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| The city gave the opportunity to every individual to live free and chose new alliances outside the traditional ties of family and community. The city gave rise to new forms of collectivity, manifesting as majestically orchestrated public spaces or angry mobs that organize themselves in order to take a stand for what they want and/or believe in. Our contemporary cities have been shaped by top-down planning and bottom-up initiatives. City dwellers are housed in endless plattenbau neighborhoods, or they build their own shanty towns. This dossier explores the ways how the collective organizes itself and how it's catered to in a multitude of fashions. |
Former Volume-er Simon Pennec gives a round up of his highlights of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) that ran from October 29 to November 1 2009. The 5th edition of the AFFR gathered an eclectic crowd of architects, artists, film-makers, curators and designers for three days of intense programming of shorts, documentaries, long features [...]
| Posted by Jeroen Beekmans on 04-12-2009 |
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International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Open City from 24-9-2009 to 10-1-2010
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 13-07-2009 |
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