#Steven Chodoriwsky

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Steven Chodoriwsky

Onderzoeker ontwerpen / Researchers Design 01.05.11 – 31.12.12 steven [dot] chodoriwsky [at] gmail [dot] com

Steven Chodoriwsky collaborates with Farid Noufaily on a joint project called Feral Economies.

Feral marketplaces are the day-to-day sites of constant transaction, bridging the personal economics of daily necessity with the machinations of global markets. All marketplaces are transductive entities: self-tuning instruments, where goods and services commingle ‘freely’ in a perpetual feedback loop. This is especially and by necessity most evident in the space between two geographically adjacent bodies in conflict. Under these conditions, feral economies have been thriving and always seem to find ways to thrive. We are interrogating the greater role of these sites, and their ability to allow self-contained, ‘peaceful’ transactions between conflicting bodies.

Our central interests deal with how economies at different scales work in, around and through neutral spaces. How do marketplaces engage, influence or become influenced by their surrounding conditions? How does their presence contribute to their stability? What is the nature of their ongoing evolution — towards embedment or towards dissolution or nomadic behaviour? Following this, we are investigating the forms of their manifestation as architectural spaces, their scope, their configuration and typologies, their cunning ability to dissolve without a trace, or to grow to the point of legitimacy.