new spring summer 2012 collection, special guest: black dwarf
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Social Housing–Housing the Social
Social Housing–Housing the Social is a two-day symposium in Amsterdam that emphasizes the relationship between the waning political and practical imperative of social housing and the broader conceptual or philosophical idea of housing the social. Given the increasing global conditions of unequal wealth distribution, and the specific urgency brought about by cuts in social and cultural funding in the Netherlands, can forms of cultural production be reclaimed as tools with which to design and defend social space, or are the agents and engineers of such projects merely tools in the further decoration of reduced welfare rights? What do we want cities to accommodate today? What is the legacy of the utopian ideals of the '60s and what alternative plans for living together in cities are being incubated now? How do we deal with the very real problems of social division brought about by poverty, migration, addiction, lack of representation? What roles do artists, designers, architects play in this process?
Contemporary capitalism in the West has promoted its growth on the ideal of house-ownership (with recent catastrophic financial effects) resulting in the reconceptualisation of public and private space. For this reason, social housing—the provision of homes for those on no or low income—is an idea destabilised through the shrinking of Welfare State models of social provision in Europe and the USA. In the Netherlands, a strong tradition of social housing is changing in light of new forms of privatisation and public private partnership; in other global locations housing is a political tool used to both maintain and produce new forms of power, new tools of both revolution and corruption. Populations are destabilized at a transnational scale; forced to move in search of a cheap, safe, affordable and secure ways of living. In this context does housing also emerge as a new division between global frameworks of provision?
Social Housing–Housing the Social is a two-day symposium in Amsterdam that emphasizes the relationship between the waning political and practical imperative of social housing and the broader conceptual or philosophical idea of housing the social. Given the increasing global conditions of unequal wealth distribution, and the specific urgency brought about by cuts in social and cultural funding in the Netherlands, can forms of cultural production be reclaimed as tools with which to design and defend social space, or are the agents and engineers of such projects merely tools in the further decoration of reduced welfare rights? What do we want cities to accommodate today? What is the legacy of the utopian ideals of the '60s and what alternative plans for living together in cities are being incubated now? How do we deal with the very real problems of social division brought about by poverty, migration, addiction, lack of representation? What roles do artists, designers, architects play in this process?
Contemporary capitalism in the West has promoted its growth on the ideal of house-ownership (with recent catastrophic financial effects) resulting in the reconceptualisation of public and private space. For this reason, social housing—the provision of homes for those on no or low income—is an idea destabilised through the shrinking of Welfare State models of social provision in Europe and the USA. In the Netherlands, a strong tradition of social housing is changing in light of new forms of privatisation and public private partnership; in other global locations housing is a political tool used to both maintain and produce new forms of power, new tools of both revolution and corruption. Populations are destabilized at a transnational scale; forced to move in search of a cheap, safe, affordable and secure ways of living. In this context does housing also emerge as a new division between global frameworks of provision?
Friday, July 01, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
BIG Vortex
© Juerg Alean
REALITIES:UNITED TO SEND SMOKE RINGS OVER COPENHAGEN - AS A REMINDER OF CO2 EMISSION
BIG architects featuring art studio realities:united wins the international competition to design a new Waste-to-Energy Plant for Copenhagen that doubles as a ski slope for Copenhagen’s citizens and a long distance symbol of the city’s CO2 emission.
© Juerg Alean
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Chun Kwang Young
Aggregation 2007-2011, exhibition at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, from May 25 - June 30.
Aggregation 2007-2011, exhibition at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, from May 25 - June 30.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Monday, May 02, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Dotful Data Visualization by Stamen
Cheerio Maps is a view of housing data from http://www.ziprealty.com/ that Stamen visualized in early 2010. The maps look at how the sizes, prices and ages of houses vary across the San Francisco Bay Area, and uses circles of different sizes to denote greater and lesser values. In the first image below: Housing prices in San Francisco. Each dot is a house for sale, and the big green dot behind everything else is a mega-mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Cheerio Maps is a view of housing data from http://www.ziprealty.com/ that Stamen visualized in early 2010. The maps look at how the sizes, prices and ages of houses vary across the San Francisco Bay Area, and uses circles of different sizes to denote greater and lesser values. In the first image below: Housing prices in San Francisco. Each dot is a house for sale, and the big green dot behind everything else is a mega-mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
When Gravity Fails
SRULI RECHT F/W 2011 , A diagonal line for men
“born out of this
and trying to get back in
worn out from bliss
and floating in sin
falling back through this future
and from where I’ve been
sky-born, deliberate
draped raw from within”
SRULI RECHT F/W 2011 , A diagonal line for men
“born out of this
and trying to get back in
worn out from bliss
and floating in sin
falling back through this future
and from where I’ve been
sky-born, deliberate
draped raw from within”
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Frozen Moment V
Still from: To Lee, With Love, Nick - A Tribute to Alexander McQueen, clip by Nick Knight
Still from: To Lee, With Love, Nick - A Tribute to Alexander McQueen, clip by Nick Knight
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