CALL FOR SHOUTS: AGAINST THE SILENCE OF ARCHITECTS - FAS #5 AGAINST SILENCE!
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CALL FOR SHOUTS CONTRIBUTE TO FAS #5 AGAINST SILENCE!
Foreign Architects Switzerland (FAS) is calling for texts, rants, collages, plans, strategies and tactics – any printable form – against the silence of architects: Speak up, Question the business-as-usual status quo, Scream No, and f*ck OMA’s venal ¥€$, Engage in politics, Articulate a strategy, Insult us, Insult yourself, Reflect, Copy Paste, whatever works.
"ER WIRD ALLES TUN WAS SIE WÜNSCHEN UND AUCH WIE SIE ES WÜNSCHEN" – Fedor Dostoievski, Brüder Karamasov, p. 322
Roughly translated by “He will do everything you want and how you want it,” this quote sums up well the current situation for architects in Europe. Either unemployed and struggling in a shrinking building market, or a slave to the investors in a booming one, the empowering of architects is yet to happen. While in Switzerland, now more then ever the Bank of the World, architects could take action, our deafening silence simply illustrates our submissiveness to a system that will end up eradicating us.
We could unite, revolt, create our clients, pool capital, dictate our conditions, blackmail authorities, etc. because real-estate has gone wild, because money is cheap, because the Swiss construction boom won't last forever, because design has value, because none else than architects can actually design decent houses that can be sold more than their value, Swiss architects are in a position of power that they themselves ignore.
In an ever-lasting process of self-introspection and reassessment of our profession, FAS is committed to keep the dialogue open, with or without architects, with or without you, for a betterment of our profession and to save it if it's not too late. Our enduring motto is now and forever Jean Nouvel’s: “Architect’s responsibilities begin with their silence and their disengagement.”
Thus, FAS is putting out an issue AGAINST THE SILENCE OF ACHITECTS, gathering the voices of the ones willing to speak. Remember that “We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts.”
We will accept a short abstract/excerpt or contribution until September 30, 2015 in our mailbox: [email protected].
More info at faszine.blogspot.com/2015/08/call-for-shouts-contribute-to-fas-5.html
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