Tutors: Kate Davies, Jack Hardy, Oliver Houchell.

Co-operative 4 has been looking very closely at the sometimes banal and often absurd choreography of the London commute. We are witness and participant to absurdities on a daily basis, and our transportation infrastructure is the unintentional framework for many of these collective absurdities, or memes, to occur and become normalised. Years before the face mask became the defining global icon of pandemic public space, it was normalised on the Tokyo Metro.

The systems, visible or invisible, social or logistical, connect one thing to another. Infrastructural spaces reveal our most heuristic and passive behaviours. Look closer and it opens up strange and fertile territories: the illogical within the logical and the magical within the mundane, the portraiture of surveillance, or the silent intimacy of strangers on a train. Look closely, and it is possible to perceive that infrastructural objects, protocols and memes are the choreographers of our collective absurdity.

Co-operative 4 designed two fantastic 'not-pavilions' as responses to the individual and collective experiences of London’s transitional spaces. They aim to reveal and critique the agency of objects and memes in transport spaces.