Drawing Photography and Creative Media
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I Am a Tool of Gentrification: An Experimental Documentary Series
Lyubov Matyunina
Lyubov’s work is inspired, often indirectly, by her personal life or everyday life events. As she tells us “in the case of I am a tool of Gentr…
The Net Blvd
– Dana Barale Burdman
The Net Blvd examines a collection of situations that happen in the digital era. These situations imply that cultural production happens on digital platforms, structuring our collective memory.
Segundo Torrão: Marginality seen in urban policy and the historical precedents of territorial fixation and stigmatization
– Loukia Batsi
The present work follows the connections between the marginality seen in urban policy and the historical precedents of territorial fixation and sti…
A journey through agro-industrial territories of palm oil production in Southeast Asia
– Hans Hortig
In 2015 a group of anthropologists proposed the concept of the Plantationocene1 to describe the current practice of agrarian production and the ali…
A walk from Vesuvius to Pompeii
– Klemens Czurda and Lucija Matić
It is a five-hour hike from the peak of Mount Vesuvius to the Roman ruins of Pompeii, following the flow of the lava that burned its way to the anc…
HYPER TOKYO
– Diego Iglesias Gómez and Cristóbal Baños Hernández
A city that forces its inhabitants to live in continuous movement through complex temporal dynamics which rely on a succession of urban interiors, the infrastructure for nomadic lifestyles…
A palimpsest of topographies: A comparative analysis of five urban sections
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci
Urban societies are increasingly complex global entities. According to Henri Lefebvre, such complexification can be roughly defined in spatial term…
Rooftop of the Total Palace
– Sonja Jankov
Total palaces were built all over socialist countries mostly during the 1980s, although examples can be found in prior decades. Originating from sp…
Building blocks of Brotherhood and Unity
– Donagh Horgan
Tito’s break with the Soviet Union in the early 1950s paved the way for Yugoslavia1 to forge its own developmental strategies, based on a return to…
Baffle Zone
– Urban Gorillas, Twenty Three, Natalie Konyalian
Nicosia: a divided capital of Europe, a vibrant platform for local and international discussion and a very complex and interesting urban case s…
Postcards of Bloomsbury
– The Virginia Woolf Pack
“The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?” These words, from Virgi…
Don’t play with fire: the burning sense of place of young Neapolitans
– Mario Trifuoggi
Many overcrowded neighbourhoods of Naples’ historic centre are still lacking in public services and recreational spaces. As a consequence, most kid…
Notes
– Maria Kostareva
Notes is a series of small format drawings which reflect my sense of the city. I was born in a village, yet most of my life so far has been set in …
Moloch & Adventureland
– Virginia Garfunkel
The big city is both: risk and opportunity, the place of dreams and neuroses, the possibility of withdrawal or communication, Moloch and Adventurel…
What happened, Major Tom?
A fantastical vision of Cairo’s elevated highway
– Amin El-Didi
, Mina George,
Hussein Salem
Outdoor advertising has become a world-wide urban aesthetic in our modern societies. Businesses would call billboards a method of advertising w…
Phantom Railings
– Catalina Pollak
Phantom Railings (2012–2014) is an interactive public artwork that uses sound to highlight the absence of railings from a Bloomsbury garden squ…
Urban Fields, Roma
– Daniele Mancini and Urban Fields
Simple, minimal, almost intimate gestures. Over anonymous moments of everyday life. Space changes. Intention reveals what has been hidden: the …
Tuscolano, an uncommon view of Rome
– Jacopo Bonifaci
These Indian ink drawings of Don Bosco – Tuscolano quarter, in Rome, are inspired by the bird’s eye views used as a city’s ‘business card’ in Europ…
“Mythistorema”: fantas(ma)tic sections
– Maria Michou
Following the demolition of low-rise early 20th century housing in central Athens, the plots illustrated here emerge as transitory cracks in the co…
A delicate sense of terror
– Rab Harling
Between February 2011 & February 2014, I was a resident of Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist icon Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets. Throughout this period,…