Architecture of Maintenance
Architecture of Maintenance
Our course took an unexpected turn away from group fieldwork and the active study of the Neuenschwander projects in Gockhausen and moved indoors and online. Reading, writing and discussing became our new means of looking into the topic of Maintenance and read texts relevant to the four original subheadings of ecology, resource, craft, and performance. The work became individual attempted to bring a communal feeling to the course through online sharing of readings, abstracts and discussions.
Subject matters had to change, and given the restriction on movement, careful detective eyes needed to examine a subject matter more accessible in lockdown, most likely your own dwelling. Using the reading, research and their own observations and actions, the students developed a version of the original ‘Maintenance Manual’ for their own situation.