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Category Archives: Material culture

Re-valuing urban space

Urban Exploration: a Subculture at a Glance by Veronica Davidov

As subcultures go, “urban exploration” or “urbexing” is a very materially embedded one, where community formation happens around specific physical locations, even though as a global phenomenon, it is almost entirely facilitated by the internet … What all of these subgroups share is a value system [...]

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life

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

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

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

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