An article discussing the notion of the test platform as a tool for architectural experimentation. Key aspects of contexts, formats and terminology are probed through historical references such as Archigram, Constant Nieuwenhuis of the Situationist movement and the practice of Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, as well as recent design studios in education.
The text is based on the Probing the Conjectural lecture of the NON course, August 2001.
Published in Trans magazine december 2001, ETH, Zurich
Co-written with Daniel Norell
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