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SERIEN STUDENTENARBEIT  •  STUDENT WORK

                                                                             Unterschrift unterstützt werden kann. Über den von Sven Tillack im Rahmen seiner
                                    Universität Stuttgart                    Diplomarbeit an der Kunstakademie Stuttgart gegründeten Verlag Duplo Press konnten
                                                                             wir unser Manifest publizieren. Am Riso grafen wurde eine Auflage von 100 Stück ge -
                                    www.uni-stuttgart.de                     druckt und von uns in der Buch binde werkstatt der Kunst aka demie weiterverarbeitet.
                                    1829 gegründet                           Die einzelnen Hefte zu Prolog, Manifest I bis VII und Epilog beinhalten eine Erläuterung
                                    rund 27.686 Studierende (Stand WS 2016/17) in 10 Fakultäten  und die fotografische Dokumentation unserer Aktionen und sind in einer Box zusam-
                                                                             mengefasst. Die grafische Gestaltung der Homepage und des Druckwerkes stammen
                                                                             von Tobias Hönow, der aktuell an der Kunstakademie Kommunikationsdesign studiert.
                                                                             Die  lose  Form  der  Aufbewahrung wurde  gewählt,  um  die  Re le vanz jedes einzelnen
                                                                             Punktes zu unterstreichen. Das Druck verfahren am Risografen passt thematisch sehr gut
                                                                             zum Manifest, da es aufgrund der Nachhaltigkeit der Druck farben auf Sojabasis, der
                                                                             geringen Kosten und der außerordentlichen  Zeit effizienz  auch zum  Drucken von
                                                                             Flugblättern verwendet wird. Das gesammelte Mani fest kann über den Online-Shop von
                                                                             Duplo Press – www.duplo.press –    erworben werden.

                                                                             O  ur prologue first explains what made us draw up the manifesto to save architecture
                                                                                and why it is absolutely essential to work on the attitude towards architecture – on
                                                                             the part of architects and students but also as a society. Prologue: Awareness – in our
                                                                             work as future architects, there is hardly a more significant capacity than having a feeling
                                                                             for what is currently happening and for the space which surrounds us. In what kind of
                                                                             present time are we actually living? First and foremost ranks our universal consumption,
                                                                             encouraged by constant overstimulation. In second place is fear. Every one of us has a
                                                                             kind of latent fear inside which is even deepened by the omnipresent precautionary mea-
                                                                             sures. Wake up! From our observations, we deduce the phenomenon of “securicracy”,
                                                                             the rule of safety, the control over people. The result of the symbiosis of consumption and
                                                                             “securicracy” is the numbing of the individual which in the end means all the measures
                                                                             are taken to subtly prevent the development of ideas against the establishment. We are
                                                                             no longer thinking actively! The architecture of the present time is a reflection of our num-
                                                                             bed state. We are forced to submit to investors, DIN standards and the EnEv energy-
               Foto: Sven Tillack                                            saving ordinance. We are expected to tag along and nod our heads, to be docile and rea-
                                                                             sonable. With our work, we as students of architecture must not contribute any longer to

                                                                             suppressed by economic laws when it is exactly those which have led to a homogenous
               Das gesammelte Werk ist in einer Box zusammengefasst. • The collected works are contained in a box.  the constantly growing homogenization of architecture. We must stop letting ourselves be
                                                                             and completely rational world. We must start to take a position for our future and accor-
               Das geplante Aufstellen des „Luftschlosses“ wurde untersagt. • The planned installation was prohibited.
                                                                             ding to the responsibility we as architects have in this society. It is completely up to us
                                                                             since one thing is certain: Things are not how they are, they are how we are!
                                                                             Seven points of the manifesto on saving architecture

                                                                             In the seven points of our manifesto, we call on architects and students to take a posi-
                                                                             tion according to the responsibility which architects have in this society and we make
                                                                             it the task of the architects to once again raise the mainstream’s awareness of quality
                                                                             architecture and its social relevance.
                                                                                    I. Architecture is art.
                                                                                    II. No ideas should not be expressed for fear of contradiction.
                                                                                    III. Do not rely only on the teachings by the authorities. Become autodidacts.
                                                                                    VI. We detest dogmas and norms which suppress our imagination.
                                                                                    V. We do not let economic laws bind us.
                                                                                    VI. We have to fight against the homogenization of architecture.
                                                                                    VII. We demand dangerous architecture.
                                                                             In the last week of the semester, every day we made one point of the mani festo public
                                                                             in the form of a performance at Stuttgart University. For each performance, we distribu-
                                                                             ted little booklets with a detailed explanation regarding the individual points. You will
                                                                             also find these explanations together with a photographic documentation of the cam-
                                                                             paigns at www.manifantastisch.de. At Duplo Press, founded by Sven Tillack in the course
                                                                             of his diploma thesis at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, we were able to have
                                                                             our manifesto printed. On the Risograph, an edition of 100 copies was produced and furt-
                                                                             her processed by us in the bindery of the Academy. The individual booklets with the pro-
                                                                             logue, the manifestoes I to VI and the epilogue contain an explanation and the photogra-
                                                                             phic documentation of our performances and are put together in a box. The graphic
                                                                             design of the homepage and the publication is by Tobias Hönow who is studying com-
                                                                             munication design. The loose form of the publication was chosen in order to emphasize
                                                                             the relevance of each individual point. The printing process on the Risograph goes well
                                                                             with the theme of the manifesto since, due to the sustainability of the printing inks based
                                                                             on soy, the low cost and the extraordinary time efficiency, it is also used to print flyers.



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