Sharp Partitions and Parasitic Bricks
"Sharp Partitions and Parasitic Bricks is an inquiry into how architecture, urban planning and design have the neoliberal values of modern cities. The project questions how significant economic investments in these three practices have acted as agents to displace and erase undesirable cultural presences while creating opportunities for groups and classes deemed more beneficial for the city’s economic interest.
Using the brick and its production as an analogy of how various ideologies and economies shape cities, this work examines how the collective act of ‘making’, using the unpredictability of mechanised production, can become a form of resistance against the smoothing agency of the current neoliberal hegemony. The act of ‘glitching’ is introduced into the standardised brick-making process to generate unpredictable shapes. This performative act intends to reveal the plurality and complexity of the public sphere, undermining the dominant exclusionary ideology of ‘smooth cities’."