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January 4, 2013

8th issue of the New City Reader “Architecture” is out!

Guest edited by Fake Industries, Architectural Agonism, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, the 8th issue of the New City Raeder “Architecture” is out on the streets of Istanbul. The issues contributers are: Superpool, Basurama, Walter Nicolino, Carlo Ratti, Unfold, Ben Landau, Thomas Lomme, Lorenza Baroncelli, Rot Ellen Berg, HS Mimarlık, Autlab, Maurizio Bortolotti, Ravintolapaiva, Boğaçhan Dündaralp, Lale Ceylan, İpek Kay, Paul Faus, Openurban.com, Frank Abruzzese, Zuloark, Maker Lab, Aristide Anotonas, Antonio Ottomanelli, Pelin Tan, Ethel Baraona Pohl and Kazys Varnelis. Read the rest of the article for the editorial text and check our website regularly for updates of the issue.

Adhocracy Architecture, an Obituary
Free Designs to Take Action in the Streets of Istanbul

Dear citizens,
Istanbul Design Biennial is over, long live Adhocracy. Don’t you know what Adhocracy means? Exactly: Networks of design processes often organized as open source; temporary associations that refuse mass production in favor of small collections of customized products; nonmarket driven collaborations in which process overcomes the object in its list of priorities. That is Adhocracy, and it is here to stay. Or that is what we are told, in this Biennial at least. Yet it’s true; too many questions still remain un-answered: Doesn’t the institutional framework of this venue betray Adhocracy’s fragile temporariness? Isn’t its open-source nature locked inside a museum? Can one display processes and not transmute them into objects? Or more simply, aren’t active agents transformed in passive observers when they visit the show?

This obituary is an attempt to answer some of these questions. Written days before its closure, it uses the contents of the Biennial to question the Biennial’s own statement. For the occasion, the exhibition’s participants have described their installations in the form of a set of instructions. You, dear readers, all around Istanbul, can now produce literal copies of the original works and, in the sense of Replica denoted in the roman language— that is a response to a previous claim— answer the Biennial original statement. In that sense this edition of the New City Reader is an Agonistic copy of the contents of the show. It is ready to be used as a tool for creative friction. Do it if you want. You are on your own. And we like it when you fake it.

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