July 2011
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“They [featured architects] champion an activism that has little time for...”
– Barry Bergdoll in his introductory notes to the exhibit “Small Scale Big Change,” 2011.
polis: Featured Quote: MoMA on the Role of Architecture in Society
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Why the practice of architecture was invented?
“is largely hypothetical because it is built upon the premise of seduction rather than following the strict rules of construction. Conceptual architecture exists as a means for experimentation and offers inspiration—a different, more playful approach for future constructed architectural projects.” However, her criticism continues, at the end of the day architects “must not forget...
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WatchNETWORK_LA transit Network_LA Transit is a conceptual design response by Gensler Los Angeles to an open invitation by Sci-Arc, The Architect’s Newspaper and LA Metro to shift people from their cars to public transit.
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WatchSmart, smarter, smartest cities
Carlo Ratti, Director, SENSEable City Lab Assaf Biderman, Associate Director, SENSEable City Lab
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Watch“Searchscapes: Manhattan” is an attempt by Juliana Sado Yamashita to create a tri-dimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web. The goal is to compare the city’s “physical spaces” and “information spaces” (search results), in an attempt to materialize information and give it dimension, and physicality. Juliana Sato Yamashita is a New York Based, new media artist/designer...
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WatchSentient City Survival Kit - Quick Start Guide (by mark shepard)
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WatchCosmic Zoom by Eva Szasz - NFB
“The Eameses wasn’t the first with their Power of Ten. This is from 1968” - howard-roark (via)
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WatchURBANIZED
(via citybreaths and updated 22 jul 2011)
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit, who previously made the documentaries Helvetica and Objectified, is currently working on his new film Urbanized.
He started a Kickstarter campaign and it was successful on March 23 2011. The films Helvetica and Objectified were respectively about the world of typography, and industrial design and product design,...
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“Despite best intentions, strategies to make cities more sustainable have been...”
– Jeanne Haffner in New Ideas for the Old Problem of Sustainable Cities
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Conflict is inherently spatial - Javier Arbona
“Conflict is inherently spatial. It has histories of built violence and symbolic violence in the landscape. It is perpetrated in such subtle ways, at times, that a spatial practice of exploring, listening, recording, and so on, not only becomes useful…It becomes a calling. Also, as we know, “conflict,” in its most polite and intellectual ways, is one of the most central devices of...
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“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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Collaborative Spaces: Five Strategies for...
“The traditional model of creating space have been intimately tied to authority: one shapes the land one owns, the monarch shapes the castle, and the municipal government shapes the plaza. Inhabitants and passersby are subject to these master plans, confined to the activities and relations scripted to occur within them. Several apogees of this brand of urban planning have yielded proposals...
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Low2No Camp
Low2No Camp is a strategic design workshop curated by think tank Demos Helsinki. In Low2No Camp thirty carefully chosen urbanist come together to create groundbreaking projects. The key players of Helsinki´s people-driven urban culture are here to take our thinking on what good life in cities can be to a new level. We do this by action – with concrete new projects and by scaling up the campers...
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WatchStrelka Research Themes
“This October, Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design will welcome its first ever class of students for its all-expense-paid postgraduate education program. The curriculum for the 2010-2011 academic year has been developed together with AMO, the think-tank for the international architecture bureau, OMA (the Office for Metropolitan Architecture). Research...
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WatchFabrique | Hacktion begin an involmement of people in their public and collectif space through installing “grafts”, complementary objects, which support an usage and practice, improve or question current urban systems and furnitures.
More: fabrique-hacktion.com
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Recuperar los espacios indefinidos y sin funciones...
Un comentario de Fidel Vázquez a “La vivienda conquistada como espacio productivo” que es un post en sí mismo. Compartimos un extracto del comentario:
Pienso que una vivienda en su mezcla de funciones necesita de vacíos de programa y de espacios para que el desconocido habitante los ocupe y personalice de modo incondicionado.
El siglo XX ha ido colocando en ese espacio habitable,...
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Revolución ciclista →
Un gran artículo de divulgación (de buena divulgación) acerca de como mejoran las ciudades al implementar el uso de la bicicleta en su sistema de transporte.
“Un movimiento urbano está explotando por todo el mundo. Si la calidad de vida ha mejorado en su ciudad, mire alrededor y cuente el número de bicicletas que circulan por las calles. Quizá ahí encuentre una de las claves.” -...
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“Urbanity is a mutant. And this means it is made and remade along many different...”
– Saskia Sassen
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Oportunidades de producir espacio público
Considerar espacios públicos -y no sólo espacios vacíos- los espacios naturales -forestales, frentes de agua, reservas ecológicas- o agrícolas en regiones urbanas para definir usos compatibles con su sostenibilidad.
Utilizar áreas vacantes para entretejer la trama urbana periférica mediante parques equipados y accesibles, nudos de comunicaciones con vocación de atraer las nuevas elementos de...