Title & Author:

Did someone say participate? : an atlas of spatial practice : a report from the front lines of cultural activism looks at spatial practitioners who actively tresspass into neighbouring or alien fields of knowledge / edited by Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar ; contributors, Åba̋ke [and others].

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.

Description:

331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Endpapers : A war alphabet / Åbäke -- Preface : Participation lasts forever / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Introduction : Did we mean participate, or did we mean something else? / Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar -- The professional amateur / Shumon Basar -- Too smart to be right : the stunning political successes of special stupidity / Keller Easterling -- Augmenting reality : pervasive computing, spatial practice interface politics / Luke Skrebowski -- Terra incognita / R & Sie(n) / Pierre Huyghe -- Don't fuck the authorshiplessness / Francois Roche of R & Sie(n) -- Moving in the margins / Rebecca Gomperts in conversation with Brendan McGetrick -- Glimpses of a future architecture / Matthew Murphy -- Thurrock: a visionary brief in the Thames Gateway / Lucy Musgrave & Clare Cumberlidge -- Did you mean: outsourcing / Joseph Grima -- Armin Linke / text by Markus Miessen -- Locating the civic in the frontier: Damascus Gate / Wendy Pullan -- Architecture minds the gap: Berlin's fragmented urbanisation / Francesca Ferguson -- Spaces, places, faces: snapshots of a U.N. Worker's year in Iraq and beyond / Justin Frewen -- Bas Princen / text by Shumon Basar -- Magical world / Johanna Billing -- Toward a multi-lectics of Himalayan water: Nepalese hydro-politics and the Maoist Peoples War / John McSweeney -- The museum of the future / Peter Weibel -- Topoi: policies of assertion / Bernd Kniess & Meyer Voggenreiter -- Remember Fallujah: demonising place, constructing atrocity / Stephen Graham -- Frank van der Salm / text & interview by Shumon Basar -- Island hopping: politics of visibility in contemporary Mexico / Mauricio Guillen -- School of missing studies / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss -- Architecture, power unplugged: Gaza evacuations / Eyal Weizman -- Spatial practices in the margin of opportunity / Markus Miessen -- The space of community: between culture and politics / Michael Hirsch -- Mumbai city dictionary / Celine Condorelli & Beatrice Gibson.

ISBN:

0262134713 (alk. paper)
9780262134712 (alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning.
Regional planning.
Space (Architecture)
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Aménagement du territoire.
Espace (Architecture)
regional planning.
urban planning.
Offentliga platser.
Stadsplanering (estetisk)

Added entries:

Miessen, Markus.
Basar, Shumon.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247513
Call No.: BIB 177053
Status: Available