Call for Papers for a session on THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL PRACTICES IN CONTESTED SPACES at the EASST 2006 conference in Lausanne, August 23-26 2006.
‘The contributions to this proposed session will revolve around the question “Can planning and design ameliorate as well as (inadvertently) accentuate divisions in contested spaces” like Belfast, Beirut, Berlin, Mostar, […]
I’ve been away from the blog for nearly a month. Moving house, conferencing, family business, university work, all competing for attention. Lots of interesting stuff has been posted since then. I’ll try to keep up a little as well.
First, at the end of November, I’ve been to the First European Communication Studies conference which was […]
Tokyo Blues by Nurri Kim
Tokyo Blues: The city as seen through one material was one of my favourite presentations from last month’s Design Engaged. Nurri explained that blue tarpaulins are used in many different ways across different cities, but the most extensive use she had seen is in Japan, where they cover anything that is […]
During last month’s visit to Berlin, I had drafted a post full of the raw immediacy that both blogs and conferences encourage. But when I reviewed it this morning I found it no longer rang true, or rather that its content is no longer what I recall most often.
Memory is a funny […]
blacks and whites Originally uploaded by sasha_v85.
The virtual is ‘what befalls us’. Sasha’s image catches something in the quotes that keeps coming up again and again. ‘Where can we escape the surreptitious glance which imparts a deep sadness, the backward glance … what this […]