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“Social Design” creeps into the mainstream: Is it here to stay and in what way?
If the two recent exhibitions held in New York are part of any confirming indication that a legitimate shift in socially responsive architecture and design has indeed arrived, then it is by time the...
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Reading Harvey in Bangkok
Just a few days before my departure to Bangkok with the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development group for the annual fieldtrip, David Harvey’s book Rebel City: From Right to the City to the Urban...
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On Not Doing: Negligence and Play, Myths and Rites. The work of Laboratorio...
Acts of power, Agamben (2010) says, work in separating human beings from both their potentialities (their capacity to do) and their impotentialities (their faculty not to do). Exercising one’s faculty...
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Slummin’ it: The re-emergence of an ethical tourism debate
Just the other day as I stood on semi-cramped tube carriage in morning rush-hour on the London Underground, passively flipping through the Metro, that bourgeois staple of just-above-the surface news...
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Thresholds of Liminality, Visibility, and Temporality in the Grafting of New...
What does it mean to transplant two inherently different demographic entities with different and debatable models of organisation against one another in what would otherwise be considered a current...
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Occupying and the New Monuments: DPU summerLab at Porto Fluviale, Rome
“The future is but the obsolete in reverse” (Vladimir Nabokov, Lance, 1952) This post – whose title recalls Robert Smithson’s seminal essay Entropy and the New Monuments – tells the experience of the...
View ArticleThe right to stay put: contesting housing policy for the poor in Chile
This video is part of conversations with slum dwellers in the region of Valparaíso – located in the central coast of Chile- from January to April 2013. Almost one third of the slum dwellers in the...
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