Melbourne, Australia
06 July 2010
Documenting Urbanism.
What if we were to do a construction document for urbanism? Not for the city, necessarily, but for the condition of urbanism. What would it look like? What bits of information, data, spaces, projects, processes would be included? What would constitute the 'limits', and how might the document be reproduced, at some scale, by others, remotely?
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Charles Anderson
Melbourne, Australia
21 July 2010
Following the lines, tracing their movement across the page, accidents and deviations accrue and amplify: strange new forms emerge. The city is transformed into an extensive field rather than a distribution or agglomeration of containment. A rippling corrugated terrain involutes us and world in a dance of intensity and release.
Hong Kong
5 August 2010
Acland, Alma, Beach, Bligh, Bourke, Calder, Caledonian, Cobden, Collins, Degraves, Easay, Elizabeth, Fitzroy, Flinders, Footscray, Gatehouse, Glenferrie, Glen Huntley, Grange, Grey, Hawke, Highett, Hoodle, Howey, Hume, Inkerman, Kingsway, Latrobe, Lonsdale, Lygon, Lynden, Malvern, McKillop, Monash, Mont Albert, Moorehead, Neptune, Nicholson, Page, Pascoe, Ramsay, Russell, Sackville, Spencer, Spring, St Vincent, Swan, White Horse, William
Thomas Daniell
Kyoto, Japan
13 September 2010
What does a two-dimensional urban plan mean in terms of the three-dimensional experience of a pedestrian or driver? How may the existing spaces of a given urban circulatory system be extracted, distilled, and recombined? What clues do they provide for entirely new spatial effects?
Mason White
Toronto, Canada
15 October 2010
22 urban machines
Where urbanism, landscape, and architecture mutate toward each other, a strand of the built environment emerges that is hyper extrinsic. Its Architecture becomes an agent in the life cycle of the city - processing, ingesting, emanating, and extracting. This Architecture operates as urban software, networked across lots and owners; A synthetic urban archology that is mutually dependent on biotic and abiotic elements.
1.sun 2.earth 3.media 4.air 5.water 6.fauna 7.flora 8.biomass
Moira Henry
New York, USA
18 November 2010
fig. 6this is a document for waiting in the urban environment, specifically in the underground subway station platforms of new york city. street level openings lead one down to a place where crime, reading, staring, talking or pacing occur. the subway tunnel is an underground vein of smooth travel, interrupted to release the clots of human waiting.
Perry Kulper
Ann Arbor, USA
22 December 2010
Alchemic Urbanism
over-coded erased gold leafed
residuals
soft orange metro blooms waiting
shadowed evasive speeds
milled surplus data
documenting bleached out blue networks
trapped marble glances
extracting compressed cyclical rhythms
tracing fabricated acrid velocities
Pablo Garcia
Pittsburgh, USA
01 February 2011
Anamorphic PittsburghThree views
Drawn on site with optical aid
Reconstructed anamorphically
Coordinated with cardinal directions
Katie Morris
Baltimore, USA
April 19, 2011
urban agriculture = urban production = urban reproductionhere vacant lots are transformed into productive assets to distribute and produce food supplies as means to reduce poverty and grow public health awareness. here layers of community engagement are cultivated to improve neighborhoods and produce change in the quality of life. here an increase in access to healthy foods reduces food insecurities and produces environmental stewardship. here is the reversal of urban planning and development that pushed farms out of our urban environment.
Carlos Sant'Ana
Ilhabela SP, Brazil
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Louise Ganz
Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil
May 31, 2011
Drawings made with colored chalk on asphalt
The image of generic cities surfaces where the territory is subdivided into sectoral areas. How eill the everyday spatial practices survive, if we maintain the paradigm of asphalt, agribusiness and the inaccessibility of natural resources?
Mario Baez & Adrian Duran
Montevideo, Uruguay
July 1, 2011
Reverse Kingdom
...in the reverse kingdom, swim the bird and fly the fish...
...let's go up to the park...
...please, open our windows...
Gerardo Caballero
Rosario, Argentina
July 22, 2011
Rosario City, Argentina
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Sarah Calburn
Johannesburg, South Africa
August 17, 2011
THE JOBURG SHUFFLE
THE JOBURG SHUFFLE replays Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' in a critique of the war between private and public space in contemporary Johannesburg. The streets, intersections and public spaces of the Boogie Woogie are reduced, in Joburg, to insulated corridors that link the luxuries of the private, the internalised. External public space (home to the homeless) is either defined by the isolated ‘safety’ of the traffic island, or lubricated via the controls exerted by the franchised landscape. Joburg is trapped inside, walled in by its twin desires: to display, or to conceal?
Mireille Roddier
Paris, France
September 7, 2011
Fluctuat Nec Mergitur
Paris. 1500 years of occupations, 1500 years of resistance to occupations. Michel Serres' term "soft pollution" describes the "tsunamis of signs, images, and logos flooding rural, civic, public and natural spaces." Will "fluctuat nec mergitur" prove itself an apposite motto for Paris, or has the global corporate flood drowned all possibilities of resistance?
Lluis Sabadell Artiga
Girona, Spain
October 3, 2011
Explaining Urbanism to a 5-year Old Girl
I tried to explain urbanism to my daughter and then asked her to do a drawing about it.
This is the description of the drawing
This is "a heart that is a small city".
This circle is a trash can. It is also a city full of people. The red, pink and black "things" like little mountains arround it are "things to avoid the city to be a trash can".
This is a child that felt down in a square and get hurt and was full of blood.
This is the square where the child felt down and hurt.
Those are two flowers.
This blue line is a puddle.
This is a "float" to swim.
This is "a ring for people to swim".
This is a "thing to go up and down with a train.
Riet Eeckhout
London, United Kingdom
October 26, 2011
Blueprint
When city contexts collide in differentiated intensions of the uncontrolled, true urbanism is produced.
The drawings in this book are used as the context for this investigation. I traced, erased, extended, redrew and interpreted fragments of all drawings and let it collide.
A blueprint is what is left: raw and unstable.
Kristine Synnes
Haugesund ,Norway
November 11, 2011
Reto Geiser & Noemi Mollet
Basel, Switzerland
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Sandy Attia & Mateo Scagnol
Bressanone BZ, Italy
December 5, 2011
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Elif Kendir
Istanbul, Turkey
January 9, 2012
INVENTORY AGAINST POP-UP URBANISM
With pop-up urbanism, more than half of the city is under construction at any given moment. While anonymous blocks of concrete proliferate over former wetlands, historic city neighbourhoods and established urban interiors, the fabric of psychogeographic connections disappear, tearing apart urban experience and collective memory. [EK, 01 February 2012, Istanbul]
1. endemic flora 2. endemic fauna 3. 'urban interiors' 4. endemic infrastructure
Amit Talwar
New Delhi, India
February 07, 2012
Rhizome City
The construct of Rhizome City challenges the banal rigid city of modernity.
It manifests on the complex transitional dynamics of the multiplicities of subcultures and the layers of underlying, somewhat eroded yet etched, urban history.
Rhizome City is one of constant flux. Its constellations hold the genetic DNA for the morphology of augmentative urban environments.
Chris Knapp
Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
March 09, 2012
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Fiona Abicare
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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