transfusion:
II. as acupuncture:
III. as symbiosis:
actionSpace forum: communal
information lighthouse: individual

Territorism - pathological definition
  1. Bureaucratic control of physical and virtual environments by means of social, political, cultural, and technological separation.
  2. Territorial control of urban interaction and cultural exchange using first, second, and third world categories.
macro
ecology
context
economy
micro

 

I. econstructive action as transfusion: developing communal forums for ecological place-making concerned with independent cultural exchange, theoretical experimentation and diverse design practice.
example: actionSpace
communal experience
collective work
social body
physical expression
public space
urban ecology

 

II. econstructive action as acupuncture: developing individual information lighthouses; energy efficient habitable structures designed for democratic message dissemination.
example: information lighthouse (shown here dedicated to jean seberg)
information lighthouse
personal antibody
individual memory
point of view
view and belief
lighthouses

 

III. econstructive action as symbiosis: developing new forms of interaction concerned with our relationship to macro and micro environment and its cultivation.
example: public call for urban ideas
ecological awareness
creative expression
communal exchange
collective interaction
independent point of view
urban formation

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The ideas presented here are by no means conclusive. They are based on a seven-year cycle of communal and personal experimentation, involving actionSpace as a transdisciplinary forum with many collaborating individuals in the greater Los Angeles area.

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