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I Have Measured Out My Life With Coffee Spoons

Agnese Giunchi

…pean as possible, but we still have some kind of heritage from the past: lots of abandoned houses, and we are trying to build something new. I feel this is a point at which the two cities are connected. Talking about Turkish culture, people spend a lot of time sitting and drinking coffee or tea while letting the time pass by. I thought this was quite ironic because my work reflects a lot this stopping time and how we rush all the time, which cause…

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Urban Voices

…he Sobremesa installation, adding their stories and experiences to the existing layers, thus continuing the narrative. How do you relate to the idea of the Superorganism exhibition? When I read the curatorial text, what I had in my mind was a big octopus. The first element that I have in common with SuperOrganism is precisely the unity that is created between the various elements of the Sobremesa installation. Each element, the table, the tableclo…

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Places

The City is Alive

Thomas Büsch

…at the pasquino, a fragment of an ancient statue. The citizens of today continue the urge to communicate and use their own city as a platform for this purpose, with pen and paper. This form of communication is reasonable, fast and easy to implement. It allows enormous design flexibility but its main advantage in comparison to the World Wide Web, radio, television and classifieds in magazines and newspapers, is the fact, that one can place a note r…

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PlacesSeen Beyond

Why a city should embrace its slums

Anja Pross

…ngly governments and municipalities are forcing its poor people out of the city centre and to the very outskirts, where they have little to no access to the low-skilled jobs that are often their only choice, and that need to be performed in any city. David Smith discusses the impact of gentrification, radical redevelopment, the obligation cities owe to poor people as citizens and how experience in Western countries has shown that the experiment to…

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Place Hacking

EXPLORE EVERYTHING

Thomas Büsch

…inja.” – Booklist, Starred Review “Urban exploration is… a way of renegotiating reality, transforming the moment, turning the city into a video game. Except that, in this game, you only have one life.” – Evening Standard “For Garrett, physical exploration is merely the outward manifestation of a deeper philosophical inquiry. The theoretical DNA of much of his work traces back to the concept of “psychogeography.”” – GQ “Great and topical” – Booksel…

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Timbuktu’s Destruction

Thomas Büsch

…was on air Monday when news emerged of an Islamist faction in Mali desecrating a number of tombs in the ancient city of Timbuktu, which in recent months fell under control of a separatist insurgency. “The destruction is a divine order,” said a spokesman from Ansar Dine, a radical outfit with alleged links to al-Qaeda. According to reports, the militants have set about tearing down centuries-old mausoleums of Muslim holy men in Timbuktu, a Saharan…

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Place Hacking

Can you remove the rainbow from happening?

Thomas Büsch

…days before I met with representatives from the Fondation Cartier and the City of Paris about the project. Both agreed, but then approximately three days beforehand, the City of Paris removed my name from the exhibition. I think they canceled it because they couldn’t explain it to anyone. But how do you stop or remove the rainbow from happening?   I choose artworks that are ephemeral because, well, life is that. It’s such a temporary journey. Dav…

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Place Hacking

Urban Play: City Crossword

Thomas Büsch

…d City Crossword outside Li Ka Shing library, SMU. Innocuously playful on the surface, City Crossword raises important questions about the nature of urban planning and the public’s role in actively (re)claiming public space. The artists’ modus operandi of transforming the uses and functions of existing features of the cityscape challenges the functionalism and pragmatism that drive urban zoning imperatives in Singapore. It is in the spirit of play…

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