ADS12: Take-Away

Last year, ADS12 used overabundance as a deployable phenomena in the formation of spaces. Projects were considered “plentitudes”, consisting of a minimum of two-thousand “acts” (eg. species, subjects, objects, processes and so on).

By contrast, this year we have turned from excesses to a lack. “Take-Away” enacts the promise of strategic omissions, willful refraining, and absences in space. Instead of perpetuating how architecture only conflates acts of removal or reduction via the aesthetic, we have explored the potential of good in loss, development without growth, and whether deprival can produce new vantages from which to deal with the gap between our shared biological shortcomings against the violence of information—a long term goal of the studio.

“Take-Away” is hosted within High Holdings, an environment formed to respond to the gradual estrangement of the world around us by examining the therapeutic, spiritual, and technical qualities of architecture. It operates by (re-)developing sensibilities within the vast amounts of information that our civilisation is giving birth to. High Holdings’ activities are mirrored online at http://ho.ldin.gs/

Convened by Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E).

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Thank you to Teresa Castro, Brandon Covington Sam-Suman, Liam Denhamer, Alia Farid, Adam Jasper, Tom Jenkins, Jamie Kuehn, Sawako Nakayasu

Image: The ultimate deprival: a momentary glimpse of the sun’s death. 11 August 1999. The total eclipse. immortalised by French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré from the Mir station. Source: cnes.fr.