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Sin Embargo

sin embargo

sine embargo - con embargo

Our friends from Super­su­daca host an inter­est­ing work­shop on tourism in post-​castro Cuba in Sep­tem­ber. It’ll set you back 1000€, but schol­ar­ships to reduce the fee are avail­able. The objec­tive of the work­shop is to find specual­tive answers on ques­tions as:

How will Cuba change its tourist brand­ing in a SIN-​EMBARGO sce­nario?
How will it mutate its cur­rent spa­tial seg­re­ga­tion strat­egy between locals and tourist in a SIN-​EMBARGO scheme?
What will be the ter­ri­to­r­ial impacts in a Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO that admits cruise ship tourism?
Will Cuba become a role model for next gen­er­a­tion tourist devel­op­ments in the Caribbean and world­wide in a SIN-​EMBARGO con­di­tion?
What is the emerg­ing ter­ri­to­r­ial par­a­digm of Sun and Beach in the Cuba CON-​EMBARGO? Will it change in a SIN-​EMBARGO con­text?
Will the reg­u­la­tion cul­ture and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment remain the same in a ‘liberalized’ Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO?
How will Cuba react spa­tially to the open­ing of the mas­sive market of second res­i­dences for Amer­i­can pen­sion­ers in a Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO?

The inscrip­tion period ends on 15th of August. The (slightly dis­ap­point­ing) results of last years suda­pan com­pe­ti­tion will be at dis­play at RAS gallery in Barcelona from 4th Sep­tem­ber on.

More at sinem​bargo.org.

WAF? WTF?

World Architecture Festival Barcelona

World Archi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val Barcelona

Emap, a Business-​to-​Business media group (from their web­site), hosts the first World Archi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val in Barcelona. Archi­tects are invited to put their build­ings up for com­pe­ti­tion (entry fee a smack­ing 950€), and among the exhib­ited projects the best will be awarded. The inter­est­ing jury (to name a few: Will Alsop, Cecil Bal­mond, Stefan Behnisch, Richard Bur­dett, Luis M. Man­silla, Richard Meier, Sir Peter Cook, Neil Denari, Norman Foster, Mas­si­m­il­iano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Michel Rojkind, Michael Sorkin, Francine Houben, Robert Stern, Christoph Ingen­hoven, Charles Jencks) might redeem the commercial/artificial flair the event exudes. We’ll keep our final judge­ment to our­selves until we know more about the event.