October 2011
18 posts
Landscape Futures →
Interesting exhibition write-up curated by Geoff Manaugh BLDG|BLOG. It’s true, we are in for some fantastical landscapes. I love the piece by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang of The Living.
Financial Engagement // A Public Thing
This is a great way to get involved and discuss your concerns/ideas about how to improve our current financial system. After the event at Peavey Plaza (Mpls) the event will move over to People’s Plaza and connect with the people there. These conversations will be documented, thus making tangible the solidity and resourcefulness of this movement. Awesome job We Work Here! Go here to keep...
Civics and Art Part I: Wandering
A few weeks ago I attended a talk by Alan Moore, a founding member of Colab, at Midway Contemporary Art along with David Little, photography and new media curator at the MIA. This dialogue prompted a further exploration of the civics of art in general on my part. The talk was a somewhat sprawling look into artist collectives with particular focus on New York in the late sixties and up through...
soft landscapes →
This week, I’ve organized a short (very short) lecture series for the students in my studio (well, the “Post-Natural Ecologies” half of the studio) at Virginia Tech’s …
HDTS
here there, there here, by rolu and welcomeprojects as part of HDTS
super cool!
PhotoBall →
Not sure if I need to comment on this from BLDGBLOG, it’s pretty amazing. How much does it cost? And does anyone wanna go out and play? And now I am reminded of Happy Fun Ball. Do not throw Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera near your neighbors bedroom window.
on blogging architecture →
Geoff Manaugh contributes a series to Arbitare that looks at the history, equipment, content, audience, and future of architecture blogging. Being “someone who has founded his entire…
phantom stories →
[Homes on the outskirts of Shanghai, via Google Maps.]
A recent report in the New York Times which looks at global marriage patterns from an economic perspective contains the following…
A Flame's View →
by christopher jonassen via I’m Revolting.
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Wintry city a wonderland for cyclists →
Nice little write-up down under.. now they just need to put the “rubber side down” as the locals here may say.. Or perhaps Zito, a famed local cyclist in Minneapolis and Milwaukee now living in Sydney, is showing ‘em how we do it up here.
stuffaboutminneapolis:
It’s so cold the gears need defrosting, roads are like ice rinks and helmets are strapped over full-face...
nuit blanche - white night →
Minneapolis is one of the “cool” cities. I missed last summer’s Northern Spark Festival, inspired by Nuit Blanche in Paris, but heard such great things from friends who went and participated - hopefully it happens again next summer.
A Simple Chair (Returning Home), ROLU
Europe Journal - Green Wall Art →
do you discuss your work with other designers? no, not really because I spend so much time with the people here from the studio. I tend not to spend very much time with other people. when it became clear that my work was shifting towards design it was essential to me to work as part of a group of people. I both assumed and wanted the design to be publicly available. I thought that if something...
City as Prison →
For the next several days I will be focusing on the politics of space (as will much of the nation), partly after seeing Urbanized a few nights ago and mostly in trying to keep up with what is occurring here and now in our cities all across the country. I just read this frightening piece by Ai Weiwei on the nightmarish quality of Beijing. Looking forward to seeing how our public spaces are utilized...
The New Casbah is... →
in the crooked alleys of the web, a non-physical reality or infrastructure transposed onto the grid of our society (nice piece by The Funambulist - an architectural site I just stumbled upon yesterday). real protestors are surrounded by a real police force who are then surrounded by the immaterial networking of protestors utilizing the internet, or what Douglas Rushkoff calls “the control...
parainfrastructures →
We recently wrote a brief piece, “Appeal”, for the excellent architecture journal Quaderns in response to their most recent issue, “Parainfrastructures”. We used this response as an…
Gary Hustwit's Urbanized at the Walker Art Center
I’m planning on catching this documentary tomorrow evening at the Walker, should be a good if you’re interested in the future of our cities. Also excited that Alejandro Aravenal will be featured - I just mentioned Elemental from Chile in my previous post. If you go early you’ll catch the director doing a Q and A following the movie, I will be attending the later...
