Archive for October, 2009

Elisa’s cultural space, by Yun Chu

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Elisa

Q1:Which one is Elisa favourite cultural space?
For Elisa, the cultural space is just alike a concept of idea. There are two general ideas of cultural spaces in her mind. The first cultural space is the city. Every city has different kind of architectures, peoples, zones, spcificity… It [...]

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From the Far East: Yun Chu, a Taiwanese girl in London / Elisa

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Elisa

1) What is your favourite cultural space? Why?
In Taipei there is a place called “Spot”, a fantastic cultural heritage that is now transformed in a Theatre, a Cinema, a Restaurant, a Bookstore… Once it was a diplomatic representative building, big and luxurious, with a beautiful garden. Now, once rebuilt, is a great place [...]

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Interview with Crystal

Posted on October 16, 2009 by ko chieh

1.Crystal’s favourite culture space is a multiple bookshop which includes books, café and other shops, like ‘eslite ‘In Taiwan. She felt  most bookshops in China(or in Beijing)seems more like department store than cultural spaces because people too focus on  development of economy. However, in the bookshop which runs for 24 hours and also provides space [...]

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Verena’s cultural space by Leonie

Posted on October 15, 2009 by leonie

1.      What is your favorite cultural space? Why?
A Café in Dalston, it’s a rough warehouse. Vernena likes to bring her laptop or book and sit among the quiet environment, she likes to listen to what people are talking about and sometimes can hear some interesting events. Also, Barbican Centre is impressive since she [...]

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Interview with Amadeus .F

Posted on October 15, 2009 by amadeus

  Q1:  What is your favourite culture space? And why? 
A.F:  My favourite culture space is something like the “Golden touch”. The idea that people can repackaging and bring something new or reinterpret the oldfashioned or outdated culture elements which surround us in our daily life which might bring new market value. Because firstly, the culture industry [...]

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LEONIE’S cultural space

Posted on October 15, 2009 by verena

Her
 favorite cultural space
Either the livehouses in Taipei – listening to live performances of underground music – or escaping the stress at work by spending a weekend in the countryside. Beach, sun, swimming, live music & creative markets.
idea of  her own cultural space
Leonie would love to open a coffee shop which serves more than just [...]

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Interview with Nicole by Candace

Posted on October 14, 2009 by candace

Neither of us found these questions easy to answer, thus, to solicit better answers, Nicole preferred to start at the end and work our way back to the beginning.  She prefaced this interview with the point that she may not be very concise or specific, but that she hoped to find better answers through her work in [...]

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Interview with Candace by Nicole

Posted on October 14, 2009 by nicole

1.    The kitchen [is one of my favourite cultural spaces] because I love the idea of recipes being passed down through generations.  I learned a lot from my grandmother and mother.  I’ve also worked in the restaurant industry – I like how different kinds of people can come together in that space and get different [...]

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Interviewee_Lesya Myata / Interviewer_Yoon K. Lee

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Yoon Kyung

LESYA MYATA said about the airport as her favorite place. According to her, the airport has two kinds of feature which reflect the reason why she thinks the airport is the cultural space.
First of all, we can see all kinds of people who arrive or departure at the airport in a whole day. There could [...]

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Lost in Translation(Cultural Space interviews from Lesya Myata and Yoon K.)

Posted on October 12, 2009 by lesya

1. What is your favorite cultural space and why?
 
YK: The best place for me will be the street market, like Portobello, Liverpool street weekend market or antique market in Shanhai. What I like about it is the combination of cultural and commercial space.
 
2. If you had to design your own cultural space, what would [...]

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