The Grammar of Being Together
For the second year in a row, students on the MRes Architecture programme at the RCA consider the question ‘What is We?’ through a short moving image studio project. The results are five short films on the grammar of being together.
Grammar is politics by other means.
Donna Haraway in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
[O]ne of the truly productive characteristics of material spatiality … [is] its potential for the happenstance juxtaposition of previously unrelated trajectories, the business of walking around a corner and bumping into alterity, of having (somehow, and well or badly) to get on with neighbours who have got ‘here’ … by different routes from you; your being here together is, in that sense, quite uncoordinated. This is an aspect of the productiveness of spatiality which may enable ‘something new’ to happen.
Dorreen Massey on ‘throwntogetherness’ in For Space.
Places, then, are like knots, and the threads from which they are tied are lines of wayfaring. A house, for example, is a place where the lines of its residents are tightly knotted together. But these lines are no more contained within the house than are threads contained within a knot. Rather they trail beyond it, only to become caught up with other lines in other places, as are threads in other knots.
Tim Ingold on the ‘knot’ in Being alive: Essays on movement, knowledge and description.
Eleonora Antoniadou, MRes Architecture student 2019–20, RCA
Joanna Łałowska, MRes Architecture student 2019–20, RCA
Mathilde Cros, MRes Architecture student 2019–20, RCA
Yunyun Guo, MRes Architecture student 2019–20, RCA
Ziad Alnussayan, MRes Architecture student 2019–20, RCA
