Lecture date: 2009-03-19
Market logic parasites any material, regardless of where it comes from. But as with rats, cockroaches and other gluttonous parasites, all we have to do is put camouflaged doses of poison in the daily food ration. Proposals for an alternative order suggest how things could be otherwise, triggering arguments about whether they belong. A project for an alternative material future – seductively attractive pills that are full of a lethal drug.
Cristina DÃaz Moreno and Efrén GarcÃa Grinda are Associated Professors of Architecture at ETSAM Madrid and ESAYA Madrid since 1998. They have been Visiting Professors at Cornell University as well as in Paris-Malaquais, Harvard GSD, Syracuse University Florence, Mendrisio, ESARQ Barcelona, EPSA Alicante and Universität Hannover. They are frequent contributors to El Croquis.
