PATHFINDER/LONDON
Zeming Li, Rytzell Shayan
Studio Voluptas Prof. François Charbonnet & Prof. Patrick Heiz
ETH, Zürich
Autumn Semester 2022
KASSOVITZ MATHIEU: LA HAINE (1995)
ego: (pron.) From Ancient Greek Εγώ (Ego, "I")
- the opinion that you have about yourself
-apart of the mind that senses experienced as the "self" or "I" and adapts to the real world
CAMILLO, GIULIO: THE THEATER OF MEMORY (1519)
a metaphor used to locate and administer all human concepts, everything which exists in the whole world. The canonical relationship between audience and stage is reversed, as the theatre is conceived for a single spectator located on the stage. It is. A projection of the human mind, and can bee defined through mental associations with images and symbols. It allows a specialization of memory into an ideal place. It is somehow a materialization of the human memory, making the theater a sort of ancestor of the encyclopedia.
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
DEBORD GUY: THÉORIE DE LA DÉRIVE (1958)
british police history: the regent's park (1817)
From an urban perspective, this map shows a clear contrast between two fields, the Parks (Hyde and The Regent’s Park) and the city of London. There is on one side the will to clearly define spaces empty of any buildings and for leisure, like some sorts of flatlands, and on the other side the need for the city to expand itself, basing its sprawl on speculation and density.
abbott, berenice: Magnetic field (1982)
These two magnetic fields have directions, epicenters and magnitudes, just as magnets attract or repel each other. The global pattern of the city here encounters a local field. Interferences reciprocally apply a constant pressure, sometimes resulting in dominating the other, sometimes in being dominated.
li zeming, rytzell shayan: regent's park (2022)
denes, agnes: wheatfield (1982)
Sometimes this negotiation is radicalized, both the built and the unbuilt environment becoming extreme. It raises questions about density, city planning. Through time, the constant struggle for both entities to survive or dominate the other becomes the norm.
botticelli, sandro: the divine conmedy (1485)
All THE WORLD's A STAGE,
AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY pLAYERS
Shakespeare, william: as you like it (1599)
