Quaderns 2011 - 2016 » publishing http://quaderns.coac.net Revista d'arquitectura i urbanisme Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:09:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ‘Contested Urbanism in Dharavi.’ Now free to download http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2014/04/dharavi-wuf7/ http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2014/04/dharavi-wuf7/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:26:16 +0000 dprbcn http://quaderns.coac.net/?p=4057 The World Urban Forum / is taking place this year from April 5th to 11th in the city of Medellín, located in the department of Antioquia, in Colombia. For six days, the discussions will focus on the topic of “Urban Equity in Development – Cities for Life“. As an international example of urban transformation through social urbanism, Medellín will also become an urban laboratory during the forum. We can read at the WUF7 web-site:

“Slums, the face of poverty and urban inequality, continue to increase in most countries of the developing world, perpetuating the lack of access to basic services and political representation to the most vulnerable communities [...] Cities, then, are a critical component in addressing the inequality problem. Their design, governance, and infrastructure have direct impact on the lives and opportunities of their inhabitants.”

Taking Dharavi [Asia's largest slum] as a case study, as it represents a symbol of a multiplicity of urbanism due to its condition of a complex microcosm of practices, the book ‘Contested Urbanism in Dharavi: Writings and projects for the resilient city’ highlights field research and studio-based projects on Dharavi, Mumbai conducted by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit students from 2009 to 2012. It includes a collection of essays, photography, and student work.

On the occasion of the 7th World Urban Forum in Medellin and DPU’s large presence at this event, the book has been made available for free download online, with the aim of reinforce knowledge exchange and free access to information.

You can download directly the PDF here or read it online on issuu.

Contested Urbanism in Dharavi. Writings and projects for the resilient city
Camillo Boano, William Hunter and Caroline Newton (eds.)
ISBN: 978-0-9574823-4-0 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9574823-5-7 (digital).

/// More info: The Bartlett UCL

]]> http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2014/04/dharavi-wuf7/feed/ 0 Horizonte Issue #06 “ANGST” Release http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2013/02/horizonte-angst/ http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2013/02/horizonte-angst/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:33:27 +0000 Ethel http://quaderns.coac.net/?p=2949 From time to time we discover a publishing project that make us stop and look carefully. This is the case of Horizonte, the magazine, published since summer 2010, as part of a wider project organized by students of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which includes lectures on topics in architecture, art, design, culture and theory.

They have just released their issue #06 “ANGST”, that you can preview on this video:

Horizonte Issue #06 “ANGST” Release from Philip Zeller on Vimeo.

We want to remark that on this issue, there is a contribution by Guillem Carabí, “Repetition as a Strategy: Building the Angst” which you can read briefly [in Spanish for now], here. Guillem Carabí has also contributed to Quaderns #263 with his essay On the subject of refurbishment; Jujol and can Negre.

]]> http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2013/02/horizonte-angst/feed/ 0 The (New) Book of Questions http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2013/01/the-new-book-of-questions/ http://quaderns.coac.net/en/2013/01/the-new-book-of-questions/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:26:31 +0000 Ethel http://quaderns.coac.net/?p=2731 In the current times of multi-connected and over-informed world of the Internet, we are used to discover as many new projets as our procastinating time allows. That’s why we enjoy so much when we find a fresh an interesting project as “The (New) Book of Questions”

Evangelina Guerra Luján, or The Nomad as she likes to call herself, describe her project as follows:

“In 1974 Pablo Neruda published his best-seller “The Book of Questions” : poems in the shape of questions, observing whatever surrounded him , with the wonder of a child. Is in this spirit that the project “The ( New) Book of Questions? is founded: to observe and question the “territories in process” we live in, rather than to “answer” them. These questions will lead authors and lectors into the realm of further observation and, if lucky, further questioning. The aim of this “book” is to become a device or tool for thinking, observing and understanding the landscape, city, and space. The (New) Book of Questions will document , in the format of questions, different perceptions of the territory during a year [Nov. 8th. 2012 until Nov 8th 2013].”

But the unsolicited publishing project is going beyond the digital world. It has caught the attention of different people worldwide, including La Sala from Venezuela, where the on-line project is taking physical form by means of an exhibition.

Publishing is passing through an ongoing moment of critical restructuration. The downturn in book sales is making people to be more imaginative when using and sharing new formats of generate critical thinking and exchange knowledge. This project is open to anybody who wants to send a question regarding the territory, all submissions will be published in the digital archive and if you’re lucky enough, maybe you can be part of a forthcoming and unplanned exhibition!

—Ethel Baraona Pohl, editor.

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