Focusing on Architecture and Care, my free-diploma is about finding a method to describe and re-describe the city, where the overlap of productive and reproductive work is at the core. Productive work is work that is paid for and reproductive work is work that is not paid for. If reproductive work is what makes productive work, and the associated capital accumulation, possible, then unlimited capital accumulation is what destabilises reproductive work. This means that we, who live in an emancipated and neo-capitalist organised society, tend to have longterm problems: care crises, if we do not learn how to superimpose these two concepts of labour.

In order to get to the bottom of these mechanisms in the field of architecture and to learn how to overcome them, I spent a year in a 30% stint, overlapping reproductive work and productive work - in a phenomenological-biographical approach.

While the parameter of reproductive work always remained the same - namely the work of bringing up our toddler, the parameter of productive work, like architecture itself, has worn different faces throughout this year.

Thought in a postfordistic logic, the organisation of the week became our agenda. Every Thursday, my child and I would do a Spaziergang in real-spatiality, from our small, collective home in Altstetten-Grünau, to our other, nuclear home in Zollikon-Zurich, to then on the following days do a Spaziergang back, in a virtual-spatial sense - a game around memory and accuracy - revealing questions about scientificity, Heimat and gender roles.

In the process of the year, we have gone through a development that has ranged from ethnographic-recorders, to small-scale entrepreneurs, to outsourcing-leisure-liars - always believing ourselves as spatial philosophers with activists attitudes. Throughout the whole year the Spaziergang on Thursdays stayed at the core of the work and the term: unproductive as something desirable, has become established and reestablished.

Basically, it can be said that our method is portraying living landscape and in a broader sense recording and rearranging the more-of-information of space. If one wants to follow Anh-linh Ngo, then the more-of-information of space is a reference to life in-and-of-itself, which constitutes architecture and in an extended sense: space. Life is by no means to be understood essentialistically. Life is to be understood here in all its contradictions, in its non-plannability and in its conflict, in short in its relations to society. Our journey is a constant ossification between fact and fiction.

If one wants to overlap productive and reproductive work in a fruitful way, one actually wants 2 for 1, but apart from the big department stores with their endlessly deconstructed value chains, 2 for 1 logically costs 2, if not 4 and here we are, at the far end of no return.