描述
Seventeen No.44 – F/W 2017
It’s 2017. The millennium is in its teenage years—and it shows.
The world is acting out—making rash, impulsive decisions whose repercussions may be irreparable. The body politic is moody, volatile, and uncompromising. We were born into Y2K and 9/11; our youth is part of a string of crises and rapid evolutions. Can the physical landscape weather our collective turmoil? Adolescence may be “just a phase,” but architecture, infrastructure, and policy are hard to undo.
What does it mean to be 17 in 2017? This issue of Harvard Design Magazine checks in with teens of all sorts—humans, buildings, objects, ideas—and their impact on the spatial imagination. Like a bildungsroman for the built environment, “Seventeen” dives into the treacherous, exhilarating limbo of the teen years to understand and reclaim this global adolescence.
Though stereotyped as indignant or apathetic, teenagers are also wildly optimistic, passionate, creative, and resourceful. But teenagehood is not just a physical and emotional transition; it is also a spatial one. Bursting out of their childhood homes, teens crave autonomy—so they roam the streets, escape to virtual worlds, or hide out in bedrooms; they claim vacant lots, parks, and garages as turf; and they cruise, chill, or hang—euphemisms for the “whatever” that may or may not occur in these marginal spaces. For a discipline that defines space according to program and purpose, the nebulous teen hangout is easily overlooked; but openness, placelessness, and aimlessness offer a realm for fantasy, common ground, and action—especially in times of challenged freedoms.
Like all teenagers, we are asking: who are we, where do we fit in, and how can we, too, make our marks—as impactful designers and as an evolving discipline? In a divided, temperamental 2017, there is much to learn from the teenager.
Content
002 Rights and Rites – Jennifer Sigler
006 Locker Room – Jennifer Doyle
008 “Young Girls” and Their Real Worlds – feminist architecture collaborative
016 Continuous Exit – AbdouMaliq Simone
018 Designing Decency – Mohsen Mostafavi
020 Athens: Arrested Development – Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner &
027 Park Powers – HECTOR
028 The Fountain Today – Tom de Paor
030 Codes of Conduct: Mall Rats and Bunnies and the Shopping Agenda – Susan Nigra Snyder
032 Question Guys – David Huber
041 Chill Not – Robin James
042 Don’t Label Me – Ellie Uyttenbroek, Ari Versluis & Lou Stoppard
052 Playing Beirut – Public Works Studio
054 In Memory of the Millennium: British Architecture and Planning, 17 Years On – Owen Hatherley
062 Bubbles, Fabric, and the Common People – Eva Diaz
067 Finding Self-Consciousness – Sarah Williams Goldhagen
071 Drawing Lessons at a Juvenile Prison – Victoria Lomasko
079 Sixteen plus One – Gareth Doherty & Moises Lino e Silva
080 Performative Rebellions – Bryony Roberts
087 Tehran’s Young Preservationists – Pamela Karimi
088 Wired Scenes Inside the Goldmine – Sam Jacob
094 The Not-Me Creation – Jorge Otero-Pailos & Danielle Choi
101 Smoke and Mirrors – Elias Redstone
102 Displaced Persons – Susan Rubin Suleiman
108 Reframing Education and the Architecture of Added Value – Emma Dyer & Adam Wood
117 Pages from a Teenage Journal – Lydia Davis
118 Life Begins at the Apocalypse Monster Club – Enrique Ramirez
120 Structural Injustice: A (Teenage) Primer – Beryl Satter
127 Shooting the Enemy – Harry Allen
128 Generations – Sana Krasikov
130 The Kids Aren’t Alright – Phineas Harper
138 The Egg Cream in Mid-Manhattan – Thomas Beller
144 Chatting with the Natives – Michelle McSweeney
146 Forever a Youth Culture? Skateboarding, Design, and the Built Environment – Ocean Howell
153 Seventeen Years a Refugee – Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
154 Pockets of Active Boredom – Tali Hatuka
156 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Ethel Baraona Pohl
164 Millennials Think Pink – Carolyn L. Kane
168 Creating a Different World – Alex Israel & Hamza Walker
176 An Appeal to Protest – Charles L. Davis II
183 Linger, Stay, Saunter, Delay – Interboro Partners
190 Fluids and Fluidity – Lori Brown
196 Living Pasts and Feedback Loops in Cape Town – Sean O’Toole
205 Let Me Teach Ya – Erec Gellautz
206 Born Goth – Olivia Erlanger & Luis Ortega Govela
208 Fieldwork – Jimenez Lai
