Representing the Global

a research + design lab

We live in a global world.

We bring it home.

We shop it.

We shop it.

We taste it.

We breath it.

We envision it.

What is the global?

- How is it represented?

- What are the processes of representation?

- What are the impacts and outcomes of representation?

- What is produced? What is consumed?

- Who is in control?

- What is at stake? 

Themes for the semester: Consumption - shopping, lifestyle, economy

Intimacy - self/other, security/fear

Agency - politics, change, media, citizenship

Space - architecture, urban form, spatial power relations, global city

Desire - economy,  freedom, capitalism, production, consumption

Destruction - spatial/political conflict, redevelopment, sustainability, cultural identity, memory

Is it real?

Is it a copy?

What is the difference?

Where are we again?

Does it matter?

Do you see it?

What happens next?

Well?

The global is . . . ?a producta service

a treatmentan imagea strategy

an investmenta piece of real estate

a relationshipa risk

a feelinga tastea desirea lifestyle

a theme parka crimea reality

a reality showa simulation

a speculation

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