- Museums of resistance and counternarratives The recent explorations in Brazil and Mexico, carried within the theoretical framework proposed by the Rise-Horizon 2020 Cocreation partnership, provided us with a new opportunity to reflect on the role of creativity and culture in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This theme is implicit in our decennial exploration of modern urban peripheries, starting from the collaboration with the Havana Biennial and […]
- Rio de Janeiro – Denied City Museu da Maré Watch out! Danger! Get away! The word favela, like so many others, has more than one meaning. Favela, originally, is the name of a tree native to the northeastern caatingas. Covered with thorns, its contact with the skin can cause blisters and painful inflammations. Watch out! Danger! Get away! During the war […]
- URBIQUITY 2018 Since twelve years Re:centering periphery develops a reflection on the relation between centres and peripheries as determined by modernist urbanization. Rebooting the project in 2018, we acknowledge that the modernist urban vision has collapsed into the planetary urbanization process. The spatial distinction between urban centres concentrating wealth and power, and dispersed, underprivileged peripheries is melting […]
- Athens- Hellinikon International Airport Employed before by the Luftwaffe and then by the US army, it became with Aristotele Onassis, owner of the Olympic Airways, the first airport in Greece moving 11 millions of passengers a year. Luxury cabin service, porcelain and fine crystal glasses, stylish uniforms designed by Coco Chanel (1966-1968) and Pierre Cardin (1969-1971) leaving an indelible mark on […]
- The future has designed us In Belgrade to prepare the Power and Architecture exhibition, we had the pleasure to be joined by ogino:knauss’ founder member, dj and sound producer Miki Semascus. The exploration of the spatial context was naturally complemented by an investigation of the soundscape that finally took the form of a playlist of great Serbian/ Yugoslav / Balkan […]
- Architecture in Russia before, during and after Stalin In London for “The Center Cannot Hold” conference, we had the opportunity to meet Vladimir Paperny, author of Architecture in the Age of Stalin, and to revive in a conversation with him our interest on the Russian avant-garde and the fate of modernist urbanism under and after Stalin. Here you find some of his answers regarding: the […]
- Berlin Mehringplatz Few places in Berlin are more emblematic than Mehringplatz of the concept of “periphery at the center”. Situated in a very central location of the city, only few hundred meters from the foundational nucleus of the city in the Fischerinsel, it is at the crossroads of two main axes of the city, the north- south […]
- Berlin, dream of modernity No city as Berlin, (except Paris, obviously) can be adopted as an epitome of modernity. From here Georg Simmel generated its observations on the mental life of the metropolis, defining the inherently modern figure of the overstimulated man, and the notion of blasè. From here Walter Benjamin began its drift into the modern, plastered of […]
- Towards Belgrade Invited by Transeuropa festival 2015, we had the opportunity to come back to Belgrade and open again our file on this city. We coordinated a urban reconnaissance workshop dedicated to the “City of Commons”, taking the cue from the concept of city as a common good to design an urban walk exploring key spaces of Belgrade and its political […]
- Was Für ein schönes schloss… Oh che bel castello Ma che bel castello, marcondirindirondello, ma che bel castello, marcondirondironda’ Il mio è ancor più bello, marcondirondirondello, il mio è ancor più bello, marcondirondironda’ Noi lo bruceremo, marcondirindirondello, noi lo bruceremo, marcondirondironda’ Noi lo rifaremo, marcondirindirondello, noi lo rifaremo, marcondirondironda’ The old Italian nursery rhyme sings “what a beautiful castle – mine […]