10/29/07

CRITICAL ARTEFACT, MAY 01, 2005

The project developed by Goncalo Furtado, was centered on the idea of designing a “Critical Artefact” (2004) in the complex context of the post-modern city.

The author belive that, beyond the converncional practices there must be critical acts to the productive surroundings.
They insert themselves in a practice, that does not distinguish cultural production from social intervention.
It´s a practice that avoids being mere instrument of it´s reproduction, of the degrading status quo focusing initially on the auto-critic of the Architecture-instituion itself, conceiving “other” culturally critical artefacts present on the “borders”, that ambitionate to produce a post-modern interventive disciplinary body.

The poststructural speech infiltrates the institutional speech to discipline, wich we inherit...

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