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This presentation of work by the students graduating from the GSD is as much about the projects that they have completed at the school as it is about the promise of what they will achieve in the years ahead. Their production is a form of speculation; whether fragments of a design proposition or an excerpt from a doctoral dissertation, each submission represents a token of a long period of sustained study. This rich array also provides a glimpse of the diversity of current interests at the school. Such a profusion of ideas and proposals does not only act as a testimony to the accomplishments of our graduates, but can also become a useful tool for new forms of aspirational cross-fertilization and collaboration; this engagement is a precondition for imagining better futures.
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean
Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design
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Platform GSD 08
November 3, 2008 - January 11, 2008
An Archeology of the Present
Utopias afford consolation: although they have no real locality there is nevertheless a fantastic, untroubled region in which they are able to unfold; they open up cities with vast avenues, superbly planted gardens, countries where life is easy, even though the road to them is chimerical.
—Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
A school of the size and characteristics of the GSD is de facto also the location of many projects, research endeavors, events, utopias. How then to present any consistencies—logics—amid this array of activity and production?
This exhibition and publication is an attempt to do just that—to seek the formation of a number of prevalent tendencies, and coherences, among the many that currently operate within the school. Therefore it represents a specific set of choices, a point of view. It takes a stance. But in configuring its inclusiveness it has also had to leave out things, to edit. All for the sake of constructing the clarity of an archeology, one that according to Foucault’s schema manifests a history of its conditions of possibility.
The content groupings are the site of relations between a diverse range of projects. Even though each of these projects has occurred in different spatial and temporal situations, each grouping produces a new set of experiences out of the propinquity of the chosen subjects and areas of investigation. Seeking such underlying affinities is an important part of the articulation of the school’s domains of research. A relational condition develops out of the reading between the various types of projects, events, and writings. The amalgam of all these issues is a partial section of ideas and interests—an archeology of the present state of the school.
This exhibition and publication is not a mere recording of the achievements of our students and faculty, of our lectures, publications, and exhibitions, but an unraveling of an order. It is the site of new, intrinsic experiences and discoveries.
Mohsen Mostafavi
Dean
Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design