Title & Author:

Signs of the city : metropolis speaking / edited by Stefan Horn, Rudolf Netzelmann & Peter Winkels.

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis Verlag Gmbh, 2009.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm

Notes:
Introduction. Open the house : collaborations between odd couples / Peter Winkels ; Signs of the city : metropolis speaking / Stephan Horn ; Thinking beyond Signs of the city : an introduction and a digression on culture and European citizenship / Uta Staiger ; Going Europe / Rudolf Netzelmann ; Signs of the city : network map -- Workshops. The workshops : introduction / Britt Hatzius ; Campbell works : Neil Taylor and Harriet Murray work with students of Wilhelm-von-Türk-School in Potsdam ; The Barcelona experience / Javier Rodrigo, ArtiBarri Network ; Construct your own sign : Diego Ferrari works in the House of World Cultures, Berlin ; Walking, talking, photographing : London Workshop with artist Melissa Bliss ; London East : workshop by Douglas Nicolson in conjunction with SPACE Studios in London ; Map of signs : workshop with Martin Ruge, Berlin with KIM Vocational College (Oberstufenzentrum) ; Freestyle Berlin : workshop by Britt Hatzius and Stephan Horn with students from Zukunftsbau, Berlin ; The young people and their place in the city : point of view and history : an overview of the local project in Sofia by Velislava Donkina, Milkana Lazarova, Ivan Kiruanov and Andrei Rashev, Atelier for Free Associations -- LAB2 : Barcelona. Exchange programme : 6-10 October 2008 in Barcelona -- Exhibitions. Barcelona ; Berlin ; London ; Sofia -- Pictures -- Conference. Signs, my city, dialogues : twenty-first century urbanism from the rational to the relational / Michael Keith ; Attention! : Signs of the city between automaticity and conscious / Kristin Veel ; The subjective side of the objective : media pedagogy looks at Signs of the city / Franz Josef Röll ; Impressions from the conference / Andrew McIllroy -- Evaluation. Project evaluation / Alison Rooke.

Summary:

This fifteen month youth art project explores the sign systems of four of Europe's cities - Barcelona, Berlin, London and Sofia by employing digital photography, new media, and helped by thirty professional artists in various workshops.

Resources:
Table of contents
Inhaltstext
Table of contents

ISBN:

3868590145
9783868590142

Subject:

City and town life Pictorial works.
Signs and symbols Pictorial works.
Vie urbaine Ouvrages illustrés.
Signes et symboles Ouvrages illustrés.
City & town planning architectural aspects.
Architecture and Planning.
City and town life
Signs and symbols
Graffito
Großstadt
Jugend
Stadtbild
London
Barcelona
Berlin
Sofia

Form/genre:

Bildband.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Horn, Stefan, 1968-
Netzelmann, Rudolf.
Winkels, Peter.

Metropolis speaking

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264934
Call No.: BIB 196364
Status: Available