Monthly Archives: August 2009

DESIGN ACT: Socially and politically engaged design today – critical roles and emerging tactics

August 30, 2009 – 9:23 am

On-site at ExperimentaDesign, DESIGN ACT invites you to a discussion about socially and politically engaged design.Visit and contribute to: a seminar featuring Swedish practitioners discussing historical and contemporary projects; live interviews during the opening week, and; an installation featuring a participatory archive of project examples where you can collect information and print your own publication. [...]

By Patricia Simoes-Aelbrecht | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

SENSESCAPES – Live event! at The O2, London

August 27, 2009 – 11:32 am

SENSESCAPES – Live event! at The O2, London
Thursday 1st of October 2009
Workshops and live events: 14.00 – 18.00
Talks and Discussion: 19.00
Organized and curated by SPACEPILOTS [www.spacepilots.net] in association with BME [www.britishmusicexperience.com]

Paulo Barbaresi and Stephanie Brandt [SPACEPILOTS] in collaboration with the British Music Experience Exhibition [BME] are setting up a day of talks, workshops, live demonstrations [...]

By Stephanie Brandt | Posted in Events | Comments (0)

Living Landscapes – Autumn Lecture Series*

August 27, 2009 – 11:26 am

Living Landscapes Lecture Series*
Autumn 2009
Session 1 (5 October 2009): Public space and politics
Session 2 (2 November 2009): Art and agency: art and the creative city
Session 3 (7 December 2009): Alternative/subversive urban practices
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Location: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT, (http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk)
Free admission
*Sponsored by the AIA UK and hosted [...]

By Stephanie Brandt | Posted in Events, Public space | Comments (0)

The hands firmly in the soil

August 3, 2009 – 8:57 pm

I didn’t take any plane but I’m way jet-lagged. I glance across the Gilo checkpoint from the balcony of a luxury resort, and I can sample a view that encompasses a landscape going from the third world to the very first in a few kilometres. I arrived in West Jerusalem and started my exploration into [...]

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