Paper Pushers: Fighting from within

Dora Marlene Joppien

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Julia Petrachenko

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Phileas Robin Johannes Schulhof

We are a practice that remains within the limitations of their professional capabilities: Understanding building code laws and finding loopholes, surveying land and buildings, drawing permit plans, and communicating with clients to understand their expectations. Often times the expectations are met with the tools of delaying legal processes.
This set of skills is used to drive changes from within the system. The predetermined value systems and the manifesto serve as a guideline for every line drawn. The Paper Pushers understand the power of their signature and the sensitivity of the information they produce.
Accordingly, they function not only as information production machines, but also as filters and censors. Who gets to see what?

Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Summer Saud Islam, Antoine Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao, Nagy Makhlouf
Infos
Year:
2024
Period:
Master, Spring
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Housing, Theory, Territory, Urban study, Environment, Sustainability
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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