Category: "Summer Academy 2015"

17 / 30 They were like animals

   “We all should learn from sloths. You don’t have to be beautiful and you don’t have to do a lot to be adorable.” Maha Maamoun   What if Disney Princesses were sloths? This question was recently raised rather graphically by Buzzfeed editor Jen… more »
11/08/15 00:50 Summer Academy 2015

16 / 30 Mental Maps

Yes, form follows function. But whom does function follow? Does it follow the people constituting a space? Or those governing it?   Yes form follows function. But while utopia wanted new men, capital wants new circuits. While utopia imagined… more »
09/08/15 23:56 Summer Academy 2015

15 / 30 Fact-based Funny

  “I have never laughed about a photo. But it is incredibly hard to make people cry with a comic.”   The silence in the studio of Nicolas Wild’s class on graphic reportages is astonishing. You hear scribbling and at time the rustling of paper. Your… more »
07/08/15 15:45 Summer Academy 2015

14 / 30 Strollology – the alienation from alienation

     Yesterday I was blogging about my annoyance with tourists. Those alien-like figures, who always move slowly, appear in groups and block everything for everybody. I was annoyed by the greedy exotization. I was annoyed by the obsession to turn… more »
06/08/15 11:44 Summer Academy 2015

13 / 30 Public Routines

    Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, a by-product of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.    The same modernization that removed time from… more »
05/08/15 14:06 Summer Academy 2015

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