the nyc subcommittee of temporary operations and public dissentinfiltrating and opening systems through design

isabella brandalisenovember, 2017

mindlab / government innovation unit (dk)consultant in brazil

university of brasíliaclass on ’pataphysics + speculative design

mfa transdisciplinary designparsons school of designthe new school

overview

narrative

design stimulus

imagination / solid institution

framework for dissent

overview

missing chapters

entry points / network

video

imaginary solutions,laws of exceptions,absurdity of existence[jarry]

project brief: stopd

pataphysical agency

deliberately slippery

·dissensus·praefigurat

ione

m·ostium·

·1899·

stopd

missionto challenge and open given processes and structures, allowing city residents to imagine new forms of life and interactions in/with the urban space

goalto build capacity for self-organizing and dissent, promoting conditions for distributed agency, imagination, alternative forms of governance, and a more just society to emerge

valuesprefiguration, play, experimentation and appropriation

stopd

operationscuratorial lab

experiments public archives

assessment

qualitative

conversations

implications / controversies

response

you take this solid institution that is the mayor’s office and apply this new layer, making us question if it is real – or rather imagining what would happen if it was real.

genevieve gaudet,

office of operations

response

sometimes you come across a constraint that is so powerful that it actually percludes you from being able to implement a solution from within the system, something that would actually be beneficial, but stopd is a loop that goes outside government, is filtered through the actual stuff of the world, gains much more momentum, and then comes back to the government.

genevieve gaudet,

office of operations

response

the word dissent is a red flag in the government, because it means challenging the status quo. and people here are afraid to change.

carlos martinez,

department of parks and recreation

response

stopd operates somewhere in-between government and community, and its biggest value comes from being ephemeral.

jorge luis paniagua valle,

office of appointments

summary

situated fiction

permanently latent

uprising in a controlled and controlling power structure

plausible unreality

coherent internal framework

everyday situation of the city government

the power in place doesn’t ask us to be convinced that it does everything very well [...] but to be convinced that it’s the only thing possible. with a political event, a possibility emerges that escapes the prevailing power’s control over possibles.

alain badiou

infiltration-opening

narrative as embodiment

infiltration as a method of opening in the urban space

site-specific / contextual

appropriation of the given context (constraints as opportunities)

eventual everydays,the possibilities within everyday life[critchley]

design thesis

design as opening process / not singular solution

keeps open the open, enigma [heidegger]

pataphysical

quiet

feminine

here we are. we’ve got the wrong disciplines. (...) we need a little recklessness.

j c jones

thanks!

isabella brandalise

isabrandalise@gmail.combrani651@newschool.edu