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February 25, 2008
  • Urban Politics Now: Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City
    Psychoanalysis considers the Symptom – slips of the tongue, nervous ticks, dreams and suchlike – as a repressed form of speech; like a liar with sweaty palms, we’d rather keep something to ourselves, but just can’t help it. Symptoms are useful to the analyst, as an immediate surfacing of the Real, of the traumatic, uncontrollable issues that really motivate us – libido, the longing for recognition, fear of the Other, and so on. By carefully interpreting symptoms, the analyst can assess the pathology of a patient.
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    These days it’s a commonplace to consider the design of our built environment in such pathological terms: The content of our cities is increasingly determined by apparently traumatic, uncontrollable motivations (including profitability, consumer dema…
March 2, 2006
  • Design Intelligence – Speaks & Co in Delft
    In Belgium the words of Robert Somol during the Projective Landscape conference would probably have caused a minor political earthquake. But unfortunately the conference took place at the TU in Delft, and that turned out to be the perfect place to reel off catch-phrases of all sorts about the status of design in what they tell us is a post-critical, post-ideological, post-political, post-historical, post-urban and post-capitalist world.
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    Symposium temperatures rose to their hottest right at the end when, during the plenary debate on Friday afternoon, Willem Jan Neutelings provoked the projective character of the debaters. What, he asked, was he to do if after the next local elections…
February 20, 2006
  • Hopeful Images for New Orleans
    Is there any point in making suggestions in the Netherlands about how to rebuild New Orleans? Should outsiders even want to offer solutions? Can architecture play a role after a disaster? Aren't engineering works - dikes, storm barriers, drainage systems, roads, telephone lines - more urgently needed?
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    These are relevant questions that even the curators of the exhibition Newer Orleans - A Shared Space asked themselves when Reed Kroloff, dean of the architecture faculty at Tulane University in New Orleans, asked the NAi to help create future scenari…
October 1, 2005
  • Who cares?
    Recent events in New Orleans frame the Sustainable Waterfronts symposium in Chicago with a new urgency. Paul Preissner asks whether the US will ever find the discipline necessary to focus attention on finding a lasting response to the challenges created through our relationship with water.
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    On September 29-30 the IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) hosted a two-day conference devoted to innovation in waterfront and brownfield development, and to associated architecture, design and sustainable policy development. The conference subtit…
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