‘Observable Universe’, Short essay, Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture, 2019
Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture is a collection of short texts by students and staff of the MA 2017-18 programme, published for the Centre for Research Architecture’s final exhibition at Goldsmiths, University of London in September 2018.
‘This publication provides a conceptual framework to compile a series of visual and textual footnotes by each of CRA’s students. It enables each student to make visible a crucial fragment of the research process that fits neither within the dissertation’s narrative or within the exhibition’s format. Placed either at the end of the page, a chapter or a book, footnotes affect the body of a text from without. From the margins, footnotes operate as powerful tools to unwrap and expand a key concept/context, to give space to shadowy information, to expose a methodological approach, to highlight a discovered source, to acknowledge an external contribution, to set the limits of a text, to redirect the reader. By inverting the figure-ground relation, we aim to give space to material that haunts our research projects from the outside.’
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Contributors:
Susan Schuppli (Director and Reader at the CRA)
Eyal Weizman (Professor of Spatial and
Visual Cultures)
Lorenzo Pezzani (Lecturer Forensic Architecture)
Louis Moreno (Lecturer in Visual Cultures)
Irit Rogoff (Professor of Visual Cultures)
Ifor Duncan (PhD, CRA)
Esra Abdelrahman Faiza Ahmad Khan, Riccardo Badano, Nelson Beer, Gui De Vore, Halima Haruna, Patrick Harvey, Rebecca Huxley, Anna Sofie Hvid, Naiza Khan, Robert Krawczyk, Enrico Murtula, Hanna Rullmann, Ariadna Serrahima, Ido Tsarfati, Clive Vella, Sarah Vowden, Liza Walling.