interscalar // systemic operations

the workshop introduced a general thinking platform with the key notion of interscalar to imply intense systemic operations in different levels. the brief developed along those lines in a more focused area of action by identifying the interscalarity in the theme of border. It was a theme that emerged though intensive communications with the doctors and specialist from the psychiatric field. The theme of border was there to negotiate with issues of security and socialization that reactivates the will and desire for action. So the pressing question was how to transform a dividing mechanism to a communication interface. How to make a secure border without a fence? The request of the brief was to provoke a thinking mode that is able to open up the notion of a border form something that divides fixed static entities to a device that negotiates the intricacies of each system. To think through systems and multiplicities was something that served the purpose of the operations to redefine the theme of border. A multiplicity is not a mere aggregation of different parts but is a systemic in-formation of a device that belongs to many without having the need of reductive and static unification. Across to those lines the brief encouraged students to form three groups in order to investigate the theme of border in different scales with different implied scenarios.