How can a community enter a process of self-reflection and collective planning process? This was the main question behind the Pfyn Future [Perfect] workshop which was organized on September 10, 2019 by invitation from the Transitorisches Museum at Pfyn, and to zeitgarten.ch in the small community of Pfyn, Switzerland. The workshop structure The workshop was…
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The legacy of Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander passed away on March 17, 2022 Christopher Wolfgang Alexander was a widely influential architect and design theorist, and emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley were he taught for several decades. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, sociology, systems thinking, commons theory and others. His legacy remains…
Imagining alternative futures for ports in transition: Habitat III
“Imagining alternative futures for ports in transition” was an official Side Event of Habitat III, Quito, 17-20 October 2016. Former ports of air and water, in various parts of the world, experience uncertain states of gradual or abrupt transition. Some are being imagined as metropolitan parks, while in times of economic recession, others are facing…
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Abstract of Keynote presentation to the Autonoma Conference Developing a South-to-South dialogue through addressing in parallel two post-colonial histories, the traditions of community, top-down and bottom-up approaches and the role of the state in two seemingly different countries such as Greece and Ecuador, is a provocative concept and it produces interesting results. This comparison is…
MET@transmediale!
The MET workshop was invited in transmediale.2016 to participate in the Re-examining Global.Ports panel, moderated by Ben Vickers and Oliver Lerone Schultz.
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