This paper shall introduce the term Knowledge Tourism, explain and frame it as a mode of knowledge production and what this means. It shall also offer an insight to how it should evolve, as its current modality is static and its productivity linear. The paper will serve as a primer for discussion into modes of territorialisation in different, unknown or foreign contexts, and is thus as relevant to the NGO as it is to the student.
The City and the Political is an ongoing open class and research group at The Public School, Berlin, that invites anyone to join in discussions between theories and spatial practices of “the city” and “the political.”
The city is home to modern man. This class begins at the scale of the city in order to open up all levels of discourse on spatial production. What is space? What is public vs. private space? What is democratic vs. controlled (neoliberal) space? How should architects, urbanists, politicians, developers create space? How should the people take back space?
The political hints to a wide range of concepts regarding man’s relation to one another, institutional formations, and potentially radical acts of protest. The spatial production of our cities cannot be divorced from a serious theoretical understanding of our contemporary politics, as representative democracy, the social movements within our cities, and strategies of radical political emancipation.
“People & Spaces”
The result of the Camenzind East Africa workshop: a new magazine for East Africa and the world. Concerned with issues related to architecture, urbanism, the city and social from an East African context. The first issue of Anza (Swahili for ‘start’) was produced in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Anza Mission Statement
We are an architectural magazine dedicated to exploring people and spaces through in-depth articles, images, scenes and discussions that go beyond the lines that divide building and sky.
In our exploration, we hope to better understand our transforming East-African cities – and their identities – by looking at the past, present, and future with fun, seriousness and humor.
In this little way, we hope to shape the planning, engineering, and architecture of our cities; and add richness to our living spaces.
Asante na Karibuni
Anza website
Available in Europe through Motto Distribution
Launching East Africa’s first architectural magazine
Read the story here: www.camenzindeastafrica.org
9/19/2011 – 10/16/2011
According to the UN, the African continent is due to experience an immense population growth during the 21st century with its population more than tripling from one Billion to 3.6 Billion. Most of this population growth will take place in cities. Among the world’s 20 fastest growing urban areas, nine are located in Africa, with Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s biggest city, in the top ranks. An annual 130.000 people will move to Dar es Salaam each year. Most of this urban growth is going on badly coordinated.
There is no architectural magazine following and reflecting this development. “East Africa’s first architectural magazine: Camenzind goes East Africa” is a project that aims at changing this, because only local know-how combined with a powerful discussion culture can work towards sustainable growth.
The project takes the symposium “Global City – Local Identity” in Dar es Salaam as a trigger to launch the first East African architecture magazine. The magazine will be prepared by an interdisciplinary team of students in a workshop, attended by experts from Tanzania and Switzerland. The students will conceive, print and distribute the issue in both English and Swahili language and present and distribute it at the symposium.
Shot in north Brandenberg, spring 2011. Made by William Davis, Arne Fehmel and Aras Müller. Many thanks to Tobias Bergmann, Hannah Parr, Robert Raths.
Wear your new identity, spread the foreign feeling! Every day is a new Randonnée…
How important do workers’ unions remain in modern society?
A project on the importance (or lack) of the workers union.
“Unions need to be alone, for them to work properly”
“My opinion is that there aren’t less trade unions because people don’t like trade unions, I think there’s less unions because they’ve gone to work in other things where there aren’t any unions. The real problem is people not recognising or knowing where to turn.”
“I think its in the interest of global capitalism to render unions irrelevant and to advertise them as irrelevant”
“There is a feeling within the union that those who don’t pay their membership fees and join in and don’t take some part at all are riding on the backs of those who do.”
“One in five workers are choosing to join the unions. Now unions have an important safety role in some industries but overall Australians are choosing not to join the unions because they see them as irrelevant to their lives.”
“Give the workers just enough rope so that they believe they are off the leash, just enough to fool them into scorning the union. The golden rule of management control, as I taught it, was: incorporate dissent, institutionalize it.”
Ongoing research project with Janneke De Rooij, Jeroen Sikma and Amin Musa.
What is the other? How is it defined? How do we define it?
The Other is the relationship between two parties, their otherness brought about by differences in language, representation, lifestyle, histories.
They could be physically removed or very far apart from each other, their lives could also be completely intertwined and reliant on one another, yet otherness still prevails.
Are we also Other? To some extent, however we are aware of our otherness and it acts as a catalyst in our interaction.
Our interest lies in language and representation. How does otherness manifest itself in the subjects we have observed?
Alexander von Humboldt—as a historical character, philosopher, explorer, and educator—serves as the inspiration and starting point for the project.
“Part-Time Pioneer” is a research-based art installation, taking a wide, historical approach to the concept of the “pioneer.” This figure, particularly present in the development of American history, is a vessel that contains projections of hope, fear, desire, and expectation.
An exhibition by Beny Wagner.
Organised by William Davis and Leah Whitman-Salkin.
The exhibition took place in the Humboldt University ‘Lichthof’ on Unter den Linden, Berlin from 1–24th April 2011
Reviews:
Die Zeit
Kaleidoscope
Exhibition scenography, design, planning with chezweitz&roseapple, for an animation exhibition at The Barbican.
Reviews:
The Independent
The Huffington Post
“[On designing for need] …to do this is precisely to engage in the social and political life of the community. Designers can take part in the initiation of briefs by society but as citisens not as designers.”
— Peter Lloyd Jones, part of a radio talk on designing for need
Design and art direction of a map produced for the old-aged in Bristol city centre, with Ben Barker and The Greater Bedminster Older Peoples Forum. The map helped the old-aged become aware of where they had a right to use the toilet in their local area, and also where new benches were in place. The map detailed other place of interest such as libraries, galleries and community centres, as part of a scheme by Bristol City Council to generate awareness, acknowledge and support the aged.
4000 times for Don’t Panic Berlin with Léo Favier.
Don’t Panic Berlin operate advertising and distribution for events in the spheres of music, art, literature, fashion and everything in between.
For the May 2010 poster we created a poster based on the concepts of advertising, taking slogans and phrases seen in everyday Berlin advertising. We reproduced it with no budget and without the use of computers in a run of 4000 using a Risograph RC 4500 and found or recycled papers, with a total of four different posters and 1000 of each.
How to look at a city as a series of networks, social patterns, ideas.
Workshop with Jeroen Sikma in Leeds, thanks Jess and Jen!
Poster for the Rotterdam end of year show party with François Brunet.
“First you make money by creating products no one understands, then you make money by cleaning the mess up.”
A series of reports as a part of an ongoing research project by Corporate Watch called Banking on Crisis, a series of publications and workshops aiming to contribute to a popular, critical
understanding of the banking and finance sector and its role in society. For more information visit our research blog here, or for questions, comments and suggestions, get in touch via:
contact [at] corporatewatch.org
In collaboration with Andres Saenz De Sicilia and Hannah Schling of Corporate Watch.
“It takes 1 cup wine 1/2 hr to reduce by 1/2 at 400 degs.”
EADERS DIGEST metabolizes a published text via an orchestrated alchemical process.
Contributors are necessarily strangers from each other.
The result is printed in A2 poster format in editions of 500-1000.
With Elvia Pyburn-Wilk
Issue no. 2: All Meat No Filler
Contributors:
Mary Ruefle
Andrew Worthington
Natalia Drozniak
Devon Caranicas
Daniel Fishkin
Christine Kim
Kein Katalog ist eine Publikation über das kulturelle Veranstaltungsjahr 2010 des Hildesheimer Salon e.V. Er spielt mit dem konventionellen Format des Katalogobjektes, indem er dem Leser inoffizielle Dokumente zeigt, sowie die Möglichkeit zur non-linearen Rezeption bietet.
Kein Katalog, herausgegeben von Isabell Ertl und Lara Sielmann, erscheint in der Edition Pächterhaus und beinhaltet Texte, Material und Kunstwerke von über 40 internationalen Kunst- und Kulturschaffenden.
Der Release findet am 16.07. ab 18 Uhr als Sommerfest von Salon e.V. statt: Die Räume werden zum begehbaren Katalog, sein Inhalt ausschnitthaft reenacted.
Freier Eintritt und Catering von Alea Franke.
Kein Katalog ist erhältlich unter: Edition Pächterhaus
Gestaltung und Art direction mit Korbinian Kainz, Basics09.
“The conflict is partly due to different ways of seeing and interpreting the working situation.”
On the understanding of a changing workforce, and what unions mean today.
The book is a compendium of the research, experimentation, ideas and end results based around my study of workers unions and unionism, as a part of a self-directed study on the notion of work.
Including interviews with Glen Burrows (RMT), Dom Passfield (UWESU), Terryl Bacon (UCU), Jacinta Heydecker.
April 2009
92 pages
b&w
ebook
(printed editions also available from lulu)
Available for free download on Lulu.
Design and art direction of a photography book for the talented Eva Teppe, made alongside Basics09. Published in spring 2011 by Kerber Verlag.
Photography book of Luke Casey‘s photography in Japan.
The graphic design yearbook for Bristol UWE, with Laura Parke, Sophie Dutton, Olie Kay and Dan Alford. Printed in a run of 2000 with grouped screen-printed covers, on the occasion of the exhibition 81 People.
Newspaper designed and written by William Davis, with illustration by Richard Sanderson conceived by both for an exhibition at Lev Kaupas, winter 2010.
An airport with abstract rules, as transient a space as real life airports, there for an indirect purpose.
A short newspaper to be regarded as a proposal for a proposal, a set of ideas, an unwashed blackboard.
Various fonts from various sources.
Schriftli: based on a font by Knud V. Engelhardt in 1929
Che Varia: customised version of Folio
Tionen: based on a 1953 poster for the maiden voyage of the ship ‘Campania’
Please get in touch if you’d like versions of any.
With Sophie Dutton for Plan 9 of Bristol.