Comment 88504

By Mal (anonymous) | Posted May 09, 2013 at 09:00:43 in reply to Comment 88499

Sorry if it comes off as snarky. If it's worded sharply it's probably down to my sense of frustration with our palsied body politic.

I've made my enthusiasm for these unsanctioned projects clear in earlier TU entries. I admire the energy and creativity and the sense of possibility. You can't follow these events and not feel oxygenated. True, there are risk involved in stepping over a line, but we're all grown-ups and can accept that the same dynamic that necessitates the direct action is likely to result in petulant/punitive reaction.

At the same time as I expressed a admiration, I also noted that one could the actors involved are prevented from doing anything like this in their day jobs, which is the arena they're ultimately seeking to influence.

Architects engineer public spaces, and in that sense they are part of the system.

Local architects have cultivated relationships with the policymakers and planners in this city, and they put forward the concepts that the city and powerful local institutions (health care/education) has bought again and again, going back generations. Yet for some reason these same professionals have become incidental to the urban experiment. That is the narrative I find most interesting in this case.

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