Infra-Ordinary

Instead of the headline news of daily papers that recounted the sensational and the fantastic, he was fascinated with minute situations, gestures, moments and habits that we overlooked or missed. Thus the word infra- referring to what is underneath, or even inferior. Perec’s endeavor was to devise ways which the infraordinary could be revealed, and... See more

“deliberately neutral or forgetful landscape being forged elsewhere in the centre of Belfast ......in an effort to attract financial investment and tourism” (McDowell and Braniff 2014 p01). With so much purposeful removal of memory and meaning, it is hard to imagine that a legitimate architectural intervention can help record and articulate the con... See more

Over last ten years, the geometry of the cities did not change much, so it determines our movements as much as it did in the 1960s. But what did change is the presence and role of maps. Digital interactive maps are now built into tens of thousands of apps for mobile devices, and we use them daily. Looking and working with the geometry of the cities... See more

Sensed Territoriality

We mark out territories in different ways and of varying durations in our everyday life, such as a simple act of placing a bag on an empty chair to reserve a seat for a friend. Jennifer Lem, Gee Hae and Jelena Bulajic’s took up a spot in the foodcourt to observe the behaviors of users. Their work became an emotional battle of t... See more

She has come to see, too, the universal in the specific. “All the months that I had been filming, I’d thought that there were so many ways of living, of inhabiting the park,” she says. “I wanted to know as many configurations as possible, all the strange and unique ways. But lately, as I went over the scenes again and again, smoothing their edges, ... See more

“What speaks to us, seemingly, is always the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines. Railway trains only begin to exist when they are derailed, and the more passengers that are killed, the more the trains exist... How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs ev... See more

Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.

The metaphor of mining suggests that you recover what is valuable and discard the rest. But what if we reverse the procedure?