Architecture part 2 in ' The Arts Hole - POP UP INITIATIVE ' #ABV101%

SO I have had an additional thought to my ranging and unabridged previous thought ….

it came about from a very sensible question from one of my longer term students !

what the F'*^k are you raving about Dr Valerio …..

a fine question and it does have a basis of reasonable thought …. somewhere deep down in there ?

lets see if I can route the little bugger out ! ?

O.K

my basic premise is that we all en mass have to conclusively decide that we all need some where to live ( that is assuming that the environmentalists aren't now advocating genocide ? )

but we can keep consuming land in the un regulated urban sprawl that we have been using as the acceptable paradigm … up until now !

a paradigm that is built on several outdated notions

one of which , unfortunately … and I understand this will come as a bit of a blow to those that ' work ' in the' industry ' is the very idea of a CBD ?? the central business district !!?? in the age of complete international interconnectivity …. you don't have to confine your self into the middle of these dead and desiccated urban centres with questionable spatial allocations ? over inflated rents and rates … paying homage to whatever collective land barons have organized themselves into ' governing councils ' which in turn pay homage to a central bag of thieves , which in turn pay homage to a ancient line of murderers paedophiles and thieves … every one sucking each others dick and waving each others flag for a sad slice of a ration book of promissory notes   from ' the powers that be '

again, maybe I digress a little ….

it is my notion that every individual should have a reasonable means of lodgings just as a basic premise !! everyone should be allocated a homestead at birth !! a vested interest in the very country they have come to be resident in ( of course there will be an issue here where by intergenerational entitlements and large family monopoly will have to be endemically pursued by an active and functioning arm of whatever arm of administration will be left )

but if every individual had access to a safe and viable ' home ' - a home that was not built from cheap labour and cheap materials - on cheap reclaimed or contaminated land !

if every home was built using low impact , environmentally friendly methods and materials , locally sourced and completely sustainable in produce and transport... local labour and ingenuity .

if every home was able to render ( given aptitude and application ) the option of reducing standardized monthly outgoings - by being ' off grid ' and independent in at least a percentage of its monthly requirements Power / water / Food / Air Quality production requirements.

if the urban environment was incentivised to encourage people to grow orchards … instead of en suites and extensions to an already terrible urban mess

if dilapidated areas of obvious and inevitable urban decay were managed into cross collaborations with various, education / rehabilitation / skill based training / housing / urban farming / local produce / local arts and crafts initiatives

The Urban Farms that have begun to revitalise some of the worst of the Urban decay in the United states in Cities such as Washington and even Detroit … these grass roots neighbourhood initiatives are taking hold of the environment and allowing the inhabitants to grow their way out of poverty and a failed speculators model of an economy … and its proving to be a great success !! I am sure its only a matter of time before donald trumps government find a way to ultimately destroy this kind of self empowering enterprise so these people can go back to being mere consumers … as opposed to producers an traders … but again I digress into my own paranoid tinged ' Vietnam flashback ' of experience with government lol

but there is evidence that even in this weird little society we have built for ourselves … if you just give people access to the land .. they can generally work themselves out of poverty … as they have always been able to do !!

every home should have a spare bedroom , and a gerden ...that's big enough to grow for the household and at least one neighbour ….allowing scope for intercommunity trade ...as well as a social mobility incentive … although really we should have done away with the idea of ' class structure ' completely … so social mobility will also cease to be a thing ! hopefully !

every house should have a library … not only so the whole population might be well versed in a language or two , but the many fascinating subjects that actually concern a lifetime of experiences … but also so that every child has a reference point other than a screen …. the walls of the house and the  pages of the books should be made out of hemp … and the computer , less used though it should be … should remain a fundamental household item of course … I can only imagine humanities uproar if I was to insist on some kind of feudal dark age style peasantry .. without a viable wifi connection and a download or facetime option …. loathsome as I find it personally !!

every house should be warm / well ventilated and well lit … in a neighbourhood that manages its own community , its own needs and aspirations , its own waste .. its own communal spaces …. in a world where people are actually wanting to try to live more … 'consciously' this is the chance to do so ….

Now the internet seems to have heard of ' Never Sink Farm ' in up state new York … and its a pretty good example of how intensive farming practices can yield an exceptional commercial viability via produce from only a very small space …

there are other ideas and studies surfacing at the moment advocating small scale / permaculture farming to be the way of the future .. and indeed even the notion of ' Agri-hoods ' has become an idea … presumably all borne from  some of the ' Earth-ship ' and ' Bio Dome ' experiments that have been conducted over the years ( pretty much all of which I have studied at great length ..  far from the comfort and insulation of some dysfunctional academic faculty or government fouled syllabus )

all of this grass roots action really gets me going … from my own veld of eclectic experiences I know how preening and self congratulatory some of the worst cases of institutionalised, power wielding incompetence can be … so I totally approve the idea of a little more self determination … a little more self governance … self reliance!!

of course we cant just let the ' Government ' take all of our money and run …. as appealing as that does actually seem !let them all walk away with a better than average property stake gleaned from rallying to a terrible flag … working for a government !! and worst of all … this fucking government !!

so we will have to hold some fools to account , we will have to maintain some form of ' centralised ' form of governance and a means to conduct some simile to where we are now … but for now at least lets make sure the thing in its current format is utterly doomed and hung out ….

I personally think that it comes from this kind of non compliant individualism …. or least from my own perspective that would be how I would best quantify it !.... I am sure others would just label me a malcontent ! but then if I looked at their vested interests in ' the game ' you can see why they wouldn't want too big a switch in the rules, especially any to threaten a carpetbaggers grubby stake in a dirty game  !!

am I digressing again ?



so us peasants and would be producers need an affordable place to live and work !! we aren't all vying for high flying jobs in professionalism …. and as it turns out … pretty much every industry that calls itself ' industry ' is pretty much utterly unsustainable in its current format , so even those of us that are … its all got to be drastically overhauled !!

I have been debating the validity of ' urban protest ' with a ' comrade ' from the union rep party … and I have been claiming that the  real place for protest is actually out in the ' gentrified ' rural fringes ….

non of these policy makers live in the city... because most of the cities are quite horrible really !

so if we are going to protest !! if we are going to show a demonstration of solidarity against a particular party or politician … we have to go and take over their ill gotten acres … we need to go and occupy their little parcel of paradise … just as their legislation occupies what we have left of ours

showing up in the middle of a city with a few placards ?? signing an online petition ??

turn up at the fox hunt ! dump the guns in the reservoir ! turn over those silly little all terrain golf carts they play with draped in tweed and half pissed on sherry before heading back to the mansion to glorify some romanticiszed ' good old days ' …. dig your fucking heels in and throw a naked fucking festival all over their inherited little pile of shit …. I am sure that manner of protest will swing an immediate legislative change.... I am sure that instead of squatting an old jobcentre , if we all squatted George Osbornes land holdings etc etc … these people would be dissuaded from being such utter pieces of self serving shit while they are voting in this already broken democratic procedure  !! much faster than an online petition or forming a CIC anyway ….

jeex who the fuck are these people … they are out there , thrust me !! and they need to be stopped !!

I hope in many ways that we are on the tinge of the changes that we so desperately need ….

I pray to deities , cross my fingers and touch all the unvarnished grains of wood I can find … that the tipping point is taking place !

I hope that XR are actually what they seem to be ! I hope that Jeremy Corbyn will defect with all of the other ' not completely loath able ' individuals … from the remnants of tony blairs broken ass labour party into a kind of super Green Coalition that swamps out local councils and central government …. that it destroys the fetid stench of u.k.i.p and the prejudices of a hand full of prudently invested assholes

I hope that we can install a social housing programme that takes on a whole new meaning .. akin to the outline in the previous descriptions .. empowering the individual , the neighbourhood , the community , the society in general …..

I hope that the ' Value ' of a house made out of bamboo and hemp , that produces all its own electricity and food … with a basic construction cost equivocal to 10 % of the standard property investment model … will completely deride , undermine … and get rid of this ridiculous speculators ' percentage people ' - estate agent asshole marketplace that has resigned two generations at least to the idea that perpetual debt is a normal thing …. ( remember the economies of the world collapsing because of unsustainable models and ratios - how are people going to pay a 40 year mortgage when not only has industry diminished … but what industry remains has become completely fucking automated ??? … I mean fucking jeezus wept !! who is actually in charge here ….. ** enter Samuel l Jackson's favourite word right here *** )

I hope that those social/ community enterprise's ' business model ' lead institutions like ' the crown ' to realize their utter redundancy and overall drain on society … not to mention the terrible centuries of suffering that the dogmatic notion of one individuals sovereignty over another's has wrought …. maybe that's a little ambitious right now seeing as one of them had a baby , or got married , or both … or something ??

I hope that the unions notice that they have come to represent a lot of ' jobs ' that not only don't actually need doing … but are actively detrimental to environment and psychology ….

I hope Government ( in its current capacity ) realize the same !!

I hope that we all get a sensible and productive land allocation so that we might be able to figure a way …. a productive way forward and out of this age of Donald Fucking Trump …. of the age of the Charlatan !!