Dezember 21, 2018, 1:07 pm, Daniël Ploeger,
Catastrophe,
Digital art,
Ideal Spaces,
QR code,
Smart city,
Spatial concepts,
Symposium of the Ideal Spaces Working Group,
Topics,
Utopia.
Creating a counterpoint to commonplace imaginaries of the smart city as a utopian space where all prob-lems are solved through digital optimization of the socio-cultural status-quo, Dani Ploeger’s public artwork Post-Apocalypse Smart City Lagoon uses an icon of smart city ideology – the QR code – to invoke visions beyond the impending catastrophe of techno-consumer culture. Drawing from Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s concept of enlightened doomsaying, QR codes on public trash cans across Venice lead to immersive digital videos that show the Venetian Lagoon after the water has risen and only floating trash cans remain.
Dezember 21, 2018, 8:40 am, Karen Elizabeth Bishop,
Eco-ethics,
Ideal Spaces,
Kairos,
Memory site,
Pinochet dictatorship,
Spatial concepts,
Symposium of the Ideal Spaces Working Group,
Topics,
Torture.
Amphibia, the 2012 proposal by AGC Concepts Architects to repurpose the site of the former Tejas Verdes prison camp in Chile, is a hybrid and fluid memorial space that allows for a kairotic ecoethics in the country’s postdictatorial landscape.
Dezember 19, 2018, 4:20 pm, Yulia Leonova,
Garden city,
Ideal Spaces,
Modern Movement,
Patrick Geddes,
Spatial concepts,
Symposium of the Ideal Spaces Working Group,
Tel Aviv,
Topics.
A paper is based on the presentation for Artificial Natures Symposium held by Ideal Spaces Working Group in Venice 2018. Introducing one of the ‚Worlds‘ of the Ideal Spaces project – the idealized “White Garden City of Tel Aviv,” the paper outlines the linkages between the planned geometry and the intended exemplary successful City of modernized Hebrew culture; the dreams of its prominent planners; the urban, landscape, and architectural solutions, developed to perfect the functional and aesthetic qualities of the inhabited environment of the ‚old-new land‘.
Dezember 19, 2018, 4:08 pm, Yulia Leonova,
Ibirapuera,
Ideal Spaces,
Modernist garden,
Roberto Burle Marx,
Spatial concepts,
Symposium of the Ideal Spaces Working Group,
Topics.
A paper is based on the presentation for Artificial Natures Symposium held by Ideal Spaces Working Group in Venice 2018. It describes an unimplemented project proposed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) for Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo. Within the topic of the Symposium the paper focuses on those features of the project, which characterize Burle Marx as a prominent participant of the movement, aimed to create a new cultural space of Brasilidade. The project “Ibirapuera“ was to sum up Burle Marx’s achievements in creating landscapes both artificial and artistic, rich with links to the wild nature of Brazil, its native cultural substrate, the Latin European legacy.
A paper is based on the presentation for Artificial Natures Symposium held by Ideal Spaces Working Group in Venice 2018. It addresses a phenomenology of parks, making several short stops in the journey through some outstanding human-created landscapes. The sites, the Artificial Natures or ‚Worlds‘ out of different times and places, are arranged in a sequence, where each World has a link with the others. Among such links some metaphysical concepts, spatial layouts, social building through reconstruction of Nature, and a discourse of vision and power are mentioned.
In descriptions of Tel Aviv often occur reflections about the ideal “first Hebrew city”. A gap between real Tel Aviv and its visionary model is a commonplace. Nevertheless, links between them are plentiful, although they are discussed either with irony or with pathos. The paper gives a cursory review of some of such links.
September 30, 2015, 1:36 pm, Dirk Nicolas Wagner,
Attention economy,
Externalities,
Knowledge worker,
Space, and the World as Network,
Spatial concepts,
Spatial turn,
Tragedy of the commons.
The majority of the workforce in the developed world consists of knowledge workers who are confronted with computers in between them. The problem of degradation of the knowledge worker is briefly reviewed, before focus is given to the attention economy as a relevant context for the issue of degradation. The notion ‘atten-tion space’ is introduced and as part of the attention space the ‘attentional commons’ is identified. Based on economic analysis, it is derived that the attentional commons shows properties which are typical for the rise of the so called ‘tragedy of the commons’. The degradation of the knowledge worker is identified as the actual tragedy of the attentional commons. Potential avenues leading to a solution of the tragedy in form of mar-ket-, norms- and organization-based approaches are discussed.
November 26, 2014, 1:34 pm, Shavit Ze'ev,
Desert,
Identity-work,
Leisure,
New Forms of the Social,
Place-making,
Spatial concepts,
Tourism.
The paper focuses on images of the Negev desert in Israel among the Jewish population of Israel, presented in marketing websites of tourism and leisure resorts. The analysis of the data, focused on verbal and visual images of desert, shows a significant change in the symbolic construction of the desert compared to the first decades of Israeli statehood: from a desert conceived in light of national ideology and its imperatives, to one who’s images highlight consumerism and individual preferences, fantasies and desires. This change in the symbolic construction of the desert is treated as a part of some major changes in Jewish-Israeli collective identity thus pointing towards the link between two social processes: place-making and identity-work.
Mai 15, 2014, 11:13 am, Andreas Vasilache,
Borders,
Foreign policy,
Globalization,
International relations,
Political science,
Spatial concepts,
Spatial Cybernetics,
State theory,
Topics.
In order to challenge the widespread identification of political inter-, trans-, and supranationalization with the disappearance of boundaries, the following heuristic reflections will concentrate on a few selected phe-nomena and changes of boundaries under conditions of increasing and intensified cross-border politics. While concentrating on boundaries that are constitutive with regard to state theory, the focus lies on par-ticular modes of appearance of these boundaries in times of intensified inter-, trans-, and supranational relations. In doing so, boundaries will be understood as social and political phenomena, while at the same time taking their epistemic significance into account. It should be considered if we are really dealing with the dissolving of traditional boundaries in cross-border politics or rather with the volatility of boundaries, i.e. with flexible boundary lines, whereas the boundary’s political and epistemic quality and function are not necessarily modified or weakened.
September 23, 2013, 10:38 am, Christopher Pollmann,
Atomisation,
Border,
Boundary,
Clock,
Frontier,
Globalisation,
Individualisation,
Law,
Liquefaction,
Money,
New Forms of the Social,
Spatial concepts,
Time,
Topics.
The history of human communities in terms of their “border regime” can be considered tripartite. At first, societies saw themselves as unique, and their edges were the end of their world, surrounded by “barbarians”. Under the influence of ever-increasing trade and equalisation of human beings and populations on either side of the edges, the latter have been transformed into national boundaries. This second era is currently in transition to a third epoch, as the continuous globalisation of societies is going along with their atomisation and liquefaction.
As entrepreneurs of ourselves, we are more and more supposed to manage our solitary existence ourselves. Law, clock and money are a tempting basis for this, because they do not prescribe nor prohibit any activity, but simply – and all the more relentlessly – establish a framework for individual action. Their limits progressively supplement collective delineations of human life (birth and residence, gender, religion, profession, etc.).