The Anti/Monumental Laboratory is an experimental, roaming design-education unit interrogating the place of memorial politic, architectural antagonism & justice today.
The course interrogates the philosophical positions of monuments, anti-monuments & counter-monuments, and the ways in which such structures enfold into mobilisations and articulations of not only recognition, but also wider landscape and cultural amnesias.
The laboratory’s lectures & workshops put students into the role of both subject, antagonist & counter-antagonist, producing final outcomes of architectural intervention proposals, actions, performances, writings & artworks.
The Anti/Monumental Laboratory is currently commissioned for the urban metropolitan context of Barcelona by Elisava University’s Masters in Critical Design programme of 2024-2025.
Previously, it was commissioned in Salzburg in interrogation of the extractionist landscape of a semi-functioning quarry in Untersberg for the city’s Sommarakademie in 2023.
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September 2024 – June 2025
Masters of Critical Design, Elisava Barcelona
Director: Cristina Goberna-Pesudo