Strathaven folk knit themselves a room
“Life in an old people’s home sometimes needs a focus. Residents feel they’ve outgrown their usefulness, but don’t want to just sit around passively. Imagine then if you could recreate the past, taking yourself back to a gentler time when life was simple, people were decent and fair. Now imagine […]
City Escape and Escapade
Saturday 30 July 2005, 12.30 - 8.30pm, ICA TheatreOne-day symposium hosted by the London ConsortiumCurated by Louise Hojer and Ricarda Vidal
The city is often regarded as a concrete, hectic jungle from which it is difficult to escape and where play is limited to late afternoon drinking. Here we invite speakers who demand […]
Over at cityofsound, Manchester Institute for Popular Culture’s Justin O’Connor has begun a new series of reflections on Shanghai, in which he “continues to explore the sense of difference between Shanghai and the West but also between Shanghai last year and Shanghai this year.”
Shanghai Diary 2005 #1
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Shanghai Diary 2005 […]
“There is an unfortunate tendency to assume that civil discourse has occurred whenever two or more people are nice to each other, say something, and don’t get into an argument. That is misleading on all three counts.
Civil discourse is city speech, implying, as Richard Luecke has suggested many times, that it is not only how […]
designboom: the theme park virus
“the theme park experience is intended to certify a fanciful idealized vision of ourselves…”
Also: designboom: the (all american) history of shopping (carts)