What Criticism?
On Friday February 14, Iker Gil will take part in the “What Criticism?” symposium at Harvard Graduate School of Design. The symposium is organized by Florencia Rodriguez, Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow 2014 and editorial director of PLOT.
Iker will be part of The Impossible Friendship panel along with Jimenez Lai and Uriel Fogue, moderated by Matthew Teismann.
Below is the description of the symposium:
“How do we embrace these new properties and opportunities without losing significance? Do we need to achieve some intellectual or formal constitutions to give sense to this practice? What are its new possible forms? Where does the difference lie between simple dissemination and the active distribution and commitment to the transformation of our environment? Are there multiple forms of criticism? Can we think critically about architecture and cities without the aim for sense and virtue? Does criticism need to be useful?
This symposium intends to pose these questions and confront the idea of a single way of practicing or understanding criticism nowadays, as well as it shamelessly suggests the impossibility of its pure existence. As Foucault pointed out already in 1978, critique is by nature “condemned to dispersion, dependency and pure heteronomy,” and its contemporary forms emphasize those conditions in many aspects that urge for conscious reflections and a renewed vocabulary.”
Full list of participants
Michael Abrahamson
Anthony Acciavati
Uriel Fogue
Iker Gil
Urtzi Grau
Michael Kubo
Jimenez Lai
Alexandra Lange
Andres Lepik
Ciro Najle
Troy Payne
Camilo Restrepo
Florencia Rodriguez
Inga Saffron
Meredith Tenhoor
For more information, please visit the official page: www.whatcriticism.com
UPDATE
Below is the video of Iker’s presentation
What Criticism?
Date: Friday, February 14, 2014
Time: 9:30 am until 6 pm
Location: Harvard GSD, Gund Hall, Room 112
Event is free and open to the public.