Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, 7-11 March 2006
Session: Global Mobilities and the Knowledge Society
Deadline: 30 September, 2005
“The development of modern ‘knowledge societies’ is inextricably linked to global flows of people, objects, ideas and information. Creating and maintaining webs of knowledge across the globe has been eased by new communication technologies […]
Between 1904 and 1929, Henry Edmunds and William Bryan photographed archaeological sites on Rapanui.
Looking at the photos of moai, I found my gaze returning not to those famously perfect statues but to the pictures of those fallen or broken or, like the one to the left, still in the quarry, never completed.
I became fascinated with […]
“After five hours of marching, an army of more than 12,000 peasants, about 3,000 families, breaks through the gates of Giacometi plantation, a gigantic latifundio that is typical of Brazil, and claims the 250,000 acres of land. The Giacometi plantation is big enough to install more than 4,000 families and provide more than 8,000 […]
Lost and Found at the City Reliquary
“The City Reliquary is not a traditional museum on the 19th century Age of Industry model; as its name suggests, it looks to a more medieval model, as the keeper of the sacred ‘relics’ of the civic corpus. Even so, in practice the City Reliquary is more like a […]
SAFE: Design Takes On Risk
“SAFE: Design Takes On Risk presents more than 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect body and mind from dangerous or stressful circumstances, respond to emergencies, ensure clarity of information, and provide a sense of comfort and security. These objects address the spectrum of human fears and worries, from the […]