Cycle de conférences organisé par la Fédération française du paysage sur les Atlas du Paysage au Pavillon de l’Arsenal / Paris, France
“Si vous voulez flâner dans Nantes ou Berlin en étant sûr de vous perdre ou redécouvrir votre ville sous un nouveau jour, vous pouvez suivre ces étranges cartes. Pliées, cartonnées, elles ont tout de vraies cartes, sauf leur contenu. Décalées, remplies de noms inconnus et de zones déformées, elles invitent à l’errance”.
Poetry and sense of place of these street paintings, by Spanish street artist Sam3,
first painting was made in Buenos Aires, 2009
Second painting in Murcia, 2006
Portraying Detroit in picture and poetry
Video by Stephen McGee, using beautiful images accompanied by a poem written and recited by Jessica Care Moore, who is also in the music video/documentary of Invincible and Finale’s Locusts.
(Source: popupcity.net)
Amazing project by Karolina Sobecka, It’s You is an interactive storefront-window projection that explores the mechanisms of public behaviors and the line between the real and constructed social actions.
The installation, while being a literal display, simultaneously takes part in the pedestrian’s reality, the characters responding to the social space they help to create. At the same time it remains a metaphor that relies on the suspension of disbelief, and leads the viewers to examine their relationship to their social and physical environment.
Varosha/ Famagusta in Cyprus, a forbidden city since 1974.
(Source: youtube.com)
NYC in the 1980’s, before massive gentrification by Steven Siegel
Crowd funded urbanism, a major trend to come ?
I Make Rotterdam is a crowd funding initiative launched by the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and the architecture firm ZUS. The objective is to raise money for a pedestrian bridge connecting the city’s Central Station with one of the prime biennal locations.
The main idea of crowd-funding urbanism is making projects possible that are not interesting for the government to pay for, but appeal to the audience. in this example, each contributor gets a plank with his or her name on it. Via http://popupcity.net
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