http://www.dysturb.net/2008/experimentadesign-amsterdam-space-and-place/ dysturb.net is our shared mindscape on the visual, spatial & urban culture of the dutch architecture scene. Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:26:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.dysturb.net/2008/experimentadesign-amsterdam-space-and-place/comment-page-1/#comment-13784 Action In The City at dysturb.net | dysturb.net is our shared mindscape on the visual, spatial & urban culture of the dutch architecture scene. Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:00:19 +0000 http://www.dysturb.net/?p=751#comment-13784 [...] For many design­ers and artists, they will already be famil­iar with some of the work. And for many of us, we’ve already been involved with our own DIY actions for many years. In this regard, the exhi­bi­tion is espe­cially impor­tant in its pre­sen­ta­tion of these largely hidden actions to the greater public. In com­pil­ing the 99 works together under themes such as: Excess, Choice, Fric­tions, Guer­rilla, Plan­ning Smarter and Shar­ing; the public finds their own worlds recon­tex­tu­al­ized through an optic of change and imag­i­na­tion. This is hugely impor­tant to soci­ety, that an atti­tude of DIY per­me­ates through­out or col­lec­tive con­scious so that our daily lives become more cre­ative. In essence, this is a con­tem­po­rary stim­u­la­tion of the inner ten­den­cies that many avant-​garde urban utopias, such as Constant’s New Baby­lon (images) project, and the Sit­u­a­tion­ist’s Dérive cham­pi­oned. His work, based on the­o­ries of Homo Ludens, now finds itself in nearly all urban exhibits around the world, most recently in Ams­ter­dam (related arti­cle). [...] [...] For many design­ers and artists, they will already be famil­iar with some of the work. And for many of us, we’ve already been involved with our own DIY actions for many years. In this regard, the exhi­bi­tion is espe­cially impor­tant in its pre­sen­ta­tion of these largely hidden actions to the greater public. In com­pil­ing the 99 works together under themes such as: Excess, Choice, Fric­tions, Guer­rilla, Plan­ning Smarter and Shar­ing; the public finds their own worlds recon­tex­tu­al­ized through an optic of change and imag­i­na­tion. This is hugely impor­tant to soci­ety, that an atti­tude of DIY per­me­ates through­out or col­lec­tive con­scious so that our daily lives become more cre­ative. In essence, this is a con­tem­po­rary stim­u­la­tion of the inner ten­den­cies that many avant-​garde urban utopias, such as Constant’s New Baby­lon (images) project, and the Sit­u­a­tion­ist’s Dérive cham­pi­oned. His work, based on the­o­ries of Homo Ludens, now finds itself in nearly all urban exhibits around the world, most recently in Ams­ter­dam (related arti­cle). [...]

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