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Afterscape is a self-initiated attempt to both document and contribute to the new projects, new imaginations and new beginnings in architecture which have emerged following the global recession of 2008. We are particularly interested in concepts and ideas as co-operative urbanism, production of commons, degrowth city, DIY projects and the sphere where engagement between political or geopolitical and architecture is present. Afterscape aspires to develop an open research archive of opinions, inspirations, confrontations and questions.
Currently Afterscape has two main contributors: Dace Au-mele and Dace Gurecka.
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Afterscape PortfolioIntroduction
“From Corporate to Cooperate”
Post+Capitalist City: #2 WorkDace Aumele, Dace Gurecka2012
The project proposal is a system of work organization which is based on production of nature capital. Dubai and its endless skyscrapers in desert are one of the globally biggest nature resource consumers. In Dubai skyline of skyscrapers stops being an icon of progress and becomes a symbol of our global destruction. We see this skyline as a capsulated energy of means of production which should be released by 56 000 people social power that are currently unemployed.
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Afterscape PortfolioFrom Corporate to Cooperate
... Dubai cooperation is bottom-up generated cooperation which unites everyone willing not only to own its surplus previously taken by the capital but also to do a global ecological impact. By subscribing oneself in the coop-eration one is asked to recycle its own house appliances as buy-in cost for the cooperation. Further he joins the de-growth movement in Dubai where he earns not only a recycled house at the end of his two years work but is also fully engaged into the Dubai community, therefore once again finding the good into the common.
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Afterscape PortfolioFrom Corporate to Cooperate
... Equity of Dubai’ co-operation is based in the point system where everybody works towards the set goal and have the same responsibilities, rights and earnings regardless the buy-in capital.
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Afterscape PortfolioFrom Corporate to Cooperate
... Deconstruction of the whole fabrics that were built in the city of Dubai would reduce its CO2 emissions by half, and recycling of its materials and production of new nature capital would be able not only to make Dubai carbon neutral, but also give back extra nature capital to the planet. Only dismantling of a single Burj Khlafa building would save the planet a need for 220 620 ha of forests and reusing its construction materials could be recycled into 123 2-MW wind turbines, ecological hous-ing for almost 6000 people and 20 000 solar panels bringing additional capital for nature.
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Afterscape PortfolioFrom Corporate to Cooperate
... Everything in Dubai would be dismantled, recycled and reused in three main steps. Firstly, parks of the city would stop being watered. At the same time, all of the fabrics that were built, except industrial fa-cilities, would be deconstructed. The recycling of the ex-building materials would be done in local industrial facilities, from where the created nature products - solar panels, wind turbines and eco housing parts - could be transported around the world. In the following step the remain-ing industrial facilities would be also dismantled and shifted. The remains of Dubai would consist of parts of derelict infrastruc-ture slowly taken over by Dubai desert.
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Afterscape PortfolioFrom Corporate to Cooperate
“Creative”
Artwork for AdformatieDace Aumele, Dace Gurecka2012
The artwork piece reflects a creative way of knowing and understanding site. Site for us as architects means certain built up area which leads to the exploration of different layers - spatial, theoretical, social, eco-nomic and political. All together it reveals information and un-derstating which is hidden from a pedestrian point of view.
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Afterscape PortfolioCreative
“DIY Ties”
Origami sculptureDace Aumele, Dace GureckaPhoto: Sina Maleki2012
The creative tie represents the intentions and ambitions of Afterscape. This blog is a piece for us from which we want to built bigger and more relevant contributions in architecture. Using this idea we used only one modular element as a piece from which it is possible to built something bigger/better and more complex. The technical inspiration comes from an old Chinese paper folding technique – Zhezhi. We used around 500 units and shaped a sculptural independent form.
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Afterscape PortfolioDIY Ties
