PLACE — Artefact House

All this feeling. All this sensing. All this experience. All this expression. What are we going to do with all this being?

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ARTEFACT HOUSE

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Phase Two PLACE

Prompt 3: Situated
Prompt 4: Possibilities

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Before architecture becomes a proposal, it must first encounter the world it enters. Place is not just where architecture happens. Place is what architecture is made of. If BEING asked you to begin with attention to lived experience, PLACE asks you to extend that attention outward and ask a broader question: What kind of world is this? And how has it come to be arranged this way?

Place situates being. It situates us in reality. Reality, after all, is the place you place your attention. This phase asks you to place your attention within the realities of a particular city in order to imagine what might be possible there. PLACE begins with what is, because the future is always situated.

Architecture cannot be understood apart from the conditions that surround it. Placeless thinking treats places as interchangeable, but this ignores how life actually works.

When we lose our ability to connect to, attend to, and belong to place, we also lose our capacity to care for the lives - human and more-than-human - bound up within it. PLACE resists this disconnection by asking you to stay with reality rather than retreat from it.

To study place is to attend to how life is organized: through systems and structures, flows and processes, geographies and ecologies, populations and living conditions, cultures and narratives, politics and histories, public life and social infrastructures. These conditions are never isolated. Place is not static. Place is contingent. Place is negotiated. Place is always in motion. It is shaped by overlapping cultural, political, economic, ecological, material, and historical forces that continuously influence one another...

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