June 4, 2008 (Wednesday)
5pm
Showing posts with label project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label project. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
U.P. Atheist Circle Table Discussion On Globalisation and Rhizomatics Featuring Marco Cuevas-Hewitt
University of the Philippines Diliman
June 4, 2008 (Wednesday)
5pm
June 4, 2008 (Wednesday)
5pm
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Jean Makisig on Postal Boxes
A SNIPPET OF AN ONGOING PROJECT: POSTAL BOX POSTIES
in reference to Psychogeography and Unitary Urbanism, playing words on Postal Boxes around Tokyo became an attempt for me to re-define space. the idea is to detourn the urban landscape by playing with the existing signs and symbols that defines symmetrical power to a particular space.
Postal Boxes or postbox also serves as an index of urban space aside of its function for collecting outgoing mails. in other words, if we compare this to a plot from a narrative, Postal Boxes is an index that guides us through the smooth journey of space as a grand narrative. it tells us our location by suggesting us on how do we get there from here in case we get lost or deviate.
JeanMakisig
Fig.3
TRAFFIC CIRCULATION, SUPREME STAGE OF CITY PLANNING
Traffic circulation is the organization of universal isolation. As such, it constitutes the major problem of modern cities. It is the opposite of encounter: it absorbs the energies that could otherwise be devoted to encounters or to any sort of participation. Spectacles compensate for the participation that is no longer possible. Within this spectacular society one’s status is determined by one’s residence and mobility (personal vehicles). You don’t live somewhere in the city, you live somewhere in the hierarchy. At the summit of this hierarchy the ranks can be ascertained by the degree of mobility. Power is objectively expressed in the necessity of being present each day at more and more places (business dinners, etc.) further and further removed from each other. A VIP could be defined as someone who has appeared in three different capitals in the course of a single day.
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (1961)
in reference to Psychogeography and Unitary Urbanism, playing words on Postal Boxes around Tokyo became an attempt for me to re-define space. the idea is to detourn the urban landscape by playing with the existing signs and symbols that defines symmetrical power to a particular space.
Postal Boxes or postbox also serves as an index of urban space aside of its function for collecting outgoing mails. in other words, if we compare this to a plot from a narrative, Postal Boxes is an index that guides us through the smooth journey of space as a grand narrative. it tells us our location by suggesting us on how do we get there from here in case we get lost or deviate.
JeanMakisig
Fig.3
TRAFFIC CIRCULATION, SUPREME STAGE OF CITY PLANNINGTraffic circulation is the organization of universal isolation. As such, it constitutes the major problem of modern cities. It is the opposite of encounter: it absorbs the energies that could otherwise be devoted to encounters or to any sort of participation. Spectacles compensate for the participation that is no longer possible. Within this spectacular society one’s status is determined by one’s residence and mobility (personal vehicles). You don’t live somewhere in the city, you live somewhere in the hierarchy. At the summit of this hierarchy the ranks can be ascertained by the degree of mobility. Power is objectively expressed in the necessity of being present each day at more and more places (business dinners, etc.) further and further removed from each other. A VIP could be defined as someone who has appeared in three different capitals in the course of a single day.
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (1961)
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