Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building illustration The conditional sense of hospitality

The conditional sense of hospitality that is then experienced breaks the logic of either/or – what is included – or the logic of neither/nor – what is excluded

Gertrude Stein

Their first work originally written in English

Even the most primitive tools make affordances that signal to our hands: wield me

today’s global far right is launching lethal panics about the threats to traditional political

Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building illustration The conditional sense of hospitalityWho inhabits our public buildings, and what roles do we play within them? What if we are both creators and occupants, shaping these spaces as we go? This book stems from Unknown Grounds: The Public Building, a two day symposium where artists and thinkers reimagined "the public building" through performance and fiction. Participants embodied roles from architects to janitors, exploring how we actively shape the spaces we inhabit. Script for a Synthetic