Archive for February, 2010

SEE Bulletin: exploring matters related to design and beyond

Thursday, February 18, 2010 16:45 No Comments

The second issue of SEE Bulletin, the only publication entirely dedicated to exploring matters related to design policies and programmes for design support across Europe and beyond, has just been released and it’s really good! A ‘must’ for anyone interested in issues concerning design and innovation policies. Contents include a research paper by Prof. John [...]

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The Nomadic City Appropriates the Street…

Monday, February 15, 2010 16:42 19 Comments

…and disrupts its grid¹ Solomon Benjamin ‘Developmentalism’ is now a morbid zeal, mobilized to survey, to GIS, to digitize, to research, and colonize ‘Third World Cities.’ And in this zeal, lies the panoptic desire to turn the steel frame of the Nation State into The Grid and the Rule of Law, the Master Plan that [...]

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