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HISTORY, ARCHIVES
BOUNDARIES, BORDERS AND ACCESS
Abstract Possible is a research project exploring notions of abstraction, taking contemporary art as its starting point.
ABSTRACTION Islandkeeper: Maria Lind
nagele
Communi(ci)ty’, the societal, cultural and moral issues of a boletsi radical liberation of planning.
FREELAND Islandkeeper: Jeroen Zuidgeest
Public rhetorical strategies and the ways they give a shape to (and restricts) public space.
BARBARIZING PUBLIC SPEECH Islandkeeper: Maria Boletsi
URBAN SPACES AND SPACE OF NATURE AS SITES OF CONFLICT
Think Tank Aesthetics reflects on art and its relations to current debates about the political and the social against the backdrop of neoliberalism.
THINK TANK AESTHETICS Islandkeeper: Pamela M. Lee
Collective activities contributing to the crossdisciplinary exchange between several nodes of knowledge production: network and participatory technologies; sensorial media and public space; environmental remediation design and spatial organization; and alternative planning design integration
IN PROGRESS Islandkeepers: Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas
ABSTRACTION AND FRAGMENTATION
Oct 2013
Comparison of different urban ideologies from different perspectives, analyzing the effect of current (global) developments in (former) new towns, observing new towns of today and speculating on the future.
BLUEPRINT NL (NAGELE) Islandkeepers: Bik van der Pol
This island is about living in a world in which the doing is separated from the deed, in which this separation is extended in an increasing numbers of spheres of life, in which the revolt about this separation becomes ubiquitous. In collaboration with Casco Projects, Utrecht
COMMONING TIMES Islandkeepers: Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas
What does it mean to engage in ‘the missing’ and to acknowledge the unknown?
A MISSING VOCABULARY writing & discussion sessions Islandkeeper: Moosje Goosen
Bik Van der Pol, School of Missing Studies, 2013 - [Escola de Estudos Ausentes]
THE COMMONS, PRIVATIZATION AND ACCESS ECOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Oct 2014
Interactions between forests and atmosphere, mapping and economics, mutual learning as forms of exchange, lost knowledge and megaprojects in the Amazone, displacement, participatory architecture, lost sights, lost sites, walking tours, invisible rivers concrete jungle, unseen and turned away, participatory forms of staging.
Turning a blind eye [or: ignoring an undesirable information] or I really do not see the signal!
URBAN SPATIAL POLITICS
Scenarios for an intervention as a response to tenderness in the daily life and a challenge to that what is near.
DIVINE INTERVENTION Islandkeeper: Samira BenLaloua
The main question that runs through the thesis is what does it mean to situate one's work "in institution," while at the same time rubbing against official (and institutionalised) ways of knowing?
IT'S TIME MAN. IT FEELS IMMINENT: POLITICS AT THE MOMENT OF EXPOSITION Islandkeeper: Sarah Pierce
LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC
“The borders of new sociopolitical entities (...) are no longer entirely situated at the outer limit of territories; they are dispersed a little everywhere, wherever the movement of information, people, and things is happening and is controlled” (Etienne Balibar).
THE BORDERS ARE NO LONGER AT THE BORDER Islandkeeper: Ernst van den Hemel
Exploring the contemporary landscape of Palestine in particular urban environments.
FRAGMENTED CARTOGRAPHIES Islandkeeepr: Tina Sherwell