Paysage de champs colorés près de Sarraud, Vaucluse, France (44°01’ N – 5°24’ E)
Mr. Cassan and his family cultivate more than 600 acres of both traditional or ‘true’ lavender and lavendin, a sterile, hardier and much more prolific hybrid with a cruder, industrial, camphor scent. His great-grandfather was among the first lavender middlemen in France, […]
Rivers as artifacts by Matt Edgeworth
For the most part rivers tend to be regarded as more or less natural features of a landscape or townscape … Yet a river and its flow of water is actually often as culturally re-shaped, used and re-used, as any artifact or building … Are rivers natural or cultural? Rivers […]
As the Desire Paths Flickr Pool makes the rounds, I thought I’d point to Matt’s recent article, Accepting Invitations: Desire Lines as Earthly Offerings
I would like to suggest that desire lines are not merely the product of a human-desiring, nor are they merely a material expression of some aspect of the human imagination; rather, desire […]
Martin Jacques in The Guardian writes of a geopolitical sea change marked for Britain by the nationalization of Northern Rock, a UK bank and in the US by the sub-prime mortgages and home repossession crisis and worldwide by major banking losses such as UBS quarterly loss of GBP5.8B.
As the ’30s marked the […]
Béatrice Collignon - “From Igloos to Three Bedroom Houses: At the crossing of Architecture and Cultural Geography”
Tuesday February 5th, 2008, 12 noon
The “Pit”, School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s the Canadian Inuit experienced an important shift in living patterns, moving from one multi-functional room igloos to houses brought […]