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\u201cThe Future we don\u2019t want to know about.\u201d<\/p>\n
MONU<\/em>, no.30 \/ Spring (2019): 42\u201349.<\/p>\n Journal Article<\/em><\/p>\n MONU\u2019s 2019 Spring issue entitled Late Life Urbanism <\/em>is focusing on how architecture and cities will be impacted by current and on-going demographic and societal changes that have led to increasingly ageing populations. Anuschka Kutz\u2019s article discusses a future that we will hopefully all encounter; and yet, a future that we don\u2019t really want to face\u2026\u00a0 One of the great oxymorons of our modern times is that we all hope to live long lives but that we do not wish to get old in the process. Is our collective inertia \u2013 in the sense that if we look away we may not have to face what we don\u2019t want to see \u2013 partially responsible for a creative urban and architectural stalemate here? How \u2018complicit\u2019 might our architectural education be in this? Taking a brief look at the RIBA president\u2019s medals \u2013 a prestigious price for architecture student projects \u2013 for example, surfaces 102 entries for \u2018museums\u2019, whilst the term \u2018care home\u2019 will bring up 2 results. Is it that incapacitated elderly do not look as good in perspectives as smiling skateboarders on museum forecourts? Or is the subject still a disagreeable topic, as Simone De Beauvoir has argued? The care home remains a place nobody wants to go to or be in; it is the \u2018scary room\u2019 of Ageing (Gilroy, 2014) where those of us will \u2018end up\u2019 who can no longer live independent lives (after a fun phase of early ageing, perhaps); until such time when we care to create alternatives. The article starts out with a fictional care home, titled \u2018Lawnfield Lodge\u2019. Being neither surrounded by lawn nor close to a park or any other amenities for that matter, it stands in for the hundreds of \u2018template\u2019 care homes that are splattered all over the UK. How do these places relate to concepts such as the \u2018right to the city\u2019 (Lefebvre 1968; Harvey 2008) and the freedom to live an independent human life? Rather than making all-encompassing statements about the \u2018remedies\u2019 we may need to invent, the article presents a slow ethnographic approach towards everyday spatial tactics of older people before presenting extracts from International Master student projects created in the studio Urban Field Lab<\/em> at KU Leuven, where Anuschka Kutz has been Visiting Professor for the past 5 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe Future we don\u2019t want to know about.\u201d MONU, no.30 \/ Spring (2019): 42\u201349. Journal Article MONU\u2019s 2019 Spring issue entitled Late Life Urbanism is focusing on how architecture and cities will be impacted by current and on-going demographic and societal changes that have led to increasingly ageing populations. Anuschka Kutz\u2019s article discusses a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}