DIVERTING PARACHUTE SCIENCE indigenous engineering reload

Mannisi, Alban — 2025-10-13T04:17:02Z

DIVERTING PARACHUTE SCIENCE
indigenous engineering reload

In'sight' the Project
Monday, November 17
Fira Barcelona_Barcelona, Spain

Just as market society has tightened its grip on the management of our social and natural environments, neoliberal economics has hijacked the essence of educational institutions, transforming them from arenas for challenging knowledge into product design research and development. This derailment of Western ecological pedagogies sheds light on the moral collapse and institutional crises that we are experiencing today. However, if contemporary academia fulfilled its duty to convey genuine engineering rather than parading trends for gain, we would realise that the situation outside alternative ecosophical realities is not as dire as speculative design would have us believe through the promotion of its goods.

Plethora of thriving customs and healthy practices thrive beyond the scope of mainstream Global North imperialism. Long plagued by guilt for not embracing Western values, they now recognise their good fortune in not being part of them. They no longer hope to convince a civilisation that is solely concerned with perfecting the world in its own image, even though the latter is exhausted, unsustainable and toxic. Thanks to the growing recognition of relationships between humans and non-humans, a reversal ecology is emerging, enabling environmental pedagogies to draw inspiration from initiatives led by indigenous communities rather than the other way around.

Diverting from parachute science thanks to indigenous engineering reload rather than experiencing harmful lucubration on “case studies”, is what we will address by discussing some of the dynamics we are conducting in the world through Design Diplomacy, Maritorium Biocracy and Anatolian Parallax. Where other existence praxis, environmental ethics, ecological philosophy and purposes to empower our biospheres, flourish as long as they do not cross the hare-brained ideas of current generic corporate academia, professions and enterprises.

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Supertight Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban

Mannisi, Alban — 2022-01-22T02:48:00Z

Ulu (Alban MANNISI)

Supertight
Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban
Graham Crist & John Doyle
Actar Publishers
Barcelona, 2022

Ulu, Movie From Hokkien Mee Diplomacy, exhibited in Super Tight, Melbourne Design Hub Gallery, 2019.

The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways of being densely urbanised. The by-product of this unprecedented metropolitan convergence will be the emergence of new urbanisms and new architectures, new models for living and making culture.
The Supertight refers to the small, intense, robust and hyper-condensed spaces that emerge as a by-product of extreme levels of urban density. Tightness arises as consequence of density, but tightness itself is not density. Tightness is a series of social, economic and cultural practices that have developed in cities as a response to the rapid growth and consolidation of cities. While architectural models of density have been heavily explored, this project investigates the culture of tightness that has emerged in Asian cities over the past thirty years, and the role that designers play in the material and social behaviours of tightness. To be tight is to be small and constrained, but also to be open to the economies and social intimacy of being close. Ultimately this project aims to unpack and convey both the delight and difficulty that emerges through the close occupation of large cities.

With Contributions of
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / Atelier Bow-wow , Atelierco, Rafael A Balboa with Yasemin Sahiner, Sanuki Daisuke, Drawing Architecture Studio, Desiree Grunewald, Sue Hajdu, Tohru Horiguchi, Alban Mannisi, Yazid Ninsalam, Charles Anderson, Minsuk Cho / Mass Studies, New Office Works, Archie Pizzini, Andrew Stiff, Superimpose, Taishin Shiozaki / Shiozaki Lab, WOHA

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DIVERTING PARACHUTE SCIENCE indigenous engineering reload

Supertight Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban