Architecture between plan, trick and feint: spatial hacking strategies based on Cildo Meireles’ work “Insertions in ideological circuits”

• Autor(a) principal: Capillé, Cauê
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cruz, Mariana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: P@ranoá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/paranoa/article/view/43475
• topic: Projeto de arquitetura; Hacker; Estratégia política; Diseño Arquitectónico; Hacker; Estrategia Política; Architectural project; Hacker; Political strategy

In this article, we argue that a rational compromise by the 'plan' is just one mode of architectural action, that is, there are at least two other modes that can be considered when designing: either the covert 'trick' that decouples statement from operation; as for the 'feint' that openly declares its opposition, but that sways marginally as a way of deflecting it and winning it. Furthermore, we argue that although we are mostly trained to design by plans, contemporary urban contexts and challenges have required us to know how to act by tricks and feints – especially in the political conditions of the Global South. This article intends, therefore, to assist in the theoretical construction of these two other ways of designing. To do so, it reviews Keller Easterling's theoretical proposal on 'spatial hacking' and proposes that Cildo Meireles' work “Insertions in ideological circuits” can be considered an important political/aesthetic reference for architectural trickery and feint, as it offers lessons for a theoretical construction on the difference between the two.