tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130235582024-03-15T00:43:55.748+11:00arch-peace editorialsBeatriz Maturanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476527926692961102noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-50878783278175682942021-05-17T07:35:00.021+10:002021-05-20T06:36:41.999+10:00<p><span style="font-size: large;">Material Heritage & the Chilean October Crisis 20XX</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Chilean National Heritage Days: </span><span>Fri. 28 & Sat. 29 May 2021</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A 1.5 hour walking tour of the protest destruction of built heritage in Ground Zero. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>11:00 am. Meet at the north e</span>ntrance to Metro Univerdad Catolica, Alameda Avenue, Barrio Lastarria, Santiago, Chile (image)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKr5Pw0Wj3ftFRuy5rahmlH32kiaKG6pndHCI7hN94PwEoclAAe5o4x8GL7J4TJGZCzb6Wd7eLIeqOHU_vb7O_ItaIItcAg-_LqKVFQsa5YOKskWMcCAVvCRrpDe5UOzUJKly/s1516/key+I.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="1516" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKr5Pw0Wj3ftFRuy5rahmlH32kiaKG6pndHCI7hN94PwEoclAAe5o4x8GL7J4TJGZCzb6Wd7eLIeqOHU_vb7O_ItaIItcAg-_LqKVFQsa5YOKskWMcCAVvCRrpDe5UOzUJKly/w640-h516/key+I.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The heritag Barrio Lastarria and adjacent Barrio San Borja are located in what is now known as Ground Zero, the epicentre of five month Chilean October Crisis 2019 that was suspended by COVID 19 quarantine in March 2020. When quarantine was lifted in October 2020, the unprecedented protest violence and destruction resumed with the destruction by fire of two historic churches to mark the first anniversary of 18 October, 2019. The Chilean October Crisis was initiated on that day with the simultaneous attack by protesters on 20 metro stations and their city wide looting, arson and vandalism of built heritage. This form of extortion rapidly spread to 11 of Chile's 15 regions. Ground Zero was established by this violence early in the crisis. </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2jDgWll_CoBhRJxMu1hGVlFg9ZRfk8mtK4NU72oGObyEWPcKWoveFUGYBLQu4xYDmDWnDAPj4hYAvdHQkSJA7a0ZMS9FAKYYH6lIgwiDaGhnROp29HbnJZ6BZa6zUBDlMccm/s719/Civil+Disobedience+18+October+site+map+of+metro.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="719" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2jDgWll_CoBhRJxMu1hGVlFg9ZRfk8mtK4NU72oGObyEWPcKWoveFUGYBLQu4xYDmDWnDAPj4hYAvdHQkSJA7a0ZMS9FAKYYH6lIgwiDaGhnROp29HbnJZ6BZa6zUBDlMccm/w640-h586/Civil+Disobedience+18+October+site+map+of+metro.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p>In all, 18 buildings were set on fire in Ground Zero, a soccer field size area of pavement was smashed up with hammers and crowbars by protesters to make missiles to throw at police and every piece of pedestrian urban infrastrcucture and street lighting was destroyed, every vertical surface covered in graffiti and every public monument defaced. Three heritage listed buildings in Ground Zero were destroyed by fire and every glass surface for a radius of 1 kilometre had to be covered in welded sheet metal to protect what remained of building interiors after ransacking and wanton destruction. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsE2Vqq0nMXNOgMjk-lPysStsYIvN8bOhQP7THjcCr14eEdFB8QnHO180hBxQLlafDJA9tSOkE4c0BK2XXPtSTdnV9DMseTMO6439dOZ3iEPfo2r53JppwxTOzfua8hhxCOty4/s1656/pedestrianisation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1656" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsE2Vqq0nMXNOgMjk-lPysStsYIvN8bOhQP7THjcCr14eEdFB8QnHO180hBxQLlafDJA9tSOkE4c0BK2XXPtSTdnV9DMseTMO6439dOZ3iEPfo2r53JppwxTOzfua8hhxCOty4/w640-h406/pedestrianisation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>On 8 November 2019, the Asunción Parish church (1876) was ransakced and burnt for the first of three times, it would be destroyed by fire on 18 October 2020. On 12 November, 2019 the Veracruz church (1857) was attack by protesters who set ablaze the wooden doors with accelerant, and the bell tower roof and interior were severely damaged by fire. On January 4, 2020, 1000 hooded protesters attacked 100 police defending the San Francisco de Borja church (1876) and the Police Monument 1989) and, now banded from using non-lethal responses, surrendered the church to rioting vandals. This church was destroyed by hooded protesters and fire on October 18, 2020. By the end of November 2019, the cost of material damage to the axes running east and west of Ground Zero was 106 million USD, not including the damage to the Metro. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvqd2jOh2SHB3H7tsw4gRKuV2KrPfigYnZpW_2CAPEAL0vb-Lfdas7gmiseZG2kJU_mekHzgcjiHA-qPKFfqW9rf7ywDCAu4uRBm1ZLPYtJC2cGR2fFmvLItvDFBtMr0riDvW/s1644/Battle+plan+and+total+destruction.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="1644" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdvqd2jOh2SHB3H7tsw4gRKuV2KrPfigYnZpW_2CAPEAL0vb-Lfdas7gmiseZG2kJU_mekHzgcjiHA-qPKFfqW9rf7ywDCAu4uRBm1ZLPYtJC2cGR2fFmvLItvDFBtMr0riDvW/w640-h466/Battle+plan+and+total+destruction.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>This walking heritage/cultural tour is a modified version of the tour that Anthony McInneny prepared and delivered for the resident organisation El Barrio Que Queremos (the Barrio We Want) for theNational Heritage Week in May 2019. He has since resigned from that organisation because of their lack of advocacy for the protection of the barrio's built heritage. Prior to the October Crisis, Barrio Lastarria was a national and international tourist destination for its built heritage, living barrio life and integration of arts and culture into the built environment. Post Chilean October Crisis 2019-2021 and all built and cultural heritage had been defaced or destroyed by protesters. Most is now covered in thick coat of nuetral paint though the welded metal protection is still in place. This tour follows the chronolgy of protester destruction to revisit the hertiage of Ground Zero, past and future. We start where the vandals started with the Metro and end where these criminals have permantly reshaped public life, public space and Chilean Heritage- Plaza Baquedano - where the monument to General Manuel Baquedano was removed by the National Council of Monuments in March 2021 to protect it from protester violence and destruction. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJr700ecdI88s9RXhM9hKUlXpFTjEeK5fGTAf120Lj9uvFiuocH3dn95x0Jk0Xss2NAz4qiVOH36t4RLnRSD5IFeXRUyGxQTjWzWvcaOjpk2V7_4At2aGSBCyRr88RqiTWVR8/s1627/first+image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1627" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJr700ecdI88s9RXhM9hKUlXpFTjEeK5fGTAf120Lj9uvFiuocH3dn95x0Jk0Xss2NAz4qiVOH36t4RLnRSD5IFeXRUyGxQTjWzWvcaOjpk2V7_4At2aGSBCyRr88RqiTWVR8/w640-h282/first+image.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br />Anthony McInnenyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05326176124311739905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-13917178311069716092020-12-23T02:45:00.015+11:002021-03-19T10:25:26.623+11:00Architects for Peace President's report 2020<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnK-pYTITQNAM_QKG_WDB4GOehqFRiu1OFyi8_KVJq4DGhJGgXKlNEYIdNGNu0m8hot04ezFAhEC_46Coj1P0bvTNUSYvO60C4i5uDgXstt38ycXzLHlR8lRj9RGv_mdDAm6kq/s2048/Ethical+circle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1786" data-original-width="2048" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnK-pYTITQNAM_QKG_WDB4GOehqFRiu1OFyi8_KVJq4DGhJGgXKlNEYIdNGNu0m8hot04ezFAhEC_46Coj1P0bvTNUSYvO60C4i5uDgXstt38ycXzLHlR8lRj9RGv_mdDAm6kq/w400-h349/Ethical+circle.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>AFP was cited in this international conference as belonging in the lower, right quadrant - highly ethical, yet not influential. The Post COVID challenge for AFP is how to rise to the top, right quadrant - ethical <u>and</u> influential.</i></span> <div><br></div><div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Architects <span style="color: #1cdb30;">for</span> Peace President's report 2020</span></b></h2><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 2.0cm; margin-top: 1.0pt; margin: 1pt 0cm 0cm 2cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Beatriz Maturana Cossio. Founder and President</span><br><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><br><span style="font-family: verdana;">This time last year, bushfires raged across most of the Eastern seaboard of Australia as evidence of the ecological crisis while the economic success stories of</span><span style="font-family: verdana; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paris, Hongkong and Santiago were each in their own form of social crisis. Then a global pandemic.</span><br><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><br><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s been a year of suspended normality and we don’t yet know what the new normal will look like. We do now that the world’s population is now poorer than it was before 2020 and that the professions of the built environment and the urban planet face new challenges with the possibility of a new and better normality.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span></span></div></div></div></div><a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2020/12/architects-for-peace-presidents-report.html#more">Read more »</a>Anthony McInnenyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05326176124311739905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-57556543267649047762020-10-10T03:08:00.006+11:002020-10-10T03:26:40.783+11:00<p> Steering Committee Meeting - via Zoom</p><p>Saturday 24 October 8:00am AEST. (Friday October 23, 6:00 PM Santiago) </p><p>For any member wishing to attend below are the details. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjomRmHpx3GHYjKmkW4WfcJufvpbzmJ4p_7IDaGSL-Bffqc3l7ej-gJkLJ_6_ydCg-p3hq_zXXe8R3CzdML5x0pUyF2JAh0qJG85jAEhOVkxAtNmzU8rXI_NoI_25qNH9YTXf/s1048/grey+square+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjomRmHpx3GHYjKmkW4WfcJufvpbzmJ4p_7IDaGSL-Bffqc3l7ej-gJkLJ_6_ydCg-p3hq_zXXe8R3CzdML5x0pUyF2JAh0qJG85jAEhOVkxAtNmzU8rXI_NoI_25qNH9YTXf/s320/grey+square+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Anthony McInneny is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.</p><p>Topic: Architects for Peace</p><p>Time: Oct 23, 2020 06:00 PM Santiago</p><p><br /></p><p>Join Zoom Meeting</p><p>https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78878422733?pwd=a1I1TFhNMThKN3pFZTdLZ2pHTFdadz09</p><p><br /></p><p>Meeting ID: 788 7842 2733</p><p>Passcode: 87TPHM</p>Anthony McInnenyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05326176124311739905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-76381304228929398032020-07-03T06:03:00.001+10:002020-07-03T06:36:19.210+10:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The current surreal times of isolation have humanity experiencing
the blurring of boundaries between the public and private arenas. While we
await for the re-‐opening of public
spaces, including government buildings, we are shifting to interpersonally connecting
from the intimacy of our personal spaces through social media.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Regeneration </span></i><span lang="EN-US">is a response to this particular phenomenon. The work portrays a
physical representation of the global profound realisation of our vital
interdependence on others. Utilising blooming flowers emerging from a
microscopic image of the Covid-‐19
virus projected onto the façade of the Richmond Town Hall, the work treats
enforced social distancing as a catalyst of individual and collective
contemplation and growth, simultaneously emphasising the central role of
government leadership during times of crisis.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">During COVID 19, public
space is not what it used to be. Without a public it becomes an A-public space. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Architects for Peace called
for entries in March 2020 for a projection art competition. Images and/or
text were to simulate a projection onto
the façade of the Richmond Town Hall, Victoria, Australia. Regeneration, by
Marynes Avila was the winning entry.</span></i></div>
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behalf of the new Steering Committee, I’d like to introduce the members elected
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apologies for the delay in communications. National and global crises in
different parts of the world have meant the incumbents have been operating on a
day-to-day basis in many parts of the world.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In our rapidly urbanising modern world existing communities, neighbourhoods, are the most prevalent population site (Carmichael 2017). Nonetheless, for decades people with disability </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><sup>1</sup></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> have identified the inaccessibility of the existing built environment as a significant problem. The parts of the neighbourhood built environment about which people with disability are most dissatisfied are, housing, the public realm pedestrian environment, and public transport built infrastructure (Jackson 2018). However built environment disciplines commonly operating at neighbourhood scale, spatial disciplines, pay scant attention to people with disability (Pineda, Meyers, and Cruz 2017). Therefore, to effectively address neighbourhood-scale built environment inaccessibility, a new paradigm of built environment praxis is needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a history reaching back more than 2000 years, Lahore has evolved gradually but continuously from a nonentity into a metropolitan city. Lahore is the second most populous city of Pakistan and the provincial capital of Punjab. It lies on the north-eastern part of Punjab and is close to the border of India [Figure 2]. It has almost always been the center of attention of the finest Mughals, as well as the British; so much so that in 1670 John Milton could not help but write: “Agra and Lahore, the Seat of the Great Mughal”.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A Vietnamese grocer on Paisley Street extends its shop onto the footpath </b>Image: Jimi Connor.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br><br>Underneath the perceived boundaries and divisions of Melbourne’s suburbs exists a fluid and constantly evolving network of multicultural communities. Arguably, these overlooked populations have played a pivotal role in the development of the social and cultural fabric of Melbourne; helping to define now sought-after suburbs like Carlton, Brunswick and Collingwood. The suburb of Footscray, located five kilometres west of the city of Melbourne, is a major point of confluence for some of Melbourne’s largest multicultural communities. From its infamous notoriety as a haven for drug users, to its current status as an entry point for immigrants, the urban environment of Footscray has successfully adapted to accommodate to the needs of a constantly developing city. It has achieved this by enacting an alternative model of urban development: whereby different waves of immigrant communities have been able to alter and adapt the urban environment—to suit their own particular practices and identities. The result is an urban fabric that is wholly unique: a complex hybrid of contrasting cultural practices, which overlap and intertwine with one another.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Homelessness is on the rise in Melbourne. The increased presence on the streets, especially in the inner city, can hardly go unnoticed. Rough sleepers are seen bedding down on footpaths throughout the CBD, an uncomfortable truth that might have been inconceivable 5 or 10 years ago. It's a concern matched by data. In 2015 council’s <a href="http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/health-support-services/social-support/Pages/streetcount.aspx">StreetCount</a> survey observed 83 people sleeping rough, the next year the figure had ballooned out to 247. Of those surveyed in 2016, 68% had been entrenched in homelessness for over a year. Coupled with an acute shortage of supportive housing, and with welfare services already stretched, Melbourne’s dire trend looks set to continue. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">In the month of urbanism, I was invited to write a column for the </span><a href="http://museovicunamackenna.cl/647/w3-article-81017.html" target="_blank">National Museum Benjamín Vicuña MacKenna</a><span style="color: #666666;"> (Santiago, Chile). This column is intended as “a space of reflection and participation and seeks to collect the opinion from citizens, specialist and academics on the city”. I chose to write about Parque Forestal, an urban park designed in the year 1900 by the French architect George Dubois. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">This linear urban park is significant in that it recognises and incorporates the geographical situation and natural landmarks defining the city (the Andes, its mountain ranges, and the Mapocho River). </span><span style="color: #666666;">Because of the Parque Forestal´s flawless design logic, new parks continue to be created in all the municipalities crossed by the river. These parks stretch along the Mapocho river, creating a system of open spaces—urban “windows”</span><span style="color: #666666;">— and allowing</span><span style="color: #666666;"> us to contemplate the Andes mountains in a continuous</span><span style="color: #666666;"> manner. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">In times when urban gestures tend to be timid, surrendering the responsibility of cities (in all their complexity) to others, often the market and their developers, it is crucial to revisit and value the work done by our predecessors—the urbanists—and recuperate the drive that will permit us make cities better places for all. (Article in Spanish, published by the </span><a href="http://museovicunamackenna.cl/647/w3-article-81017.html" target="_blank">MNBVM</a><span style="color: #666666;"> on November 1, 2017).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Refuge’ was a year in the making, and comprises five large-scale oil paintings. I had been reading widely about the global migrant crisis, and this mass media imagery was in my consciousness while developing the compositions. I restaged what became like symbols that I found kept repeating, and that resonated – like temporary shelter structures, children in queues, and domestic refuge.</span><br>
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City streets are shared by people from all works of life; from different places, cultures and backgrounds. In our everyday lives we tend to live in our own little worlds. Our journeys around cities are filled with our own memories and thoughts. We see the city through a lens that is clouded with our own histories and world views. We rarely get a chance to think about the city from the perspective of others.<br>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Today is the International Day of Peace, a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace around the world. What are some different ideas of peace?</i><i> How is it represented in urban spaces? </i></span><br>
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<i>‘I thought we had quite enough memorials that seemed to revive the war spirit rather than to consider peace, which is, after all, the aim and end of every great struggle’.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></div>
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So reflected the sculptor Adrian Jones as he prepared to cast the symbolic figure of ‘Peace’ for the Uxbridge war memorial in 1924. For artists working in the classical style, ‘Peace’ usually took the conventional form of a female figure holding aloft an olive branch, palm frond, or occasionally, a dove. ‘Peace’ was rarely a solo act. Invariably she was a junior partner to the more strident figure of ‘Victory’, and always located at a lower point on the pedestal arrangement.<br>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Earlier this year, in late February, I was lucky enough to be
shortlisted in a Dutch design competition that called for the design of new
housing solutions for asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The competition,
organised by the COA (abbreviation for the ‘Central Agency for the Reception of
Asylum Seekers’) in collaboration with Government Architect Floris Alkemade, attempted
to provide creative alternatives to current typologies for temporary housing.
The competition was set up with the intention of developing a prototype that could be implemented across current refugee centres in the Netherlands.</span><br>
</div><a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2016/08/designing-temporary.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17860032680685789762noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-38977385316594869822016-07-25T16:36:00.000+10:002020-06-03T09:21:13.829+10:00Waiting for Asylum<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Camille Gharbi</b> explores the ability of people to create a home in the most difficult of circumstances.</i> </span></span></div>
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few years, many informal refugee camps have been erected in Paris as a result
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">People fleeing wars
or dictatorships in countries including Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Eritrea and
Syria are continuously arriving in the city. Some are on their way to Calais,
hoping to make it to the UK. Some have given up on their English dreams and are
coming back from Calais. Others are willing to seek asylum in France and settle
down in the country. Some of them have been in Europe for many years, going
from place to place, struggling to survive. Some have just arrived in Europe
after several months of harsh journeying through the Middle East or Northern
Africa. Most of them have walked their way out of war. They have reached Europe
with the idea that life would be better here. At least it would be safe, and
they shall be able to live decently, far from threats and fear. As they gather
under the bridges of the French capital, their disillusion is hard felt. None
of them had anticipated the dirt, the cold, and the loneliness in which they
are left. The silence of the State and the public institutions. The violence of
the police forces.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">In times of rapid changes
and transformations which new paradigms, problems, and challenges are arising
fast, it is felt more than ever that we require new viewpoints for urban
decision making and planning.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Resilience thinking is the new lens for looking at
the world we live in </span><span lang="EN-GB">to deal with ever changing problems.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> It has been applied in many
fields for dealing with complex and volatile issues.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Importance of
resilience</span> framework is<span lang="EN-US"> ever</span><span lang="EN-GB"> increasingly
felt in various aspects of built environment and human settlements </span><span lang="EN-GB">from
international scales to community levels. Many of these challenges are global
such as climate change, and vary in different countries such as natural and
man-made hazards or peak oil. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Resilience is becoming a priority
among pressing urban issues, for example UNISDR has set the resilience of
cities as an important agenda for all urban institutions around the world
(UNISDR 2011).</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: x-small;">Image1: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: x-small;">the architecture of Q</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: x-small;">anats </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: x-small;">and their representation on the ground surface</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2016/06/urban-resilience-challenges-can.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607258692786597120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-30229046395293295992016-04-20T14:48:00.000+10:002020-06-03T09:25:24.915+10:00URBANITY ON THE ARABIAN PENINSULA FROM THE TRADITION OF THE ORDINARY TO THE TRADITION OF THE ELITE<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">What is now the
rapidly emerging global region was a series of oases settlements or fishing
hamlets and later small port settlements just a few decades ago. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">The relationship
between the ruler and ruled have changed to asymmetric power affiliation. From
a tribal tradition of people making their decisions about their own environment
under a tribal leadership, the ‘Modern State’ became an organizing body and a
legal authority that represents the will of its people. It gave itself the
right to intervene and make decisions about people’s most aspects of life </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 7.0pt;">(1)</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Guided by the principles of the ‘Modern State,’ the
region is in a continuous process of repositioning itself </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">on the map of international architecture and
urbanism with different types of expression of its qualities in terms of
economy, environment, culture, and global outlook. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Based on my recent work on Urban Traditions,
which is published in TDSR </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 7.0pt;">(2)</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">, in this article,</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> I reflect on urbanity on the Arabian Peninsula and on some of these
aspects with reference to classical and recent discussions on the notion of
tradition. The concerned and concerted reactions to the global condition in the
form of economic diversification have become an integral component of most
national development strategies and consequently led to reshaping the notion of
tradition in such a rapidly growing context.</span></i></div>
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multiplicity of views, interpretations, and definitions of ‘tradition,’ as a
concept, which were critiqued by Nazar AlSayyad in his latest book <i>Traditions: The "Real", the Hyper,
and the Virtual in the Built Environment </i>as well as his earlier writings </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">(3)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">, reveal
deeper insights into the understanding of urban traditions in the peninsula.
The traditionality of the process and that of the product proposed by Rapoport
offer insights in this context </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">(4)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">. The
outcomes of cultural norms and practices both in the past and the present of
the Peninsula involve processes, tribal affiliations, contemporary
decision-making capacities, ruling and social systems, and family structures
that form integral parts of a process by which the built environment is
produced </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">(5)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Therefore,
the analysis of governance models and social orders and agents within a society
become critical when debating urban tradition </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">(6)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span></div>
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Architects for peace is a humanitarian, not for profit professional organisation for architects, urban designers, engineers, planners, landscape architects and environmentalists, seeking urban development based on social justice, solidarity, respect and peace. The organisation was established in the weeks preceding the bombing and occupation of Iraq in 2003. Our aim was to prevent Australian involvement in this war. Today we have members from all over the world.</div>
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Architects
for peace steering Committee is comprised of young professionals of the built
environment who are from Afghanistan, Australia, France, Hungary, Iran, Italy
and Malaysia. This is a very dynamic and committed group of young activists for
social justice through the built environment. The Committee of Management meetings
are held once a month, and the organisation's key activities and ideas are
reviewed and discussed at a macro level.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Architects
for peace strategic plan was launched in 2014. Our vision as mentioned in the
strategic plan document is: Urban spaces that are planned, designed and used in
the interests of social equity and environmental protection.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Further build a strong, sustainable and internationally connected organisation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Promote and defend sustainable and resilient urban environments.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contribute to establishing and maintaining more inclusive public spaces.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goal 4: Stand
up for quality affordable housing and the right to shelter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Credit: Joe Catron in Shujaya in Gaza City, Sunday July 20th 2014. See the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegaza/sets/72157645385017510" target="_blank">set</a>.</td></tr>
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All eyes should be on Gaza at the moment, but understandably many are focused on unfolding events in the damp fields of Eastern Ukraine. The Gaza Strip is small and densely populated with over 5,000 people per square kilometre. It is tense and under siege. Borders to Israel and Egypt have been closed to the general population, offering no means of escape from the conflict. The underground supply tunnels used for civilian supplies are considered illegal by Israel and are further threatened by their secondary use as conduits for weaponry. Israel's defence force has them in their sights, and Egypt recently announced the closure of 1,370 tunnels to the South.<br>
<a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2014/07/gaza-city-under-siege-and-under-attack.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333574712628168901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-79846509443945246292013-01-12T01:58:00.003+11:002020-06-03T09:27:43.983+10:00A way to remember in a time of free market forgettingNext year is the 40th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile. This elected alternative to free market economics was met with state violence supported by the most powerful nation in the world. The 17-year dictatorship that followed traces the systematic end to the idea that democracy would be permitted to deliver equality and justice. In 1989 the Cold War symbolically ended with the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the end of Pinochet’s dictatorship, this point signified the apparent victory of capital over labor through both a global financial system connected in a real time global communication network and the military industrial complex that is coordinated by and underpins it. <br>
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In 1990 the period of transition to a new kind of democracy commenced in Chile with the return of a democratically elected government followed by sustained economic growth in the first decade of 21st century. The term ‘transition to democracy’ was used to describe this period. It is a term now widely used to describe dictatorships formerly supported by the US - from the middle east and north Africa to Asia and the Pacific region - as they embrace or are strangled by free market economics.<br>
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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-way-to-remember-in-time-of-free.html#more">Read more »</a>Beatriz Maturanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476527926692961102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-18621757272077633982012-10-21T00:32:00.003+11:002020-06-03T09:29:28.550+10:00Public housing in Australia - selling out?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Over the last decade, the concept of what public housing is in Melbourne has been rewritten, again. Perhaps it has been lost altogether. Once it was a backstop, there to ensure that manufacturing workers had somewhere to live that was secure and socially-connected and close to work. By the '90s the mix changed with a wave of deinstitutionalisations almost doubling the number of people in these flats with special needs. In 2012, urban public housing provision has deteriorated to the point that it's a token gesture, ill-coordinated and incremental. If you sell it with enough spin, no one will realise that the new public housing development contains no new public housing.<br>
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<a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2012/10/public-housing-in-australia-selling-out.html#more">Read more »</a>Peter Johnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07333574712628168901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-11476587170988549952012-08-21T11:31:00.000+10:002020-06-03T09:30:10.030+10:00Occupying the streetThe Occupy Frankfurt camp, one of many in the global movement, was reportedly ‘cleared’ by police a few days before the Olympics ended, as I wrote this, and according to Occupy Frankfurt, was successfully relocated. In light of the complex discussion in the previous editorials about solidarity and “clarity, strategy, and purpose” and investigating the accountability of the Occupy Movement, in this editorial, I reflect on my own research on ordinary street occupations in Frankfurt and London, which are not usually associated with media or spectacle.<br>
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<a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2012/08/occupying-street.html#more">Read more »</a>Beatriz Maturanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476527926692961102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-4368199734404951882012-07-25T14:56:00.002+10:002020-06-03T09:31:29.635+10:00(1%) Divide and Rule (99%) Democracies(a discourse with Beatriz’ editorial 21 November 2011)<br>
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For the Occupy Movement, democracy is in crisis as the elected ‘representatives’ are often beholden to the super-elite 1% and not the 99% majority - implying a direct conflict between democracy and capitalism as practiced in their ‘advanced’ forms. Utilizing Lefebve’s ‘social production of space’ to read the phenomenon, ‘real democracy’ has always been condemned in this elite (on the whole, authoritarian) production of capitalist space. However, it is only in the time of recessions (perceived failure of capitalism) that a sizable network of the 99% spatially and symbolically occupies the city’s public domain, attempting grassroots (re)production of democratic spaces. Yet in occupying capitalist produced ‘spatial practices’ of the city, the movement is inevitably set against their fellow (less enlightened?) 99%, inconveniencing/frustrating their (productive and consumptive cycles of) ‘lived spaces’ – hence finding themselves entrapped in this ‘divide and rule’ democracy. (Admittedly this is an unfairly reductive reading – but it frames/serves my usual convoluted thinking that follows).<br>
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<a href="https://archpeace2.blogspot.com/2012/07/1-divide-and-rule-99-democracies.html#more">Read more »</a>Beatriz Maturanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476527926692961102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023558.post-87700623322646674822012-06-25T23:00:00.002+10:002020-06-03T09:32:57.528+10:00The Divide<h4>
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On the matter of ‘divide’ (noun), the Oxford Dictionary is succinct. The divide also happens to be the fledgling premise put forward by arch-peace founder Dr Beatriz Maturana, of a planned conference that is currently germinating in our midst...possibly to be a trans-continental affair, spanning Melbourne, Australia and Santiago, Chile, where Beatriz is now based.<br>
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