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with Peter Bergman Max Landau, Razan Amer, Adam Gilbreath, Xinyi Lei, Mina Gursel Tabanlioglu, Theo Sparks, Alexandra Savtchenko, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Dan Kacinkas, Vedika Dawar, Photios Demetriou, Nikitha Achar, Sabrina Blakstad, Theo Spyropoulos

Wall Drawing No 112a

The Future ?

A word that occurs frequently in Climate Week 

Partially prompted

The selection of 

7 house plans 

Printed onto A4 acetate 

3 visionary or Houses of the Future 

Jacobsen’s House of the Future 1927

Keisler’s Endless house 1950

The Smithson’s House of The Future 1956 

Rietveld Utrecht house 

A circular plan claiming to be a house from Toy Story 

An Armenian Church 

Loos’s house for Tristan Tszara 

Necessary tools

2 overhead projectors , to project these plans to the same scale ,

5sq.m green paper ,  chalk ,acrylic paint , paint  brushes,measuring tape map pins , hammer. folding step ladder ,staple gun 

So

Working together

10 students from various parts of the school

Between 1pm and 3pm 

Trace these plans onto the green paper , to a scale impossible in totality to replicate on a laptop screen.

Approximately 1:20 scale

What began as a process with clear rules evolved into 

A more Dadaist activity allowing space for  argument 

An interesting shift that created a more participatory 

A cooler  (in the McLuhan sense )

And … ?