Counterculture?

'If you remember the 60s, you weren't there' Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane This afternoon event includes a roundtable discussion led by Jeffrey Inaba, Features Editor of VOLUME, an independent quarterly for architecture to go beyond itself. Issue 24 of the journal, published in Autumnn 2010, examines current interests and recent histories of counterculture; in architecture, the environment, politics, art and culture. The 1960s countercultural roots of the hippie generation are now mainstream, and alternative values of forty years ago can now be seen to guide the world of technology. At first glance, what appears prescient about the 60s when looking at current American culture is the preoccupation then and now with computer technology, the natural environment and alternative forms of community; but today each is disconnected from the radical political action and oppositional ideologies of the earlier era. Discuss. This afternoon's roundtable conversation will include Jeffrey Inaba (GSAPP), Graham Caine (Street Farmers), Peter Crump (Street Farmers), David Greene (Archigram), Charles Holland (FAT), Mark Wigley (GSAPP), and more... Moderated by Brett Steele (AA).