THE JUNKSPACE MONUMENT, An ode to monsters and parking lots
An empowering network of urban interventions in Rotterdam
E.L.M. Fabre (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
AS Alkan – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
Georg Vrachliotis – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
E.W.M. Hehenkamp – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
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Abstract
Facing the neo-liberalisation of the city, "the furtive monument" is a path across the city, combining programs of the body, the mind and the politics, in order to reach a state of empowerment. Based on a situationist drift, architectural interventions transform the way the city of Rotterdam is experienced, not based on profit but based on programmatic activations. If the city is a generic cadaver, the project has the ambition to revive its soul from its carcass, extracting its qualities, disrupting the systems in place and re-assembling its components. The city, seen as programmatic intensities, states that architecture doesn’t have to be built.