We can’t do Mickey Mouse feel-good projects – digging latrines and helping 54 families to get a better toilet. This will not solve the problem. We need to focus on education, on the next generation of decision makers. We need to change minds, not build water pumps¹ Corrado Curti pdf version HELIÓPOLIS II, ©DIONISIO GONZÁLEZ, [...]

Marcia Caines Dan Colen, Word On The Street. Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Via Ventura, zona Lambrate, Milan 22 March to April 30 2010. This year’s ‘Salone del Mobile’, Milan’s April Furniture Fair, pulled the usual crowds, but with a little less enthusiasm than before, as if it had lost a bit of its sparkle. Maybe [...]

The premier edition of the Human Cities Festival will take place in Brussels from May 6 – 16 2010. The main theme of the 10 day festival in Brussels, Bozar and around will be public space specifically celebrating public space as a common good. The content of the festival will explore socio-cultural dynamics of sustainable [...]

What: Crossing the Line: The 2010 D-Crit Conference Where: Visual Arts Theater, 333 West 23rd Street NYC (between Eighth and Ninth Avenues) When: Friday April 30 2010 h.11:00 – 18:30 Who: Alice Twemlow SVA, D-Crit students 2010, moderator: Kurt Andersen, Keynotes: Peter Hall and John Thackara In 2008 The School of Visual Arts in NY [...]

The critical global and economic climate has pushed cities to the fore of policy discussion worldwide, forcing them to review their strategies and adopt new approaches to planning and development for sustainable growth. For cities to engage in this process successfully, increased inter-change and sensitivity between all of the parties involved in the city-making profession [...]