WJ block has long been the home of spatial design here at the AU of T, until we heard rumours that it was going to be bulldozed and rebuilt into new awesomeness (horridness? How bout that rennovated design block? Sterile much?). That was last year, and those rumours still haven't come true yet...
Which is O.K because Chris Fitzgerald has decided to turn a part of it into a temporary space for art and kicked things off on Friday with a show. Above are evidence of such.
The space really got me thinking...there's something really interesting about where WJ sits at the moment. Its fate hanging off of the decisions of people who perhaps don't even inhabit it. WJ is positioned between functions, intended or not. Whether it is anticipating something bigger and better, a moving on with times, or mourning the imminent death of what it used to be...where is its glory to be found now?
I bet all the other buildings are taking note. After all, WJ could very well just be an architectural foreshadowing of their own futures...
- Agnes
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