{"id":3460,"date":"2018-02-22T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:46:51","slug":"community-by-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/community-by-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Community by force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the public video &#8220;Intentional communities&#8221; from the series\u00a0<em>Fictions, Alternative Structures, and Mock-Institutions,\u00a0<\/em>the concept of &#8216;intentional communities&#8217;&#8211;communities\u00a0designed\u00a0to encourage high degree of social cohesion and teamwork&#8211;sparked an idea. What about living environments that would\u00a0<em>force<\/em> social cohesion? Namely, the minimal spaces that represent the housing problem in Hong Kong:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/property\/pictures\/9888398\/Overhead-photos-of-cramped-apartments-in-Hong-Kong.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02489\/hong-kong-4_2489579k.jpg\" width=\"684\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;A family eat dinner in their cramped apartment in Hong Kong.&#8221; Click for source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) released a set of top down photos to raise awareness of the current housing problem in Hong Kong, but with the unintentional effect of creating what could be called art. These housings seem capable of forcing very intimate social cohesion, or forcing solitude to those living alone&#8211;there is no middle ground.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inhabitat.com\/chinese-human-rights-group-releases-shocking-aerial-photos-of-hong-kongs-locker-sized-apartments\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/VJT7nE-jfpuslE9w5RFoxsq95JbwLBah1-DU8UTz7msQJgU4OeOHo6Q=s0-d\" width=\"728\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Some families are forced to live in 40 square-foot cubicle apartments.&#8221; Click for source<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These photos capture so much life, so much struggle, compromise, and resilience. It begs the question: Can the inhabitants ever think of their living spaces as art?<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not they do, it raises\u00a0a question about the threshold of art&#8211;when is a room art, and when is it not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the public video &#8220;Intentional communities&#8221; from the series\u00a0Fictions, Alternative Structures, and Mock-Institutions,\u00a0the concept of &#8216;intentional communities&#8217;&#8211;communities\u00a0designed\u00a0to encourage high degree of social cohesion and teamwork&#8211;sparked an idea. What about living environments that would\u00a0force social cohesion? Namely, the minimal spaces that represent the housing problem in Hong Kong: The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) released a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/community-by-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Community by force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3139,"featured_media":3462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2608],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}