Ardeth #06 (I - Spring 2020)

CONTINGENCY. Design and the challenge of change

AA.VV., Dana Cuff, Will Davis, Dana Cuff, Will Davis

• Publisher: Rosenberg & Sellier
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9788878858541
• eBook ISBN:
  9788878858558
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Incorporating contingency into our fundamental thinking about architecture contradicts the way we theorize, practice, and historicize the field. Accidents happen, yet architects rarely let chance play a role in their visions.
How contingency play a role in architectural design and thinking?
How designers incorporate change in their practice?
The forward-facing nature of contingency scholarship, if we give it a name, may embed possible worlds that are more just, more compassionate, and more aware of the inequalities that accompany the uneven distribution of the most vital resource i our times: space.
This issue began with the aim of exploring contingency thinking, and is completed from within contingent times, when nothing seems certain and contingency is less a lens than the air we breathe.

Table of contents

• Design and the Challenge of Change. L’altra innovazione
• Editorial [1/2]
• Contingent Excess
• “The Fire This Time”: The Politics of Contingency
• The UCSD Community Stations: From Hospitality to Infrastructures of Inclusion
• Historic Contingency in Dolgeville, Los Angeles1903-1910: Establishment of the Suburban Socioeconomic Condition
• Podium Perspective: Whitney Young and the Black Architectural Imagination
• “Visually Stunning” while Financially Safe: Neoliberalism and Financialization at Canary Wharf
• Discussing Alternativeness to Incorporate Contradictions.Framing Research on Architects’ Collectives and Groups
• Indigeneity, Contingency, and Cognitive Shifts
• The University and the Camp
• Life Above, Rubble Below: A Case of Historically Produced Risk & Perceptionin Mexico City
• Un’azione del progetto nello State-building del Kosovo: alcune esplorazioni grafiche
• Agency in the Sauna: The Architectural Monument int he Era of the Anthropocene
• Radical Contingency. Strategy and Tactics in Architectural Design
• Production for Reduction
• “A Looming Cold Crunch ”and the Contingencies of Transnational Air-Conditioning
• Architectures of an “Otherwise”: Inhabiting Displacement
• Editorial [2/2]
• Ardeth #08 BURN-OUT. On planetary exhaustion and alternative public infrastructures