Events

Event: “Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context”

In Architecture, Berlin, Events, New York, Planning on 16 November 2007 with no comments

An exhibition called “Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context” opened last week at New York’s Center for Architecture and will run through January 26 before traveling to Berlin in March.
Rather than focus narrowly on noteworthy buildings, the exhibition and related panel discussions explore issues like how Berlin is reasserting its role in European cultural and [...]

ISSI 2009

In Events, Internet, Rio de Janeiro on 1 November 2007 with no comments

Welcome ISSI 2009 conference attendees. Feel free to leave comments regarding the conference and your projects or visit the official site. I look forward to seeing you in Rio.

The Denver Museum of Contemporary Art reopens this Sunday in a new location

In Architecture, Art, Denver, Development, Events on 31 October 2007 with 2 comments

The Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver reopens this Sunday in a new location [map]. Architect David Adjaye designed the shiny, new building [pictures]. Architectural Record has the details. I like the design, especially what I’ve seen of the interior walls:
Adjaye, known in Europe for his creative use of industrial building materials, employed [...]

A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness”

In Events, Literature, PDF, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Urbanism on 30 October 2007 with no comments

A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness” [PDF]. Found via Networked_Performance.
The city asserts its otherness in a number of ways.
Firstly, it exposes us to an excessive presence of others, of strangers, who call into question our ownership of the world.
Second…the city annihilates authorship. It is most certainly a made artifact, [...]

ISSI 2009 / 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics

In Events, Internet, Rio de Janeiro on 11 October 2007 with 1 comment

The 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics will be held in Rio de Janeiro from July 28-31, 2009. This past year’s conference was held in Madrid.
I hope to attend. The welcome page for the conference provides plenty of good information.
I’ve opened comments to allow for discussion of the event.

BarCamp Atlanta

In Atlanta, Events, ICT, Innovation, Internet on 11 October 2007 with no comments

I’ll be attending BarCamp Atlanta tomorrow, October 12th. I hope to be able to find somebody who can help me on my local government hyperlinks project. I’m not sure what I’ll present at BarCamp. Perhaps I’ll just host a conversation addressing the digital divide and similar issues arising from the inequitable distribution of ICTs within [...]

Bricoleurbanism and Black Rock City

In Architecture, Design, Events, Planning on 10 October 2007 with no comments

Bricoleurbanism’s post on Black Rock City is as good an urban design blog post as I’ve read in a while.