Archive for the 'Material culture' Category

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Arturas Valiauga: I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life (2002-2003)
An old lady and her middle-aged son live in a modestly furnished house. Some of the photos show the two of them at home, on the sofa, at the kitchen table, or on the edge of the bed. What was most important to the […]

Inuit living spaces

Monday, February 4th, 2008

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 […]

Care and the Art of Dwelling: Bodies, Technologies and Home

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Call for Papers
Guest Eds. Domenech, M., Schillmeier, M.
Thinking about care practices entails a reflection concerning practices of space. Heidegger’s notion of ‘dwelling as caring’ addresses this relationship. In this vein we are interested in rethinking the concepts and practices of care in contemporary societies. This special issue focuses on new forms of spatialization in and […]

Merging the physical and digital

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Spotted last week in Lyon, France by the ubiquitous Nicolas Nova.
“If you pee here, smile! You’re being filmed… Find the videos on www.youtube.com”
- Anne

Adapt-a-market

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

(via Kevin Kelly’s Street Use)
- Anne

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