Wednesday night at Midnight: Join us for a 30-minute flash reading from across languages and literatures! more info here: https://rasif48.github.io/midnight-readings/ The midnight readings are a series of shared online reading sessions of 30 minutes each, in which we collectiveley share literature in all its forms in a multi-lingual setting (arabic to other languages/other-languages to arabic).
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Journal / Testing-Ground #2
The full issue of TESTING-GOUND is available online and in bookshops in London. excerpt from: Wall, Ed, and Alex Malaescu. “Editorial.” Testing Ground, no. 2 (2019). “What resides on the other side can cause fear, concern, intrigue, delight and fascination. Neighbouring and distant lands are destinations to visit, invade, occupy and separate ourselves from. Many national borders are marked
Report / Weaponised Landscapes: Mapping the Calais 'Jungle'
Haendeler, Jens, Alex Ioannou, and Anushka Athique. “Weaponised Landscapes: Mapping the Calais ‘Jungle.’” Edited by Ed Wall and Alex Malaescu. Testing Ground, no. 2 (2019): 16–23. [download full article as pdf] This article traces the socio-spatial transformation of the landscape in which the Calais ‘Jungle’ sat. Through mapping the endo- and exogenic forces that shaped the
Launch Event / TESTING_GROUND: Issue 02
JOURNAL Jens Haendeler and Alex Ioannou have been guest editors and contributors of the forthcoming TESTING-GROUND journal issue 02: Other Sides. The second issue of TESTING-GROUND journal will be launched on Thursday 27 June at the University of Greenwich as part of the London Festival of Architecture. To find out more details about the event follow the link
360 NICOSIA: A new generation of building
To the north, the Kyrenia mountain range rises behind Lefkosia, as if a mass of cloud will soon envelop the capital. However, there is a lonely, slightly precarious, object in its path. 360 Nicosia – soon to be Lefkosia’s tallest building. Standing proud, it boasts 34 large floors and unobstructed views of Cyprus’s mountain ranges
Settimana di Unlearning | A Week of Unlearning
* Interventi pedagogici e di ‘decolonalizzazione’ a Palermo, Sicilia * * Pedagogical and de-colonial interventions in Palermo, Sicily * download public programme (EN/ IT) EN: Building on the fruitful experience of the 2018 Manifesta12 5x5x5, scholars, students, legal theorists, community activists, filmmakers, artists and other practitioners are gathering in Palermo to discuss and lay the grounds for
EXTINCTION REBELLION: Laws of Space
In a podcast with Leopold Lambert, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos talked about the idea that the law is always present in a space to a matter of degree. “There are some environments where the law is absolutely thick, the presence of the law is so dense,like the court room as you probably know… In English courts you
EXTINCTION REBELLION: Narratives in Trajectory
Today, if you type ‘Marble Arch’ into your search bar, you will see a different story being projected on your screen. The island upon where the grand structure was placed is now ‘basecamp’ for Extinction Rebellion. There are at least three narratives that are converging at Marble Arch: the nationalist, the neoliberal and the rebellion.
LECTURE SERIES: jesse weaver shipley / léopold lambert / pelin tan / lieven de cauter
Open lecture series April 2019 with international scholars, film-makers, architects and artists.
EXTINCTION REBELLION: The Reproduction of Space
Today’s call for the occupation of major junctions and public spaces in London (and around the world) saw protesters flood the streets. The possibility was opened, the crack was made, for individuals to make history – to allow for a new category of public space to emerge: a category that describes public space not as