Territory as a Project 2023

The annual symposium ‘Territory as a Project: Inland-Seaward Notes on a Project’ organized by the Transitional Territories Studio and Research explores the agency of design as a mode of investigation and reflexive transformation of the ever-changing interrelations between natural processes, societal practices, and (geo)political frameworks. This year marks the end of a three-year cycle of investigations of our research group and graduation studio called ‘Inland-Seaward’ which aimed to bring together perspectives from urban theories, critical media, and design to explore spatial concepts that can help us decipher the material processes of anthropogenic transformation across scales, and the possible social and ecological (re)organization of the coastal and terrestrial landscape continuum. The event combines with an exhibition and review which reflects the progress that the students of our graduation studio have made with their thesis so far. The collection of work presented in “Territory as a Project: Counter-Territories” exhibition critically analyses the de- / re-territorialization of places, structures and cultures between land and sea: the palimpsest of traces of inhabitation, production, and infrastructure projected on land, river, and ocean grounds, which define the urban as a material and socio-ecological space. As guiding principle, the iterative notions of accumulation and clearance are at the core of the study. By looking into centres and repeated cycles of accumulation and their externalities, we aim to document urbanisation, its impact on present and future environment and life. The project continues in search for alternative forms of critical design as acts of care.

Online Exhibition Launch - June 22th 2023

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