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Category Archives: Spatiality & temporality

Public and Private Space

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Public or Private? Clothing or shelter? Jordi Canuda’s Share Hat redefines personal space as a space of relationships.
Our social lives are defined by the people we know. “Share” celebrates our relationships by transforming the standard and personal form of a hat to accommodate several wearers at once. This multiplication of function represents the way [...]

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Merging the physical and digital

Tuesday, December 11, 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

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A Sense of Place and Region – A Talk

Friday, October 26, 2007

Download these notes for ‘Putting Region in its Place’
A Work in Progress:
…it is still the case that no one lives in the world in general. Everybody, even the exiled, the drifting, the diasporic, or the perpetually moving, lives in some confined and limited stretch of it – ‘”the world around here” (Geertz 1996: [...]

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Places we had never heard of but that matter: Ilulissat

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Ilulissat glacier is melting at record rates. It is a likely poster-child for climate change in the North, a figure for the sudden acceleration in the pace at which ice is melting in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, the Northwest Passage and the polar icecap. Thanks to Michael, there are some amazing images here. [...]

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Building as Flow (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)

Monday, August 20, 2007
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