Archive for the 'Art & design' Category

Adapting architecture

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Very nice! I wonder if this is an extended family or…? In any case, it’s pretty cool communal living.
Via Bricoleurbanism.
UPDATE: adaptivereuse.net reports that this is, in fact, an Amsterdam theatre set. So much better than the “Redneck Mansion” caption I saw!
- Anne

Book review — City stages: theatre and urban space in a global city

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City, Michael McKinnie, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007
Shakespeare suggested that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, but what is the relationship between world and stage? What is the use of spaces for culture, and of culture for spaces? […]

Subconscious City

Friday, February 1st, 2008

SUBCONSCIOUS CITY
February 8 to May 11, 2008
Public opening 7:30pm, Thursday, February 14, 2008 with performances by John K. Samson, Christine Fellows, and Freya Olafson.
Curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Adjunct Curators
Subconscious City examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg – its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems – and reveals […]

Future cities, exposed behaviours and the problem of public agency

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

My dissertation looks at how pervasive computing and locative media practitioners treat cities as interaction design spaces and publics as co-creators, so I’m always interested in how people are envisioning future cities. Dan Hill recently pointed to the Living City project, in which three alternative and parallel futures are explored:
Living City is an ecology of […]

Recursive city

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Via Wooster Collective
- Anne

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