URBANOMIC The Ultimate Yarnwork

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: standalone. Source: audio original (.mp3).

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• 00:00:00

  Thank you very much for coming tonight. We are very happy to... We just have started the second project of our new residency program and this program invites groups and collectives to basically take over this upstairs space and to transform this space in whatever way they wish. And we are very happy to welcome…

• 00:10:50

  The process by which you get from one conception of site-specificity to the other. And what these different conceptions are really expressing. So as a way of thinking through this question. We seized on this opportunity back in 2010. When we were invited to do precisely one of these kinds of projects. We were invited…

• 00:22:00

  So if these two poles that I talked about, the local situation and its resolution into some kind of global universal logic, constitute the poles of tension of the story, then as we thought about it at this point, I think the plot is this kind of thread which runs between them. And the question is how you navigate that…

• 00:31:50

  Did the AIDS run this year, he's getting into Berkeley early admission and he totally gets me. Who put this together? Are you autistic? It is artistic, sir, because the thing is the yarn actually indicates all the different people. We're compiling a list of suspicious types of cool. This guy. This kid was actually…

• 00:43:07

  No, go ahead. Go ahead. ! . ! . . Okay. . So have we got the image from this last one? I think we've got the laptop up onto the screen. . Sorry. A brief pause. . . Yeah, yeah, I was just going to use the preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If we could just go to... Okay. Well, thanks, Robin…

• 00:57:02

  The whole rail network of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was made from rails and tracks that were made in this city, which is now Donetsk. So the timeline should also describe these things, enable me to understand them and people to look at them and understand the chronology, but they should also describe…

• 01:08:16

  Completely fascinating. So you could go backwards and expand each point one millimetre to another room and another room until you have the whole city mapped. Where do you stop? Will I ever have a life? But I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess But I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess I…

• 01:26:04

  I think... am I right in saying that we both be very open to any input from anybody? Yeah, absolutely. If you like can see a trick that we're missing or you know, see a new way of visualizing something or you know, just come and tell us. Thank you. Thank you.