Isabelle Doucet
(Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre)
Practical critical thinking.
1968
Marxism on the ground.
Remain critical of basic operations of institution.
Study the agents in a specific situation.
1860-80. architek. Brussels’ dialect.
Bruxellisation.
Demolition of large part of the urban fabric.
Urban scars.
Traumatised city.
Words travel.
Unfinished projects.
Woolf. Odour of words.
To change. To react against the odour.
An unbuilt urinal.
Reclaim. Digest.
Work through the legacies of the past, in the present.
Drawing as an autonomous political tool.
Drawings as political provocateurs.
Reconstruction of historical types.
Anti-industrial resistance
Heal the effects of separation.
Design as a process of healing.
50-year-old scar.
Tapestry as a mode of communication.
Interstitial activism.
More urban design than architecture.
Activism in niches within the system.
Non-oppositional.
The idiotic. Stenger. Delors. Dostoyevsky.
Engagement.
Seek attachment.
Political debates become cultural debates.