The NOMAD CITY Summer School 2014 was organized through a cooperation of the Mongolian University of Science and Technology and the Technische Universität Berlin.
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New York's Weltstadt project will explore the intersection between design and the social sciences at large by exploring the concept of “city” and “citizen” in parallel.
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Mongolian and German students of the urban design studios of MUST (Mongolian University of Science and Technology) and TU Berlin conducted field work to analyze the social, cultural and physical situation in the settlement of Yarmag.
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"It is only through collaboration and sharing of competencies that citizens, architects, authorities and developers may create opportunities to transform the process of urban disintegration into an integrative impetus." more
Everybody is talking about the crisis, but how is it actually manifested? Have cities changed? Where do We-Traders come from and what unites them? In October 2013, the We-Traders community worked on this at forums in Lisbon, Madrid, Turin and Toulouse. Here are a few pickings from our notes.
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Interview mit Nós Brasil! We Brazil! Kurator Matthias Böttger für das Goethe Länderportal Brasilien anlässlich der X. Internationalen Architekturbiennale in São Paolo...
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Over the past decade, Turin has experienced profound changes to its urban structure. By transforming itself from an industrial city into a place of culture, it gained a significant position on the Italian and European scene and the result of this extensive transformation is a new urban model…
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The City of Madrid presently offers a highly stimulating challenge to its inhabitants. It is experiencing a time of deep economic and identity crisis, thus a unique opportunity in which to reflect on their future with community leaders …
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We-Traders Lisbon features several urban players who, in spite of unemployment and no public contract as urban protagonists, are looking for creative solutions, often arising from existential and social need...
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Casa do Povo will host Nós Brasil! We Brazil!, the German contribution to the X Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo. The research of Nós Brasil! We Brazil! deails with current practices of city-making in Brazil and links it to Casa do Povo's rich history as a forum for political participation... more
Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of Alagados and Dois de Julho in Salvador...
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Over the last 20 years nomadic families poured into Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar and created so called Ger settlements. These traditional mobile dwellings lack essential urban services such as water and and sewage system as well as public services or public spaces..
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Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of the Bairro Farrapos, a vila in Porto Alegre...
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The affordable housing complex is a displaced piece of urban fabric in the middle of a rural area. How long will it take until the city absorbs it? Will it ever?...
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During the Nós Brasil! We Brazil! project a series of Y-Tables will be collectively programmed and produced with local participants and materials in three different cities. But what is the idea behind these tables?..
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Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Curitiba Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of Curitiba...
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