Posted on February 23, 2010 by verena
Art confounds so many of the problematics that come with the politics of power and poverty. Take the Hastings Folk Garden, for example. You can’t find it through the Cultural Olympiad. There are no Tourism BC pamphlets that tell you how to get there. You find it by walking around in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, the [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2010 by john
Frankfurt School
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pr54s/In_Our_Time_The_Frankfurt_School/
Posted on January 4, 2010 by john
New internet piracy law comes into effect in France
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8436745.stm
Posted on December 13, 2009 by john
091130 final presentation
Continue ReadingPosted on December 10, 2009 by josie
No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. Focusing on artists [...]
Posted on December 8, 2009 by bryony
Pam Hogg, renegade fashion designer, is Angela McRobbie’s prime example of non-conformity in fashion, how to grow up and not, as a recent article and interview on her work in Vice put it ‘design for Debenhams’
Are you pleased you didn’t end up designing a range for Debenhams?
It seems more and more likely that designing for [...]
Posted on December 6, 2009 by john
Here is the film I mentioned a month or so … bit tough in places … about female toilets in Mumbai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicI52FXVtg&feature=related
Part 1 of documentary on gender, public space and urban development in Mumbai, India. Directed by Paromita Vohra
Posted on November 20, 2009 by csilla
10 principles for creating and ordering a blockbuster sporting spectacle:
impacts on the city itself
The sport event in question should increase general awareness of the hosting city nationally and internationally. The event should be used to try to develop and promote particular disadvantaged locations and places, instead of promoting established popular tourist destinations.
Therefore, the [...]
Posted on November 20, 2009 by Yoon Kyung
The project of urban regeneration is not simply for the London 2012 Olympics. By holding Olympics, London will be transformed into a progressive city in terms of economical, environmental and cultural aspects. It means this project should not be seen as a temporary event and should be viewed in a wider perspective. Thus, [...]
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