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Water, Like Traffic

Friday, September 19, 2008

Waterfall off Edmonton’s High Level Bridge to mark the Centennial of the University of Alberta September 19 2008.   Mobility, Flow, Prairie Bigness, liquid fireworks, a free car wash.
-Rob

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Like Snow, WiFi

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

SURVIVALL, ‘Sur-viv-all’, is a word which reflects the 3 languages used during the project, which formed part of Andre Lemos’ sabbatical research at University of Alberta – English, French and Portuguese. The joint interest of the artists was to reflect on the relationship between the virtual territories of cyberspace, abstract representations of our worlds and [...]

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Planting a University

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Every time we plant is not just a bet on growing seasons – it’s a vision of the future.
Is this a picture of plowing, of horitculture, a vision for a new building – or maybe even a vision of a new culture? Part of Space and Culture is based at University of Alberta and [...]

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Bouquet for Edmonton

Monday, February 11, 2008

Marilei Fiorelli has created ephemeral winter art for Edmonton, which has had over a week of below -20C cold. Snow graffitti flowers make a bouquet for a frozen city. Check out her blog for more, before it melts! Let’s make an annual tradition out of this – if one can have [...]

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Winter is Public

Sunday, December 30, 2007

The Project for Public Spaces has released its study of Winter Cities. Some may be familiar with my critique of journalistic rankings of cities and the penchant for ‘best’ and ‘worst’. In this study Canadian cities such as Edmonton and Calgary rank amongst the worst globally for maintaining the vitality of streets as [...]

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