IOEZ.LIVE/22 was part of the Architectural Association's Visiting School Program.
Thank you to all our guests, collaborators and attendees for joining our virtual round
(outdoor) table to discuss the future of an online, architectural, decentralized education.
A think tank on the move! spread from the West Coast to the Middle East, online, outdoor, away and
together.
The event took part on 25.09.2022 as part of the /22 edition of IOEZ – AA Visiting School /Online.
A `new togetherness` is something we became familiar with in various forms over the last three
years. Being close while
remote, had to be experienced across the globe while merging screens, hands, airwaves, footsteps
and frequencies,
interpreting signal delays, overlays and spatial volatility. This remote inhabitation is here to
stay.
We are INHABITANTS OF EXCLUSION ZONE (IOEZ), an online-only, remote and open-source
architectural research
assembly travelling to places out of reach, geographically demanding, socially inappropriate or
politically unsettled.
We translocate across the world in various forms to discover, ask and experience, creating an
augmented world of ideas
that transforms with our ongoing experience of it.
During our LIVE/20↗︎ event we
translocated across the globe between: Ramallah, Mumbai, Taipei and
Nagoya to name a few, exploring our most familiar places becoming an exclusion zone under
curfew. This year we are set
to define and identify multiple exclusion zones. From political to social, environmental,
economical, residential and
not least technological – zones that can be physically restraining or demanding, socially
exclusive, ideologically
challenging or uncomfortable.
LIVE/22 sets to portray an inhabitation across borders, places and spaces, dedicated to
times of
trans-nationality and geopolitical instability. Defining new territories as they become abstract
with distance and the
fusion of multiple points of view.
Zooming far from the physical distractions of each context, a world of ideas,
observations, connections and
conversations emerges. We explore geographic territories through memories of those exiled,
refuge, nomads or clandestine
spatial riders, with a focus on mundane living rituals – while spread across temporary
residences, local regulations,
cultural and social differences.
This digital connectivity between our worlds and places is what we call translocation.
Translocation allows a disconnect from the physical distraction, travelling with the mind while
browsing someone else's
perspective and perception. We are travelling to a space that no longer exists as such – a
decentralized, collective
experience where those presenting their familiar places equally depart together with all of us,
the audience, on a
journey where unexpected qualities and dimensions reveal.
Our goal is to detail, question and discover a decentralized spatial setup, defined by the power
of thoughts and
conversations, which one is exposed to either involuntary or by choice. A set of online
outdoors, emerging between fast
switching locations, broadcast, design observations and conversations.
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