Archive for October, 2004

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Friday, October 8th, 2004

As part of Sage Publications free access to online journals until the end of the month, you can enjoy full text pdfs of all Space and Culture articles:
Issue 7(3) August 2004
Issue 7(2) May 2004
Issue 7(1) February 2004
Issue 6(4) November 2003
Issue 6(3) August 2003
Issue 6(2) May 2003
Issue 6(1) February 2003
Issue 5(4) November 2002
Issue 5(3) August 2002
Issue […]

Harvard Design School - Mobile Homes

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Manufactured Housing: A Double-Wide Analysis
“In all its history, the mobile home has evolved not through the expertise of professional designers but through the needs and desires of owners and users. Components are engineered and physical characteristics change, but manufactured houses are not subject to fundamental tectonic or aesthetic thought. Though there has been interaction between […]

Life in the Walking City

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Under the pretense of some project or another I asked Rod McLaren “If you lived in Archigram’s Walking City, how would you spend your days?” and then did nothing with his wonderful response.
Thankfully Rod is not a loser like me, and he’s posted it on his blog as Life in the Walking City. Check […]

Sensuous histories

Monday, October 4th, 2004

The Timely, the Tacit and the Material Body
by Joy Parr
“As historians, I suggest we, for a moment, set aside the body we know to dwell socially and fancifully in technologically and culturally specific context, and acknowledge first that there is a material, non-discursive body which sensuously perceives space, and place and other bodies. Let’s […]

Exploring issues of connectivity in contemporary design

Friday, October 1st, 2004

Distributed Form : Network Practice
University of California, Berkeley
October 22-24, 2004
“Recent developments in information technology have resulted in the entrenchment of networks and distributed systems as the dominant spatial paradigm, effectively challenging fundamental design issues of autonomy, originality, place, practice and form, which reconfigure disciplines through the implementation of distributed logics and collaborative ‘open’ practices. As […]

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