#Erika Cheung

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Coeli's Picks: Multicolo(u)r, part 1

(Multiple movies listed left to right)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) / Madalen Mills as Journey

Murdoch Mysteries ("In the Company of Women," s13 e16) / Hélène Joy as Dr. Julia Ogden

"Julia wears a striking outfit: periwinkle skirt, dusty pink blouse, short jacket of black with pink and blue ribbon stripes, and a blue hat with a pink band.  She also has a lovely mauve ensemble later in the episode, but it was the multicolored one that really caught my eye."

Feast of Love (2007) / Erika Marozsán as Margaret Vekashi

2046 (2004) / Faye Wong as Wang Jing-wen

The Road to Bali (1952) / Dorothy Lamour as Princess Lala

Funny Lady (1975) / Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice

In the Mood for Love (2000) / Maggie Cheung as Su Li-zhen

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964) / Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève Emery

Coming 2 America (2021) / Gladys Knight as herself

"Lots of amazing costumes in this one - see also:"

The Nanny (s5 e6) / Fran Drescher as Fran Fine

[the-navistar-carol]

who is an OC that is near and dear to your heart? What is their story?

The obvious answer that everyone would know would be Kelly “Vacay” Savannah, because she’s the main character of “Aftershocks” and there’s a fairly good chance people would know who I’m talking about. However, the obvious answer is wrong.

Long post ahead lmfao, this is your fair warning.

I will elaborate on any of these characters if someone asks.

From an old writing project I scrapped, the dragon princess Birch and her half-demon girlfriend Twilight mean so much to me. They’re the epitome of crossing every border of perception. Erika Heiden, the woman who grew to love a power that was forced upon her, the one became a storm incarnate — Alessia Rybak, the illusionist who turned from Cold War Soviet spy to an underworld-famous one of six, protecting instead of endangering.

Sakura Arai, the writer who gained her confidence, and Daiyu Cheung, the one who was forced to learn power wasn’t everything.

From the Miraculous RP server, Valérie Levi, for who she became. She was me, in the most human and fulfilling sense of the word, and if she could rise to greatness, I could, too. Jamie Lee, my outstretched hand to every fallen friend, was my reassurance that my actions mattered. Eva Sepal, my self-loathing, became a better person, though that rocky road never let up. She had friends, at the end of it all. Friends who would help. Kacie Lee, my naïvete, was my reassurance that just because I didn’t know something — it didn’t mean I was any less off for it.

To Aidan Fierro, who did his best with what he had; to Nagihiko Fujisaki, who was loyalty in a way very few can be; to Colin Strami, whose patience could outlast the world; to Victor Guzman, whose anxiety was never taken as a joke; to Tina Zaipe, whose trauma was taken seriously.

From my own private and unpublished Star Wars writing projects, Jeena Tika, for standing her ground. Jamille Klaskoll, for pursuing what — and who — she wanted, even in the depths of it all. To Shaari Sandspear, whose occupation as a seamstress became a silent cry for rebellion against slave-masters. To Silja Sykemi, the Clawdite spy who, somehow, managed to juggle optimism, too. I have some snippets that I might post on Ao3.

From my Star Wars RP server set in the Clone Wars, I love Nima Choko wholeheartedly. Nima, whose epithet became one of the matched "Twin Suns," who refused to let a war dictate who she was -- Jedi or General. To Nol Solga, the Shadow who did not lose himself to the Dark inherent to his profession. To Indali Solimar, the Jedi Initiate who has not overcome her fear over her own abilities but gets up anyway. To Luviel Homa, the inexperienced Senator who used connections available to her friends as her own. To Karis Stoclo, she who was taken from her family but made herself a new one. Pix Mitraza, the man who believes himself as no better than his profession -- a headhunter -- and does good anyway. To Bracer, Livewire, Lock, and Burner: clone soldiers, copies by nature, but each all irrevocably different. And Jhati Jessot, the woman who never should have had to become who she is, but also the woman who will make the world her own.

For Aftershocks 'verse, I love Kelly "Vacay" Savannah for how she loves -- without question or doubt. I love Marisol "Floodgate" Carter for how I wish I could do what she does in how she refuses to stand for anything less than her own standards. For Ezekiel "Twister" Morris, when he appears, for being more than his past mistakes.

I could go on about more characters than just these.

But they are all me, when it matters.

[watchingalotofmovies]

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley    [trailer]

The story of Theranos, a multi-billion dollar tech company, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire, and the massive fraud that collapsed the company.

What a fascinating (and hard to believe) story. You would think that when near the beginning of the doc you hear the Stanford professor state, that what they were trying to achieve is physically impossible, the story is pretty much over. But of course that's easy to say in hindsight. Though the large number of very old military men and politicians (Shultz, Kissinger, Mattis, Perry) on the board of directors, who in all likelihood knew nothing about the medical business, is a major red flag.

I would've liked to learn more about the financial backers. But I can see why they are probably a bit tight-lipped. The perspective from the behavioral economist was interesting.

WSJ reporter John Carreyrou, who's interviewed in the doc, wrote a book about the story.

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: Roku updates, targeted TV ads (x2), Instagram Reels, online-ad advice, TechBBQ startup pitches, Theranos whistleblower

Weekly output: Roku updates, targeted TV ads (x2), Instagram Reels, online-ad advice, TechBBQ startup pitches, Theranos whistleblower

This week’s trip to Copenhagen for the TechBBQ conference was going to introduce me to two new countries, thanks to my connection in Iceland each way. And then I realized that I could duck over to Sweden for breakfast Friday morning, thanks to Europe’s longest road/rail bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden with frequent and cheap train service. 9/12/2022: Upcoming Roku interface changes nod to…

[caappuccino]

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT ERIKA CHEUNG? A LITERAL HERO??

[alovelylight]

i really want to know more about linh :( unlike the girls, she’s a young adult, more confident and self-assured about her purpose and yet in many ways still directionless. her arc really shows that while gretchen can talk/write like a feminist, when it comes down to it she’s just a charismatic manipulator. it sucks that linh met her at such a vulnerable point in her life, because if anyone can make substantial progress in society for young girls, it’s her. someone who doesn’t make dramatic, shiny promises, but actually puts in the work. the dynamic of a powerful but delusional female boss and the smart, gaslit employee is something that can be extremely personal (i’m thinking of elizabeth holmes and erika cheung, who was one of the theranos whistleblowers, and like linh, is also a young asian woman under a white girlboss). the racial inequality is a subtle layer in their dynamic, but it’s still very present. the character of jeanette plays into some female asian stereotypes (innocent, babyish, works at family asian restaurant, easy to overlook), and i’m sure linh is very conscious of that while playing her. the wilds is a show about unmasking stereotypes, and i think that linh’s character is nuanced for the little screentime she has, but still i wish we had gotten more b/c she’s just so fascinating

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Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

Comedy Central ha renovado South Park hasta su trigésima temporada. Además, Paramount+ ha encargado catorce películas.

Apple TV+ ha renovado Physical por una segunda temporada

Disney+ ha renovado The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers por una segunda temporada

Showtime ha renovado The Chi por una quinta temporada

Adult Swim ha renovado Tuca & Bertie por una segunda temporada

Roku podría producir una película de Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist y quizás más temporadas

Sky Comedy ha renovado Bloods por una segunda temporada

Disney+ ha renovado Star Wars: The Bad Batch por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

Apple TV+ ha cancelado Little Voice tras su primera temporada

Amazon ha cancelado Panic tras su primera temporada

HBO Max ha descartado Overlook. Se venderá a otra plataforma.

Noticias cortas

Britt Robertson (Cheyenne) y Michelle Forbes (Margaret) no estarán en la segunda temporada de Big Sky.

Matthew Willig (André the Giant) será regular en la segunda temporada de Young Rock.

Wyatt McClure (Billy) será regular en la quinta temporada de Young Sheldon.

Fichajes

Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, A Series of Unfortunate Events) protagonizará y producirá Uncoupled, en la que Michael pensaba que su vida era perfecta hasta que su marido se marcha tras diecisiete años.

Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother, Stumptown) sustituye a Betty Gilpin en el papel de Ann Coulter en Impeachment: American Crime Story.

Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream) volverá a interpretar a Bernie Stabler, la madre de Elliot (Chris Meloni), en la segunda temporada de Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Sam Waterston (Grace and Frankie, The Newsroom), Kurtwood Smith (That '70s Show, Resurrection), Anne Archer (Falcon Crest, Ghost Whisperer), Dylan Minnette (13 Reasons Why, Awake), Bashir Salahuddin (GLOW, Looking), Alan Ruck (Succession, The Exorcist), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24, The Girlfriend Experience), Hart Bochner (Too Old to Die Young, Die Hard), James Hiroyuki Liao (Unforgettable, Prison Break), Nicky Endres (One Day at a Time), Camryn Mi-Young Kim y Andrew Leeds (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, A Million Little Things) se unen a The Dropout. Interpretarán a George Schultz, secretario de Estado; David Boies, abogado representante de Elizabeth (Amanda Seyfried); Charlotte Schultz, esposa de George; Tyler Shultz, biólogo que trabaja en Theranos; Brendan Morris, ingeniero eléctrico de Theranos; Jay Rosan, miembro del equipo de innovación de la sede de Walgreens en Chicago; Lorraine Fuisz, esposa de Richard Fuisz (William H. Macy); Larry Ellison, millonario interesado en Theranos; Edmond Ku, jefe de ingeniería de Theranos; Ana Arriola, diseñadora de Apple reclutada por Elizabeth; Erika Cheung, graduada en Berkeley que empieza a trabajar en Theranos; y Roland, sabelotodo lameculos del CFO de Walgreen.

Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us, Luke Cage) y Vinnie Jones (Galavant, Snatch) serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de Law & Order: Organized Crime como Leon Kilbride, un congresista que sabe jugar sus cartas; y Albi Briscu, un gangster europeo.

Leslie Jones (Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters) y Nat Faxon (Friends From College, Ben and Kate) se unen como recurrentes a Our Flag Means Death.

Sam Elliott (The Ranch, A Star Is Born) y los cantantes Tim McGraw (The Shack) y Faith Hill protagonizarán Y: 1883, la precuela de Yellowstone. Serán Shea Brennan, cowboy con un inmenso pesar que tiene la tarea de guiar a un grupo de Texas a Montana; y James y Margaret Dutton, patriarca y matriarca de la familia Dutton.

Luis Guzmán (Black Code, Oz) será Gomez, el padre de Wednesday (Jenna Ortega), en Wednesday.

Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights, Titans), Dominic Fike y Demetrius "Lil Meech" Flenory Jr. (Black Mafia Family) se unen a la segunda temporada de Euphoria. Se desconocen detalles.

Michelle Forbes (The Killing, True Blood) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de New Amsterdam como Veronica Fuentes, una fixer que tiene la tarea arreglar las cifras del hospital.

Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire, Narcos) será Austin Geidt, empleada número cuatro de Uber, en Super Pumped.

Ian Anthony Dale (Hawaii Five-0, Murder in the First) y Laurie Fortier (Hemlock Grove, Unsolved) se unen a la undécima y última temporada de The Walking Dead. Serán Tomi, miembro del grupo recientemente descubierto; y Agatha.

Keir Gilchrist (Atypical, United States of Tara), Elizabeth Marvel (Homeland, House of Cards) y Tom Pelphrey (Ozark, Iron Fist) se unen como regulares a Love and Death. Interpretarán al pastor Ron Adams, la pastora Jackie Ponder y Don Crowder.

Raza Jaffrey (Code Black, Smash) y Sennia Nanua serán Francois Guise y Rahima en The Serpent Queen.

Ella Rumpf (Grave, Freud) participará como invitada en la tercera temporada de Succession. Se desconocen detalles.

Julie Halston (Bitsy) estará en And Just Like That..., el revival de Sex and the City. Christopher Jackson (Hamilton, Bull) y LeRoy McClain (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Respect) serán Herbert Wexley, exitoso banquero de Manhattan y esposo de Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker); y Andre Rashad Wallace, exitoso músico y marido de Nya Wallace (Karen Pittman).

Poppy Liu (Hacks, Sunnyside) se une como regular a Dead Ringers. Será Greta, encargada del servicio en casa de Elliot y Beverly (Rachel Weisz).

Eiza González (From Dusk Till Dawn, I Care a Lot) está en negociaciones para unirse al reparto de The Three Body Problem.

Beth Lacke (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series), Stephen Louis Grush (Longmire) y Cass Buggé (Disjointed) se unen como recurrentes a Lightyears. Serán Chandra, antigua alumna de Irene (Sissy Spacek) insatisfecha con su trabajo en una residencia de ancianos y con la vida en general; Nick, un solitario sin habilidades sociales que lleva un negocio familiar de cortinas y tiene una inesperada conexión con Stella (Julieta Zylberberg); y Jeanine, esposa de Byron (Adam Bartley) recién llegada a Farnsworth y vecina de Irene y Franklin (J.K. Simmons).

Byron Bowers (The Chi) será Herman, un director de Hollywood que se encuentra en París promocionando su película, en Irma Vep. Tom Sturridge (Sweetbitter, The Hollow Crown) sustituye a Jerrod Carmichael en el papel de Eamonn, exnovio de Mira (Alicia Vikander).

Daniel Augustin (David Makes Man), Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut (Homeland, Cruel Summer), Amandla Jahava y Jaboukie Young-White (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens) serán recurrentes en Rap Sh*t como Maurice, amigo y colega de Shawna (Aida Osman); Fatima, compañera de clase y amiga de Cliff (Devon Terrell); Jill, amiga de la universidad de Shawna que trabaja en Spotify en Nueva York; y Francois Boom, antiguo compañero de clase de Shawna y productor.

Richard Roundtree (Family Reunion, Being Mary Jane) y Terri J. Vaughn (Insecure, Greenleaf) se unen como recurrentes a la segunda temporada de Cherish the Day. Serán Mandeville "MV" St. James, exjuez y padre viudo de Sunday (Joy Bryant); y Anastasia, futura exmujer de Ellis (Henry Simmons).

Justice Leak (Raising Dion, Powers) será recurrente en The Staircase como Tom Maher, compañero de David Rudolf (Michael Stuhlbarg).

Martin Bobb-Semple (Pandora, Free Rein), Karim Diané (StartUp), Sara Thompson (The 100, Burden of Truth), George Ferrier (Dirty Laundry), Miles J. Harvey (American Vandal) y Zenia Marshall (Date My Dad) serán recurrentes en One of Us Is Lying como Evan Nieman, novio de Bronwyn (Marianly Tejada); Kris Greene, nuevo estudiante con lazos con Cooper (Chibuikem Uche) y Nate (Cooper van Grootel); Vanessa Clark, mejor amiga de Addy (Annalisa Cochrane); TJ Forrester, novio de Vanessa; Lucas Clay, hermano pequeño de Cooper; y Keely Moore, novia de Cooper.

Melissa Saint-Amaud (Ozark) será Claire Brockman en Long Slow Exhale.

Alfie Fuller (Little America) participará en la cuarta temporada de The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Se desconocen detalles.

Christie Clark (Carrie), Austin Peck (Austin), Thaao Penghlis (André), Leann Hunley (Anna), Greg Rikaart (Leo), Chandler Massey (Will), Zachary Atticus Tinker (Sonny) y Eileen Davidson, que ha interpretado a varios personajes; también estarán en Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem.

Pósters

       Nuevas series

Hulu ha encargado Tell Me Lies, basada en la novela de Carola Lovering (2018), que sigue una relación agitada y tóxica durante ocho años. Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten; Nine Perfect Strangers, Maniac) y Stephen DeMarco se conocen en la universidad, donde decisiones aparentemente mundanas tienen consecuencias irrevocables. Escrita y producida por Meaghan Oppenheimer (Queen America). Produce Emma Roberts (First Kill).

Hulu encarga la comedia This Fool, antes conocida como Punk Ass Bitch, en la que un macarra de Los Ángeles (Chris Estrada) vive aún en casa de sus padres, trabaja en una organización sin ánimo de lucro que ayuda a la rehabilitación de pandilleros y se esfuerza para ayudar a cualquiera menos a él mismo. Con Michelle Ortiz (Mr. Mom) y Frankie Quinones (The Dress Up Gang). Escrita y producida por Estrada junto a Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson y Pat Bishop, creadores de Corporate. Producen Fred Armisen (Portlandia, Forever) y Jonathan Groff (How I Met Your Mother, Black-ish).

Syfy encarga Reginald the Vampire, dramedia en la que el mundo está habitado por vampiros bellos, en forma y vanidosos. Reginald Baskin (Jacob Batalon; Spider-Man: Homecoming, 50 States of Fright) es un héroe improbable que tiene que lidiar con todo tipo de obstáculos: no puede estar con la chica que le gusta, tiene un jefe bully en el trabajo y el jefe de los vampiros lo quiere muerto. Adaptación de los libros 'Fat Vampire' de Johnny B. Truant. Escrita por Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks, Channel Zero).

Amazon encarga The Lake, su primera serie original canadiense. Es una comedia en la que Justin (Jordan Gavaris; Orphan Black, Take Two) vuelve a casa tras romper con su pareja, con quien vivió en el extranjero durante muchos años, con la esperanza de reconectar con su hija biológica (Madison Shamoun), a la que dio en adopción en la adolescencia, pero descubre que su padre dejó la idílica casa del lago en la que él pasó su niñez a su hermanastra Maisy-May (Julia Stiles; Riviera, Dexter). Completan el reparto Jon Dore (How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)), Carolyn Scott, Natalie Lisinska (Orphan Black, Mary Kills People), Travis Nelson, Declan Whaley (Criminal Minds) y Terry Chen (The Expanse, Jessica Jones). Escrita y producida por Julian Doucet (Killjoys, Bomb Girls).

eOne adaptará The Turnout, la próxima novela de Megan Abbott (2021). Las hermanas Durant, dueñas de una escuela de ballet y con una historia familiar problemática, contratan a Derek, un contratista, para reformar el estudio. Una de ellas comienza una aventura con él que amenaza sus lazos familiares y expone secretos de la familia.

Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Legion) y Ramón Rodríguez (Gang Related, Iron Fist) protagonizarán el piloto de Olga Dies Dreaming, adaptación de la novela de Xóchitl Gonzalez (2021), en Hulu. Trata sobre dos hermanos nuyorriqueños con una madre ausente y políticamente radical y una vida entre la élite de Nueva York tras el paso del huracán María. Olga (Plaza) es una wedding planner cuya fachada oculta un interior oscuro, su búsqueda de la perfección se ha convertido en un compulsivo mecanismo de supervivencia, cree que nadie la ve como una igual y que su éxito es una ilusión y trata de escapar de su pasado todo lo que pueda. Prieto (Rodríguez) es un congresista orgulloso de su origen puertorriqueño que creció con el papel de patriarca y mantiene esta fachada ante sus votantes y sus oponentes. Escrita por Gonzalez y dirigida por Alfonso Gómez-Rejón (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, American Horror Story).

HBO Max desarrolla Sag Harbor, adaptación de la novela de Colson Whitehead (2009) en la que Benji Cooper, uno de los pocos estudiantes negros de una escuela de secundaria de élite de Manhattan en 1985, escapa de los Hamptons cada verano para ir a Sag Harbor, donde una pequeña comunidad de profesionales afroamericanos han construido su propio mundo. Escrita por Daniel "Koa" Beaty. Producen Beaty, Whitehead y Laurence Fishburne (Black-ish).

Fechas

Deceit se estrena en Channel 4 el 13 de agosto

La segunda temporada de Ladhood se estrena en BBC Three el 15 de agosto

La segunda temporada de Code 404 se estrena en Sky Comedy el 1 de septiembre

La sexta temporada de Queen Sugar se estrena en OWN el 7 de septiembre

Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. se estrena en Disney+ el 8 de septiembre

The Lost Symbol se estrena en Peacock el 16 de septiembre

La cuarta y última temporada de Dear White People llega a Netflix el 22 de septiembre

Dopesick se estrena en Hulu el 13 de octubre

La segunda temporada de The Great se estrena en Hulu el 19 de noviembre

The Lord of the Rings se estrena en Prime Video el 2 de septiembre de 2022

Otras imágenes

Tráilers y promos

La casa de papel - Temporada 5

Impeachment: American Crime Story

Stranger Things - Temporada 4

Dear White People - Temporada 4 y última

The Great - Temporada 2

Y: The Last Man

Dopesick

Truth Be Told - Temporada 2

Queen Sugar - Temporada 6

Yellowjackets

Cobra Kai - Temporada 4

Diary of a Future President - Temporada 2

[swords0827]

Watch "Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power | Erika Cheung" on YouTube

[sayedhusaini]

Watch "Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power | Erika Cheung" on YouTube

[tom-at-the-farm]

(I’m updating it with pictures; this is the best way I have ever procrastinated)

Theranos movie dreamcast, give me your best suggestions:

Elizabeth Bathory Holmes - Jennifer Lawrence (I’m going by the Bad Blood adaptation where she’s already cast; but even if she weren’t, she was born to play this part lbr)

Tyler Shultz - So Leah and I discussed how visually, he looks more like KJ Apa, but hilariously, only Timothee Chalamet can give the role of an heir apparent betrayed by his powerful Republican grandfather for a blonde blood goddess the emotional gravitas it deserves. Tiny Tim’s gonna have to hit the gym, though

Jessica Henwick as Erika Cheung, the whistleblower and Tyler Schultz’ new business partner who doesn’t get nearly enough credit

Hugh Dancy as John Carreyrou, because the best reward for months of investigative journalism and legal intimidation by David Boies is having a handsome Englishman portray you on the big screen (did you think it was the Pulitzer? stupid)

I want to say Adnan Siddiqui as Sunny Balwani but honestly he does NOT deserve to have a handsome actor portray him and also as you may have guessed my knowledge of middle-aged Pakistani actors in Hollywood or otherwise is a bit limited.

George Schultz and Henry Kissinger as themselves

[millerflintstone]

This Theranos story is wild. I’m watching the 20/20 documentary on Hulu (Dropout) after having watched the HBO one (The Inventor) last night. I’m just

It seems more detailed than the HBO one so far.

I really want to hear more from Erika Cheung, one of the main whistle-blowers involved.

[wellesleyunderground]

WU Reviews: Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos Scandal

When brainstorming ideas for the next WU Review, we discovered that Tiffany Chan ‘15 had read Bad Blood, a book chronicling the rise and fall of Theranos; Cleo Hereford ‘09 had gotten the whole story via The Dropout podcast; and Shloka Ananthanarayanan ‘08 had watched the events unfold via the HBO documentary, The Inventor. Therefore, we three editors decided to combine forces to give you one mega-review about this fascinating story. Settle in!

Bad Blood reviewed by Tiffany Chan ‘15 (@omgitstiffyc)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is a book written by John Carreyrou detailing the meteoric rise and fall of the blood diagnostics company Theranos. While many of us came to know this story relatively late in the game, John Carreyou was the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who originally broke the story of Theranos in 2015. The format of the book allows for the stories and characters involved in the downfall of Theranos to be developed richly.

The book takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster ride. The beginning is a slow build, as Elizabeth starts the company. Over several years, the company grows steadily, and towards its late phase, it is a full sprint towards chaos. I was struck by how many people tried to stop Elizabeth Holmes and failed. Part of what makes this story enthralling is the number of people who simultaneously saw through the mirage and those who were sucked in. She managed to survive a for-cause audit by the FDA and almost being ousted as CEO by her board of directors. Then Vice President Joe Biden took a tour of her lab and was impressed by her work. Frankly, I started to wonder if she was some sort of Superwoman, immune to the rules us mere mortals live by.

While other accounts may focus on Elizabeth’s charisma, Bad Blood focuses on the people who were hurt by her actions. Each excited and talented employee was initially taken in by the promise of Theranos and all ultimately left disgraced and disappointed. The book underscored Holmes’ secretive, ruthless, and litigious nature where Theranos’ intellectual property was concerned. For me, this book also most clearly demonstrates Holmes’ failings as a leader. She made so many people collateral damage in the pursuit of personal glory. This point was most poignant in the case of Ian Gibbons, a long-time Theranos employee who was called to testify in court and tragically took his own life, balking under the pressure he was facing from the company to not say anything. Additionally, the narrator enters as a player in the third act and I found this to be really effective because we the readers empathize with him and understand his frustrations as he tries to tell this story while facing Theranos’ intimidation tactics. By building this cast of smart and relatable people, Carreyrou builds a sense of horror and outrage on multiple levels.

Simply put, this book was a trip for me to read because of all the ways it intersects with various aspects of my life. As someone who spent time working in the pharmaceutical industry, it was incredibly discouraging to hear about all the ways Theranos circumvented the checks and balances designed to keep people safe. While we might not be happy about all the regulatory hoops we need to jump through sometimes, they exist to ensure that our drugs and devices have been tested rigorously and I think people need to know that a majority of people in the industry take those standards incredibly seriously. As a Longwood Medical Campus student at the time, I can easily see how this young, female Silicon Valley CEO was lauded as THE lecturer of the year, the next big innovator. As a bench scientist, it was obvious to me from the beginning that Theranos’ pitch was pure fantasy but I had my doubts about whether I would have had the wherewithal to realize it without the gift of hindsight.

I liked the medium and content of Bad Blood because it underscores how much of Theranos was visual facade. Elizabeth LOOKED (and sounded, ha) like the next Steve Jobs. The Edison LOOKED beautiful when really it was just a sleek box with a robotic pipette inside. This story has been endlessly sensationalized in popular media but Bad Blood grounds us in what was the ludicrous and sometimes frightening reality for Theranos employees. I think this format allows for us to truly focus on the actions of the company and keep that in mind without getting sucked in by the ersatz company.

The Dropout reviewed by Cleo Hereford ‘09 (@cleoc87)

The Dropout is a 6-part podcast produced by ABC News and narrated by chief business, technology and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis about the emergence and downfall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Each episode is between 37 and 45 minutes, giving the listener a brief but comprehensive overview of Holmes, the founding of her company, and Theranos’ eventual demise. 

The podcast does more than simply narrate the series of events; it also includes interviews with a number of the key figures including Stanford Medical School Professor Dr. Phyllis Gardner (who heard early plans for The Edison technology and questioned its viability), whistleblowers Erika Cheung and Tyler Schultz, and Bad Blood author John Carreyrou.  The most striking interview, however, comes from the widow of Ian Gibbons, a biochemist who worked as Theranos’ chief scientist before taking his life in 2013 in the context of what is described as a toxic work environment and a pending patent lawsuit. 

What I walked away with after listening to The Dropout were the parts of the story perhaps touched upon but not fully highlighted in the hype surrounding the scandal: just how many lives were negatively impacted through the scheme either by Theranos’ work environment, the technology’s misdiagnoses, family disagreements or in Gibbons’ widow’s case, death, among the many issues that existed outside of or leading up to the truth behind Theranos being made public. Oftentimes, those affected by a particular person, organization or incident are forgotten in favor of whatever emblematic figure perpetrated the wrongdoing. The strength of The Dropout is that it does center Holmes while also highlighting the stories of and giving a voice to those she hurt. For those with longer commutes, I would fully recommend this highly engaging podcast.

The Inventor reviewed by Shloka Ananthanarayanan ‘08

My first thoughts upon starting this documentary - that lady really talks like that? I know we as a culture are entirely too obsessed with policing women’s looks and voices, but Elizabeth Holmes specifically cultivated her look (a wardrobe solely composed of black turtlenecks, à la her hero Steve Jobs) and apparently employed a fake voice, dropping down to a lower register, perhaps in the hopes that this would imbue her with more authority. Many people in the documentary also comment on her almost reptilian stare, and how she wouldn’t blink for ages. Thus, from the outset, you get a sense that this is a terrifically odd woman. And as the documentary progresses, you watch with spellbound horror as she cons some of America’s most senior business and political leaders, with seemingly no remorse once she gets caught. The woman is undoubtedly a villain, but she is a compelling one.

Directed by Alex Gibney, the film is a fascinating look at Theranos in particular, but Silicon Valley in general, and how entrepreneurs like Elizabeth Holmes can take advantage of certain loopholes and privatization to orchestrate scams of this magnitude. It’s well and good for Silicon Valley to embrace a model of disruption and to “keep breaking things,” but in the case of Theranos, when you are trying to create a revolutionary diagnostic product that human beings depend on for vital medical information, you can’t simply barrel ahead without appropriate testing, rigorous scientific discipline, and a basic understanding of regulatory compliance and ethics. The film features many interviews with employees, who initially started working at Theranos with bright-eyed optimism and visions of changing the face of healthcare, and who ended up disillusioned, terrified that they had harmed the public, and personally fearful of lawsuits and ruination. Through it all, we have Elizabeth Holmes as the Messiah, promising the world that she could diagnose hundreds of diseases by testing a single drop of blood, and lying through her teeth every time she was questioned about the technology behind this miracle.

Indeed, this film is about a cult of personality. At one point in the film, someone defines the word “credit” as deriving from the Latin “credo,” which means, “I believe.” Ultimately, Holmes managed to con many powerful people in America and make them blindly believe in her. She put many patients’ lives at risk as she sold a product that did not work and tried to orchestrate a cover-up that was laughably audacious and destined to come crashing down around her feet. I honestly don’t know how she thought she was going to be able to get away with her scheme, but it’s certainly thrilling to watch the faces of her employees as they detail what was happening in the office and get increasingly agitated as they realize the magnitude of the criminal enterprise they were involved in. 

If you don’t have time to read a book or listen to a podcast, The Inventor is a breezy 2-hour thrill ride through this scandal, and while it may not have all the details, it certainly has enough content to make you slightly sick to your stomach about how easily we can all be fooled by bright and shiny things that lack any substance whatsoever.

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Tactical Urbanism Now Competition 2021

2021 Tactical Urbanism Now Design Competition, Public space architecture contest, Transformation

Tactical Urbanism Now Competition 2021 News

post updated 30 April 2022

TerraViva Competitions Announces the Results of Tactical Urbanism Now! 2021

Tactical Urbanism Now Competition 2021 Winners

TerraViva Competitions has officially released the complete list of awarded projects of the design contest “Tactical Urbanism Now! #2021”.

The challenge of this competition was to reinterpret what is commonly known as traditional public spaces, such as parks, streets, playgrounds and squares, with a strategical vision capable of providing them with new features of multi-functionality and flexibility.

The awarded proposals were able to experiment with new scenarios within the city, understanding public space as an opportunity to design common areas capable of reflecting the diversity of the infinite categories of potential users and encouraging citizens to “Live Together”.

TerraViva thanks all the competitors for participating in the second edition of Tactical Urbanism Now!

Organized by TerraViva, the competition was open to students, architects, designers, artists, makers, activists and anyone interested in the transformation of the contemporary urban space.

The winners were selected by an international jury panel composed by:

– Arturo Mc Clean (Barcelona | Miralles Tagliabue EMBT) – Liz Wreford (Winnipeg | Public City) – Francesco Garofalo (Rotterdam | Openfabric) – Nasrin Mohiti Asli (Rome | Orizzontale) – Hannah Klug (Lima | Intuy Lab) – Greg Corso (New York | Sports) – Nathalie Eldan (Paris | Atelier Nea) – Sojung Lee (Seoul | OBBA)

1st Prize

Project by: Wai Yin Ryan Tung, Ho Yin Cheung, Ching Tao Albert Leung, Long Kwan Hong Kong

“Rewilding Japan: a Playscape of Collective Memories”

The ongoing pandemic has shifted the domestic space as the key active space and virtual interactions have altered the way we rest, work, connect, and consume. Empathy is not confined to merely verbal communication but further translated through body language and collective participation. The nostalgia of childhood play transcends generations but gradually fading through technology and fast paced lifestyle.

The target region is in Tokyo which is renowned for its narrow alleys and compact living situation. The urban Tokyo’s fabric is rewilded through inserting small-scale but socially catalytic interventions which would greatly impact people’s quotidian lives. The interventions are inspired by Atelier Bow-Wow’s concept of ‘Pet Architecture’, a peculiar typology of architecture which occupies left over urban spaces and produces a unique attribute of self-appropriation in metropolis which forces the users to make the most of smaller spaces.

Just as the practice of acupuncture is aimed at relieving stress in the human body, the goal of ‘Urban Acupuncture’ is to relieve stress in the built environment. Therefore, the interventions are consciously designed to be playful and not take themselves too seriously. The playscape opens the door for uncontrolled creativity and freedom. Each intervention is a mix-and-match of a nature element and a play element. Whether it is a moment of bird-feeding, a quick footbath, or sliding down ‘sushi’ hills, nature acts as the core mediator between human interaction. A shared play’ ground is manifested which may begin to spark individuals and communities in a reciprocal search for understanding and mutuality.

2nd Prize

Project by: Alibek Atahanov, Camila Saulino, Erika Cavallo, Davide Di Bella Italy

“Encuentro”

Encuentro takes place at the entrance of Barrio Padre Carlos Mugica (also known as Villa 31), the most iconic informal neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, because of its location in the heart of the city, which showcases a huge social inequality. The spot is set just between two realities, represented by business skyscrapers on one side and informal and self-constructed, overlapped houses on the other.

The project aims to generate a space where people with different backgrounds can share a public square, create and strengthen communities through sport and other activities that can take place in a new, bright, green and safe environment.

Encuentro, which combines the term “match” as intended for sports, with the word “meeting” for sociality, represents a tactical popular stadium, a rounded space made of metal scaffoldings and wooden surfaces that create a grid open to free interpretation and personalisation, as the whole neighbourhood is build. In this perspective, people can build their own space by bringing some personal furniture and other elements to share with the community. A social urban garden is also included in the stadium, as the whole neighbourhood lives in a total lack of green spaces or any vegetation. On the exterior, street market cabins are included for the daily fair that currently takes place in the square. The bright giant balloons above the structure act, both symbolically and functionally, as a stadium roof, floating over the place and making it more visible from the surroundings.

3rd Prize

Project by: Giacomo Caputo, Leonarda Pace Germany

“Green Tamburi”

On 10th April 1969 the ILVA, Europe´s largest steel plant, was inaugurated in the Tamburi district of Taranto. Together with new jobs, it brought a high rate of environmental pollution, and has caused about 11000 deaths, especially due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The dramatic choice between health and work has created social conflicts and rifts in the population.

Because of the pollution pubic spaces in Tamburi district are actually unused spaces, dominated by cars and parking lots. Even the balconies and terraces cannot be used because of the fine dust coming from the deposits of Ilva, which spread and accumulate daily on the external surfaces. The chimneys became the symbol of a neighbourhood that once, due to its geographical conformation and the health of its air, was considered the garden of Taranto.

The project proposes a new landmark, which reinvents the model of the chimney, giving it a new meaning. Instead of being a source of pollution, the new chimney takes advantage of atmospheric elements, (purifying the rainwater and producing energy from the wind) , fosters the development of biodiversity, and promotes an alternative socio-economic development. The goal is to transform the Tamburi district into the largest agricultural hub in Europe, spreading a new ecological sensitivity. The dream is to trigger a process of conversion of the industry, transforming its facilities in research centres, Km0 restaurants, leisure areas, touristic and food promotion centres, proposing an alternative model of economic development.

Golden Mention #1

Project by: Sahar Naz Taleb Nezhad, Tatiana Nebiolo Iran, Italy

“En Moto – Social Public Transport”

EnMoto SPT: Social Public Transport is an attempt to bring multiple new opportunities to places located along the railway line, once connected Puerto Berrio and Medellin, Colombia. People in this area, don’t have the access to public transport and the city is almost isolated. This project wants to propose a new connection that brings local communities closer to Urban life, offers services which are hardly available in these areas, thanks to an informal means of transport used today in the area the: Motomesa.

This leads the citizens in the city of Puerto Berrio, to come up with the idea of Motomesa which is actually a new way of public transport. This system gets its power from motorcycles, bikes and it can also be used manually. The challenge here is that even though people can have access to other cities nearby, they cannot take advantage of the most public facilities such as healthcare, entertainment, and education.

EnMoto is proposing to use Motomesa as not only a means of transport but also a movable multi-functional building. Where people can use these facilities. An EnMoto system works weekly with different daily programs so that it can cover all the social plans possible during the week. EnMoto is based on this vehicle since it is very easy to be made and whatever piece that might not work well, can be replaced by people without any specific skill. Light structure and flexible box are applied to EnMoto for different uses

Golden Mention #2

Project by: Mariana Paisana, Margarida Marques, Inés Sebastian, Bruno Guimarães, Carolina Barreiros, Moisés Rosa, Carolina Cardoso Portugal

“Filling the Blanks”

Where? Barreiro Velho, of traditional morphology, abandoned and in process of gentrification, is decimated by a large number of urban voids that appear as an opportunity to extend and increase the limited domestic conditions of the buildings and create new meeting and community places.

What? Tactical urbanism can temporarily activate and provide basic social infrastructures in a territory, as well as initiate and trigger its requalification. Through the deployment of circular infrastructures in vacant plots in Barreiro Velho ( (Metropolitan Area of Lisbon), this proposal aims to create a pilot project to activate the public space and improve the living conditions of the neighbourhood.

How? Through three different scales and typologies of public infrastructure inspired by Portuguese culture (S, M, L, quiosque, coreto, amphitheatre) it is possible to intervene in the existing urban voids, incorporating new services in a degraded urban context, waiting for complete urban regeneration. The circular shape becomes the basic geometry. The circle, in addition to avoiding hierarchies and generating continuous spaces, creates a disruption in contrast to the straight edges and nooks and crannies of the vacant lots. This contrast allows the perception of the circular infrastructures as a new element, temporary and in transition until effective measures are developed by the public administration. This strategy is replicable and scalable to other similar urban contexts present in different cities throughout the world. Moreover, the flexibility of the system allows the absorption of varied programs according to the social and urban context

Golden Mention #3

Project by: Valentina Del Motto, Maria Mastella, Arianna Zambelli, Ambra Chiesa Italy

“3 Theaters”

The center of the city of Varese is characterized by the presence of 3 theaters which have always been considered points of reference. The project involves the networking of the open spaces corresponding to each Theater, thus creating a lively and liveable neighbourhood, with a particular inclination towards the arts.

The path is defined by a “carpet”, distinguished by a pavement that acts as a unifying element. The path leads to “islands” of different colour that highlight the urban space in an innovative way and go through streets, squares and specific points of the city, connecting them and making sure that pedestrians see differently the areas they frequent daily. Spatial continuity is also managed thanks to the inclusion of trees, flower boxes and furnishings that use a circular element, modulating it at different scales and sizes according to different functions. Each “island” is defined by the vocation of the place but also by the space that is created thanks to the new interventions and related functions connected to it: play, art, music, performance, street food, conviviality.

The functions are distributed along the paths, the arcades and on the squares: Cinema Impero Square, Varese Theater Square and Politeama Theater Square, places designed to be flexible and accommodate different activities. The project is dominated by a strong element of social, generational and physical inclusiveness and by a profound predisposition to the increase of natural elements in the city, which bring great benefits to people and contribute to the increase of biodiversity.

Golden Mention #4 Project by: Jorge Andres Darcourt, Sergio Puch Peru

“Oasis in the Urban Desert”

Lima is a city that has been built in the desert, thanks to the ancient cultures who developed a fertile valley. However, in the present, the continuous and unplanned growth of the city has erased big part of the green areas and natural ecosystems, leading to a huge problem that is commonly left aside. This situation led the poorest districts of Lima to have enormous and worrying issues with the water and vegetation, linked generally to a lack of public spaces of quality.

One of these districts is Villa el Salvador, that has been founded by a government initiative, but has been developed by the half million people that were living there from the beginning. This self-managed district has an urban morphology of a perfect grid, where the public spaces were designed, but now these spaces look empty and neglected. Because of these poor conditions the people have developed a practice that brings life to their streets. They built their own domestic gardens with diverse flora in front of their houses, taking care and watering it by their selves. These green spaces are oasis in the desert.

The project seeks to learn from this practice and give the district a device that can repair and regenerate natural spaces creating biodiversity. The mobile device has a water tank at the top with a steel structure which facilitates the watering of areas and offer a solar protection. The second device in scale, works as an urban equipment open for multiple uses.

Honorable Mention #1

Project by: Amy Evans Australia

“Urban Platforms”

This project aims to enrich the community of Brunswick, Melbourne by utilising disused sites and former industrial areas as temporary Urban Platforms for exhibiting art. Through an adaptable set of modular elements, the project will migrate from site to site, transforming each host site into a temporary public space and cultural forum. Brunswick once attracted artists from around Australia for its affordable rent. With rapid densification and gentrification, affordability has declined – jeopardising the rich artistic community that is central to Brunswick’s identity.

Urban Platforms simultaneously addresses two problems; the lack of accessible and affordable spaces to exhibit art, and the plethora of vacant industrial sites left behind by socio-economic fluctuations. The project proposes to transform such sites into temporary public spaces. As property developers move in, Urban Platforms will migrate, packing up and adapting to the next host site.

The initial host site for Urban Platforms is the former Brunswick Liquorice Factory site. Located adjacent to Brunswick Station, this site acts as a gateway to Brunswick, guiding pedestrians through a linear outdoor gallery and public space. The project consists of a series of modular elements; platforms, ramps, lights, seats, walls, and plinths. The platforms become the new ground, allowing the existing ecology to thrive; they can be levelled to suit any terrain; and ramps provide accessibility. Remaining elements slot into the platforms and can be reconfigured to suit each event. Ultimately, the project aims to become a catalyst, to utilise these sites for cultural outcomes rather than solely economic investments.

Honorable Mention #2

Project by: Chenhao Luo China

“New Forms of Co-Urbanity”

The project intends to challenge the basic assumptions behind this type of urbanism that presents the city as a functional and productive apparatus and as an object of consumption and that promises happiness and wealth but delivers control and alienation. The project understands the city as a fundamental political act, a contested territory with multiple actors, identities, and values.

A space of negotiation where conflict is accepted and understood as the basis of the urban social contract. It recognizes the need for public space not simply as entertainment or palliative but as a space of appearance where individual recognize each other into a social body instead of been dissolved in the fragmentation of multiple individualities. The project interested in the idea of the politics of presence, where the basis of the political world is the recognition of others, that is the possibility to appear in front or others. propose to start from a small series of enquires and explorations about the possible collectives that may lay latent in the city.

The project assumes there are multiple and complex and yet unexplored forms of exchange and negotiation that can inform new possibilities for the city and its architecture. The aim of the project is not to find a solution to the challenges of the area and its inhabitants, but skeptical on what someone else called the “problem with solutions”; therefore, the project will instead use the area as a laboratory of” possible collective imaginaries”.

Honorable Mention #3

Project by: Kongho Wong United Kingdom

“Co-Encrypting Murmur”

This is not a design project, this is manifesting a movement. Hong Kong has moved to the next phase away from massive demonstrations battled with armed police in 2019. While people reflect and heal, the general public valued their right to the city more than ever before. Therefore there is a collective call on a new paradigm of urban space for this situation.

Common Practice: ‘Mur Mur’. Murmur is usually described as complaining about something you disagree with in a private setting. It is an intimate social behaviour where we feel free to share our feeling. In Hong Kong, ‘murmur’ could be considered as a quintessential spatial practice, to share the frustration, furry, dissatisfaction, fear, sorrow or happiness with one another.

As we introduced a gamified urban tactic called ‘Co-encrypting Mur Mur’, this transformed into a guerilla within city. The Murmur machine is relatively analogue, sometimes a bit old school prototype. However, it also embraces a straightforward approach to empower people to create and reimagine our everyday spaces with the most approachable recycled wastes. A leaflet-liked manual will be distributed in the city. This aims to create an ambient urban network in which the murmur echos surround streets and spaces between buildings. The soundwaves then will be encrypted in the form of NFTs, circulating in the virtual world which will last longer than the tyranny. We will wait for the day that history is allowed to be revealed.

Honorable Mention #4

Project by: Margaux Bitton France

“The Upper Space”

Without a doubt we have gone through an unprecedented crisis, where space becomes a primary issue, with a new approach to our dense cities, emphasizing the urge of exploring new spaces in urban areas. To do so, we identify and give access to a real gem that has yet to be explored in depth : roofs. The goal is to spread the public space to this upper dimension, flexible and adaptable in several steps to each situation.

The first layer is a duckboard in steel, fixed above roofs to preserve them, outlining high perched walks. These walkways are connected to the street thanks to caged ladders or elevators, giving access to all. The horizontal duckboard turns into a wire fence going along gables and hanging to cheminies. Its porosity allows the runoff of rainwater. Its red colour is a landmark and a nice touch.

The second layer is for activities, thought as modules to plug to the first layer. Reading, playing chess or basketball, sunbathing, having lunch, climbing… as many things as the city must offer, mainly to provide the entire community with new functional areas generating life and interactions, encouraging citizens to “live together”. The third layer is vegetation, climbing on the wire to preserve the building, integrated in the duckboards converted into planters to host urban vegetable gardens. The collective imagination can finally flourish all over the roofs of the world. A take-off for the urban space.

Honorable Mention #5

Project by: Florence Methot, Brittany Gray, Samantha Richman, Christian Coronel, Liza Otto, David Ruiz, Pedro Cruz, Gregory Melitonov Mexico

“Teatro Estacion Cultural Tapachula”

There is a migration crisis at the Southern border of Mexico. Since 2012, a larger number of unaccompanied minors and families from the Northern Triangle are fleeing unprecedented levels of violence and persecution. Given the inability of the system to respond to the new reality in a humane and efficient way in the light of the government’s legal obligations, this project proposes to use tactical strategies to alleviate migrants’ situation while waiting for regularization.

Teatro Estacion Cultural is a non-profit initiative by a group of architecture students who are building an open-air theater for a cultural center in Tapachula, Mexico. It is intended to be a new public arena, designed to function as a cultural bridge between the poor local community and transient migrant families. The project was first developed when we traveled to Tapachula to study the humanitarian crises currently taking place and met with many migrants who had experienced sexual assault, kidnapping, disappearances, and the death of their loved ones along the way. These stories impelled us to do more.

This project is based on a partnership with a design-build program founded by the firm Taller Ken, as well as a small community of locals who had taken over an abandoned train station and turned it into a makeshift community space. This is a space where locals and migrants alike find an outlet for cultural expression and freedom through theater, dance, and arts education. It is called La Estación Cultural.

Honorable Mention #6

Project by: Chiara Milella, Diletta Ciuffi Italy

“@babel_t”

@babel_t is a way of thinking about public space aimed at enriching the inhabitants by sharing spaces, events and creative visions. Piazza Selinunte is the neighbourhood in Milan with the highest number of residents from foreign countries, so we thought of a project that would borrow the name of the famous “Tower of Babel”, distorting some of its features. Starting from the existing tower, which stood as a negative landmark, the symbol of an unpleasant neighbourhood, we designed a frame that would wrap around the existing structure.

Thanks to its appearance, the new tower succeeds in becoming an explicit synthesis of a place that welcomes diversity, promotes communication, respects cultures and increases the ability of citizens to interact with each other, despite the apparent language barriers. How to do this? Through an infrastructure that promotes art in all its forms. @babel-t hosts a space for city events and exhibitions on the ground floor and connects to the surrounding city through different frames that have the task of reconnecting the area of the working-class neighbourhood with the nearby San Siro, known for its stadium and luxury housing.

The frames that radiate out from the tower create different types of spaces aimed at different categories of people, including children with play areas, adults with places to relax, spaces for the municipal market and art spaces, and young people with meeting spaces and new opportunities for sport.

Honorable Mention #7

Project by: Nomundar Munkhbaatar, Battushig Togtokh, Glynis Hong Mongolia, Singapore

“Collection Point”

Problem – Due to unregulated land grants and rampant real estate development for the past 30 years, the residents of Ulaanbaatar experience a severe shortage of public spaces. This problem is exacerbated in the ger areas, a settlement area comprising gers (traditional Mongolian tents) and detached housing, where 60% of all Ulaanbaatar residents live. In the absence of basic infrastructure and public spaces, ger area residents do not have the opportunity to feel part of a community.

Target – Thus the need of creating public spaces within the ger areas becomes a priority given the underserved nature. By creating a public space to gather, connect and build strong ties to each other and to place, we will enable pathways to a close-knit and safe community.

Concept – Within the ger areas, one of the most trafficked places is a water kiosk which draws one member of each household regularly. It is a water collection point, where household members visit to fetch water for domestic use. Even though it is visited by many, there is no function that enables interaction between residents.

Our design is inspired by the ger and its central fireplace as a traditional place of gathering. Our proposed structure consists of a firm base, circular seating arrangement and a light weight canopy adjacent to the water kiosk. Building upon this traffic point, we are aiming to transform water kiosks into an intentional public community-building space where ger area residents can: collect, converse, connect, celebrate.

Honorable Mention #8

Project by: Jacob Chawner, Joseph Riordan, Sam Hall, Magdi Khalil United Kingdom

“City Hall Square”

Budapest was selected as the location for this intervention for multiple reasons. The expansive and unique thermal bath network and the disparity between the municipal and national governments became the key drivers of this decision.

The political tensions between the local and national authorities presents a link to classicism and its power hierarchies. Key aspects of Classical architecture such as top-down design and presentation of power was explored through intercolumnation and scale, and the idea of reclaiming these classical features as part of a bottom-up community intervention.

The light-touch intervention introduces mixed use public spaces to the square and develops the courtyards in the city hall as extensions of these public spaces. Each space presents a unique experience, drawing on local community needs, native flora, and the unique thermal bath culture. The ground floor of the city hall has been redistributed to local commercial enterprises, with the aim of redefining the municipality building as a bottom-up initiative. The scheme considers the local community at the scale of the individual, promoting pedestrian access and introducing the style and geometry of classicism at a human scale. The deliberate misuse of classicism through colonnades highlights the community/municipality conflict and elevates the ordinary people of Budapest to the level of the authorities.

Honorable Mention #9

Project by: Yu Han Ching Singapore

“Garden of Everyday Relations at Chai Chee”

The project explores the relationship between public art and community engagement, and the emergence of a new space for artmaking that is antithetical to a museum’s design, use, and meaning. Stemming from the relational principles of relational aesthetics, the project positions everyday things (personal possessions, public furniture, infrastructure, etc.), spaces and activities as active, relational agents. They provide opportunities for public art to emerge, recontextualising the institutional and conventional settings of art making, presentation and viewing (studios, galleries and museums) by embedding them amidst the Chai Chee community in Singapore.

Due to the substantial number of government rental flats in Chai Chee, one can find a community largely made up of low-income earners and elderly retirees in this area. The project posits itself against the backdrop of increased social isolation among elderly in Singapore and imagines a series of bottom-up interventions situated at the everyday spaces and objects of this community such as void decks, parks, sheltered walkways and public furniture. These interventions invite social curation and inhabitation of the community’s personal possessions, fostering communal activities and practices.

The project believes that through the engagement with the community, the values, meanings, relations of these spaces and objects will change over time. They provide opportunities for conversations, storytelling to happen and the possibility of a new architectural typology for socially-engaged art in the twenty-first century.

Honorable Mention #10

Project by: Lucia Emma Avolio, Matteo Andreoletti Italy

“Paranomasia”

PARANOMASIA stems among a constellation of buildings, collocating itself in a void in the city frame-work. An example of its funcionality is the urban reactivation of a garden in Milan, located alongside works by Gio Ponti, Vittoriano Viganò, Renzo Piano, behind the Guido Romano swimming pool. In the great po-tential of this area, PARANOMASIA expresses its meaning: five urban objects redesign, reactivate and re-claim a neighborhood space, adapting themselves to the needs of living and introducing a contemplative dimension.

In these days marked by the reduction of social ties and community experiences, they aim to generate op-portunities for dialogue among the various generations, to promote a renewed sense of belonging to places through flexible spaces and small pavilions dedicated to those who live the neighborhood. A THEATRE, as a relational space dedicated to children and their plays and parties, a LIBRARY for young people to study peacefully enjoying some silence and relax in the greenery of the JUNGLE, or contemplate the sky from the OBSERVATORY, the landmark of the project. A multifunctional meeting place is the KIOSK: bar and disco.

PARANOMASIA represents an invitation to be involved in the non-visible places of the urban landscape to multiply the opportunities for collective experiences. The aim is to reveal the “sense of place”, actively liv-ing the space and to transfer a feeling of embrace, of curiosity and sharing through a light intervention that delivers new quality and new ways to offer the space back to the city.

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8 December 2021

Tactical Urbanism Now! 2021 Competition

TerraViva Competitions launches TACTICAL URBANISM NOW! 2021, a new edition of the architecture competition that puts the focus on the transformation of public space all over the world. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Arturo Mc Clean (Miralles Tagliabue EMBT), Liz Wreford (Public City), Francesco Garofalo (Openfabric), Hannah Klug (Intuy Lab);

PublicCity: photo © Kokemor Studio

Tactical Urbanism Now Competition 2021

Brief

Over the last decade, cities all around the world have experimented with a wide range of urban transformations through colourful, flexible and light interventions. Nowadays, it has become more and more common to come across these type of projects in both, small towns and metropolises.

Tactical Urbanism proposes an innovative design approach that aims to achieve long-term regeneration with short-term strategies. In certain cases, due to the positive impact that these interventions have generated in the urban realm, projects that were once thought of as temporary have now become permanent.

Working at the scale of a street, a block or a building, tactical tools have the power to improve liveability citywide. Similar to the way acupuncture inserts needles into one part of the body to boost the well-being of the entire organism, these type of projects can actually lead to positive changes in an entire neighbourhood.

photo © EMBT

Prizes & Mentions

1st Prize: 3.000€

2nd Prize: 2.000€

3rd Prize: 1.000€

4 Golden Mentions: 250€ each

10 Honourable Mentions

30 Finalists

photo © Kokemor Studio

Guidelines

The challenge of this competition is to reinterpret what is commonly known as traditional public spaces, such as parks, streets, playgrounds and squares, with a strategical vision capable of providing them with new features of multifunctionality and flexibility.

Tactical design can be considered as an instrument for carrying out experimental projects of high communicative value, aimed at improving public spaces or even creating new ones from scratch. Today, the challenge is to design inclusive and accessible spaces, capable of reflecting the diversity of the infinite categories of potential users and encouraging citizens to “Live Together”.

Participants are therefore invited to explore and experiment with innovative strategies, original ideas and unconventional concepts. The key point is to be able to think out of the box in order to imagine lively and attractive urban scenarios which guarantee permanence, interaction and variety of uses.

Scalability and modularity can be fundamental aspects to be taken into consideration when developing the concept. How many different of activities can be carried out in the same place? How could an urban void be radically transformed in order to foster social interaction?

Be creative and explore all the possibilities to imagine a new kind of public space!

photo © Kokemor Studio

Requested Material

Competitors have to submit two A1 panels (59,4 x 84,1 cm) landscape oriented + a brief text describing the proposal (up to 250 words). Panels must contain all the necessary graphic information to explain the project in the best way possible (title, diagrams, sketches, 3D visualizations, plans and sections, collages, model photos, etc.). All kinds of graphic representations will be accepted.

photo © Kokemor Studio

Jury

Arturo Mc Clean | Miralles Tagliabue EMBT (Barcelona, Spain)

Liz Wreford | Public City (Winnipeg, Canada)

Francesco Garofalo | Openfabric (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Nasrin Mohiti Asli | Orizzontale (Rome, Italy)

Hannah Klug | Intuy Lab (Lima, Peru)

Greg Corso | Sports (New York, USA)

Nathalie Eldan | Atelier Nea (Paris, France)

Sojung Lee | OBBA (Seoul, South Korea)

Schedule

Competition Opening December 13th 2021

59 € “Early” Registration Ends December 28th 2021

89 € “Standard” Registration Ends March 4th 2022

119 € “Late” Registration Ends March 18th 2022

Submission Deadline March 18th 2022

Results Announcement April 26th 2022

Download full brief here: https://www.terravivacompetitions.com/tactical-urbanism-now-competition-2021/

Requirements / Eligibility

The competition is open to students, architects, designers, urbanists, engineers, artists, makers, activists and anyone interested in the transformation of the contemporary urban space. Participants can join the competition either individually or with a team.

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More information at: www.terravivacompetitions.com

Contact: info@terravivacompetitions.com

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Previously on e-architect:

Hangar Ticinum Competition 2021 Hangar Ticinum Competition

Architecture Competitions

Architectural Competitions : links

Architecture Competitions – architectural selection below:

Tiny House Competition 2021 Tiny House Competition 2021

Oxford Innovation District Competition, Begbroke Science Park, Kidlington, England, UK image courtesy of competition organiser Oxford Innovation District Competition

The Shelter Competition by arch out loud in 2021 Shelter Architecture Competition

Architectural Designs

Contemporary Home Design

Barcelona Architecture

Architecture Competition

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