Wasteland Twinning Network hijacks the concept of ‘City Twinning’ and applies it to urban Wastelands in order to generate a network for parallel research and action.
CLOG explores, from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means, a single subject particularly relevant to architecture now.
criticat: revue semestrielle de critique d’architecture
French publishing house: great catalogues that look east and south, not just west.
[brkt] 2 Goes Soft, edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard. 'Soft refers to responsive, indeterminate, flexible and immaterial systems that operate through feedback, organization and resilience. These complex systems transform through time to acknowledge shifting and indeterminate situations — characteristics that are evident both in the dynamics of contemporary society and the natural environment'.
Darwin Grenwich sails the oceans of the world on Blue Monday, a CS36 traditional sloop, while maintaining his IT support business by email and on VOIP (403-283-1340). He is especially good on Macs.
Shane Neill. 'ASARCO: Anthropocene Anxieties and the Aesthetics of Remediation' in On Site review 29: geology, Spring 2013.
ASARCO lead smelter site, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, MexicoShane Neill is a designer and cellist. His current endeavours examine antagonisms on the USA-Mexico border, seeking to undermine the border as a power apparatus and recasting it as a space of appearance.
from his article : 'Anthropocene anxieties are increasingly present in our collective imagination. Images such as those by Ed Burtynsky or Sebastiao Selgado feed these anxieties, placing first-world pursuits in opposition to natural orders. Additionally, shifts from industrial to ephemeral production are coupled with the rapid growth of cities into previously exurban industrial lands. The moral impetus to restore our relationship to the landscape is given economic force by our consumption of land. '
read the whole piece here: ASARCO: Anthropocene anxieties
on site 29: geology
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Monday, September 24, 2012 at 7:09AM One can hear the slice of the spade in this poem Heaney wrote as a young man, and here in 2009, read in his seventies. This was my father's favourite poem. In his memory.
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