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The People united will never be defeated: The People properly guided will never stray.
Last Saturday, the Studio Beirut collective launched Beyroutes in the city that it honours: Beirut. With many of the contributors packed into the tiny Papercup Bookstore, it became a happy, emotional, and shamelessly self-boosting affair.
From an upper shelve of a book cabinet, Chris Fruneaux speeched about the deep friendships that underlie the making of the book. In a talk with the Royal Netherlands Embassy’s Cultural Attache, Joost Janmaat revealed some of the inner workings of the beast we refer to as Studio Beirut. In a far corner, Rani al Rajji could be found recruiting stunningly beautiful girls into the ranks of the Bounyaks. Joe Mounzer got into a signing frenzy of his own; brazenly scribbling away at every blank spot of paper that got near. And all along, Steve Eid and Pascale Hares were standing on the pavement outside Papercup, between them the intimidatingly pretty latest addition to the squad: baby Noa.
Hard core locals, engaged tourists and nostalgic diaspora: this guide was made by a broad array of committed amateurs that project themselves onto the city. For years, they have looked to this particular city to accommodate their dreams, ambitions, curiosities and insecurities.
The result was a book about Beirut disguised as a guide. For a guide, it is a pretty lousy one. it does not have much listings of great bars and fancy restaurants. it does not give you splattering colourful accounts of the luxurious places to sleep, nor the latest haunts to dance the night away. It does, however, give you personal, subjective, intimate, and contested accounts ways to look at, experience, understand or even judge the city. Thus, you can navigate the city with Joe’s assassination tour, dig into Ashrafieh with Tony Chakar’s statements on Catastrophic Space, step into the head of artist Jan Rothuizen, who drew the annotated maps or written drawings that illustrate the cover.
Beyroutes is a guide about Beirut that could be of use in any city. They say all people are unique; the cities they live in are surprisingly similar. In every city, for example, the cheap and trashy hostels can be found just around the corner from the train or bus terminal. In every city, next to the official monuments of the state you will find the accidental monuments of the people. Thus, rather than propose a re-enactment or simulation of a particular city, in Beyroutes we propose four lenses, or looking glasses to look at the city (or any city). We give you the first impression city, the official city, the accidental city, and the emotional city. In Beyroutes, these ways of looking have lead to Zinab Chahine's survival guide to Dahiyeh, and the ultimate pieces on the infrastructure of intimacy by Maureen abu Ghanem (on the etiquette of commercial sex) and Joane Chaker (on teenage love).
With so many people present, the launched resulted in a (almost) sell out of the first print, a total depletion of the Lebanese National Reserve of Stroopwafels and a smiling stack of empty 961 bottles.
Tijdens een ruimte-tijd odyssee door drie decennia van stedelijke ontwikkeling, overheidsbeleid en ‘counter culture’ in Amsterdam zou u het volgende retrospectief zien: de overgang van sociale maakbaarheid naar ruimtelijke maakbaarheid of van volksverheffing naar de verheffing van een locatie.
Het huidige station in deze reis is I Amsterdam™, een sterk merk vergezeld van het ‘broedplaatsenbeleid’ oftewel de Amsterdamse poging tot city branding in combinatie met een interpretatie van het stimuleren van de ‘creative city’. De vraagt die opkomt is echter: wiens creatieve stad, wiens Amsterdam? Filosoof Henry Lefebvre benadrukt ‘the right of the city signifies the right of citizens and city dwellers [...] to appear on all the networks and circuits of communication, information and exchange.’ Is de volgende stop van stedelijke ontwikkeling daadwerkelijk het Amsterdam waar burgers van alle rangen en standen meegenieten van creativiteit en rijkdom, en het recht kunnen claimen op de stad? Aan de hand van drie kritische onderzoekers van de Amsterdamse ontwikkeling, Justus Uitermark, Merijn Oudenampsen en Eva de Klerk, resumeren we pogingen in de afgelopen dertig jaar om de het recht op de stad in praktijk te brengen.
Tachtiger jaren: ‘De stad is van ons’
In de jaren tachtig was kraken een vorm van ‘politieke ideologie en strijd’. Het streven was een ‘staat in een staat’ omheind door fysieke barricades, als militante en exclusieve vorm van een vrijstaat met de neiging tot generieke verwerping van gezag en instituties. De beweging werd gekenmerkt door een ongedifferentieerde kritiek op de ‘heersende klasse’, het stadsbestuur, de speculanten, ‘de staat’ en de sociale democratie. Belangrijk voor de lokale, stedelijke gebiedsontwikkeling in deze periode is een strategiewijziging van de gemeente Amsterdam, die vanaf midden jaren 80 ontruimingen van kraakpanden gaat combineren met de bestuurlijke aankoop van de panden in kwestie. De panden blijven zodoende behouden voor huisvesting. Aan de krakers wordt daarmee een gewetensvraag gesteld: zijn zij bereid te verhuizen om zo het algemeen belang boven hun eigenbelang te stellen? Dit is het begin van de selectieve toenadering van de overheid, of zoals Uitermark het noemt de ‘omarming van de subversiviteit’.
Negentiger jaren: 'De stad als Casco'
‘Geld verdienen in de panden, niet aan de panden’, dat is het credo van de stad-als-cascomethode. Zowel in theorie als in de praktijk keert zich deze coöperatieve stadsontwikkelingmethode tegen de gemeentelijke, op winstmaximalisatie gerichte, grondprijspolitiek. Om met het top-down ‘een ontwikkelaar, een financier’- paradigma voor een heel gebied te kunnen breken, legt deze strategie de nadruk op de collectieve verantwoordelijkheid van gebruikers voor de ontwikkeling en het beheer van stedelijke gebieden. Van meet af aan worden eindgebruikers (wonen, werken, recreëren) als actieve partners bij het ontwikkelingsproces betrokken. Collectieve afspraken vormen de basis voor een geleidelijk stadsontwikkelingsproces van onderaf, met zeggenschap en verantwoordelijkheid aan de kant van de eindgebruiker bij kwesties omtrent financiering, ontwikkeling en beheer van zowel de bouwstructuur als de omliggende buitenruimte.
Nu: broedplaatsen en de creatieve stad TM
In het ‘Creative City’ paradigma worden kunstenaars omgevormd tot creatieve ondernemers, (sub) culturen vermarkt en de ‘lokale cultuur’ moet een trekpleister zijn voor toeristen. Het beleid is gericht op de annexatie van de culturele sector, waarin een versmelting plaatsvindt van het culturele veld met de politiek-economische agenda van de overheid. Cultuur als ‘software’ voor de bestaande of nog te ontwikkelen ‘hardware’. ‘Creativiteit’ wordt eerst gelokaliseerd, gehuisvest, in haar fragiele fase door beleid en regelgeving beschermd en gemest, om na een periode van groei geslacht te kunnen worden. In principe is dit zowel van toepassing op grootschalige top-down projecten als, op het eerste gezicht meer radicale, nicheprojecten.
Partizan Publik bezoekt op zaterdag 13 maart het Gangeviertel in Hamburg en spreekt ook onder de titel 'Sprechtstunde Amsterdam'
Referenties: Justus Uitermark ‘De omarming van subversiviteit’. Agora 24.3, (2004): pp 32-35, Merijn Oudenampsen 'Back to the Future of the Creative City: An Archaeological Approach to Amsterdam’s Creative Redevelopment'. MyCreativity Reader (2007): pp 165-176, http://www.evadeklerk.com/downloads/stad%20als%20casco.pdf. Photos of NDSM by Christian Ernsten
Dutch sculptor Diederick Kraaijeveld will present his three ´Icons of Hope´: monumental assemblages, done in originally colored wood the artist salvaged in numerous abandoned buildings in Detroit. Proceeds of the sale of the pieces will go directly to urban renewal projects in the city of Detroit. This project is backed by the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency.
Opening Friday the 5th of March 2010 18:30 until 21:30 at Carhartt Store Hartenstraat 18 Amsterdam Music by DJ Taco Fett. You are cordially invited to celebrate the opening with us.
Het Amsterdams 4&5 mei Comité riep in Theater Frascati Amsterdamse organisaties op om zich aan te sluiten bij de avondprogrammering op 4 mei en het Amsterdamse Bevrijdingsfestival op 5 mei. De onlangs aangetreden voorzitter Sijbolt Noorda presenteerde dinsdag 16 februari de plannen van het comité. Eén van de opvallendste veranderingen: de viering van 5 mei verhuist naar verschillende locaties in het centrum van de hoofdstad.
4 mei: extra aandacht voor avond en nachtprogramma
Naast de meer dan zeventig herdenkingsactiviteiten die op 4 mei 2010 in Amsterdam plaatsvinden, werkt het Comité mee aan nieuwe programma’s tijdens de avond en nacht van 4 mei. Het initiatief Theater Na de Dam is daar een voorbeeld van: in theaters in en rond de Nes vinden voorstellingen plaats. Ook in Felix Meritis, verschillende kerken, de Hollandse Schouwburg, de OBA, het Concertgebouw en diverse andere locaties worden na de twee minuten stilte activiteiten georganiseerd.
5 mei: nieuwe locaties Bevrijdingsfestival
Het Amsterdamse Bevrijdingsfestival krijgt een programma met muziek, theater, debat en tentoonstellingen verspreid over de Amsterdamse binnenstad. ‘We willen een nieuwe generatie kritisch mee laten praten en denken over vrijheid. Elke organisatie die daaraan een bijdrage kan leveren is zeer welkom’, aldus voorzitter Noorda. De titel van het festival dit jaar is Amsterdam Liberty City.
Op de Dam zullen onder andere Junkie XL, Moss en Gotcha! Allstars optreden. Er is ook een muziekpodium op het Nesplein en in drie clubs in de binnenstad. In een tentoonstelling staat de vraag centraal of Amsterdam de meest vrije stad ter wereld is. ‘De Grote Vrijheidsstrijd’ is een avondprogramma in Felix Meritis, waar tal van opinieleiders en kunstenaars hun visie geven op het thema vrijheid. Daarnaast zijn er ook op het Spui, het Beursplein en de Veemkade activiteiten. Op de Amstel vindt traditiegetrouw het 5 mei-concert plaats, georganiseerd door het Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.
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Joost, Jasper, Pieter-Paul, Touria en Francis hebben met vereende krachten de Moonshine Bus een zeer lastige bijzondere verrichting laten uitvoeren. Na een paar rondes langs de pont en een mislukte poging om de bus achter uit in te steken, reed Joost terug naar de Mosveld rotonde, alwaar zij opgewacht werden door de politie die hen vroeg; of waar zij wel niet mee bezig waren? Met een grijns en een knipoog reden Jasper en Joost en Leon( van Whilling Wheels) langs de dubbelgeparkeerde auto's op de Van der Pek. Hier werden zij met luid gejuich ontvangen door Touria en Francis. Op naar de Tolhuistuin voor poging twee. Na veel heen en weer gemanoeuvreer, heeft de bus voor de Staalvilla een straatje weten te keren. Palen en nietjes en plantenbakken werden door de noeste strijders naar betere oorden verwezen. Joost op de trekker, Francis achter het stuur, Jasper het brein, Touria het hart en Pieter-Paul de longen en interne organen (koffie en Gas op die Lollie!) Kortom......feest! De Bus staat. En kijk dan hoe strak hij langs de stoep staat!
As a supplement to VOLUME # 22 The Guide, Partizan Publik presents the separate publication Beyroutes, a guidebook to Beirut, one of the grand capitals of the Middle East. Beyroutes presents an exploded view of a city which lives so many double lives and figures in so many truths, myths and historical falsifications. Visiting the city with this intimate book as your guide makes you feel disoriented, appreciative, judgmental and perhaps eventually reconciliatory. Beyroutes is the field manual for 21st century urban explorer.
Beyroutes was initiated by Studio Beirut in collaboration with Partizan Publik, Archis and the Pearl Foundation. Supported by Prince Claus Fund, Fund Working on the Quality of Living and the Netherlands Embassy in Lebanon.
The launch wil take place at Athenaeum News Centre, Spui, Amsterdam, December 22, 5-7pm.
2030: War Zone Amsterdam is an international curatorial program by Brigitte van der Sande that explores the possibility and consequences of conflict in a far-future Amsterdam. To kick off the Warzone program, Joost Janmaat and Christiaan Fruneaux took the thirty international artists on a tour to the open society that is contemporary Amsterdam. We visited the vast squatters free state at the ADM wharf, went for a beer at Angels Place, the sancto sanctorium of the radically autonomous motor club, and scrambled through the Red Light District, the world's Free Zone of bad taste, cheap food, sex and drugs, and sleazy morals.
The Amsterdam Radical Freedom Tour took off from the observation that the freedom and peace this city enjoys is not a static affair: it is constantly made. Many of the unique and very specific freedoms of Amsterdam, prosper in the cloudy realm of toleration. Euthanasia, the selling of drugs, prostitution, squatting: all these freedoms are constantly balancing on the edge between the legal and the illegal. Of Law-enforcing and toleration. This particular notion of toleration ensures that the sharp edges of freedom in this city remain a continuous matter of interpretation, discussion and doubt.
The results of the one-week artistic research will be presented at Mediamatic BANK, Saturday November 28. Don't forget to make a reservation.
At the weekly neighborhood market next to our Staalvilla, Joost, Bjorn and some friends organized a garbage boat race. The two teams had four hours to build themselves a floating contraption out of locally harvested garbage and trash. At exactly 16.00, cheered by a hundred outrageous fans, they raced each other to the other side of the Buiksloter canal, to plant a flag on the Shell compound. Notwithstanding the nifty design and the buckets of bravery, Joost and Bjorn sank on their way back.
The next garbage race will be at the Trash Festival, planned for the 5th of June at the Stenen Hoofd, Amsterdam.
Op 19 Movember is het Internationale Mannendag en is de snorrenactie van Movember net over de helft. Tijd om op deze dubbele mannendag iets speciaals te organiseren: De Movember Fotoveiling!
Veertien talentvolle Nederlandse fotografen doneerden speciaal voor deze actie een foto aan Movember. Deze veertien foto's worden op 19 november geveild bij het Sid Lee Collective in Amsterdam. Mannen in zilveren Speedo’s zullen de stukken laten zien en veilingmeester is Charin Singh uit Nieuw-Zeeland.
De deelnemende fotografen: Anoek Steketee, Aukje Dekker, Cleo Campert, Danielle van Ark, Dirk-Jan Visser, Jasper Groen, Leon Hendrickx, Masha Osipova, Michiel Landeweerd, Rob Hornstra, Robert van Waarden, Roger Cremers, Roos de Bolster, Wouter Vandenbrink.
Je kan de ingezonden foto's bekijken op onze Movember Viewbook site.
Alle opbrengsten gaan naar het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Kanker Researchfonds.
Kom ook naar de Movember Fotoveiling: een unieke kans om een mooi kunstwerk te bemachtigen, een goed doel te steunen en je te vergapen aan de snorren van de aanwezige Mo Bro’s!
Tijd en plaats: Donderdag 19 november 2009 Vanaf 20.00 uur Sid Lee Collective Gerard Doustraat 74 Amsterdam
Jameson trakteert op cocktails, Kleurgamma stelt de prints beschikbaar en Sid Lee Collective hun prachtige ruimte. De foto’s worden ingelijst door Frame Products. De opbrengst van de veiling gaat naar het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Kanker Researchfonds, www.avlkankerresearchfonds.nl. Movember Nederland is powered by Partizan Publik, www.partizanpublik.nl
On Saturday 28 November the first phase of the multiyear event 2030: War Zone Amsterdam will be launched with Blitz presentations by thirty international artists and collectives at Mediamatic. Curator Brigitte van der Sande developed the project on the basis of an idea of Partizan Publik. On the same occasion the special issue of Open, Cahier on Art and the Public Domain # 18 will be launched.
2030: War Zone Amsterdam is an exercise in imagining the unimaginable: a state of war in your own city in the year 2030. A cease-fire has just been announced, and a group of international artists, theatre makers, filmmakers, journalists and intellectuals go out into the city to investigate what the war has done to Amsterdam and its inhabitants.
To celebrate International Men's Day, we'll be holding a charity auction of some fantastic prints kindly donated by some of this county's top up and coming photographers and established names. Our lovely hosts for the evening will be the creative geniuses at Sid Lee Collective - they'll be laid back sounds, Jameson's Whiskey (thanks Mr Jameson!) and plenty of fun.
Up on the auction block will be 10 limited edition professionally framed photos. If you've ever wanted the chance to buy some top quality art, this is it - some of these items sell for over €1500 in the galleries, and so this is your opportunity to pick up some absolute bargains! And of course, you’ll be helping to support us in 'Changing the Face of Men's Health' in The Netherlands – all funds raised will be going straight to our beneficiary partner – the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Cancer Research Fund.
So make sure you come on down on the night, share a drink with us and show us your latest Mo styles... and who knows, you might just be lucky enough to take home something new for the house.
The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is the first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale in the world. More than 30 curators from the Mediamatic Travel network present contemporary art from their city.
The exhibition opens on Friday with the pavilions of Kabul, Napels, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Belgrade, Boston, Talinn and Brooklyn. We will have weekly openings of new pavillions untill the end of the exhbition.
The Biennale is a part of Mediamatic Travel, the new travel-office to the contemporary art worldwide. Friday travel.mediamatic.net will go on-line.
Mediamatic and Partizan Publik will present the Travel Catalogue Destinations 2010.
With a live perfomance of Firestone and DJ Margit (Talinn), DJ Katja Novi (Talinn, Amsterdam) & DJ Velovich(Belgrade, Amsterdam).
The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is opened from 17 October till 13 December 2009. Open from Monday – Friday from 1 pm – 7 pm and Saturday + Sunday from 1 pm – 6 pm. Location: Mediamatic BANK, Vijzelstraat 68, Amsterdam
Mediamatic Travel is a project of Mediamatic and Partizan Publik. The project is made possible by Hivos-NCDO Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaanstichting and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
Also this week: Pecha Kucha #11
On Wednesday 14 October from 20.20 hrs a Pecha Kucha in Mediamatic BANK presenting 12 elevator pitches with the lock pickers of Toool, Strawberry Earth, Hete Bliksem, 'Hot100' Sander Veenhof and more.
On thursday september 25 2009 the 4th edition of the IABR will take off. The theme of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is the Open City, a city that is diverse, lively and socially sustainable, where people can productively relate to each other culturally, socially, as well as economically. More specifically, with the theme Open City: Designing Coexistence, the 4th IABR raises the question of social cohesion in the city from the point of view of its designer: how can architects and urbanists make realistic contributions to the sustainable quality of the urban condition.
With three exhibitions, a unique collaboration with a public broadcaster and an extensive side program of lectures, film screenings, debates, workshops, an international master class and other events, the fourth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) embraces the theme of the Open City, a city that is diverse, lively and socially sustainable, where people can productively relate to each other culturally, socially, as well as economically.
Partzan wiil participate in the Collective exibition were new concepts for the Microrayon are being elaborated.
The first Dutch Movember campaign in history is about to take off. Partizan Publik is bringing this annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer to the Netherlands.
Mo Bros, supported by their Mo Sistas, start Movember (November 1st) clean shaven and then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache. During Movember, each Mo Bro effectively becomes a walking billboard for men’s health and, via their Mo, raises essential funds and awareness for Movember’s men’s health partner – The Prostate Cancer Charity. At the end of Movember, a series of Gala Partés are held to thank Mo Bros and Sistas for their support and fund raising efforts. Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer.
Talking about Gala Partés...Here are some impressions of earlier showdowns across the world:
How can old and new communities be connected through a new form of social architecture?
The 4 students of the Overhoeks/Van der Pek case researched the possibilities of improving social ties between two neighbourhoods in Amsterdam: Overhoeks and Van der Pek. The former is being developed at the moment, the latter is and ‘old, traditional neighbourhood in town. What’s special is that the two are situated literally in each others shadow. According to the students, improving social ties implies “encountering each other on a regular bases in a natural and informal way”. To empower this process, the students developed the concept of the ‘Floating Market’. Their pilot was situated on the Johan van Hasseltkanaal, which wasn’t more than a physical barrier between the two neighbourhoods before their intervention. The ‘Floating Market’ transformed this barrier into a place where people can meet. The concept is based on the floating gardens developed by ‘Provo’ Robert Jasper Grootveld. The gardens consist of 1,00 x 1,00 x 0,50 foam blocks, each of them having a floating capacity of 500 kilograms. Tied together, these foam blocks form an incredibly stable floating surface.
Based on a purely economic relation the market could function as a shared icon for the two neighbourhoods and also as a positive impulse for the wider area as well.
You can also view the final presentation of the Overhoeks/vd Pek Team at the Amsterdam City Hall last week.
Last week the university minor program ‘Social Engineering in the Amsterdam Metropolis’ reached it’s ‘official’ tipping point at the Amsterdam City Hall. The students presented the results of their 16 weeks lasting full time research trajectory to the mayor of Amsterdam Job Cohen and an elaborate jury of professional social engineers. The jury consisted of Linda Brasz (foreperson, chief secretary borough Amsterdam North), Franka Kanters (manager at private social housing cooperation Ymere), Jos Gadet (senior policy maker at the Department of Spatial Planning Amsterdam) and Bert de Reuver (member directory board IIS). The students seized the moment to put forward their case in front of this audience of influential ‘agents of change’.
To what extent do rules and standards lead to a just society? Planned utopias proved not to lead automatically to a free and equal way of living, or all-inclusive solidarity for that matter. State governance seems fated to produce a certain form of social marginalization.
Could engineering a just city entail the conscious incorporation of the lawless, the untamed and the subversives within our city borders? Do these groups, which are evading or excluded by the system, represent a way of living that we could learn from? How can their rules inspire us in engineering a more righteous place, a just city?
Yale University Professor James C. Scott is author of the most eloquent critique of the tradition of high modernist planning Seeing like a State (1998). His latest research focuses on the contrast between the lowland city-state and its labor control vs. the non-state-hill periphery in South East Asia. Based on this expertise he will comment on how the city should be studied as a living, breathing and dynamic process.
To what extent can a brave city be planned? History shows that Dream + Power + Lack of Resistance = Utopian Totalitarianism. The reign of big ideas over a blissfully ignorant society.
Engineering happiness could potentially mean balancing out planned utopias. We wonder, how to practise our urban freedom? Blissful ignorance or freedom of initiative? Routine or improvisation? What’s the function of spontaneity in pushing the boundaries of public normality? Can improvisation improve urban daily life? Raise awareness of the collective and forge solidarity? What are the rules that keep our society alive and which boundaries do we need to push to give our cities future?
Can we build a happy city? Can we engineer happiness?A Masterclass on creative industry, social cohesion, participatory planning and creating new worlds. What is left of the highmodernist ideals? How do they translate into the Wijkaanpak, the national push to uplift the Dutch ghettos? And what instruments have we got to engineer society and change people in their beliefs and behaviour?
The American philosopher and architectural critic Nader Vossoughian wrote on the global polis and its engineer of happiness Otto Neurath.
He has a strong vision on the knowledge economy, how it creates ignorance and intelligence. Is ignorance bliss? Or do we set course to develop a responsible participatory community? What is the ethics of urban transformation?
With workshop-contributions by No Academy and Design2context.
Presented by the Office for Social Engineering, Fund BKVB/355, Art Beyond Borders and Felix Meritis.
Our days are gloomy days. Yet all these crises present opportunities for a positive outcome as well. They could open the way to a fundamentally different way of social engineering, green planning and a new financial system. In the reshaping of our world after the crisis, a sustainable city is possible.
Stefano Boeri understands non-growth and human retreat as producing valuable urban eco-systems. Reforestation protects natural zones and green corridors shelter animals from the anthropocentric world. These potentially create new ways of exchange between wildlife and human beings, a new ethical order of urbanity.
Stefano Boeri (1956) is an architect, director of Boeri Studio and editor in chief of the international design and architecture magazine Abitare. Boeri teaches urban design at the Milan Polytechnic, he is visiting professor at the Harvard Design School and he is the founder of the research agency Multiplicity. With Rem Koolhaas he co-authored the immensely influential Mutations project. Boeri will share his visions on sustainable utopia and dystopia in an urban context.
A story of how innovation and creativity may change the way we build, engage and live… for decades to come.
BEIRUT: Walk its streets, visit its hip quarters, check the destroyed but completely resurrected city centre, talk to the armed soldiers at the street corners, listen to the old and not-so-old war stories from the cab driver, explore its old, new and upcoming neighborhoods. Only a few cities in the world offer so many layers of hidden meaning as Beirut does. In the public realm of this town there seems to be merely suggestion, projection and differences of opinion that somehow interact with people’s daily movements and actions.
Participate in the BEYROUTES guide project organized by Studio Beirut, Partizan Publik, Pearland Archis. A project that enables you to go beyond an exotic visit to the people, buildings and places of Beirut, and to get engaged: in its past, present and future. To produce a guide that provokes to construct your own anecdotes, actions and architecture of the city.
If you want to contribute in writing, drawing, research, photography or design: sign up now for the 2nd RESEARCH workshop at ranije[at]yahoo[dot]com
Partizan Publik is devoted to a braver society. The Partizans explore, produce and implement social, political and cultural instruments, which generate positive and sustainable change to people and their surroundings.
To what extent do rules and standards lead to a just society? Planned utopias proved not to lead automatically to a free and equal way of living, or all-inclusive solidarity for that matter. State governance seems fated to produce a certain form of social marginalization.
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