Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture
MA Class of 2018
2018
Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture brings together short contributions by students and staff of the MA 2017-18 programme.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Read Footnotes here
Get Footnotes here