Monthly Archives: June 2009

Spatial design as territorial control

June 23, 2009 – 8:05 pm

First foreign translation, in Italian, for Eyal Weizman’s book on the use of space as a tool to articulate power in the Occupied Territories.

By Gabriele Oropallo | Posted in Books | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

53rd Venice Art Biennale preview: Worlds in the making

June 12, 2009 – 4:02 pm

Cutting a board off the wooden floor to expose the raw concrete underneath is nothing essential or minimal at all: all the way round, it creates a new space, polydimensional in its depth and bidimensional in the game of references to the very floorboard we stepped on. These interventions on space and time are powerful dismissals of a geocentrism/egocentrism still dwelling in our minds centuries after Copernicus.

By Gabriele Oropallo | Posted in Art, Review | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Conference: Beyond Henri Lefebvre

June 2, 2009 – 6:34 pm

WHAT: Interdisciplinary conference / call for contributions
WHEN: November 24-26th, 2009
WHERE: ETH Zurich
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 30th, 2009
www.henrilefebvre.org
From the website:
Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre
The interdisciplinary conference Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre brings together recent applications of Lefebvre’s theory in order to develop new concepts for the analysis of contemporary processes of urbanization [...]

By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff | Posted in Conferences | Comments (2)