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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
– Klemens Czurda and Lucija Matić"/>
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…
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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…
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci"/>
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…
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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…
– Donagh Horgan"/>
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…
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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…
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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…
– Maria Kostareva"/>
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 …
– Virginia Garfunkel"/>
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 …
– Jacopo Bonifaci"/>
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…
– Maria Michou"/>
“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…
– Rab Harling"/>
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,…