ARQ 107 | 20 / 21 (April 2021)
Libre acceso/Open Access
Francisco Díaz (ed.); several authors
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20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish + English
ISSN: 0716-0852 / ISSN (online): 0717-6996
The pandemic is the closest our time has ever been to the shortcomings and restrictions of war. Yet, as much as rockets are already arriving on Mars, we still have nowhere to escape. Here, the answers of this 20-21 seem binary: return to the previous normality (to the past) or venture into an uncertain future (but, at least, to a future). But this year the frontiers of possibility have moved at an unusual speed. In ARQ, we have been trying to follow these transformations for a while, not because of presentism anxiety, but because we believe we are witnessing a moment of change of historical proportions. Think of conceptual and symbolic resignifications, the delay of global events, unbreathable air, new dwelling models, digitization of work, virtualization of teaching, outdoor life, confinement, facial protections, logistical automation, visibility of precarious working conditions, concern for the care of non-human agents (from statues to domestic plants).
With contributions by: Ivana Ivin, Hashim Sarkis, Práctica, Forensic Architecture, Urtzi Grau, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Encinas, Aguirre, Vergara, Tironi, Truffello, Freed, Hidalgo, Estudio Herreros + Mim-A, Ethel Baraona, Bo-Daa, Magdalena Vicuña, Catalina Torres, Domingo Arancibia, Pía Montealegre, Baccarin, Boano, Fabbri, Pone, Praino, Natura Futura, Maryangel Mesa, Brina, Medvedenko, Provenzano, Tetekin, Claudio Palavecino, Sebastián Paredes, Marina Otero.
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Paperback
20.6 x 27 cm | 156 pp.
Spanish + English
ISSN: 0716-0852 / ISSN (online): 0717-6996
The pandemic is the closest our time has ever been to the shortcomings and restrictions of war. Yet, as much as rockets are already arriving on Mars, we still have nowhere to escape. Here, the answers of this 20-21 seem binary: return to the previous normality (to the past) or venture into an uncertain future (but, at least, to a future). But this year the frontiers of possibility have moved at an unusual speed. In ARQ, we have been trying to follow these transformations for a while, not because of presentism anxiety, but because we believe we are witnessing a moment of change of historical proportions. Think of conceptual and symbolic resignifications, the delay of global events, unbreathable air, new dwelling models, digitization of work, virtualization of teaching, outdoor life, confinement, facial protections, logistical automation, visibility of precarious working conditions, concern for the care of non-human agents (from statues to domestic plants).
With contributions by: Ivana Ivin, Hashim Sarkis, Práctica, Forensic Architecture, Urtzi Grau, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Encinas, Aguirre, Vergara, Tironi, Truffello, Freed, Hidalgo, Estudio Herreros + Mim-A, Ethel Baraona, Bo-Daa, Magdalena Vicuña, Catalina Torres, Domingo Arancibia, Pía Montealegre, Baccarin, Boano, Fabbri, Pone, Praino, Natura Futura, Maryangel Mesa, Brina, Medvedenko, Provenzano, Tetekin, Claudio Palavecino, Sebastián Paredes, Marina Otero.