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Border Cantos

a project by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo

http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/richard-misrachs-photos-show-the-absurdity-of-the-us-mexico-border/3828

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The Baltic Pavilion, hosted at the brutalist Palasport next to the #Asenale of @labiennale. The exhibit focuses on the impact of redeveloping the infrastructure of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which was built during the Soviet era 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 #labiennalearchitettura2016 #architecture #archdaily #instagood #iphonesia (at Palasport Arsenale)

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The borderscapes of Paljassaare (Tallinn)

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Really honoured and happy to have taken part to the Open Lecture Series of the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture

“Borderscaping”

3 March 2016 / 6.00 pm Pikk 20, Tallinn, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

More info and video to come at: http://www.avatudloengud.ee/2016/02/04/alice-buoli/

https://saal.ee/et/performance/4121

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TOUT LE MONDE AIME LE BORD DE LA MER A short film by Keina Espiñeira Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films International Film Festival Rotterdam https://iffr.com/en/2016/films/tout-le-monde-aime-le-bord-de-la-mer

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Framing the Afropolis / Tom Avermaete

Framing the Afropolis: Michel Ecochard and the African City for the Greatest Number’, in OASE. Architectural Journal, no.83, 2010, pp. 77-101. 

Link: 

http://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/83

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Casa Familiar: Living Rooms at the Border and Senior Housing with Childcare

2001–present San Ysidro, California 

A project by Estudio Teddy Cruz

Image credits: Estudio Teddy Cruz

Project’s details on “Small Scale Big Change” Exhibition 

https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/smallscalebigchange/projects/casa_familiar.html

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Meet the man who walked Mexico City’s 500-mile perimeter

To get a sense of the true size of the megacity, Feike de Jong decided to walk around its entire boundary. 

He chronicles his experience:

“In reality, Mexico City is not infinite. It has a beginning and an end. Patterns repeat themselves throughout the urban fabric. The city’s history is written on its walls and in the rubbish along its storm drains, in the names of subway stations and the little white crosses marking deaths on the street.

The way to know something too big to perceive is through its parts. So just like a seafarer of old who would sail around an island to see how large it was, this project deals with the edge of the greater Mexico City area, in the hope that it will tell us something about the size and complexity of the city it encircles.

As the walk continued and the city stretched out before me, determining my route – zigzagging, capriciously climbing up hills, slithering through ravines, day after day, week after week – it began to acquire a personality. I imagined the city as a whale and myself some miniscule sea creature crawling over it: the city moving slowly and gracefully according to its own laws; me frantically scrambling, a water flea on the skin of the leviathan.

I had been told it would be dangerous.”

Click here to read more about his journey in The Guardian.

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Tetouan modern challenge 1912-1956

A project coordinated by Alejandro Muchada Suarez. "TETOUAN MODERN CHALLENGE 1912-1956 is the first result of a multidisciplinary approach to urban transformation processes and the housing needs, which took place during the Colonial period in the North of Morocco, from Architecture, Planning, Geography, History and Policy." https://tetouanmodernchallenge.wordpress.com/ http://editorial.us.es/detalle-de-libro?codArticulo=719538

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Paper by Anna Grichting, 2010.

Of the same author: Grichting, A., 2015. Boundaryscapes: a digital and dynamic Atlas for collaborative planning in the Cyprus Green Line. Territorio 72/2015 http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=53195&Tipo=Articolo%20PDF&lingua=it&idRivista=63

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Research group on the geographies of the Rif Mountains (Morocco)

Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, B.P.210, 93150, Martil (Tétouan), Maroc. 

contact@equipe-rif.ma

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“Arriving in Berlin” is a mapping project by Haus Leo, Wohnen für Flüchtlinge (Berliner Stadtmission) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The map was researched and developed by Hamidullah Ehrari, Mohammad Yari, Farhad Ramazanali, Alhadi Aldebs – residents of Haus Leo.

“Refugees map Berlin based on their experiences: the Afghan urban planner Hamidullah Ehrari, the Syrian merchant Alhadi Aldebs, the Afghan translator Mohammad Yari and the Iranian bioengineer Farhad Ramazanali. These residents of Haus Leo are the core group who compile information relevant to refuge seekers using methods of critical geography. The results can be loaded onto smartphones and offer insight into the experience of those who are new to the city.”

http://arriving-in-berlin.de/project/

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Land art installation (Earth, cinder block, para-cord, pvc spheres, helium). Installation view, US/Mexico Border, Douglas, Arizona / Agua Prieta, Sonora.

“The Repellent Fence is a social collaborative project among individuals, communities, institutional organizations, publics, and sovereigns that culminate with the establishment of a large-scale temporary monument located near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. This 2 mile long ephemeral land-art installation is comprised of 26 tethered balloons, that are each 10 feet in diameter, and float 50 feet above the desert landscape. The balloons that comprise Repellent Fence are enlarged replicas of an ineffective bird repellent product. Coincidently, these balloons use indigenous medicine colors and iconography -- the same graphic used by indigenous peoples from South America to Canada for thousands of years. The purpose of this monument is to bi-directionally reach across the U.S./Mexico border as a suture that stitches the peoples of the Americas together—symbolically demonstrating the interconnectedness of the Western Hemisphere by recognizing the land, indigenous peoples, history, relationships, movement and communication.”

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PhD Seminar / Archive

Politecnico di Milano | Aula Gamma via Ampère 2, Milano

The seminar intended to contribute to a dialogue between borderlands and urban studies by stressing how border thinking and innovative approaches towards border studies, such as the borderscape notion, can be relevant from an urban planning perspective. Some questions are crucial to this debate: how can borderlands be re-designed? Which tools / practices / methods are needed in this regard? How can the imaginative potential and the counter-hegemonic dimension of the borderscape concept enhance new horizons of meaning and alternative socio-spatial configurations for border landscapes?

Presenters: Paola Pucci, DAStU - Politecnico di Milano Henk van Houtum, Nijmegen Centre for Border Research Radboud University Nijmegen Alice Buoli, DAStU - Politecnico di Milano Invited discussants: Chiara Brambilla, Ce.R.Co - Università degli Studi di Bergamo Isabella Inti, DAStU - Politecnico di Milano Davide Ponzini, DAStU - Politecnico di Milano Gennaro Postiglione, DAStU - Politecnico di Milano

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A design contest launched in 2011 by Italian journal Domus and entitled ‘The Heracles Project’ invited people from all around the world to propose ‘imaginative solutions’ to bridge Africa and Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar.

The contest was inspired by an epistolary conversation between the Belgian philosophers Lieven De Cauter and Dieter Lesage, who reflected on the possibility of designing a bridge between the two shores of the Strait as, above all, ‘a beautiful artistic-political project’ and a ‘concrete utopia’20.

The conversation about the opportunity to connect Europe and Africa becomes an occasion to talk about otherness, identity, new forms of cultural ‘domination’ and neo-colonialism (‘Isn’t it again indicative of Eurocentrism to think of the physical connection between Europe and Africa in terms of a European typology?’ asks Dieter Lesage) and power interplays across the Mediterranean.

The contest produced a large number of proposals spanning from complex mega structures (floating bridges and cities, tunnels) to minimalistic and poetic projects.

Despite the imaginative outcomes of the contest, the design solutions (many of which could be discussed not only from a disciplinary perspective, but also for their socio-political message) appear to be the less interesting products of this operation. Rather it is in the most critical proposals that bypass place-based or figurative representations and settings that one can find the most relevant meanings and cues emerging from the competition.

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“World of Matter is a multimedia project providing an open access archive on the global ecologies of resource exploitation and circulation”.