Archive for September, 2010

IF… Innovation Festival: events in Milan and Kortrijk

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:22 No Comments

IF… is a European innovation festival organized under the auspices of Pro Inno Europe which takes place across six European cities: Barcelona, Milan, Kortrijk, Lisbon, Vilnius and Tallinn. The mission of the festival is to celebrate innovation and creativity within the participating cities and to mobilize their citizens, youth, businesses, researchers and other regional players [...]

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The Permanent Slum

Monday, September 20, 2010 14:33 No Comments

image of Villa 31 from Villa 31 – Retiro, Buenos Aires In this article The Permanent Slum, Jordana Timerman, a political aide in the Argentine government’s Secretariat of Human Rights and a researcher at Centro de Estudios Perspectiva Sur of Generación Política Sur, reports on how an artist from Buenos Aires has engaged in a [...]

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PAV PRIZE 2011: an environmental art competition

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 14:11 5 Comments

What: PAV Prize 2011 – Competition to create an environmental artwork Where : The Park of Living Art (PAV), Via Giordan Bruno 31, 10134 Torino When: Now open for entries, deadline for submission November 19 2010 Who: open to artists, landscapists, naturalists, scenographers, designer’s agronomists, garderners The centre of experimental art of Turin, PAV has [...]

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“The Economy is Infastructure”

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 17:14 No Comments

image from Africa the good news website In this conversation Stephen Becker and Robert Holmes of mammoth talk to Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and editor of the book The Infrastructural City about how the infrastructural city and “network culture” are [...]

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2010 RIEAch BOOK COMPETITION Open for entries

Monday, September 13, 2010 17:08 2 Comments

What: 2010 RIEAch BOOK COMPETITION When: Open for applications until Oct 30 2010 Where: All entries to be sent to: Riea.ch, Gewerbezentrum Vidmarhallen, Könizstrasse 161, CH-3097 Liebefeld Who: RIEAch | RIEA Concept Series | RIEA Book Series 2010 RIEAch BOOK COMPETITION The 2010 RIEAch Book competition is now open for entries. RIEAch (The Research Institute [...]

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