October 2009
8 posts
Mobile Home
I have been visiting Los Angeles for the past 6 weeks and the biggest cultural shock for me has been the little evidence of any providence of shelters/hostels for the homeless, with every homeless person i have seen living out of a shopping trolley. In observing these cultural differences , I was also drawn to the objects carried about by the homeless, since they have no ‘safe’ base...
The Immigrants & Parks Collaborative
Urban parks can be vibrant mixing grounds and places for expression, or isolating spaces of oppression. Their success or failure depends on both their physical design and the networks of community members who use and support them. New York City is often celebrated for its distinct neighborhoods, but traditional civic organizations do not always reflect current neighborhood demographics, and input...
quote taken from ARTISTS AND PLACES – the time for...
NEW PROCESSES Artists and architects should not be trying to create icons or signature objects, or ‘places with a distinctive identity’, but places that work, and that make better lives – a process that is more about people than objects. In the ‘broader cultural ecology’ of such processes we will find it harder to distinguish the role of the artist or the role of the architect from that of the...
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