by Themistoklis Pellas Emergency legislation, economic dispossession, unemployment, police coercion, everyday precariousness, internalization of guilt and shame, racism attribute to the ‘management of crisis’ in Greece. Healthcare financial cuts and restructuring — under the adjustment programme between the greek state, the euro area Member States and the International Monetary Fund — parallel racialized and gendered […] read more
INTERNATIONAL BIOURBANISM WORKSHOP Heraklion Crete, Greece | August 1st-9th 2014 The Crete Workshop in “SOCIO-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS UNDER THE STATE OF EMERGENCY” will be held in Heraklion (Crete, Greece), August 1st-9th 2014. It aims to delineate the systemic implications of local responses to recession and explore socio-spatial practices that contradict and negate the current economic restructuring regime. […] read more
Designing in the Dark: multi-sensorial workshop reconnecting designers with visually impaired end-users The title ‘Designing in the Dark’ does not point to the rich and layered world of experience of persons that are blind, but on the contrary to the unknown and uncertain design attitude of designers without visual impairments. Ignorance and insecurity among architects, […] read more
SAVE THE DATE (Event in Italian) OPEN DAY Introduction to Biourbanism. Theory, activities, projects. November 17th 2012, Rome, Italy 9:30 am The International Society of Biourbanism 10:00 Urban project, according to Biourbanism 11:15 Discussion Roma Tre University | Faculty of Architecture – Argiletum/Aula Ponzio, 2nd floor via della Madonna dei Monti nr. 40 (Metro station B “Cavour”) […] read more
The aim of the workshop is to narrate and document, through the language of photography, the present-day dynamical transformation of Rome’s urban texture. Workshop targets people interested in urban photography, and is divided into a series of theoretical classes, practical photography stages, and a final phase aimed at creating a personal portfolio.
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Designing the Multi-sensorial city. International workshop reconnecting designers with visually impaired and disabled. University of Sint Lucas, Ghent, Belgium
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