Skip to content

Category Archives: Europe

Rooted

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Adam Pańczuk – Karczeby (2008-2009)
“In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called ‘Karczeby’. With their bare hands Karczeby cleared forests in order to grow crops. The word karczeb was also [...]

Also filed in Art & design, Everyday life, Rural & regional spaces | | Comments Off

Rural spaces and abundant lives

Friday, October 9, 2009

In The Gift of Good Land, Wendell Berry wrote: “Concerned as he is that the usable be put to use, that there be no waste, still there is nothing utilitarian or mechanistic about Mr. Lapp’s farm–or his mind. His aim it seems, is not that the place should be put to the fullest use, but [...]

Also filed in Everyday life, Rural & regional spaces | | Comments (1)

Academic space and culture

Monday, June 22, 2009

I recently learned of University of Chicago PhD student Eli Thorkelson’s blog, Decasia: Critique of Academic Culture and it is wonderful to read.
Eli’s PhD project comprises an anthropological analysis of university culture, and he’s also looking at the socialisation of graduate students. I remember being told as a Master’s student that it was not [...]

Also filed in Embodiment & performance, Everyday life, Power & resistance, Spatiality & temporality | | Comments (1)

Inflatable Structure

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Superb entry for a portable exhibition venue for Yorkshire Forward, by Various Architects. More at Dezeen.com
-Rob

Also filed in Architecture, Mobilities, Tourism | Tagged , | Comments Off

Book Review: Sensing Cities

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester, Mónica Montserrat Degen, Routledge, 2008.
Mónica Montserrat Degen’s recent book Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester provides an illuminating discussion of the sensuous dimension of the urban everyday, particularly in the context of ‘regenerated’ neighbourhoods. In the book’s first section, Degen lays the theoretical [...]

Also filed in Book reviews, Cities & urbanism, Geography & environment, Material culture | | Comments Off