cross-posted from barking-assemblage.org
Barking from Without was part of the 2010 Cities Methodologies exhibition and conference organised by the UCL Urban Lab. The exhibition took place at the Slade Research Centre on Woburn Square from 5 to 7 May 2010.
Barking from Without is an interactive installation presenting material from an ongoing case study of the new [...]
Critical minds: critical spaces
Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre Two
University College London
8 May 2010,
15.00-19.00 hrs
Art historian Giulio Carlo Argan formulated his famous sentence in the nineteen-seventies, when then the modernist grand narrative of “good design” had already long disintegrated, leaving something of a semantic vacuum in the designed object, an empty space that had been promptly [...]
“Parametricism,” in the words of his main proponent, “is the great new style after modernism.” A design style in which “buildings are developed using problem-solving as the driving force rather than by grouping together architectural objects.” We have seen this in the last years in the voluptuous shapes of [...]
David Chipperfield exhbition at the Design Museum (”Form Matters”, 21 October – 31 January 2010).
The idea of the Peace House was originally launched by the late Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres. Named after the latter, it’s part of the seafront redevelopment of the mixed city of Jaffa and was designed by Massimiliano Fuksas as a dramatic spacial progression of pale green concrete slabs interspersed by glass panes, which offer [...]
The week I spent in Vienna last September was warm and brilliant. One day I was having lunch outdoors at the Kunsthalle on Karlsplatz, a coffeeshop and exhibition space carved in a piece of no planner’s land in the very centre of Vienna, where once the medieval walls stood and I was attracted by the [...]
A man scrambles up the wall of a derelict watchtower in the middle of a military camp wearing a wading waistcoat and carrying a tripod. He’s a ornithologist, and he goes to the abandoned Israeli military base of Oush Grab (Beit Sahour, Bethlehem region) to study birds migrating from Turkey to Egypt through Palestine. Since [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
This weekend is the Hackney Wicked Festival. There are special exhibitions in different galleries, open studios and some other events and performances. You can have a look to the programme in http://www.hackneywicked.com/index.html