Crossbenching
Toward Participation as Critical Spatial Practice
by Markus Miessen

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Author(s)

Markus Miessen

Publication, year

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2016

Scope

108 Pages, 19 cm.

ISBN

9783956792205

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At the heart of this book is a simple and profound proposition: to ‘do' architecture is to immerse oneself in a conflictual process of material production—participation is not a productive encounter of multiple practitioners and stakeholders, but a set of conflicts, negotiations, maneuvers, and swindles between and within a multiplicity of agents, human and nonhuman alike. In contrast to this ‘participation’ of the civil society seems to become the salvation for the political mess we are in, especially in Europe. Well, it is not!

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