Book Review – Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffExperimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, by Nato Thompson, a curator and producer at Creative Time, and Independent Curators International. With essays by Trevor Paglen and Jeffrey Kastner (available on Amazon USA.) Publisher Melville ...
Book Review – Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffExperimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, by Nato Thompson, a curator and producer at Creative Time, and Independent Curators International. With essays by Trevor Paglen and Jeffrey Kastner (available on Amazon USA.) Publisher Melville ...
The Golden Institute for Energy in Colorado
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffAnother project from the Royal College of Art Show which closed on July 5 (sluggishness has come to characterize my work these days!) This one comes from the department of Design Interactions. The Golden Institute, by Sascha ...
No Impact Man (the movie): A Sneak Peek
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffWorldchanging ally Colin Beavan -- aka No Impact Man -- has been up to some cool, ambitious and thoughtful projects. As many of you know, Colin and his family took on one bold challenge a few years ...
No Impact Man (the movie): A Sneak Peek
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffWorldchanging ally Colin Beavan -- aka No Impact Man -- has been up to some cool, ambitious and thoughtful projects. As many of you know, Colin and his family took on one bold challenge a few years ...
Sorry, Out Of Gas: Architecture’s Response To The 1973 Oil Crisis
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffSorry, Out of Gas: Architecture's Response to the 1973 Oil Crisis, by Mirko Zardini and Giovanna Borasi. With essays by Adam Bobbette, Daria Der Kaloustian, Pierre-Édouard Latouche, Caroline Maniaque, Harriet Russell (Amazon USA and UK.) Publishers Edizioni ...
Island of Future Airships
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffAs the previous post suggested, a number of great projects came out of this year's Urban Islands. [Image: The front and back of an architectural trading card, designed by Mitchell Bonus for Urban Islands 2009].I've ...
Island of Future Airships
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffAs the previous post suggested, a number of great projects came out of this year's Urban Islands. [Image: The front and back of an architectural trading card, designed by Mitchell Bonus for Urban Islands 2009].I've ...
Biorama 2: Inside The Hollow Earth
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffImage by Iman Moradi More notes from the second edition of Biorama, a symposium and workshop that invited artists and experts to share their views, works and discoveries about the biology of the underground. Andy Gracie ...
Biorama 2: Inside The Hollow Earth
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffImage by Iman Moradi More notes from the second edition of Biorama, a symposium and workshop that invited artists and experts to share their views, works and discoveries about the biology of the underground. Andy Gracie ...
Chapter 1, The Discovery
Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffAnyone visiting LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre before September 7 will get face to face with a mysterious installation by young artist Félix Luque Sánchez. Chapter I: The Discovery is an impenetrable, geometric object and ...
Magazine Review: Future Exhibitions
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffA couple of months ago, the postgirl brought me a magazine i had contributed to. I'm absurdly reluctant to open any publication i've contributed to. Poor mag laid on the kitchen table for weeks. Last week, ...
The Dalston Mill & Wheatfield
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 exhibition, which is currently on at the Barbican Gallery (previously covered by Régine) also consists of several off-sites. They aim to engage with the ...
The Dalston Mill & Wheatfield
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 exhibition, which is currently on at the Barbican Gallery (previously covered by Régine) also consists of several off-sites. They aim to engage with the ...
Using LEGO to Envision a Better Society
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffBy Hesseltje S. van Goor Last monday, July 6th, the UK-based National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) organised RebootBritain, a public event where social entrepreneurs, activists, policy-makers and social thinkers had a chance to ...
Green Platform at Strozzina in Florence
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI've spent the past few days highlighting some of the works exhibited but i still had to write a proper review of Green Platform. The exhibition, dedicated to art, ecology and sustainability, closes on July 19 ...
Green Platform – The World Bank
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffAs i wrote yesterday, i've just spent a day in Florence to see Green Platform - Art, Ecology, Sustainability at the Strozzina center. It is a good show, more coherent than Greenwashing and much darker than ...
Radical Nature – Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffFrom the photo archive of the Centre for Land Use Interpretation, 1977. Photograph: CLUI archive Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, an exhibition that opened a few days ago at the Barbican ...
Urban Echo: Art Project Displays Thoughts and Imaginings
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Sarah Kuck As night falls, illuminated letters crawl up the broadside of a public building. From across the way, the artists behind Urban Echo choose a question, like "what is your greatest hope for America?", ...
Self-Portrait Machine
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffMore nuggets from the RCA show. This time from Design Products' edgy and inspiring Platform 13, headed by the very talented Onkar Kular and Sebastien Noel. Images courtesy Jen Hui Liao Jen Hui Liao's Self-Portrait Machine is a ...