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The Assembly around Disassembly
This is a performative intervention done in the center of Eindhoven the 10th of November. Inspired on the essay From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik (or How to Make Things Public) from Bruno Latour, I wanted to show how peoples’ skills would be triggered
The Assembly around Disassembly
This is a performative intervention done in the center of Eindhoven the 10th of November. Inspired on the essay From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik (or How to Make Things Public) from Bruno Latour, I wanted to show how peoples’ skills would be triggered
Why Design? {Triggering a Public Debate} —- Protest on DDW ’12
In a week where design and designers are celebrated and glorified, very little questions arise, inquiring the relevance of the profession. Hundreds of chairs, tables and objects, thousands of euros spent and tens of thousands of visitors in Eindhoven, and
Why Design? {Triggering a Public Debate} —- Protest on DDW ’12
In a week where design and designers are celebrated and glorified, very little questions arise, inquiring the relevance of the profession. Hundreds of chairs, tables and objects, thousands of euros spent and tens of thousands of visitors in Eindhoven, and
Reclaim The Streets (RTS)
Reclaim The Streets is a movement that started in the UK in 1991, when groups of concerned citizens started to take non-violent direct action to reclaim the streets from the exclusive usage of automobiles. Usually, the street reclamation takes place to
Reclaim The Streets (RTS)
Reclaim The Streets is a movement that started in the UK in 1991, when groups of concerned citizens started to take non-violent direct action to reclaim the streets from the exclusive usage of automobiles. Usually, the street reclamation takes place to
Archigram’s take on Emancipation
Emancipation Oxford Dictionary definition: setting free, especially from slavery… from intellectual or moral fetters. Archigram usage: directly follows this with particular reference to people’s use of buildings. If architecture claims to human sustenance, it should surely have responded as human
Archigram’s take on Emancipation
Emancipation Oxford Dictionary definition: setting free, especially from slavery… from intellectual or moral fetters. Archigram usage: directly follows this with particular reference to people’s use of buildings. If architecture claims to human sustenance, it should surely have responded as human
Public space: for whom and for what?
Some years ago (until around the early 90′s), it would have been perfectly normal to see this image in the streets of many European cities, where people where skilled in repairing their own cars (as well as other type of
Public space: for whom and for what?
Some years ago (until around the early 90′s), it would have been perfectly normal to see this image in the streets of many European cities, where people where skilled in repairing their own cars (as well as other type of
Designer as ‘border-crosser’
As a border intellectual (Paulo Freire), he constantly reexamines and raises questions about what kind of borders are being crossed and revisited. Henry Giroux. Henry A. Giroux, in an article about Paulo Freire, uses the term border intellectual to refer to his type
Designer as ‘border-crosser’
As a border intellectual (Paulo Freire), he constantly reexamines and raises questions about what kind of borders are being crossed and revisited. Henry Giroux. Henry A. Giroux, in an article about Paulo Freire, uses the term border intellectual to refer to his type
To nominate is to dominate
Joseph Grima, regarding the 1st Istanbul Design Bienial, said about the improvised and informal practices on the city: it is a pity that they are not recognized as legitimate design practices. This statement, coming from the chief editor of Domus and the curator of one
To nominate is to dominate
Joseph Grima, regarding the 1st Istanbul Design Bienial, said about the improvised and informal practices on the city: it is a pity that they are not recognized as legitimate design practices. This statement, coming from the chief editor of Domus and the curator of one
MDes: an upgrade?
If well there is always the question of why do we follow certain studies of different levels (technical, professional, master), in design is a particularly relevant issue, for the creative essence of the discipline. In a bachelor level, design students are
MDes: an upgrade?
If well there is always the question of why do we follow certain studies of different levels (technical, professional, master), in design is a particularly relevant issue, for the creative essence of the discipline. In a bachelor level, design students are
Dangerous attitudes
When confronted to marginal practices, there are two attitudes that are very common and, even though seem different and opposing between each other, they are actually rooted in the same patronizing tone of the colonial discourse. One of this attitudes
Dangerous attitudes
When confronted to marginal practices, there are two attitudes that are very common and, even though seem different and opposing between each other, they are actually rooted in the same patronizing tone of the colonial discourse. One of this attitudes
Making Things Public
The following set of videos is a presentation movie made from the exhibition ‘Making Things Public‘, curated by Bruno Latour and Pieter Wiebel in Karlsruhe in 2005. The exhibition aimed to show the new tactics that artists, designers and activists
Making Things Public
The following set of videos is a presentation movie made from the exhibition ‘Making Things Public‘, curated by Bruno Latour and Pieter Wiebel in Karlsruhe in 2005. The exhibition aimed to show the new tactics that artists, designers and activists
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