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The nature of Informality: The formal - Technical

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The formal - Technical. The inherent problems of technical practices. The way technical practices function is deeply influenced by it. What is inherent in technical productions is their mechanical perception of the "end",. In the sense Heidegger uses the word, meaning the fulfillment, the completion. Any strategy that has its origin in the realm of the technical (which rather means all of them) has to focus on a goal, an aim and a targeted fulfillment which is always singular. This technical end. Distinc...

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The nature of Informality: Habitation – the public and the private

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Habitation – the public and the private. Talking about autonomy and heteronomy definitely takes us to the realm of the social and when it goes to architecture and built environment in particular it is rather impossible to avoid talking about "habitation". This is exactly the realm where informality appears, in between the natural and the technical, in between autonomy and heteronomy and in between the subject and the object. The ancient Greek term polis (. Polis as a permanence is built upon the formalit...

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The nature of Informality: Teratogenesis

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Is a medical term from the Greek, literally meaning monster-making (. Monster), which derives from teratology, the study of the frequency, causation, and development of congenital malformations-misleadingly called birth defects. Reality. is a perpetual becoming. It makes or remakes itself, but it is never something made. Source Wikipedia: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratogenesis. As a graduation project within the frame of Explorelab, at the faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. And Machiel Van Dorst.

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The nature of Informality: Topos - Topography

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An anomalous ground and a more complex topography creates different possibilities for the kind and extend of informality than a flat one but in both cases ground has certain ways of interacting with the society and activate social mechanisms because of different viewpoints, altering visibilities and orientation points that create centralities and peripheries affecting the notion of the public and private. Certainly instead of the high and low one could find other features of the landscape that have simil...

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The nature of Informality: Bibliography

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Language and Drawing: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture. Thames and Hudson, London, 2000. The Architecture of the City. Opposition books, 1984. The condition of post modernity: an inquiry into the origins of cultural change. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus,. Trans by Brian Massumi (Continuum, 2004). Κάφκα - Για μια ελάχιστη λογοτεχνία,. Μετ Κωστής Παπαγιώργης, Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, Αθήνα 1998 (Original title:. Les Editions de minuit, 1975). Éditions...

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The nature of Informality: Form as the “end” of architectural process

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Form as the “end” of architectural process. Concerning architecture, it is impossible to approach informality without previously discussing about form. Similar to all technical practices architecture has inherent the problem of the " end. Which in the particular case is to be found in the notion of " form. Not only as a mere material artifact or as "shape". This is why, no matter that I consider the form as the consequence of establishing a relationship between human beings. And no matter words change fr...

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The nature of Informality: Three Little pigs

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The famous fairy tale of the three little pigs [2]. That we fail to examine, the other. L'autre) which we fail to predict and to design for, there is always the unknown and the unpredictable (which certainly is not random). Source Wikipedia: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three little pigs. A project that sets the initial framework for an attempt to approach the dynamic nature of informal phenomena. The current text has been developed by Charalampos Cheizanoglou. And Machiel Van Dorst. Theory for a Praxis.

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The nature of Informality: Relations of Formal - Informal

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Relations of Formal - Informal. This is why we need to realize that any definition of informality should be relative, not absolute, and should remain open-ended in order to preserve the necessary flexibility that would allow the positioning of those different, interdependent variables which are the formal. The investigation of their correlations within several different contexts could result to an index. Informal - formal (the terms). This is something I consider as a false polarization. Informality ...

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The nature of Informality: Stating the problem

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A project that sets the initial framework for an attempt to approach the dynamic nature of informal phenomena. The current text has been developed by Charalampos Cheizanoglou. As a graduation project within the frame of Explorelab, at the faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. Under the supervision of the professors Patrick Healy. And Machiel Van Dorst. The formal - Technical. Emergence – Becoming (informality as a natural pro. Relations of Formal - Informal. Habitation – the public and the private.

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The nature of Informality: Matters of Identity

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Possession - Craftsmanship - Consumption. The question is how we can change it in order to encompass and satisfy the need for the cultivation of a mosaic of multiple identities and multiple forms and establish individuality. I would dare to say that in the world of consumerism informality seems to be the answer to the matter of identity, is about making a commodity to be more than a property by becoming a possession (. Mass customization - prosumers. Does it really promote innovation? Form as the “...