‘N°08 RESEARCH’ Category
Rhythm of Capitalism
An interesting experiment is the online platform Rhythm of Capitalism: Initiated by a group of Amsterdam University based students of New Media, who set up a blog to present their project – a visual interpretation of Henri Lefebvre’s seminal book Rhythmanalysis (1992).
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
“Why do some of them work for people while others don’t?” is the leading question, one of the most well-regarded films about urban planning explores. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte takes a closer look at the open spaces of cities. Beginning at New York’s Seagram Plaza, a popular open area [...]
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The Smell Of The City
Sissel Tolaas, SmellScape KCK/KCMO, site research, 2012, Photo by Megan Mantia The sound of a city is a topic of growing interest (as mentioned here and here), and there`s still more to find out about our urban surroundings: For example, the smell of the city. Some of you might remember the City-Smell Research by Sissel [...]
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The Need For Free Zones
Informelle Stadtplanung – Analyse eines wissenschaftlichen Artikels zum Thema. Dieser Beitrag bezieht sich auf den folgenden wissenschaftlichen Artikel: Jacqueline Groth, J., Corijn, E., 2005: Reclaiming Urbanity: Interdeterminate Spaces, Informal Actors and Urban Agenda Setting. Urban Studies, 2005, Vol. 42, No. 3, 503–526. Undefinierte und brachliegende urbane Räume sind in schrumpfenden Städten oftmals als eine Folge [...]
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Screen Strike
Die Konferenz Screen Strike stellt die Frage nach dem aktuellen Kritikpotenzial von Gender Studies und Medienwissenschaft. Angesichts rasanter Transformationen, neoliberaler Forderungen nach Flexibilität und zunehmender Medienkonvergenzen gilt es, die Frage der Kritik neu zu verhandeln. Was kommt nach dem Postfeminismus in Gender Studies und Medienwissenschaft? Welche Befunde lassen sich an der Schnittstelle medialer und geschlechterpolitischer [...]
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Brutalism. Architecture of Everyday Culture, Poetry and Theory.
For two days, architects, and architectural historians, theorists, and conservators will discuss Brutalism in the light of its unique history as a laboratory situation – engendered both by Team 10’s critical review of classical modernism and of post-war modernism – in which modern architectural trends still of relevance today were developed and tested for the [...]
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