12 May 2009 | In this Newsletter:
| Volume #19: Architecture of Hope
| Al Manakh 2
| Archis SEE Network
| Detroit


This issue was developed in cooperation with:
Volume #19: Architecture of Hope
This Volume is a project by ARCHIS + AMO + C-LAB + Design2context

'Main Street is almost all right' wrote Robert Venturi promoting the messy vitality of the built environment of the ordinary. The ambiguity of society, its causality and its improvisations meant the acknowledgement of a diversity of practices: top-down interventions + subcultures + minority expressions + subversive acts + ... Redefining the common goods, their ethics, their aesthetics and their economics start with writing stories of architecture that encapsulate the manifold experiences of the city. Thus, an architectural task in which space design and design of a new collective dream, myth or scenario about who we are and what we desire to be is interrelated. Volume 19: Is identity the issue?

With contributions by
Francesco Jodice, Arjen Oosterman, René Boomkens, Regina Bittner, Regula Stämpfli, Alexander d’ Hooghe, Mark Jarzombek, Gerlinde Schuller, Brendan McGetrick, Henry Jenkins, Tommi Laitio, Corine Smith-Vermeulen, No Academy, David Barrie, Ergün Erkoҫu, Cihan Bugdaci, Shannon Mattern, Annelys de Vet, Daniel van der Velden, Tanner Woodford, Edwin Gardner and Design2context with: Evert Ypma, Femke Herregraven, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Simon Heptonstall, Xavier Vasseur, Barbara Mutzbauer, Bernard Sturm

Interviews with:
Hector Torres Casado and Herman Hertzberger

Including:
Prepublication indesem 2009

Online Articles:
Architecture of Hope (editorial) - Arjen Oosterman
The Spectator's City - Regina Bittner
Architecture: A Failed Discipline - Mark Jarzombek
Barack Obama Inauguration Address Autopsy - Brendan McGetrick
A Challenge of Difference - Miguel Robles-Durán in conversation with Venezuela's Vice-Minister of Housing, Hector Torres Casado
Al Manakh 2
Volume recently launced the Al Manakh website, that is a blog that will function as a research tool for the upcoming Al Manakh 2 (expected early 2010), the follow up of Al Manakh 1. Al Manakh 2 will chart how cities like Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai are responding to the global economic crisis as a means to continue holding their stake in a global context. These cities are at once challenged to confront their usual patterns of development and forced to produce revised responses to changing economic and social forces.Over the course of a year the site will work as an aggregator, collecting news from this region with the use of social networking tools (like delicious.com). From this extensive inventory trends and themes will emerge over the year that will result in editorial frames for the publication.

almanakh.org

Archis SEE Network
a network of independent urban initiatives in South Eastern Europe

In cooperation with local initiatives launched by architects, planners, artists, urbanists, sociologists and other professionals engaged in the process of improving various political and social dimensions of the urban environment, Archis Interventions intends to establish a network in South Eastern Europe (SEE) and thereby to foster the exchange of knowledge and best practices, to integrate the issues discussed in international discourse on urbanism, and to support local initiatives.

The task of creating a sustainable urban environment and maintaining architectural values cannot be left entirely to local authorities and international organisations: civic society stakeholders also have a crucial role to play. Artistic interventions, political lobby groups and independent initiatives launched by architects and urbanists have already redrawn the boundaries of urban development: sustainable concepts from and for the community are now irrevocably on the political agenda. By mediating between the private and public spheres in support of concrete development proposals, the Archis SEE Network intends to build on what has been achieved to date and help take grass-root demands from the drawing board through to completion.

The Archis SEE network was initiated by Kai Vöckler, on behalf of Archis, in cooperation with Srdjan Jovanović Weiss in 2008. The Archis SEE network will be extended in 2009 to other parts of South Eastern Europe. Several initiatives in Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria have already been invited to join the network. In addition, the network is seeking to incorporate other initiatives from the Western Balkans.

Information about future activities will be available on seenetwork.org

Supported by ERSTE Stiftung.
Detroit
Detroit is getting a fair share of attention lately, and not only by Obama automotive industry rescue efforts. In February Archis visited Warren, one of the troubled sub-urbs of Detroit and recently two editors from Volume travelled to Detroit under the umbrella of the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency. Those how are thinking about how to think beyond the crisis, and what new practices are fruitful in its wake, turn to Detroit. Hyped perhaps as a kind of new Berlin, but also a city which has already learnt to live with a reality that is now emerging in more and more places in the US and around the globe. Volume will keep its ear to the ground to listen in to what's coming from the motor city.

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