This collection of texts is a ”manual for unlearning” - unlearning the various ways of theorising the city that we consider natural to the extent that we no longer see them as mental constructs, treating them as part of reality. Because words, names and concepts are still our basic tools for thinking, sometimes, in order to learn something well, it is necessary to unlearn it beforehand.
We want to unlearn thinking about urban health only through the banal metaphor of the city-organism; instead, we want to explore the complex relationship between health and urban space. We want to unlearn thinking about infrastructure in the city only through its material, technical and investment dimensions, because it is not only pipes and roads, but also we ourselves who create urban infrastructure. We want to unlearn from thinking about the relationship between architecture and power only through the prism of specific political ideologies supposedly inscribed in architecture, because neither biopolitical power nor freedom is ever ultimately determined by architectural forms.
publisher: FUNDACJA NOWEJ KULTURY BĘC ZMIANA
