Platform 10: Live Feed - Harvard Graduate School of Design Documentation
Platform 10: Live Feed examines the paradox of contemporary digital documentation: our "live feeds" are exponentially more mediated than the analog forms they rapidly replace. This architectural publication addresses how real-time platforms for self-expression intersect with the political, ethical, and epistemological consequences of a world where distortion, simulation, and manipulation blur into indistinguishability.
Crowd-Sourced Institutional Archive
This volume presents images in reverse chronological order from July 2017 to August 2016, drawn from a database of 117,518 available files. The "live feed" samples photographs from students, faculty, and staff at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, revealing the fluidity between place, production, and people within the institution.
Critical Essays and Contributions
Features contributions from Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at Harvard GSD, alongside critical perspectives from editors Jon Lott and John May.
About the Editors
Jon Lott is assistant professor of architecture and codirector of the Master of Architecture program at Harvard GSD. Principal of PARA Project and cofounder of Collective-LOK, Lott has received the Emerging Voices award, Design Vanguard award, New Practices New York award, and Architectural League Prize. His work has been published in the New York Times, LA Times, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and Domus.
John May is design critic in architecture and director of the Master in Design Studies program at Harvard GSD. Founding partner of MILLIØNS with Zeina Koreitem, May is also founding co-director of The Instruments Project. Author of New Massings for New Masses: Collectivity After Orthography and co-editor of The Instruments Project: Architecture and Evidence.
Publication Details
Published by Actar in December 2017, this paperback volume documents the intersection of architectural education, digital media, and institutional identity through photographic evidence and critical theory.
