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Apartman 52: home of the ultimate flaneur

May 26, 2021 Aliette Dumont Saint Priest

…the work is “Shush, Don’t make noise” and reflects the attempts to silence voices in a neighborhood or a society. As the visitors explores the different floors a fine subtile breeze of freedom circumvents this order. The artists revive the space with subtile creations of 23 voices in the apartman. Each one shades light on a different spot of reality. A visit to a mountain village for a funeral, fading features of animals in a landscape, an alterna…

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Consequences of a Virus: Connection or Separation?

March 23, 2020 Julie Peters

As it was recently outspoken said by a person living in Istanbul, people in Turkey are used to face crisis and react differently when it comes to taking concrete measures. Considering my last observations while walking around this impressive city, I would counterbalance this statement saying that there is no general definition, understanding or “formula” of how people take into account the last evolutions of Coronavirus in their personal lives….

Drifting

Dérive App

September 9, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

…e app”, which was created as a platform that allows users to explore their urban spaces in a casual way. It takes the ideals of the Situationists and merges it with digital means in order to create a tool that would imply an exploration of urban space in a random unplanned way as a game. According to Guy Débord (one of the situationist and the inventor of Dérive), the technique “involves playful constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeograp…

Events

Scale Matters!

February 6, 2017 Thomas Büsch

…each other “making” and branding their towns, to give them each a distinct urban character via different strategies. Investors and mayors develop mega structures, architects get a free hand to experiment, inhabitants literally shape their built environment. Last but not least, the westend is a cemetery of urbanisation: a weird collection of failed mega investments of various kinds is also decaying around. Here, at its unknown and breathtaking side…

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Ayşe Tütüncü and Tuncer Duman: Everything will be great

July 19, 2019 Sabine Küper

…is function as a politician, but it more invites the people to raise their voices against the one-man regime. The refrain “Everything will be great” is also repeated in Kurdish, Armenians and Greek to express solidarity with these still oppressed cultures and to call for the necessity of a peaceful coexistence. Indeed, there is an overwhelming enthusiasm and hope for a better future confidence spreading from the video clip. It is a touching and in…

Place Hacking

Street Art in Istanbul: Kadıköy

February 3, 2015 Katharina Schmidt

…lled “urban” or even “guerilla art” which implies already its closeness to urban forms of protest: Used on private property without permission it aims at reclaiming the urban space, but the line to vandalism migth be hard to draw. Especially graffity without formal permission is mostly seen as an illegal act. As it is an art of the urban and non-profitly orientated to directly reaching the public, street art often refers to social problems related…

Drifting

Berlin: counteracting gentrification – Markthalle IX

June 26, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

…ged to hold up the negotiations and developed a plan on the future of this urban space. Nikolaus Driessen, Bernd Maier and Florian Niedermeier, who run the Markthalle today, put all their passion and time in the realization of their project. They developed a plan on how to retransform the rundown building into its former utilization as lively point of trade, exchange and experience. After two years of negotiations and efforts at persuasion, the Ma…

Drifting Urban Voices

Walking, exercising the right to be free

October 11, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

…cle”, e.g. the counter-technique “détournement” or the wandering around in urban space, called dérive. Ralph Rumney came up with the idea to form the “Psychogeographical Society”, a method to critisize urban structures, by exploring them intensively. The S.I. was intending to cause a revolution in society and in the field of the arts. The name is based on their belief that everybody could change the world by constructing daily playful situations-…

Détournement

A Green Path Out of the Crisis

August 11, 2015 Thomas Büsch

…stionning the quality of supermarket foods and their distribution. And the urban gardens make neighbors meet on beds with soiled hands, exchange ideas and let them grow something more together than tomatoes – a new sense of community. [widgetkit id=19341] In most of the initiatives gardening is tied to other community building activities – workshops, seminars, theatral trainings, debates. The majority of the primary planting collectives consiste…