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Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Places, R.Klanten et al., 2010

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Evolving from graffiti and street art, urban interventions are the next generation of artwork to hit public space. Using any and all of the components that make up urban
and rural landscapes, these mostly spatial interventions bring art to the masses. They turn the street into a studio, laboratory, club, and gallery. Modified traffic signs, swings at bus stops, and images created out of sand or snow challenge us to rediscover
our environment and interact with it in new ways. The work is an intelligent and critical commentary on the planning, use, and commercialization of public space. With a rich visual selection of projects and methods, Urban Interventions documents
this new artistic approach to urban art that is currently making a profound
mark on our contemporary visual language. The book shows the growing connections and interplay of this scene with art, architecture, performance, and installation.
Propagators of urban intervention surprise and provoke with work in cities
including New York and London, but also in countries such as China, Columbia, and Turkey. Everywhere the work appears it turns public spaces into individual experiences. Urban Interventions is the first book to document these very current, personal art projects in a comprehensive way.

 

MEMO

Chapter 1: Urban Canvas

  • Haas & Hahn, Favela painting; Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2006 (p31)
  • ZASD,Berlin based artist
    • Arrow Pieses
    • Arrows Generation I,II
    • Acupunture Attempts; Berlin, 2009
  • Graffiti Research Lab
    • Laser Tag
    • LED Throwies
  • VR/Urban, SMSlingshot, Berlin, 2009
  • Electroboutique, Digiluck, Oslo, 2008-2009
  • Johannes Vogl, Five Moons, Vienna, 2007
  • Haque Design+Research, Open Burble Burble: Singapore, 2006 & Burble London, 2007
  • HeHe with Helen Evans, Nuage Vert(Green Cloud), helsinki. 2008

Chapter2: Localized

  • Pilar Lopez Baez, Little pieces of paper in the walls; Madrid, 2009(p79)
    • ‘The artist writes short texts in small pieces of paper and inserts them into little crannies in street walls. This project aims at giving buildings a voice. The pieces of paper are left to be found by pedestrians at an improbable moment.’
  • Slinkachu,
    • Slinkachu is also featured in book”Beyond The Street(p330)”
    • What brings us together and what keeps us apart, 2009 (p85)
    • installation made at Fame Festival, at Grottaglie(South of Itary, near Brindisi) ,
    • ‘For this street art and photography project, the “Little People Project”, the artist remodels and paints miniature model  train set characters, which are then placed on the streets and in public spaces…’
  • Dan Witz,
    • Third Man Series; Brooklyn, New York, 2008
    • Dark Doings’ series, New York, 2009
    • Ugly New Buildings series, New York, 2009
    • In Plain View, Williamsburg, New York 2009
    • ‘The “Kilroy Variations” are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers glued to the walls of new modern architecture.

Chapter3: Attachments

  • ‘extensions within the cityscape’
  • ‘parasitic takeover of evーeryday spaces and structures, to which we adapt ourselves as we move through the city, can be witnessed in a wide array of works..’
  • Luzinterruptus
    • A lot of policeman for so few people..;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
    • Urban Trash(IV); Carretas st., Madrid, 2009
    • Public toilets;Malasana district, Madrid, 2009
    • ‘Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group that carries out urban interventions in public spaces using light as a  raw material and darkness as the canvas. The three members of the team come from three different disciplines: art, lighting, and photography.’
  • Jan Vormann
    • Dispatchwork; Berlin, Belgrade, Arnsberg, Israel, Arnsberg, Amsterdam
    • Using LEGO block to fill gaps and nicks in urban spaces.
  • Dan Wits
    • Prank;Greenpoint, New York, 2005
      • balloon on building facade to make it looks like a face.

Chapter4: Public Privacy

  • (the chapter) follows very different strategies that dissolve the boundaries between the private and the public, the familiar and the alien, in the urban realm.
  • Jason Eppink
    • Take a Seat; various metro stations, New York, 2007-ongoing
    • ‘Take a seat’ is an ongoing series of public furniture installations aimed at increasing the availability of seating options in New York City subway stations. Perfectly functional chairs are rescued from trash piles and reassigned to stations.
  • Arno Piroud
    • Assises ephemeres (ephemeral seats); Paris, 2007-2009
  • Cedric Bernadotte
    • Sofa at “grenier a sons”; Cavaillon, 2004
    • Interventions in public space; Toulon, 2003, Pau, 2009
    • Cedric Bernadotte’s experiments focus on the human presence in cities, namely how to adapt public spaces using inexpensive and ephemeral means. Questioning the frontier between public and private spaces, he works with tape, cellophane, and inflatables and creates new spaces by grafting existing urban furniture (p143)
  • Liesbet Bussche
    • Urban Jewelry, Amsterdam, 2009(p145)
  • Carol Hummel
    • Knitscape Larchmere, 2009(p149)
  • Kristof Kintera(p 157)
    • Lay down and Shine; Paradubice, 2008
    • Miracle(500 days from 12th September 2008); Tilburg, 2008
    • My Light us Your Light; 2008
  • Michael Rakowitz
    • paraSITE, New York, 1998-2000

Chapter 5: Activated( p 173-)

  • The projects here range from flash mobs and other choreographed events within the city,…
  • Compagnie Willi Dorner (p179)
    • Bodies in urban spaces
  • The Yes Man(p191)
    • The New York Times, New York, 2008
  • LIGNA, Radio Ballet; Leipzig, 2003 (p196)

Chapter 6: Advertised (p201-)

  • Filippo Minelli, (p241)

Chapter 7: Natural Ways(p245-)

  • Vanessa Harden(p255)
    • The Subversive Gardener/Precision Bombing Device II/Precision Bombing Device I/MkII Agent Deployed Field Auger; London , 2009
      • Guerilla Gardening subculture
  • Markus Mai(p279)
    • godlovesoul
      • God; West Carpathians, 2004
      • Mind; Magdeburg glacial valley,2004
      • Play; Black Forest, 2004
    • Beautiful Bastards; Berlin, 2005

Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World, Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva, 2011

Kindle Edition

Review

“The authors are clearly enthusiastic about this technology and its possibilities, yet they do address privacy concerns. Particularly interesting is their discussion of the ways in which net locality impacts political engagement and local government, and how location awareness is effecting other cultures.” (Publishers Weekly , 30 May 2011)

Introduction

  • Net Locality
  • Organizing the Web
  • Location Awareness
  • Reading the Book
    • Chapter 4….Urban spaces are becoming hybridized(de Souza e Silva, 2006)
    • Chapter 5….net localities are transforming community interaction…and civic engagement
  • References

Chapter 1: Maps

  • Mapping Social Information
  • GIS: Converging Maps and Computers
  • Web GIS
  • Net Locality
  • Is the World Too Much With Us?
  • References

Chapter 2: Mobile Annotations

  • Locating Devices
  • Attaching Information to Location
  • Tracing and Mapping Locations
  • Mobile Annotation
  • Location Awareness Goes Mainstream
  • Location is Everywhere
  • References

Chapter 3: Social Networks and Games

  • Digital Connection in Physical Spaces
  • Games and Interaction
  • The Expansion of Location Awareness
  • New Spaces, New Practices
  • References

Chapter 4: Urban Spaces

  • Good Old Public Spaces
  • “Getting Away with Going Away”
  • Performance in/Of Public
    • Refering  Rockferrer center’s skate link and space and cloud of people watching it, he suggests there’s fluidity of state of people between performing and watching it.
  • Transformed Urban Spaces
  • References

Chapter 5: Community

  • Community and Society
  • Neighborhood Connectivity
  • Designing Engagement
  • Hyperlocal News
  • Government 2.0
  • The Politics of Net Localities
  • References

Chapter 6: Privacy

  • The Public Nature of Locaton Data
  • The Privatization of Public Spaces
    • distinction between private and public is socially constructed and therefore variable and constantly changing.
  • Power in Net Localities
  • References

Chapter 7: Globalization

  • Japan
  • China
  • Considering the Net-Local Future
  • References

Chapter 8: Conclusion

  • Technological Infrastructures
  • Social Infrastructures
  • Moving Forward
  • References

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 1995

http://www.amazon.com/Disenchanted-Night-Industrialization-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0520203542/

Amazon.com Review
The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture. Very Highly Recommended.

邦訳はこちら

http://www.amazon.co.jp/闇をひらく光―19世紀における照明の歴史-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276433/

これは続編(20世紀編？）ドイツ語の原書と日本語訳しかない。

http://www.amazon.co.jp/光と影のドラマトゥルギー―20世紀における電気照明の登場-ヴォルフガング-シヴェルブシュ/dp/4588276441/

Design, implementation and evaluation of a novel public display for pedestrian navigation: the rotating compass、Rukzio, et al, 2009

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518722
http://andrewjohnsonhci.blogspot.com/2010/02/design-implementation-and-evaluation-of.html

California Wash, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, 1996

http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=301



California Wash is a narrative work of landscape sculpture combining a garden that portrays the former wash ecology, light, pathways, mural and sculptural forms that address the transformations of this site that are the inevitable outcomes of urbanization.
A drainshed mural, drawn on the new Pico-Kentner outfall cover, represents the current human settlement pattern with the California Wash garden as a reasonable reflection of, or memorial to, that which once existed. The mural also contains bronze plaques inset into the concrete, images of certain of the original fauna of the area. It is a reminder of the original life web of the Pico watershed, and of the disappearance of bio-diversity and the region’s most precious resource, its water.

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design, Ronald Lee Fleming, 2007



Book Description
ISBN-10: 185894371X | ISBN-13: 978-1858943718 | Publication Date: April 1, 2007
This expertly researched book makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place. The author advocates narrative, site-specific public art that engages the popular imagination through common references to history, folklore, culture and geography, and demonstrates how the integration of approachable art with local landscape, architecture and urban design can facilitate identification with locale. Dozens of case studies of spectacular and innovative works throughout the United States are accompanied by practical information, cost and policy analysis, artist interviews, examples of failures and major controversies, and strategies for the future, making this book an essential reference for anyone involved with transforming and improving our public spaces. “The Art of Placemaking” features public art projects since the 1990s, including the integration of public art in urban design, historic interpretation, street furniture, transit-station and roadway-corridor design, mural towns and more, making this title an invaluable resource for artists, architects, urban planners and teachers, as well as non-professionals seeking to bring art into their communities.

Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment: Architectural Design, David Gissen(Ed), 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Territory-Architecture-Beyond-Environment-Architectural/dp/0470721650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314778583&sr=1-1

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Advancing a new relationship between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production of architectural objects and the environment surrounding them. Conceptualised within a framework that draws from physical and human geographical thought, this title of Architectural Design examines the possibility of an architecture that actively produces its external, ecological conditions. The architecture here scans and modifies atmospheres, arboreal zones, geothermal exchange, magnetic fields, habitats and toxicities – enabling new and intense geographical patterns, effects and sensations within architectural and urban experience. Territory charts out a space, a territory, for architecture beyond conceptualisations of context or environment, understood as that stable setting which pre-exists the production of new things. Ultimately, it suggests a role for architecture as a strategy of environmental tinkering versus one of accommodation or balance with an external natural world.

Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments, David Gissen, 2009

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568987773

Review

“Gissen defines subnatures as conditions within our cities that are often deemed filthy, fearsome, and uncontrollable. He defines 12 subnatures in three categories: Atmospheres include dankness, smoke, gas, and exhaust; Matter contains dust, puddles, mud, and debris; and Life includes weeds, insects, pigeons, and crowds. For each subnature Gissen traces the changing historical views, looks at the current attitudes towards it, and presents contemporary projects that question and consider alternatives for incorporating the subnature into architectural design. In some cases the views over time have done a complete 180, pointing to the way nature is defined socially, not objectively or scientifically. Not surprisingly the projects are today’s avant-garde, mostly hypothetical, research-based, installations, or unrealized. They are examples of how Gissen’s path of exploration is not unprecedented; it is tapping into more widespread reconsiderations of today’s fairly uncritical acceptance of sustainability.” –Archidose“The exhilarating and at times unsettling work featured in Subnature suggests an alternative view of natural processes and ecosystems and their relationships to human society and architecture.” –One Half of the Worlds Population, Approximately 3 Billion People on Six Continents, Lives or Works in Buildings Constructed of Earth“Another book that engaged me on my hiatus from blogging is one I picked up on somewhat of a whim as it looked like a fascinating read. I wasn’t disappointed, as ‘Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments’ by David Gissen, quickly became impossible to put down. The reason? It really tackles some interesting terrain that is definitely at the fringes of architecture and landscape, which typically addresses the realms purity and order, whether in terms of materials or the messy nature in cities.” –Landscape and Urbanism

“Just the idea of exploring the design implications of Atmospheres include dankness, smoke, gas, and exhaust; Matter contains dust, puddles, mud, and debris; and Life includes weeds, insects, pigeons, and crowds gets me salivating. I’ve yet to read this, but Gissen seems to have tapped into the world of Dross, rust, derive and other relevant under-appreciated aspects of our material culture.” –Archinect

“In Subnature, David Gissen, author of our critically acclaimed Big and Green, examines experimental work by today’s leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature.” –Dexigner

“In his book Subnature, the architectural historian David Gissenprovides an etymological history of debris as it pertains to our perception of ruins.” –TripleCanopy

“There is little point in me repeating what David Gissen has put so beautifully and engaging in print. This is simply a must read, if you are prepared to take the plunge and be prepared to see the world, and definitely your work, with different eyes.” –UrbanTick

“…a clear, well-structured analysis.” –archinnovations

“As the title suggests, however, Gissen’s contention is that these forms not only advance more novel relations but deserve their own distinction from`nature.’ He claims that while these alternative forms are not separate from nature, they are perceived to fall beneath the strata of normative nature. To arrive at this new definition, he extends the metaphysical idea that if the supernatural world exists above humankind, the subnatural world must lurk below.” –Yale Architecture Magazine

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We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today’s discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the direct result of human habitation, these “subnatural forces” are nothing new. In fact, our ability to manage these forces has long defined the limits of civilized life. From its origins, architecture has been engaged in both fighting and embracing these so-called destructive forces. In Subnature, David Gissen, author of our critically acclaimed Big and Green, examines experimental work by today’s leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature. Each chapter provides an examination of a particular form of subnature and its actualization in contemporary designpractice.The exhilarating and at times unsettling work featured in Subnature suggests an alternative view of natural processes and ecosystems and their relationships to human society and architecture. R&Sien’s Mosquito Bottleneck house in Trinidad uses a skin that actually attracts mosquitoes and moves them through the building, while keeping them separate from the occupants. In his building designs the architect Philippe Rahm draws the dank air from the earth and the gasses and moisture from our breath to define new forms of spatial experience. In his Underground House, Mollier House, and Omnisport Hall, Rahm forces us to consider the odor of soil and the emissionsfrom our body as the natural context of a future architecture. [Cero 9]’s design for the Magic Mountain captures excess heat emitted from a power generator in Ames, Iowa, to fuel a rose garden that embellishes the industrial site and creates a natural mountain rising above the city’s skyline. Subnature looks beyond LEED ratings, green roofs, and solar panels toward a progressive architecture based on a radical new conception of nature.

Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design, Lucy Bullivant, 2006

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851774815/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=047PT8344RB3JGG78TEF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470939291&pf_rd_i=507846

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The latest title in the V&A Contemporary series looks at groundbreaking interior design, art, and architecture. Responsive environments—spaces that interact with people who use or pass through them—have become ubiquitous lately. Lucy Bullivant provides an intriguing look at these cutting-edge spaces, from an installation in a shopping center that registers passers-by with patterns of colored light and sound, to an interactive artwork in the boardroom of a British TV network.

With insights drawn from the author’s interviews with many of the designers featured, Responsive Environments will appeal to designers, students, and creative professionals, as well as anyone interested in interior design, architecture, and technology.