The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

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works has involved commercial transactions, and each addresses issues at the
intersection of economics and culture, they have resisted commodification
because of their specificity to a particular site. Because each was a temporary
intervention into a social system and physical space, we have been allowed
a degree of “freedom” from official and institutional restraint that is highly
uncommon for works on permanent public display.
Ultimately, these projects have articulated elements from the commodity
system, before dispersing them back into it; the works’ unrehearsed
and live realization in public spaces involved a degree of social interaction
that connected the sites to wider ideological forces.