Urban Wastelands Conference
Technical University Eindhoven organizes event on Urban Wastlands, November 2007. www.bwk.tue.nl/conference/urbanwastelands/
Archive for April, 2007
Renovation of Ford River Rouge complex
Impressive renovation project of what once was the largest industrial complex in the world, and notorious for its pollution (in the 1970´s the river itself even caught fire!). The renovation by architect William McDonough implemented the worlds largest vegetation roof and the penetration of daylight into the assembly halls. The Ford Motor Company Rouge plant [...]
Public Interventions
SASSEN, Saskia. Public Interventions. The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition. In this essay, she looks at the possibilities of artistic practice to ‘make’ public space that can produce unsettling stories and make visible that which is local and has been silenced. www.skor.nl/article-2888-nl.html?lang=en
