by Melissa Perkinson | Aug 30, 2014 | Modes of Operation
Heterotopias can be testing grounds for future spatial conditions. The convergence of programs, illusions and spectacle; not a void, but “a set of relations that delineates sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely not superimposable on one...
by Melissa Perkinson | Aug 30, 2014 | Modes of Operation
The Sutro Baths built in 1894 by Adolph Sutro, conceived a swimming recreational facility for white San Franciscans in a massive glass enclosure housing 7 swimming pools. It appeared to be a spectacle of slides, trapezes, springboards and high dives, with terraced...
by Melissa Perkinson | Aug 30, 2014 | Modes of Operation
Central park is a living breathing microcosm part of a larger domain. It is a space outside the norm, but that does not disrupt everyday life. Yamashita, Michael S. Photograph. Viewed 27 August 2014. ...
by Melissa Perkinson | Aug 30, 2014 | Modes of Operation
Serpentine pavilion by Sou Fujimoto restructures the city landscape by offering a cloud like structure “some where else” outside of the norm. It offers transparency between the conditions outside and a space of refuge inside. Portilla, Daniel. Photograph. Viewed 27...
by Melissa Perkinson | Aug 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Michel Agier argues his hypothesis “from refuge the ghetto is born” by investigating types of encampments through the eyes of Foucault’s heterotopias. Algier coins the term “off places” or informal encampments established in most cases to seek refuge from violent...