MAPPING, COUNTERMAPPING, WALKING, NOTE TAKING, CREATING SPACES, ABANDONED PLACES, FOLLOWING PROCESSES, CONSTRUCTING SITES, BLOCK STUDY, NEIGHBOURHOOD AND NEIGHBOURING THEORIES, HISTORIES, MATERIAL, LABOUR AND ITS MARKETS, WILD GARDENING AND LIVING LIBRARIES .... IN AND AROUND AND OUT OF TRONDHEIM!
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The City in the Sandbox documents the field research undertaken by Kristian Byskov and Margarita del Carmen at Copenhagen’s ‘staffed playgrounds’, and offers a critical analysis of how the staff’s pedagogical approaches can function as a model for better development of urban space. An approach that would encompass more meaningful and empowered inclusion of the city’s residents - and not least its children, who inhabit the city in ways that adults have often forgotten but could profitably learn from. The authors ask what the city's urbanisation would look like if a pedagogical perspective drove the planning, design and decision process.
Henri Lefebvre: The Right to the City
Fragmentary Sciences and Urban Reality
During the course of the nineteenth century, the sciences of social reality are constituted against philosophy which strives to grasp the global (by enclosing a real totality into a rational systematization). These sciences fragment reality in order to analyse it, each having their method or methods, their sector or domain. After a century, it is still under discussion whether these sciences bring distinct enlightenment to a unitary reality, or whether the analytical fragmemation chat they use corresponds to objective differences, articulations, levels and dimensions.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/henri-lefebvre-right-to-the-city
Heinz Emigholz, Photography and beyond
Architecture, Films, Drawings, Texts
https://pym.de/en
Walking Theory. / Ana Vujanović, Sep, 2016
My interest in “walking theory” initially came from an education in art and humanities, which taught us that art was an intimate activity of the artist-genius who creates directly from his guts, while theory was an abstract speculation, which, if you let it come closer, can castrate artistic freedom. Paradoxically, all this was promoted in Belgrade in the 1990s, in the context of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, the international sanctions, the regime of Slobodan Milošević, and the transition from socialism to capitalism.
A global collection of counter-geographies
Edited by Kollectiv Orangotango+
"For us, critical cartography is an opportunity to critically work with maps. The – mostly academic – debate of this name emerged in the late 1980s. In the beginning it focused to a large degree on criticizing maps or, more accurately, on the work done within the discipline of cartography. Cartography, in this sense, refers to a practice strongly institutionalized by the state and by capital. The resulting critique uncovers how maps were complicit in the history of colonialism and nationalism and how they contributed to their stabilization and legitimization. It also traced how maps make social conditions appear natural by connecting them to space. Cartography does not exist outside of power structures, and maps can be powerful devices in society. Not only do they lo- cate and thereby spatialize the natural environment, they also put ownership, rights and social norms in their place."
Hans Ragnar Mathisen
A collection of Sami maps, graphics, painting ...
"Awareness of history or lack of it determines the status of a people to a much larger degree than they are aware of. To be indifferent or ignorant of the past is in itself a danger, because it makes manipulators easy access to popular opinion, changing it or forming it whichever way they want.
Being aware of the mistakes, catastrophes, as well as the heart-warming humanitarian victories of history is likewise a guarantee against seduction, despotism, apathy, lack of purpose, and threats from overpowering forces, once it is applied from a strong conviction. Or, to put it plainly: You are easily fooled if you lack experience, the experience of knowledge, including knowledge of past follies."
http://www.keviselie-hansragnarmathisen.net/141466664.html
