How to Survive on a System that is not a System Anymore

inventiveness

sharing the process

making things public

repair

disassembly

archigram

how can we make tools

and tactics public,

so that they

trigger grassroot

actions within

the system?

how can we make tools

and tactics public,

so that they

trigger grassroot

actions within

the system?

Why do we attach so much importance to the difference between Body Politik and Phantom (Public)? It is due to the fact

that for the new eloquence to become a habit of thought, we must be able to dis- tinguish two ways of speaking. To raise a political question often means

to reveal a state of affairs whose presence was hitherto hidden.

Bruno Latour

From realpolitik to

dinkpolitik

how can we make tools

and tactics public,

so that they

trigger grassroot

actions within

the system?

Driven by local and community issues and in-tended as polemics that question conven-

tional practice, these projects reflect an ad hoc way of working; they are motivated

more by grassroots activism than by the kind of home-ec craft projects (think pickling,

Ikea-hacking and knitting) sponsored by mainstream shelter media, usually under the

Do-It-Yourself rubric.

Mimi Zeiger

The Interventionist’s

Toolkit

how to survive on

a system that is not

a system anymore

{tools and tactics}

how to survive on

a system that is not

a system anymore

Speaking about Survival Kits and Globaliza-tion, the first thing that comes to mind is a picture of an age of global unrest, of politi-cal troubles, of wars followed by forced mi-

gration, and ecological disasters, which force people out of their homes. This raises the question: what do people need to survive it all? (…)The survival kits addressed here are at times products that aid survival in severe circumstances, but first and foremost, they entail a combination of physical objects and symbolic representations of the state of the

world. All of them are designed by artists, in the broadest sense of the word

Marga van Mechelen

Survival Kits: Artistic Responses

to Globalization

how to survive on

a system that is not

a system anymore

What I refer to is about the observa-tion of one of my latest studies on people who have decided not to wait for the revolution - to start liv-ing differently - meaning the ex-pansion of what I call in a techni-cal term ‘non-capitalist practices’.They are economic practices but they don’t have a for-profit motivation - such as barter networks; such as so-cial currencies; co-operatives; self-management; agricultural networks; helping each other simply in terms of wanting to be together; networks of providing services for free to others in the expectation that someone will also provide to you. All this exists and it’s expanding throughout the world.

Paraphrasing

Eduardo Galeano and System d

{tools and tactics}

how to survive on

a system that is not

a system tactics

A tactic takes advantage of “opportunities” and depends on them, being without any base where it could stockpile its winnings, build up its own position and plan raids. What it wins it can-

not keep. This nowhere gives a tactic mobility, to be sure, but a mobility that must accept the chance offerings of the moment, and seize on the wing the possibilities that offer themselves at any given moment. It must vigilantly make use

of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers. It poaches them. It creates surprises in them. It can be where it is least expected. It is a

guileful ruse.

Michel de Certeau

The practice of Everyday Life

what is next?

Define the method through which the tactics are distilled.

Define the medium to communicate the tools and tactics.

Put in practice some of the tactics to tackle different matters of concern.

Build strategic infrastruture that can trigger tactical action.

Define the method through which the tactics are distilled.

Define the medium to communicate the tools and tactics.

Put in practice some of the tactics to tackkle different matters of concern.

Build strategic infrastruture that can trigger tactical action.

Build strategic infrastruture that can trigger tactical action.

To finally reach the ideal goal of a non-designed

community, SUPERSTUDIO progressively whittled

away at the architectural relationship between

the individual and the social contract, conclud-

ing the journey not with a new form of people’s

architecture, but an architectural people ready

to give their world a shape.

Peter Lang - Suicidal Desires