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WORKING ON TRANSFORMATION / Newrope

スイス連邦工科大学チューリッヒ校（ETH Zurich）において、建築家フリーク・ペルシン（Freek Persyn / 51N4E）が率いる建築・都市変容講座「Newrope」。彼らは建築を単なる物理的な構築物としてではなく、社会的・政治的なプロセスの中に位置づけ、既存の都市や環境がいかに変容（Transformation）しうるかを教育と実践の両面から探求しています。

本書『WORKING ON TRANSFORMATION』は、彼らの「Design in Dialogue Lab」での実験的な教育活動を体系化した一冊です。しかし、これは単なる活動記録や作品集ではなく、本書のコンパクトな判型が示す通り、読者が現場に持ち運び、常に参照し、思考の補助線として機能することを意図した「ツール」としてデザインされています。本書の構成は、「To Project（投影する）」「To Experience（経験する）」「To Sequence（順序立てる）」「To Activate（活性化する）」という4つの動詞によって展開されます。それぞれの動詞は、既存の専門的職能を見渡す「アクション」と、これからの実践を示唆する「プライマー（入門）」の二つの視座から掘り下げられ、現代の複雑な都市環境において、建築家が他者といかに協働できるかという問いを投げかけます。版元は、デザインスタジオ〈OK-RM〉が運営するロンドンの出版社〈InOtherWords〉より。

Working on Transformation is the result of encounter. Staged between faculty, students and collaborators at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation at ETH Zurich (otherwise known as NEWROPE), these encounters are performances of world-building, inviting participants and audiences to imagine new ways to choreograph alliance. Recognising the present need for new forms of critical design education underscores the project's immediacy. By documenting the production of NEWROPE’s teaching experiments, the book becomes a guiding companion, anticipating future experiments to be staged outside of this forum. Imagined in this way, it is not an instruction for collaboration but a component part of these very relations. 

Portability catalyses functionality: designed to be held close, carried around and frequently referenced as a habitual working companion. Inside, the narrative is distilled across four chapters, each organised around a verb: ‘to project’, ‘to experience’, ‘to sequence’, and ‘to activate’. These verbs arise twice within each chapter: first as a contextual survey of established disciplinary practices within the field of architecture and urban transformation (as the Action); and second as a speculative invitation to re-enact these practices in nascent forms (as the Primer). These latter sections offer rumination on NEWROPE’s ongoing pursuit of collectivity as a methodology to address the urgent complexities of our times. Tested within NEWROPE’s Design in Dialogue Lab this investigation uses tangible elements such as props and performative mock-ups as instruments to affect new forms of communication and engagement. Understanding the book as not only a narration of these collaborative rehearsals but a companion to future performances, we come to realise its self-fulfilling function—a prop for tacit co-creation.

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Pages: 244
Size: 120 x 170 mm
Softcover
Color, black and white
Limited edition of 1,750 copies

Published by InOtherWords, 2025

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