1 – statement by joseph vogl. "every architecture certainly carries within itself a basic social decision in regards to what should be done and how life should be lived therein."
2 – "communicating the highest-minded concepts with the lowest key materials."
3 – lecture by kim förster. exploring progressive tendencies latent within community spaces.
4 – posters wallpapered in the entrance lobby. negotiating the boundaries of the use of space and the means of displaying work.
the exhibition communal spaces / community places / common rooms is based on issue 10 of the berlin-based political architectural journal an architektur with the title ‘gemeinschaftsräume’, published in 2003. the issue covered 29 historical and current examples of communal spaces in different contexts ranging from the paris commune to the anti-globalization movement, from soviet commune houses to recent squats. taking these examples as a starting point, the exhibition offers visualization of the concept of community spaces and posits local examples within this context. beyond mere investigation of the architectural and urban histories of communal spaces the exhibition raises the question of how built space may be constitutive for an emancipatory concept of community. if space is understood as the location and implementation of political conditions and politics were to construct itself only with recourse to the communal, the communal space would be the most political and conflictive place imaginable.
jun 12–jul 20, 2007
exhibition brochure, pdf
exhibition poster, pdf
lecture by kim förster (co-editor of an architektur): thursday jul 19, 2007