The photography of Sebastiao Salgado:
Mega-cities
“Millions of migrants from poorer areas have swollen the new ‘mega-cities’ of India, Brazil, Mexico and other countries to a size that dwarfs the older models represented by New York and Paris. Haphazardly constructed, beset by social ills, these new mega-cities have many unfortunate similarities. As Sebastiao Salgado wrote, ‘At […]
From Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel comes the beautiful Capsula Mundi:
“What could be a possible path for a design project, from which assumptions should it start? Could we think about it as an object that belongs to reality and, like an archeological relic, provides us with information about the civilization it came from? […]
URBOCENTRISM
Urbocentrism is not just another figure to add to the repertoire of political correctness.
Urbocentrism is both cause and effect, a driver and a symptom of the imminent arrival of a totally urban world civilisation.
Urbocentrism’s disposition towards the rural is either to ignore, exploit or romantically fictionalise it.
Urbocentrism speaks:
A way of being/a mode of […]
In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema
“Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement.”
French cinephiles going underground
“It all started in the 1980s. We were 500, maybe 1000 people, and we went under Paris to express ourselves as artists. We […]