PHYSICAL PROJECT FCPS* examines the spatiality of fish in Deptford, revealing the reciprocal nature of the city, and proposes a series of urban interventions that lead to a portion of Fish & Chips near Deptford Creek, encouraging the reproduction and re-imagining of social space. The journey starts with a newspaper mapping the way to a
AuthorJens Haendeler
3/5 Léopold Lambert: The Politics of Space and Bodies – Open Conversation
On the 5th of March 2018 we will enter into an open conversation with Léopold Lambert, a licensed architect, writer and the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a cross-disciplinary bimestrial magazine that discusses the politics of space and bodies. He has lived in Honkong, New York and Bombay. Currently being based in between Paris and Philadelphia, he
28/2 Rosa Menkman: Resolution Disputes – Open Conversation
On the 28th of February we had the honor to enter into an open conversation with Rosa Menkman, a dutch-born visual artist, curator and theorist who is currently being based in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited widely across the digital sphere as much as within physical spaces across the globe. The conversation was led
9110301 911321 GLOBAL URBANISM
How does globalization affect the notion of the city? When has the global city emerged? What are the new elements introduce by the global economy? This course takes a critical look at globalization and its impacts on cities around the world. The first part of the course focuses on the ways transnational flows of trade,
SPATIAL PRACTICES : SECTION 2 : بتير / Battir
بتير is a small village and UNESCO world heritage site south-west of Jerusalem. Located near Beit Jala within the Bethlehem governorate the ancient terraces have been irrigated for more than two millennia, forming a unique culture that is being preserved until today. As Eyal Weizman notes in his essay “The Landscape Against The State”, it
FORENSIC, SPACE and LAW
The course offers theoretical and practical reflections on the relations between the study of the space of architecture/built environments within the area of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights (HR). It deals with the evidentiary and epistemological role of architecture as an instrument to investigate legal controversies within their distinct spatial dimensions. In an
SECURITY AND THE LONDON URBAN LANDSCAPE: Militarising Everyday Life
PRESENTATION 27.03.2017 – Presentation at the University of Westminster: International Relations and Politics This Monday Alex Ioannou and Jens Haendeler had the chance to present some of their fieldwork to students of international relations and politics at the University of Westminster as part of a course coordinated by Dr. Elisabetta Brighi. The workshop featured of a
CALAIS: Flooding as Spatial Control
In January 2016 the Eurotunnel group decided to flood the landscape surrounding the Eurotunnel tracks and check-in facilities. Since the group owns the ditches, drains and their vortex control valves they decided to intentionally shut those in order to accumulate water surrounding the terminal. The above Landsat 8 images, published by NASA and manipulated by
CALAIS: Landscapes of Expulsion
Last week I returned to the dunes east of Calais that were once the site for one of Europe’s largest informal migrant camps. What was once filled with tents and makeshift houses has been evicted in late 2016 following a cycle of partial eviction, police violence and oppression through weaponised architectural interventions and a strategy