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	<description>On cities, mapping, psychogeography and the experience of places.</description>
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		<title>Exploring Architectural Territories &#8211; Launch party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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EAT is a collective of architects, thinkers and doers assembled together from an international background wherein each individual brings his or her own sensability, views and language to the whole. Its central belief is in architecture’s potential to function as a transmitter for resources, culture, ideas and change. The territory e.a.t. navigates goes beyond the [...]]]></description>
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<p>EAT is a collective of architects, thinkers and doers assembled together from an international background wherein each individual brings his or her own sensability, views and language to the whole. Its central belief is in architecture’s potential to function as a transmitter for resources, culture, ideas and change. The territory e.a.t. navigates goes beyond the conventional definition of architecture, viewing its domain as an edifice which aims to influence the built world that we inhabit today and tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>e.a.t. exploring architectural territories launch party</strong></p>
<p><strong>7pm Saturday 11 December</strong></p>
<p>the red lion pub<br />
41 hoxton sq<br />
N1 6NH</p>
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		<title>COUNTER CONSTRUCTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Brooks, Graham Hudson, Tim Ivison &#38; Julia Tcharfas, Paul Kneale, Guan Rong, Brendan Threadgill

Private view 17 September 6-9pm
18 September &#8211; 3 October
Thursday &#8211; Sunday 12 &#8211; 6pm
Auto Italia South East
1 Glengall Road
London
SE15 6NJ
Counter Constructs brings together seven artists from the UK and North America in an exhibition exploring strategies of representation and critique of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Nicholas Brooks, Graham Hudson, Tim Ivison &amp; Julia Tcharfas, Paul Kneale, Guan Rong, Brendan Threadgill</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Counter Constructs" src="http://ctrl-n.net/images/journal/counter-constructs.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="265" /></p>
<p>Private view 17 September 6-9pm</p>
<p>18 September &#8211; 3 October<br />
Thursday &#8211; Sunday 12 &#8211; 6pm</p>
<p>Auto Italia South East<br />
1 Glengall Road<br />
London<br />
SE15 6NJ</p>
<p><em>Counter Constructs</em> brings together seven artists from the UK and North America in an exhibition exploring strategies of representation and critique of the urban built environment. Responding to the undead ‘regeneration’ of global development projects and the geologic sediment of spatial histories, the exhibition is a series of implicit proposals and contestations. Unfinished maps, unspecified models, unbuilt plans and unbuilding the city – the exhibition is as much about utopia as it is about its folly.<em><br />
</em>Initially organised by Tim Ivison &amp; Julia Tcharfas around their research-based collaborative practice, <em>Counter Constructs</em> is a way to extend their dialogue on urban space to a wider range of interpretations. The artists in the show are brought together by a shared interest in mining the structures of architectural thinking, taking failure and conjecture as a starting point for productive investigations.</p>
<p>Comprising a number of independent installations, each work forms a part of a circuitous system of associations and digressions. The politics of history and preservation are played out in sound installation and sculpture, while the fetishisation of the suburban is both questioned and consecrated in film. An installation of sculpture, maps and images investigates the unbuilt visions of Edward Lutyens, a détourned architectural pavilion subverts the logic of modern utopias, and a floor-drawing altered daily recalls the paradox of permanent traces in the deep ephemerality of urban space in development an conflict.</p>
<p>Meanwhile other utopias are constructed in earnest in the form of small models and paintings forming a partial proposal towards a liberated social construction. These, and other projects will find space at Auto Italia over the course of the two week exhibition, working towards a negotiation of what we want from out cities, past and future – what is vital and resonant, what is dead and should remain so.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org/" target="_blank">www.autoitaliasoutheast.org</a><br />
<a href="mailto:amanda@autoitaliasoutheast.org">info@autoitaliasoutheast.org</a></p>
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		<title>Repair Manual &#8211; Photography and Urban Cultures exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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16 SEPTEMBER &#8211; 3 OCTOBER 2010
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Repair Manual
An exhibition showing the work of 17 graduates from the MA Photography and Urban Cultures of Goldsmiths University of London and the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR). The possible convergence of urban and social theory with a photographic practice has been taken into practice, explored, celebrated, taken [...]]]></description>
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<p>16 SEPTEMBER &#8211; 3 OCTOBER 2010<br />
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<p>Repair Manual</p>
<p>An exhibition showing the work of 17 graduates from the MA Photography and Urban Cultures of Goldsmiths University of London and the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR). The possible convergence of urban and social theory with a photographic practice has been taken into practice, explored, celebrated, taken apart, revisited, and deconstructed in order to reassemble all the different approaches within a graduate exhibition.</p>
<p>PRIVATE VIEW &#8211; 16 September 5:30-8:30 pm</p>
<p>You are kindly invited to come and visit our private view and opening night. Drinks will be accompanied by Chinese snacks courtesy of Seng Jariangroj.</p>
<p><img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://ctrl-n.net/images/journal/repair_people.jpg" border="0" alt="work by:" width="408" height="269" /></p>
<p>PLEASE VISIT</p>
<p><a href="http://repairmanualexhibition.net/" target="_blank">www.repairmanualexhibition.net</a> for a schedule of events</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=172428194394&amp;v=app_2344061033&amp;ref=ts#%21/group.php?gid=285747897359&amp;ref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/repair_manual" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p>
<p>CONTACT</p>
<p>APT Gallery<br />
Harold Wharf<br />
6 Creekside<br />
Deptford<br />
London SE 8 4SA<br />
Open dates: 16 September &#8211; 3 October on Thursday &#8211; Saturday from 12am &#8211; 5pm</p>
<p>Bus: 53, 177, 188, 199, 47<br />
Tube: DLR Deptford Bridge or Greenwich<br />
Rail: British Rail from London Bridge, ten minutes walk to Deptford<br />
Car: Free parking on Creekside</p>
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		<title>TRANSLOCATED &#8211; EXHIBITION PREVIEW + FORUM, 21st / 22nd August 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/archives/translocated-exhibition-preview-forum-21-22-august-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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You are cordially invited to the presentation of Translocated &#8211; a  platform for reflection and artistic practices revolving around urban  space and psychogeography.
TRANSLOCATED &#8211; EXHIBITION  PREVIEW + FORUM
21st / 22nd  August 2010
The Alleyway
219 Glyn Road
E5 0JP
The  preview will feature projects and presentations from three artists  whose work is currently [...]]]></description>
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<h3>You are cordially invited to the presentation of Translocated &#8211; a  platform for reflection and artistic practices revolving around urban  space and psychogeography.</h3>
<h2>TRANSLOCATED &#8211; EXHIBITION  PREVIEW + FORUM</h2>
<p><strong>21st / 22nd  August 2010</strong></p>
<p>The Alleyway<br />
219 Glyn Road<br />
E5 0JP</p>
<p>The  preview will feature projects and presentations from three artists  whose work is currently engaged in the issues raised by Translocated, as  well as some work in development and an open forum to discuss the  boundaries of translocation.</p>
<p>// PROGRAMME  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</p>
<p>//  Saturday 21st August<br />
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<p>4 &#8211; 5 pm<br />
exhibition preview</p>
<p>5  &#8211; 6 pm<br />
presentations<br />
(curator&#8217;s introduction, artist talk, open  forum)</p>
<p>7 &#8211; 8 pm<br />
drinks  reception</p>
<p>8 &#8211; 10pm<br />
film screening</p>
<p>// Sunday 22nd  August<br />
- &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211;  &#8211; - &#8211; - &#8211; -</p>
<p>4 &#8211; 6pm<br />
video actions</p>
<p>6 &#8211; 8pm<br />
1-to-1  guided walks</p>
<p>- &#8211; - -</p>
<p><a href="http://translocated.org/" target="_blank">http://translocated.org</a></p>
<p>Join our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=160025286239" target="_blank">Facebook Group</a><br />
or  RSVP to our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/event.php?eid=113581095357786" target="_blank">Facebook Event</a></p>
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		<title>Interpréter la ville : correspondances / glissements d’espaces</title>
		<link>http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/archives/interpreter-la-ville-correspondances-glissements-d-espaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entre les villes, celle où je vis, celles où j’ai vécu, celles que je ne connais pas encore, se tisse tout un réseau de connexions et de renversements, d’allusions et de proximités pressenties. Notre interprétation d’une ville est le résultat de tels échos de ressemblance suscitée par un détail ou une configuration, des glissements qui [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Entre les villes, celle où je vis, celles où j’ai vécu, celles que je ne connais pas encore, se tisse tout un réseau de connexions et de renversements, d’allusions et de proximités pressenties. Notre interprétation d’une ville est le résultat de tels échos de ressemblance suscitée par un détail ou une configuration, des glissements qui sont autant de départs vers d’autres villes. Il y a les départs objectifs, dus a l’imprégnation de tout un quartier par une population différente et lointaine ou par un bâtiment qui soudain fait rupture, il en est aussi de plus secrets, de moins facilement décelables, et qui n’existent peut-être que pour celui qui en perçoit le frémissement. Il en est encore d’autres qui relèvent du collage, lorsque par exemple, chez soi ou au contraire très loin, l’on se projette par la lecture dans un autre espace.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/../images/journal/rue_auguste_mounie_antony.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-402" title="Rue Auguste Mounie (Antony, 92)" src="http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/../images/journal/rue_auguste_mounie_antony.jpg" alt="Rue Auguste Mounie (Antony, 92)" width="519" height="384" /></a></p>
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<p>Jean Christophe Bailly (2001) <em>La Clairière, </em>in<em> La Ville à l’œuvre</em>, Paris: Les Editions de l’Imprimeur (p.73 – 79)</p>
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		<title>Baudelaire, on the figure of the flâneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of the birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of the birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world – such are a few of the slightest pleasures of the independent, passionate, impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”</p></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align: right;">Baudelaire, C. (1964), <em>The Painter of Modern Life</em>, New York: Da Capo Press</p>
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		<title>Open Source Urbanism &#8211; Rethinking public space in an age of pervasive communication</title>
		<link>http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/archives/open-source-urbanism-rethinking-public-space-in-an-age-of-pervasive-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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Open Source Urbanism &#8211; project website, initiated by Rory Hyde and Scott Mitchell.
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<p><span class="a"><a href="http://www.openobject.org/opensourceurbanism/About" target="_blank">Open Source Urbanism</a></span> &#8211; project website, initiated by Rory Hyde and Scott Mitchell.</p>
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		<title>La ville-texte</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Un nom, le nom d’une ville sur la terre, suffit à ouvrir le jeu qui commença sur les atlas de l’enfance. Ce nom, avant d’être un ici, est un là-bas : un motif de rêverie, un buisson d’idées qu’on se fait, d’images mentales relayées par la littérature, les représentations. Puis arrive un jour ou l’on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 660px"><a href="http://www.ctrl-n.net/images/journal/londons_kerning_detail.gif"><img title="NB: Studio - Londons Kerning (2007)" src="http://www.ctrl-n.net/images/journal/londons_kerning.gif" alt="" width="650" height="447" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">NB: Studio - Londons Kerning (2007)</p></div>
<p>Un <em>nom</em>, le nom d’une ville sur la terre, suffit à ouvrir le jeu qui commença sur les atlas de l’enfance. Ce nom, avant d’être un <em>ici</em>, est un <em>là-bas</em> : un motif de rêverie, un buisson d’idées qu’on se fait, d’images mentales relayées par la littérature, les représentations. Puis arrive un jour ou l’on s’y rend et tout le buissonnement confus du « là-bas » s’évapore. L’apprentissage commence : On se rend compte que ce nom, ce qui a fait venir, ce qui a fait rêver, s’il recouvre bien toute la ville, n’en désigne vraiment que le noyau originel. Chaque ville est un ensemble de possibles, prêt à se décomposer en fragments distincts à l’arrivée de chaque nouveau visiteur.</p>
<p>On ne connaît une ville et on ne se l’approprie qu’en la pratiquant – telle une langue. Pour en maîtriser la topographie, la disposition de ses quartiers, il faut plonger dans sa densité kaléidoscopique et entrer dans sa matière. La syntaxe lentement découverte laisse entrevoir sa structure ; Le lexique y prend forme en des phrasés multiples qui se superposent et s’entrecroisent, de façon à la fois réglée et aléatoire, en une forme déchiffrable ou complexe, le long de la grammaire du plan. La ponctuation laisse respirer ses grandes phrases amorphes comme ses éclats lumineux ; Un amas de collages, de parenthèses ouvertes remplies de visions, d’odeurs, d’instants, qui laisse filtrer du sens, ce sursaut d’intensité.</p>
<p>La ville est ainsi une réserve de sens en jachère, de signes que chacun articule, anime, « locute », occulte à sa façon en la parcourant. Une somme d’agencements réalisés, et dans chaque parcours, la réalisation d’un nouvel agencement, d’une nouvelle phrase. La ville, « ionisée » par la démarche qui la traverse en l’explorant, s’éclaire de l’intérieur.<br />
On y forme des suites de mots, des phrases, on établit des repères. Les villes, « pelotes d’histoires », nous exposent à un buissonnement permanent de traces et d’indices enchevêtrés. Chaque ville parle son propre argot secret dont le flâneur reconstitue la trame, le tissu, avec ses moirés et ses accrocs, à la fois achevé et à tisser encore. Cette inextricable complexité de la ville est rendue lisible par l’ascension de l’observateur, qui peut dès lors déchiffrer le texte écrit par ses habitants-marcheurs (Wandersmänner)<a name="#ftnref26" href="#ftn26"><sup>1</sup></a>, sans qu&#8217;eux mêmes puissent le lire.</p>
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<p class="ftn">Le texte ci-dessus est en partie inspiré/condensé de trois essais de Jean Christophe Bailly publiés dans <em>La Ville à l’œuvre</em>, paru aux Editions de l’Imprimeur en 2001 :<br />
<em> La grammaire générative des jambes</em>, p.21 – 34<br />
<em> Le propre des villes</em>, p.81 – 84<br />
<em> La Clairière</em>, p.73 – 79</p>
<p class="ftn"><a name="#ftn26" href="#ftnref26"><sup>1</sup></a> Michel de Certeau, <em>L&#8217;invention du Quotidien</em>, Tome 1, p.139</p>
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		<title>Psychosociologie de la vie quotidienne : fonctions de la rue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Dans la vie sociale urbaine, la rue a ses fonctions; elle est un important émetteur d&#8217;informations, perpétuellement et régulièrement renouvelées dans le changement incessant des gens, des aspects, des objets et des heures. La rue est un &#8220;texte social&#8221; qui mêle signaux (simples, systèmes binaires), signes (complexes, systèmes ouverts) et symboles (stables et porteurs de [...]]]></description>
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<p>Dans la vie sociale urbaine, la rue a ses fonctions; elle est un important émetteur d&#8217;informations, perpétuellement et régulièrement renouvelées dans le changement incessant des gens, des aspects, des objets et des heures. La rue est un &#8220;texte social&#8221; qui mêle signaux (simples, systèmes binaires), signes (complexes, systèmes ouverts) et symboles (stables et porteurs de sens inépuisables) en des proportions équilibrées et dans des combinaisons infiniment variées, créant richesse, banalité ou ennui. « Un bon texte social est lisible et informatif : il surprend, mais pas trop ; il apprend sans accabler. »<br />
La rue offre publiquement ce qui est ailleurs caché, et elle le réalise sur la scène d&#8217;un théâtre, presque spontané: « La rue offre un spectacle et n&#8217;est que spectacle : celui qui se dépêche, pressé d&#8217;aller au travail, ne voit pas ce spectacle ; il y figure. »</p>
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<p>Henri Lefevbre, <em>Introduction a la psycho-sociologie de la vie quotidienne, Du Rural à L’Urbain</em> (1970) Ed. Anthropos, p. 89-98</p>
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		<title>Urban Earth: London</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[URBAN EARTH is a project to (re)present our habitat by walking across some of Earth&#8217;s biggest urban areas.
Central to URBAN EARTH is (re)presenting cities to show what they are really like for the people who live there &#8211; a direct challenge to the media that distort the reality of the places in which most of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>URBAN EARTH is a project to (re)present our habitat by walking across some of Earth&#8217;s biggest urban areas.</p>
<p>Central to URBAN EARTH is (re)presenting cities to show what they are really like for the people who live there &#8211; a direct challenge to the media that distort the reality of the places in which most of us now live.</p>

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