This episode is another short reflection. This time about archive as a designed space and its importance in knowledge communication and identity. And what influence has art making in all this?

A book I highly recommend for whom is interested in the influence of categorizing values and knowledge is Archive Fever. A Freudian Impression by Jaques Derrida.

Imprisoned Codes is about the experiences, thoughts, and dreams of the Palestinian political ex-detainees I met during my stays in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The restricted situation of imprisonments made evident that it’s a human exigency to express and communicate using forms of text. The project Imprisoned Codes became a turning point in the use of text and codes as visual material.

Today I’m talking about the designed: architecture. 

Architecture is also an enormous topic of which I’d like to sketch only a view lines, just to understand with which basic elements I work.

Spaces in architecture have functionality. Theses spaces are designed with a specific purpose. They correspond to basic needs, but  there are other purposes in architecture. It appears that our societies need designed structures to represent our social position and influencing our social value.  Every architecture is much more as a symbol of power or social value, it is its important instrument and vehicle.