Posted: 19.05.2008
Today Sandi Hilal and Alessandro petti will present Decolonizing Architecture in Siena. Piergiorgio Solinas, Massimiliano Tabusi and Pietro Pustorino will also talk in this occasion. The event is in collaboration with Hawiyya.
Posted: 19.05.2008
Today Sandi Hilal and Alessandro petti will present Decolonizing Architecture in Siena. Piergiorgio Solinas, Massimiliano Tabusi and Pietro Pustorino will also talk in this occasion. The event is in collaboration with Hawiyya.
Posted: 17.05.2008
Today Fabio, Bianca, Jesse and Anne have been painting in Oush Grab in order to re-de-colonize the space which had been visually occupied by israeli settlers. The zionist writings on one building and on the water tower were first nicely covered with a thick layer of white paint. Hotel Oush Grab was then set up in the first building. 3 confortable suites in a peaceful location and with a super nice view of the surrounding palestinian landscape. Soon Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Ghandi came and moved in. Che Guevara, Edward Said and Aung San Suu Kyi are expected to come after them, so no rooms will be free for settlers for a long time…
Puzzling creative visual resistance: The buildings of Oush Grab after the re-occupation by the settlers and after the artists’ détournement
Posted: 06.05.2008
Last night our friend Andrea Merli visited us and showed us some stunning fotos he took in Gaza, in areas where Israeli colonies used to be. Some of them, like Netzarim and Nisanit, apparently have been completely erased from the landscape. Nothing of the settlement, except some streets and the green houses (the only cultivated land) is there anymore.
Posted: 05.05.2008
Tomorrow Eyal Weizman will be giving a lecture about Decolonizing Architecture at REDCAT – CalArts Theatre in Los Angeles. Link
Posted: 05.05.2008
Julien Lagumier, a French social anthropologist, will be talking about French colonial architecture and social housing through the issue of utopia/ heterotopia:
The global issue of how utopian models in term of conception have turned to heterotopias, while finished and appropriated by the populations because of social changes, conflicts, and segregation. I’ll present Casablanca and Algiers as two examples of French colonial cities under the influence of the ideas of modern architecture and social progress in the 60’s despite the colonial context. We’ll see how these models still reproduce the domination on local people and try to explain how they decolonized it after independence. In the same period, in France, the government answered to a strong housing crisis by applying the modern architecture principles and building housing schemes. Forty years later, these places host the poorer people, realize a perfect segregation. I’ll present how we try to answer this issue through real projects of renewal. The links between colonial architecture and housing schemes for social housing is that Algeria and Morocco have been a place of experimentations for French engineers and architects to conceive new models which have been brought back to France.
Posted: 04.05.2008
A preview of the project will be shown at this year’s Architecture Biennale. More info soon.
Posted: 03.05.2008
There will be a preview of Decolonizing Architecture within the project Islands + Ghettos taking place at the Heidelberger Kunstverein in Heidelberg from February to September 2008.
The stereoscopic videos by Armin Linke and Francesco Mattuzzi will be shown during the exhibition (from 06.06. to 31.08.2008) and Alessandro Petti will give a lecture about the project on the 18th of June.
Posted: 30.04.2008
Tonight ^^^Brave New Alps^^^^^ are presenting their alternative travel guide Decode Jerusalem.
Posted: 29.04.2008
Tonight at 8:00 PM Alessandro Petti is giving a lecture about Decolonizing Architecture at the Alternative Information Center. The audio of the event will be recorded and put as a podcast on the AIC website.