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Non-Space. A short documentary on Instanbul infrastructure-driven developement

The short documentary Non-space – The Death of the City as Commodity, explores the ways in which AKP’s construction-based economic growth strategy has become a mechanism for destruction. While this economic programme has turned our neighbourhoods into investment tools of foreign and domestic capital, it plunders our cities, forests, water, our living spaces in general, … Continue reading

Le tour de la ville en 80 mondes
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Le tour de la ville en 80 mondes

(Marc Augé, L’architecture globale, LE MONDE | 17.10.2009 à 14:09) Les noms des grands architectes sont presque aussi connus dans le monde que ceux des grands footballeurs. L’architecture jouit aujourd’hui d’un statut tout à fait particulier. Menace-t-on de réduire de quelques mètres la tour que Nouvel va construire à Manhattan ? La presse s’émeut. Un grand … Continue reading

Luca Leggero, Contemporary Cities.
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Luca Leggero, Contemporary Cities.

// Intervista a Luca Leggero sul suo ultimo progetto Contemporary Cities. // Entretien avec Luca Leggero autour de son dernier projet Contemporary Cities. // Interview with Luca Leggero about his last project Contemporary Cities. //IT// Luca Leggero è un artista poliedrico. Con un passato nella musica insieme agli Atman (rock alternativo) e ai MAIS (avant-POP, hack-rock, … Continue reading

Venice
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Venice

Giant cruise liners, equal in size to the Costa Concordia, pass through Venice’s Giudecca Canal every day. Last year alone, about 2000. Just imagine the disaster scenario if something went wrong. It’s the real life thriller we’re all so nervous about and it’s been happening for years, right in the heart of the city of … Continue reading