misshhunt
Tactical Mapping
This historical and spatial context for this work is located in the Palace Square of St. Petersburg, Russia. The Palace Square is remarkable in its vastness, measuring 230 meters by 280 meters. The scale of the square lends itself well to its capacity to contain the masses. It is the site of Bloody Sunday where Russian monarchy massacred demonstrators protesting for worker rights. This marked beginning of Russian Revolution of 1905, changing autocracy to constitutional monarchy. In 1917, the square swelled again with the Bolshevik Red Guards, overthrowing the provisional government and installing Soviets to power. (03) Such actions mark the square permanently as a site of social upheaval and political unrest.
A series of architectural interventions propose reclamation of this public forum from forces of Russian government, nostalgia, museumification, and complicity with Soviet Russia (i.e. fetishized tourism and sentimental leanings to Soviet powers, Putin’s dictatorial powers). The proposal seeks to activate a contemporary res publica, one that dignifies quotidian voices and elevates public consciousness to latent murmurs of new revolutionary potentialities. (04)
Tactical Mapping
This historical and spatial context for this work is located in the Palace Square of St. Petersburg, Russia. The Palace Square is remarkable in its vastness, measuring 230 meters by 280 meters. The scale of the square lends itself well to its capacity to contain the masses. It is the site of Bloody Sunday where Russian monarchy massacred demonstrators protesting for worker rights. This marked beginning of Russian Revolution of 1905, changing autocracy to constitutional monarchy. In 1917, the square swelled again with the Bolshevik Red Guards, overthrowing the provisional government and installing Soviets to power. (03) Such actions mark the square permanently as a site of social upheaval and political unrest.
A series of architectural interventions propose reclamation of this public forum from forces of Russian government, nostalgia, museumification, and complicity with Soviet Russia (i.e. fetishized tourism and sentimental leanings to Soviet powers, Putin’s dictatorial powers). The proposal seeks to activate a contemporary res publica, one that dignifies quotidian voices and elevates public consciousness to latent murmurs of new revolutionary potentialities. (04)