How resilient is radical housing?
In the below work, radical housing is seen through the lens of an incongruity: holding legally a vacant private property for speculative reasons when illegal… Read More »How resilient is radical housing?
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We don’t need heroes
Beyond the richness of a concept with multi-faceted dimensions and the emptiness of a word used nowadays to mean anything, resilience, when applied to our… Read More »We don’t need heroes
We don’t need heroes
Were immigrants arriving in Ellis Island resilient? They survived pogroms, misery or starvation. They had to pass through dreadful sanitary checks, could be quarantined and… Read More »We don’t need heroes
Public transport in times of (post) Covid.
In April 2020, Jeffrey E. Harris, a professor of Economics at the MIT, published a study placing responsibility for the Covid spread on the NYC… Read More »Public transport in times of (post) Covid.
Impairment.
The below photographic work (*) is the outcome of a stay in Vienna, Austria. At D0, Culture, contaminated by the Covid, is represented by three… Read More »Impairment.
Urban resilience and Culture in times of Covid.
A new paradigm is emerging: the nature and scale of risks are changing. The assumption that past observations may help to better appraise future developments… Read More »Urban resilience and Culture in times of Covid.
The Sense of Vulnerability.
The below work speaks about our illusions of strength and power and at the same time shaping our vulnerability. Framed by the perspective of a… Read More »The Sense of Vulnerability.
The Sense of Vulnerability.
The Anthropocene awareness and its induced damages strengthen the concept of (urban) resilience, often presented as the new panacea for improving our daily lives. Much… Read More »The Sense of Vulnerability.
Droughts.
Inspired by South African and French artists, William Kentridge and Anne Kolin, the below work speaks about our consumer-capitalistic society and disconnected behaviors, infringing basic… Read More »Droughts.
Droughts: the ultimate challenge.
More than 800 million people in the world lack basic drinking water. Government budgets may increase; still, the UN 2019 report highlights financial resources as… Read More »Droughts: the ultimate challenge.
