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By professionaldreamers, on September 7th, 2010
INAUGURAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Saturday 16th October 2010
11.00am to 5.00pm
BRITANNIA HOTEL, 67 NEW STREET,
BIRMINGHAM B2 4DU
The private automobile dominates the social and economic environment so completely that it will take a truly radical alternative to displace it. A zero fare policy is necessary not only to give drivers the biggest possible incentive to abandon their cars, but more importantly to encourage people to see public transport in a different way, as a genuine public service rather than as a commodity for sale.
http://www.freepublictransport.org.uk/
By professionaldreamers, on August 27th, 2010
Segnaliamo un interessante articolo di Fabrizio Lorusso apparso sul sito di Carmilla – letteratura, immaginario e cultura di opposizione. Lorusso propone una deriva nel quartiere di Bovisa, con documentazione fotografica.
Back In Town. Bovisa City Milano
http://www.carmillaonline.com/archives/2010/08/003580.html
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Ne approfittiamo per ricordare che del quartiere Bovisa e delle sue trasformazioni si è occupata approfondidamente anche l’urbanista Francesca Cognetti:
Bovisa in una goccia
di Francesca Cognetti
polipress, Milano, 2007
Il tessuto minuto del quartiere Bovisa e le grandi aree industriali che hanno segnato il suo passato si sono modificati in questi anni, caratterizzando questa parte del territorio come una porzione periferica ma fortemente attrattiva, legatasi sempre più saldamente ai temi della ricerca, della formazione e della creatività , senza comprometterne totalmente la dimensione storica locale.
La ricerca intende interrogarsi sul trasferimento di questo “modello spontaneo” all’interno di una politica in cui la valorizzazione di un ampio campo di risorse economiche, sociali e territoriali, può costituire elemento di innesco di positivi processi di sviluppo futuro.
‘Bovisa in una goccia’ perché è un quartiere cangiante, che si può guardare molto da vicino; ‘Bovisa in una goccia’ perché è un quartiere che dovrà trovare uno spazio nel progetto di trasformazione dell’area della goccia.
http://www.polipresseditore.polimi.it/e/catalogo.html&MODE=RECORD&ID=26
By professionaldreamers, on August 26th, 2010
De tous les écrivains du XVIIIe siècle, Voltaire est certainement celui qui a pris le plus de plaisir à convier la raison au voyage. À tel point qu’il donne parfois l’apparence de déraisonner : voyages cosmiques, voyages surnaturels, voyages au pays de nulle part, voyages dans le passé comme dans l’avenir. On y rencontre pêle-mêle Descartes, Locke, des Hurons, Leibniz, des Chinois, Pascal, ou les habitants de Sirius…
Dans cette polyphonie de voyages et au gré des dialogues inattendus qui la mettent à l’épreuve, la philosophie perd souvent en gravité. Mais la raison militante de Voltaire en rit encore.
Silvia MATTEI est docteur en philosophie de l’Université de Bologne et de l’Université Paris X – Nanterre.
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Préface de Baldine Saint Girons
Postface de Éric Desmons
24 euros, 258 pages, ISBN : 978-2-296-12256-7
Collection ouverture philosophique
Web : http://www.editions-harmattan.fr
By professionaldreamers, on August 25th, 2010
An International Symposium at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway, September 9-10, 2010.
The Urban Images symposium brings together an internationally renowned group of artists and scholars for a two-day program in order to discuss the field of artistic film and video related to architecture and urban space. The objective of the symposium is to expand theoretical concepts and artistic tools for understanding the inherent qualities of moving images and its relationship to urban culture. The program focuses on moving images’ influence on urban architecture, urban architecture’s relationship to avant-garde film, the city as a source for artistic film and video, and reflections on urban architecture in recent film and video art.
Considering the globally expanding urban developments and the increasingly fluid borders between research in architecture and moving images, this symposium presents important cross-disciplinary inquiries in the fields of architecture and visual practice. Bearing in mind Gilles Deleuze’s sensitivity to the ways in which contemporary culture is becoming fundamentally an audiovisual culture, the symposium will outline ontological and psychological relationships to moving images in the context of urban environment.
The following people will present their most recent research in this field: Parveen Adams, Giuliana Bruno, Bull.Miletic, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Henrik Gustafsson, Marit Paasche, and Judy Radul.
Moderator: Mattias Ekman
Registration fee: NOK 400 (NOK 200 students)
Registration deadline: Friday, September 3, 2010
Website: http://www.urbanimages.no/
By professionaldreamers, on August 24th, 2010
From September 10 to October 04 BLK River Festival – Vienna’s first festival for contemporary Street & Urban Art – will take place for the second time.
Among the invited artists are: AKAY – BLU – BASTARDILLA – BENJAMIN GAULON – BRAD DOWNEY – CARLIE AHERN – DEEP INC. – DTAGNO – ELLIS GALLAGHER – EVAN ROTH – JOHN FEKNER – KNOW HOPE – MATTHIAS WERNKE U. MISCHA LEINKAUF – OX – PRINCESS HIJAB – SAM 3
Focus 2010: Muralism & Experimental Visual Strategies. The thematic focus of BLK River Festival 2010 lies with the “classic” domain of Street & Urban Art – large scale mural painting, complemented by experimental strategies in visual communication & interventions in public space.
Street Art & Film. In correspondence with the first BLK River Festival in 2009, a central aspect of the activities in 2010 will repeatedly be dedicated to the cinematic documentation and representation of Street & Urban Art, Graffiti Culture and artistic interventions in public space.This includes a week of film-screenings at a time-honoured Viennese Kino, as well as the production of work-documentations and art films of this year’s festival projects.
About. The Blk River Festival is one of the top international festivals devoted to street and urban art. Held ounce a year in Vienna, Austria, the festival has become an international institution, challenging the concept of street & urban art by combining a selection of the world’s leading artists and local voices with an unsurpassed program of art, site-specific projects, installations, and special events along the Danube Canal and throughout the city of Vienna. Mid-September, artists, critics, curators, collectors and art-enthusiasts make Vienna their destination during The Blk River Art Festival. The festival has showcased artists such as State of Sabotage, Graffiti Research Lab, Evan Roth, Deep, Inc., Christian Eisenberger, Tobias Liengruber, Chris Sergue, BLU and more.
Website: http://blkriver.at/
By professionaldreamers, on August 14th, 2010
The European Mobility Week is an awareness raising campaign aiming at sensibilising citizens to the use of public transport, cycling, walking and at encouraging European cities to promote these modes of transport and to invest in the new necessary infrastructures.
From 16 to 22 September 2010 the Mobility Week is the opportunity for European cities and towns to participate to the most widespread event on sustainable mobility.
Health and mobility are the overall topics of the European Mobility Week 2010 with “Travel Smarter, Live Better” as its focal theme.
http://www.mobilityweek.eu/
To join the campaign: http://www.mobilityweek.eu/-How-to-participate-.html
By professionaldreamers, on August 14th, 2010
Riga & Liepaja, Latvia, 23-27 August 2010
Landscape is where humans dwell. Here we work, think, dream, love, raise new generations, and interact with other living beings, the earth and the sea. Humans and other living beings have time-space rhythms. So does the milieu. Ways of life are established and change with the passage of time, as does the landscape. A part of the past lives on in each woman and man; and in every landscape live bits of the past. Life in a landscape is a complex whole, a process, involving the past, present and future In this context, knowledge, practice, and imagination are the principal themes to be addressed at the conference.
The conference is addressed to geographers, ecologists, social scientists, humanists, artists, landscape architects, historians, archaeologists, landscape managers and planners, as well as other scholars and practitioners interested in European landscapes.
Conference website: http://www.geo.lu.lv/pecsrl/
Programme: http://www.geo.lu.lv/pecsrl/programme
By professionaldreamers, on August 14th, 2010
To support KUNSTHAUS TACHELES with 20 years of international history and the last independant and non-commercial art-center in berlin mitte threatend to be closed for commercial reasons we invite everybody worldwide to make pictures with the “i support tacheles” card. you are free to choose you’re subject and form. for further informations and to get the card on jpg for printing out please contact me per e-mail. through this visual action we will show once again the international impact of the KUNSTHAUS TACHELES
http://www.isupporttacheles.blogspot.com/
By professionaldreamers, on July 26th, 2010
A new book by Andrea Mubi Brighenti has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research
What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organised and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, this book provides an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. It elaborates the concept of visibility as a general category for social theory and social research. The issue of the visibility and intervisibility of social events, subjects and sites proves relevant to a wide range of disciplines including sociology, cultural and media studies, political science, urban studies, criminology, identity studies, and science and technology studies. However, to date no comprehensive reflection on the topic of visibility as a distinct category – ranking it as a basic sociological category – has been attempted: this book fills that gap.
www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=385931
Download sample chapter
By professionaldreamers, on July 25th, 2010
Freestyle Festival 30 Luglio – 1 Agosto 2010 – Schio (VI)
SECONDO INCONTRO VOLONTARI KRAP INVADERS
“KRaP INVADERS Freestyle Festival”: Tre giorni di skateboard, parkour, freerunning, e arte contemporanea dove più di 100 atleti e artisti provenienti da tutta Italia e dall’estero invaderanno il territorio di Schio (VICENZA) e non solo, con stile, passione e arte. I ragazzi coinvolgeranno l’intera città attraverso installazioni artistiche ed esibizioni con un programma di tre giorni che inizierà venerdì 30 luglio.
L’inaugurazione prevista per le ore 18:30 avrà luogo nei pressi di Palazzo Fogazzaro con un Aut Party by YOURBAN…
Sabato sera in area campagnola ci sarà lo skateparty by Zucka-KRaP-Ros Angeles e tutte le crew coinvolte nel circuito del triveneto. Il festival si concluderà nella serata di domenica 1 agosto con una festa dove verranno premiati i vincitori del contest di skate e di arte, con concerto live con “Actionmen” e “OJM”
http://www.krapinvaders.com/
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