Socioplastics 11869 The Temporary Building Has a Long Afterlife
Temporary architecture promises adaptability and a lighter relation to place. A pavilion, festival installation or provisional cultural structure may occupy a site briefly, yet the arrangements around it can endure. TransienceBlueprint examines the duration of land agreements, labour, waste, permissions and records alongside the lifespan of the object. The structure’s removal marks one moment in a longer sequence of obligations and effects. Cedric Price made change and indeterminacy central design questions. Keller Easterling studies spatial arrangements whose effects travel through rules and repeatable dispositions. Tania Bruguera and Suzanne Lacy work with situated publics and forms of participation. Their practices help distinguish the short duration of an installation from the longer timescale of the relationships and institutional commitments it creates. A project brief could include a temporal drawing that follows preparation, occupation, dismantling and afterlife. It would map land use, permissions, paid and unpaid work, material destinations, public encounters and records that continue to circulate. A temporary work might leave reusable components, altered access, new relationships or unresolved waste. Each outcome belongs to its account, even when it falls outside the exhibition dates. TransienceBlueprint makes disappearance part of architectural planning. It asks what the project will leave behind and who will manage those consequences. The approach helps evaluate temporary work through its full sequence rather than its opening image alone. A design becomes more accountable when its plan includes both the conditions of occupation and the practical arrangements through which the work ends.
REFERENCES
Easterling, K. (2014) Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. London: Verso.
Lacy, S. (ed.) (1995) Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Seattle: Bay Press.
Price, C. (2003) The Square Book. London: Architectural Association.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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