Tag: goodneighbours
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Weaving worlds II – what women make
Weaving worlds II I once calculated that the distance in wool my grandmother had knitted throughout her lifetime, 94 years, 3 months and 21 days, was roughly equivalent to the earth’s circumference, 40 075km. I have estimated that the weight of the stone I have shifted throughout my PhD is approximately 9,8 tons[1]. I have…
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Artwork and idea in proccess – weaving with carrier bags
Since my primary aim here, is to make a case for practice, and proccess as research method. Laboratory for those hard scientist among you. I though I would share, a recent presentation and workshop I gave in Helsinki, as part of the, °City is sound, city is quicksand° event at Hietsu pavilion! Hosted by the…
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Why architects from Africa are not designing buildings, and what the West could learn.
A manifesto in one sentence. Any architect, taking seriously the effect of the built environment on climate change and the role of building construction materials in our rapidly heating world, must conclude that the moral responsibility for architects is to no longer consider making buildings as the primary project of the architectural profession, both now…
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Making Odd Kin – 2022
Gathering Oddkin, Nirox Foundation winter sculpture fair – Good Neighbors 7may-31 August 2022 BRIGITTA STONE-JOHNSON SOUTH AFRICA Gathering oddkin, 2022 Over the last two hundred years, humans have moved from beings that affect their immediate dwelling places to epoch-altering geo-writers. Since the industrial age, we have acted as if non-living things had neither life nor…