Superhumanity - Tom Holert - Spaces of the Learning Self

Spaces of the Learning Self

Tom Holert

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A section view of Cushicle the 1964 design by Michael Webb of Archigram for an individual mobile living space.

Superhumanity
October 2016










Notes
1

Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims, trans. Michael Lucey (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents, 2013), 175.

2

Ibid.

3

Chantal Jaquet, Les Transclasses ou la non-reproduction (Paris: P.U.F., 2014).

4

"Le self-made man est une illusion" [Interview with Chantal Jaquet by Antoine Louvard), Marianne, 8 June 2014.

5

Ruth Lakofski, “Come Back Narcissus – I Love You/Me”, Architectural Design 39, 6 (June 1969): 293.

6

The Cushicle consisted “of a chassis with appliances and personalized apparatuses and an inflatable envelope. The chassis is structured like a spine and would include a heating system. The helmet would contain the radio and mini-TV. Food and water modules could be added to the chassis as attachments. The two skins would be envelopes for the rider, covered with viewing screens. The two could be used independently or simultaneously.”

7

Ruth Lakofski, “Gedanken über die Seelen-Kiste/Reflexions on the Soul Box,” Daidalos. Architektur–Kunst–Kultur, 28 (June 15, 1988): 92-103.

8

Ibid., 93.

9

Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (London: Routledge and Kegan, 1966).

10

Anthony Vidler, “Fantasy, the Uncanny and Surrealist Theories of Architecture,” Papers of Surrealism 1 (Winter 2003): 3.

11

Mike Kelley, “Educational Complex,” 1996, Mike Kelley. Educational Complex Onwards 1995-2008, ed. Mike Kelley and Anne Pontégnie (Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2009), 21.

12

Howard Singerman, “The Educational Complex: Mike Kelley’s Cultural Studies,” October 126 (Fall 2008): 48.

13

Chris Abel, “Mobile Learning Stations,” Architectural Design 33, 3 (March 1969): 151.

14

Ibid.

15

Sim Van der Ryn, “The University Environment,” The Daily Californian (February 18, 1969), reprinted in Architectural Design 33, 11 (November 1969): 618-620.

16

Ibid., 619.

17

Ibid., 620.

18

Cynthia Luna Scott, “The Futures of Learning 3: What Kind of Pedagogies for the 21st Century?” UNESCO Education Research and Foresight. Working Papers 15 (December 2015): 4.

19

Ibid.

20

Ibid., 9.

21

Ivan Illich, “Foreword,” 1995, Everywhere All the Time: a New Deschooling Reader, ed. Matt Hern (Oakland, CA: AK, 2008), iv. See also Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar, “Ivan Illich’s Late Critique of Deschooling Society,” Educational Theory 62, 5 (2012): 573-592.

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.