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CITY SESSIONS: SPONTANEOUS TALK
https://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/forum

Leagues and Legions (LGNLGN) in conjunction with the Institute for Urban Design and Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good, the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale would like to invite you to participate in City Sessions: Spontaneous Talk, a dialogue about the practice of tactical urbanism and socially active design.

City Sessions is a forum discussion board open to the public for commentary and debate.

Tactical urbanism uses the city as a site of experimentation, deploying pop-up parks, vacant retail reuse, or unsanctioned street furniture as way to reprogram the urban realm. The practice traditionally takes an activist position in relationship to environmental, political, cultural and economic factors. However, as the practice is increasingly being absorbed into mainstream thinking on cities, it is critical that we look closely at both the underlying assumptions and resulting effects.

We are asking critics, practitioners, academics, community organizers, and the general public to weigh in on one of four questions dealing with issues of tactical urbanism. Each question will tackle a particular theme: community, funding, communication, and working with governmental/institution entities. The City Session: Spontaneous Talk questions will post online in during the course of the Venice Architecture Biennale, August 29 through November 25.

You can post your comment here: https://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/forum

Join the back channel discussion on Twitter by following @S_Interventions and hashtags #lgnlgn and #citysessions.

CITY SESSIONS
The City Sessions online discussion series, organized by the Institute for Urban Design (IfUD) in partnership with Leagues and Legions (#lgnlgn) in the weeks leading up to Urban Design Week, will culminate during the festival with a live debate on the practice of tactical urbanism and socially active design.

You can take part in the discussion at:
https://city-sessions.tumblr.com/
The September 18th event is open to the public, but space is limited, so please register in advance:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250796598286419
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/687727010
For more on Urban Design Week go to:
https://www.urbandesignweek.org/

Event coverage in the Architects Newspaper: https://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/23787

NCR CLASSIFIEDS
LGNLGN sets out to map longing, desire, guilt  and regret in the city, as well as the city’s losses and desires through the classified section of the New City Reader (see link below).

In the fall and winter of 2010 LGNLGN asked the public to submit classified ads with the question: “If personal information replaces cash in a networked economy, then how much are you willing to exchange for a New City Reader Classified?” Their wants and needs, lost and founds, missed connections, and notices were published in issue 14 of the New City Reader.

The NCR Classifieds was produced in the New Museum by LGNLGN December 30, 2010–January 6, 2011.

On the New City Reader:
https://newmuseum.org/exhibitions/428/the_last_newspaper
LGNLGN New City Reader Classifieds (PDF):
https://bit.ly/emMOwt
LGNLGN New City Reader Classifieds Online:
https://newcityreader.net/issue14.html#
LGNLGN twitter process:
https://dsgnagnc.blogspot.com/2011/01/ncr-classifieds.html

The Page + The Screen: An Annotated Bibliography for 21st Century Readers. New York: The Public School New York, 2010

www.graphicunion.org/press/page-screen-annotated-bibliography.pdf

#endofarchitecturetexts

lgnlgn, comp. kshpatel [Kush Patel]. #endofarchitecturetexts. [Twitter thread.] a.aaaarg.org. 21 Dec. 2009 – 30 Dec. 2009. 04 Jan. 2010

This thread is about the state of architectural criticism at the beginning of the 21st century. It was the impetus behind the proposals for the Public School New York classes, The Page + the Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond and Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop. It is also a formative document of the lgnlgn forum.

It is important to note that at the tail end of the thread, the discussion turned toward how conversations like these, which are distributed across multiple platforms, will eventually be archived and interpreted. Beyond this thread, there are still questions that loom. For example, with the introduction of newer technologies and their applications, what happens to the ways in which we read and write? In relation to Twitter and other social media, can these fragmented texts be defined as a form of criticism? If so, do they have the ability to stand alone as such? Where are they situated within a body of knowledge or canon?

[After participating in this thread, I came to this conclusion: Twitter is indexical in that it points toward larger conversations happening elsewhere.] 

Here are excerpts from the latter part of the thread (To read chronologically, start from the bottom.). As noted within the thread, these fragments taken out of context may not have much of an impact here:

TommyManuel @kshpatel true. depends on the intent I suppose. dialog vs. a one-way dissemination of thought. #endofarchitecturetexts 5 days ago from Seesmic

kshpatel @TommyManuel or not ‘cause twitterings are descriptive and conversational, about exchange and emergence (?) #endofarchitecturetexts 5 days ago from web

TommyManuel @kshpatel I believed the 140 chrtr limit would have appealed to many past arch. manifesto writers. #endofarchitecturetexts 5 days ago from web

loudpaper Gillick 1972. 28 year later and we’ve lost the emerald pills. #endofarchitecturetexts https://twitpic.com/vhi3l 5 days ago from Echofon

kshpatel “To have an archi. theorist use twitter as an exclusive vehicle to communicate is totally conceivable” ~ Tschumi. #endofarchitecturetexts 5 days ago from web

sevensixfive … and all the more so when you’re talking about a tweet about a blog post, about an email, about an article … #endofarchitecturetexts 5 days ago from web

sevensixfive … saving links to delicious that were sent via twitter - how fragmented will this conversation look in five years? #endofarchitecturetexts 5 days ago from web

JETISTICS AND I KNOW YOU
LGNLGN, VAMOS Architects, and Junk Jet magazine collaborated on the U.S. launch of the Junk Jet n°3 flux-us! flux-you! issue. To celebrate, Junk Jet and Vamos Architects each created a dynamic installation, Jetistics: The Analysis of Junk and I Know You.

JETISTICS: THE ANALYSIS OF JUNK. THE JUNK OF ANALYSIS?
After three years of publishing the experimental magazine Junk Jet, it is time for a serious analysis of junk. Therefore, Jetistics reports revealing details and secrets of world’s most important periodical publications dealing with junk data. As evidence, the presentation tracks and compares changes over time, showing overall trends and local details, analyzing patterns and breaks of junk.
 
For the storefront of VAMOS Architects, Jetistics built, in neo-neo-classicist style, a monumental micro-architecture, or an architectural micro-monument.
 
What you see is what you jet: junk data, statistical landscapes, golden rate graphs, bumps charts, purchase waves, classical façade, trend analysis, random walks, empirical measurements, data paths, dot-dash plots.
 
I KNOW YOU
In the spirit of engagement, VAMOS Architects will created I Know You, a physical diagram of a social network. With the help from residents, businesses, and visitors on the block, the project emerged throughout the course of the day. VAMOS Architects is a sociologically-driven design firm led by Evan Bennett and Silvia Fuster.
https://junkjet.net/
https://www.vamosarchitects.com/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/15954806@N00/sets/72157624032352996/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/igmade/sets/72157624010119093/

REMIX/REVISIT/REMASTER
Source Material:
Alison and Peter Smithson’s: But Today We Collect Ads
Reyner Banham’s: The Great Gizmo

#LGNLGN RRR treatment:
https://loudpaper.typepad.com/loudpaper/2010/03/agriculture-takes-command.html
https://dsgnagnc.blogspot.com/2010/03/but-today-ads-collect-us-but-we-can.html
https://765.blogspot.com/2010/03/but-today-we-collect-gizmos.html
https://www.strangeharvest.com/2010/03/more-scenes-in-cartoon-deserta.php
https://www.aggregat456.com/2010/03/story-of-eye-and-another-eye-and-yet.html
https://varnelis.net/blog/today_we_collect_nothing
https://www.girlwonder.com/2010/03/today-we-operate-on-objects.html
https://robertsumrell.blogspot.com/2010/03/but-today-ads-collect-us-im.html
https://overcommaunder.tumblr.com/post/457446758/today-we-collect-websites
https://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/04/a-preliminary-atlas-of-gizmo-landscapes/
https://jrdnggr.tumblr.com/post/460254876/terraforming-earth-remix-or-today-we-collect
https://www.m-a-u-s-e-r.net/?p=1347
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYz6UeSBpc2CZGMzc3diNmpfMjNjNjNjeHdkcQ&hl=en
https://markasaurus.com/2010/03/13/the-house-of-the-future-is-in-your-pocket/
https://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2010/03/bored-to-death.html

LGNLGN Founded.

loudpaper   if time inc etc are the super friends of mag publishing, let’s dream up a new collaborative design mag/blog/editorial model? who wants in?

Tues 24 Nov 12:53 via web

microkubo   @loudpaper I do.

Tues 24 Nov 13:25 via TweetDeck

willprince   @loudpaper Count me in.

Tues 24 Nov 13:44 via Twitter

quilian   @loudpaper count me in!

Tues 24 Nov 15:34 via Echofon

ou_grimley   @loudpaper me too.

Tues 24 Nov 16:29 via Tweetie

kazys   @loudpaper sounds good to me.

Tues 24 Nov 16:39 via web

mshepard   @loudpaper count me in!

Tues 24 Nov 18:20 via Echofon

microkubo   @loudpaper, @willprince, @ou_grimley, @kazys and @mshepard all on board sounds like a pretty kick-ass mag to me.

Tues 24 Nov 18:22 via TweetDeck

marklamster   @loudpaper can i play? i’m totally hoping for more work that i can’t bill.

Tues 24 Nov 19:00 via web

loudpaper   Thanks for the amazing response to new mag idea. thrilled to collaborate with all y'all. Now need a forum track developments.

Tues 24 Nov 19:12 via Echofon

bryanboyer   @loudpaper superfriends unite!

Tues 24 Nov 21:01 via Tweetie

loudpaper   @bryanboyer superfriends is a good title, no?

Tues 24 Nov 21:06 via web

enriqueramirez   @loudpaper A Voltron-like assembly of editorial talent.

Tues 24 Nov 21:08 via web

microkubo   @loudpaper @bryanboyer yes! (as long as DC doesn’t sue us.)

Tues 24 Nov 21:09 via TweetDeck

microkubo   @enriqueramirez Voltron, unfortunately, was not part of Superfriends.

Tues 24 Nov 21:10 via TweetDeck

loudpaper   so, where’s the best place to discuss facebook group, google wave, archinect forum?

Tues 24 Nov 21:12 via web

loudpaper   for the record, this is all just brewing now, an inadvertent call to arms… but with the best in the biz all in, it really should happen

Tues 24 Nov 21:13 via web

enriqueramirez   @microkubo I know … I just thought another cartoon reference would be appropriate :)

Tues 24 Nov 21:18 via web

loudpaper   @enriqueramirez @microkubo …considering I always call the architecture league the justice league… it makes perfect sense

Tues 24 Nov 21:22 via web

loudpaper   @microkubo weren’t we talking about supereditors last year?

Tues 24 Nov 21:22 via web

javierest   @loudpaper wait wait I missed the boat!?

Tues 24 Nov 21:30 via web

microkubo   @loudpaper we were, together with jennifer sigler (who really is a supereditor)

Tues 24 Nov 21:31 via TweetDeck

microkubo   @javierest welcome on board.

Tues 24 Nov 21:32 via TweetDeck

loudpaper   @javierest its a slow boat, still boarding

Tues 24 Nov 21:35 via web

javierest   @microkubo @loudpaper itsa ferry?

Tues 24 Nov 21:50 via web

javierest   @loudpaper tumblr?

Tues 24 Nov 21:55 via web

enriqueramirez   @loudpaper Am I in steerage (a la Leonardo DiCaprio in “Titanic”)?

Tues 24 Nov 21:58 via web

loudpaper   @enriqueramirez lenny, are you king of the world?

Tues 24 Nov 22:00 via web

willprince   @microkubo @loudpaper @enriqueramirez I was always partial to the Legion of Doom.

Tues 24 Nov 22:02 via Echofon

loudpaper   @willprince @microkubo @enriqueramirez Working title number 2: leagues and legions

Tues 24 Nov 22:05 via web

microkubo   @loudpaper: @willprince @enriqueramirez To do this right, we need an enemy team—superfriends versus league of doom. supereditors v…. ?

Tues 24 Nov 22:13 via TweetDeck

loudpaper   picked up leagues and legions as well as other sundry (lgnlgn.com) domains. @ou_grimley will work on getting a forum going this weekend.

Tues 24 Nov 22:59 via web

loudpaper   @ou_grimley @anothersam @maximolly @willprince @doingitwrong @enriqueramirez @microkubo @javierest @sevensixfive welcome aboard

Tues 24 Nov 23:02 via web

loudpaper   @bryanboyer @archlighting @bagnese @solidk @plaidiguana @marklamster @archinect @kazys @mshepard @jonathanhanahan come on in

Tues 24 Nov 23:04 via web