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martedì 18 marzo 2014
aula Rogers, ore 14.30
Jurjen Zeinstra – Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten

Gerrit Rietveld Academie extension

Launching of the design studio
Tuesday 11.03.2014
h. 9:15

Politecnico di Milano
Scuola di Architettura e Società
AA 2013 / 2014

Laboratorio di Progettazione degli Interni 1
Docenti:
prof. Gennaro Postiglione
arch. Francesco Dolce
arch. Enrico Scaramellini

Collaboratori:
arch. Michela Bassanelli e arch. Enrico Forestieri

martedì aula B 3.4
venerdì aula S 2.4

We just found out that the Stazione di Servizio Agip, the beloved building topic of our 2012 Design Lab, has been officially listed. According to the public authorities – namely the Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo – the building is “of  particularly outstanding historical and artistic interest” and will be now subject to safeguard. The official document stating this important judgement features a short bibliography that includes our Lab-int-2012 as a reference.

It goes without saying that we consider this a huge achievenment for the commitment played out by our students in that project.

Are monuments only records of recorded histories? How can they act as a prompts for on-going reflection? Could a traditional monument be the starting point for individual commemoration? Does a memorial have to be fashioned out of bronze or marble to make a significant impression on our psyche? [James Young]

press release

Talk
Beyond the monument
19FEB2014
18:00-21:00
@ Gerhard Hofland gallery

Performance
The Jewish Resistance Monument revisited
22-23FEB2014
12:00-17:00
25FEB2014
11:00-15:00 / 18:00-21:00
@ Amstel 41 gallery

Browse The Book of Fragments

[omaggio al Cappuccetto Bianco di Munari]

[pic by Jorge Lascar]

IP-programme workshop
Creating Context #3
will be held in Krakow
13 – 27  > now 6th to 20th July  2014

POLIMI will take part with 6 MA students & 2 staff members: call for students is now open!

Sixty students working in nine cross-disciplinary (Art and Architecture) and transnational (5 Nationality) groups will develop proposals for public artworks in Kracow. Two academics, again, cross-disciplinary and transnational, are appointed to each student group to support them in the organisation and execution of their project.

Have a look at the WS programme and if interested send, using we-transfer or similar, your Portfolio in PDF format [max A3 size and 50MB].

Submission deadline Sunday 16 FEB 2014

WS Conditions:
– Accommodation supplied by organisers free of charge
– Travelling reimboursed at 90%
– Food on your own budget
– 4 ECTS for Polimi students

For programme details just browse the previous editions: the agenda for Krakow is not yet fixed.

Here is the link to the workshop home page

Lablog has been invited to share the Villard 15 International meeting in Venice [29-30/01/2014] and to present the new issued volume Re-enacting the past ed. by Michela Bassanelli and Gennaro Postiglione. Venice was immersed in the water – as it happens in this season – and all transfers required much more time and a lot of patience, but for sure giving to all of us the precise feeling that this is a city like no one else in the world.

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Mirjam Ohringer – Widerstand gegen die Nationalsozialisten in NL

Per la Giornata della Memoria (27 Gennaio 2014), lablog, all’interno del progetto di ricerca REcall, è andato ad ascoltare i racconti di Mirjam Ohringer, una sopravvissuta alla deportazione di Ebrei ad Amsterdam e membro attivo della Resistenza Ebrea in città. Tra le tante cose dette nelle due ore di conversazione, Mirjam ha ricordato di aver rifiutato la possibilità che le si era creata di emigrare in Svizzera per non abbandonare la sua posizione di giovane della resistenza cittadina.

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Thursday 23 January
TU-Delft
Chair of Interior Architecture
Auditorium
9:30-18-30

lablog was invited to join the MAs-Midterm presentations as external critic of Mark Pimlott and Jurjen Zeinstra class

Giovedì 9 Gennaio, David Gissen presenterà al Politecnico di Milano: Reconstructions, fake histories and other historical provocations

David Gissen è uno storico e teorico dell’architettura e dell’urbanistica, Professore Associato in Architettura e studi visivi e coordinatore del programma in storia/teoria in architettura al California College of the Arts. Il suo lavoro recente si concentra specificatamente sullo sviluppo di un nuovo concetto di natura nel pensiero architettonico e sulla definizione di nuovi parametri per una pratica sperimentale della storiografia dell’architettura.

[Sverre Fehn, sketch fragment, 1990s]

Gennaro Postiglione, 2013 activity report/writings:

PT Chapter
AU POSTIGLIONE, GENNARO
TI Methods of Research and Criticality
BT The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

PT Chapter
AU Bassanelli, M.
POSTIGLIONE, GENNARO
TI Active-actions strategies. Adaptive reuse come processodi riattivazioni sostenibili
BT Nuovi cicli di vita per architetture e infrastrutture della città e del paesaggio

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Museum in an age of migrations, Oslo KHM by Rachele Albini (POLIMI December 2013)

The world we live in it’s becoming everyday more a world of ‘others’ rather than a world of ‘self’. Students, workers, professionals and tourists are the new nomads, protagonists of a dynamism now more intense than in the past and which interests all kind of spheres: from the economical to the demographical one, from the political to the cultural one. This phenomenon, increased by Internet and globalization, is being responsible of a change in our way to perceive the history, art and the idea of nationality.

Look inside the book to know more.

Lablog was invited to be part of the “Tribunal de la tesis de doctorado titulada

‘La Planta Miralles. Representación y Pensamiento en la Arquitectura de Enric Miralles‘

de JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ CONTRERAS” as part of the ‘Doctorado en Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados de la ‘E.T.S. DE ARQUITECTURA.

The other members of the jury were: EMILIO TUÑON ALVAREZ, FEDERICO SORIANO PELAEZ, MOISES GALLEGO OLMOS and RICARDO SANCHEZ LAMPREAVE.

Download the thesis abstract.

Redefining Landscapes: Nuove forme di compensazioe per l’abuso edilizio in Italia by Stefano Galasso (POLIMI December 2013).

Questo è il risultato di un lavoro di ricerca e studio nato e proseguito grazie alla volontà di confrontarsi con un territorio ed un paesaggio tra i più belli al mondo, riconosciuto e protetto dall’Unesco, ma che dietro cotanta naturalità e fascino nasconde diversi problemi e criticità che la maggior parte delle volte vengono trascurate o evitate quasi per non intaccare l’immagine che si ha di questo frammento di nostro territorio.

Guarda nel volume.

Shrinking Montevideo by Isabella Forestieri (POLIMI December 2013)

More than fifty percent of the world’s population now lives in cities, and the figure is expected to increase in the next two decades. However, the common assumption that the global increase in urbanization means that all cities are growing, is false: in every part of the world many cities are actually shrinking. As the city is “context par excellence” where man lives and acts, delineate the trajectories, the phenomena and processes that trigger in these living organisms, which are the cities, it is essential to understand the anthropology of contemporary life, its its unfolding, and to be able to act consequently to improve the liveability the unity and the equity of its inhabitants.

Look inside the book to know more [draft version]