Radical Maintenance (excerpt)



By Emily Wissemann. Radical Maintenance is a proposition— it is not preservation. ​It does not presume something can be built to last. Instead, Radical Maintenance registers knowledge through action— registers action on time— registers time on materials. Radical Maintenance builds over time as it loops. Radical Maintenance proposes the act of construction as an achievement— an action that lives on time.

Developed in Summer 2020 as part of “Deep Time Architecture,” for MIT Architecture’s Summer Work and Pedagogy Program. “Deep Time Architecture” looked for ways to augment the temporal sensibilities that are essential to the architectural frameworks and infrastructures capable to act at the timescales of our most urgent crises. Led by Cristina Parreño Alonso, the workshop explored architecture where humans are both accountable for the decline caused by technological achievements but also capable of reversing climate change.

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