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Eyal Weizman on Forensic Architecture: ''Mapping is Power''

Rebecca Ildikó Leete — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:30:00 +0000

“Since I remember myself, I have wanted to be an architect… I could see the way that neighborhoods were organized. I could see the separation. I could see the frontier areas between the Palestinian community and the Jewish majority,” expresses Eyal Weizman in conversation with Louisiana Channel, in regards to understanding the ‘political significance’ of architecture and the potential of the occupation as a critical tool for understanding the world.

Mapping the City of the 21st Century: Desplans and KooZA/rch Open up the Discourse to Young Creatives

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Desplans and KooZA/rch have revealed the three final winners of the #mycityscape competition. Inviting young creatives to this conversation, the open call questions the definition of the city, by asking “What establishes the identity of a city? What distinguishes one urban environment from the other? And What defines our relationship to the built landscape we inhabit?”

Death Masks From MIT Capture Your Dying Breath

Alyssa Wu — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:00:00 +0000

In the ancient world, traditional death masks were believed to strengthen and protect the soul of the dead as they progressed to the afterlife. It was this mythical notion of transition from death to new life that inspired Vespers, a collection of death masks from Neri Oxman and her team at MIT’s Mediated Matter Group.