Foreword


To open up a space whereby non pre-established relations can come into being – by what means? And then the necessary (political) interrogation: what modes of relation? The former question demands a structure of support – the implicated materiality of forms of exchanging ideas and objects – the latter calls for the existence of a type of practice based on a critical engagement with the very medium which enables its becoming. This little book addresses both: Post-Space is a networked-streamed conversation among peers around notions and concepts of appropriation of space which, reflexively, documents a series of expanded ‘spatial-dialogues’ within material mediums and social networks.


Conversation acquires here the consistency of a creative field enacted through overlapping spatial layers. A series of encounters organised with different spatial-practices/practioners in London provides a cartographic device to read urban transformations in the city. Thoughts in loop, circulated and re-elaborated through shared digital environments, define a common – yet univocal – conceptual framework. A collectively managed PO Box mechanism amplifies material dialogues to a vaster geography. All the different manifestations presented in the book can be assembled as a mode of practice in its own right: one that is based on ‘establishing contacts’ as a means to articulate a critical narrative of the spatial, cultural and political implications of modes of social connectivity. Collective gatherings and material exchanges are employed as knowledge-tools to investigate interstitial conditions in different levels – institutionally, territorially and subjectively – and to speculate in modes of appropriation as a potential tactic to subvert established spatial networks of power of critically inhabiting its liminal contradictions. Post-Space documents an effort of turning material relations into means of thought, and reversely, thoughts into forms of material relations. Products of the very claim which they embody, the documents presented herein point towards the construction of a critical pedagogy that inhabits spaces in between institutional forms and modes of communication as a medium for collective knowledge production.


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