- Museums of resistance and counternarratives The recent explorations in Brazil and Mexico, carried within the theoretical framework proposed by the Rise-Horizon 2020 Cocreation partnership, provided us with a new opportunity to reflect on the role of creativity and culture in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This theme is implicit in our decennial exploration of modern urban peripheries, starting from the collaboration with the Havana Biennial and […]
- Rio de Janeiro – Denied City Museu da Maré Watch out! Danger! Get away! The word favela, like so many others, has more than one meaning. Favela, originally, is the name of a tree native to the northeastern caatingas. Covered with thorns, its contact with the skin can cause blisters and painful inflammations. Watch out! Danger! Get away! During the war […]
- Athens- Hellinikon International Airport Employed before by the Luftwaffe and then by the US army, it became with Aristotele Onassis, owner of the Olympic Airways, the first airport in Greece moving 11 millions of passengers a year. Luxury cabin service, porcelain and fine crystal glasses, stylish uniforms designed by Coco Chanel (1966-1968) and Pierre Cardin (1969-1971) leaving an indelible mark on […]
- The future has designed us In Belgrade to prepare the Power and Architecture exhibition, we had the pleasure to be joined by ogino:knauss’ founder member, dj and sound producer Miki Semascus. The exploration of the spatial context was naturally complemented by an investigation of the soundscape that finally took the form of a playlist of great Serbian/ Yugoslav / Balkan […]
- Towards Belgrade Invited by Transeuropa festival 2015, we had the opportunity to come back to Belgrade and open again our file on this city. We coordinated a urban reconnaissance workshop dedicated to the “City of Commons”, taking the cue from the concept of city as a common good to design an urban walk exploring key spaces of Belgrade and its political […]
- Suburban Constellations One of the images of the cover of the recently published book Suburban Constellations comes from our Dom Novogo Byta film. The book in fact contains a photographic essay by ogino:knauss about the Khodinskoe field in Moscow, where we shoot the final images of the Muscovite episode of R:CP. Suburban Constellation is a book and a […]
- Times Square Blues Talking about centre / periphery relations, Times Square is probably the most central space in the world. It is at the centre of New York City, it is at the centre of the global spectacular entertainment industry, at the centre of the american economy and its cultural domination over the world. Times Square is a […]
- From center to periphery The main focus of our project, clearly expressed by the title, is in the relation between periphery and centrality as produced by modernist principles. Adopting a wide scope, this means also investigating the relationship among political, economical, cultural forms of marginalization and the spatial organisation of society. Started as an almost random exploration of modernist […]
- R:CP – Considerations after the two first episodes With the screenings in Berlin and Prato we had the opportunity to see for the first time in sequence the two films we realised under the Re:centering Periphery label. We found ourselves together with a great number of friends, whose feedback has been very helpful to reflect on the outcomes and gave us the opportunity […]
- Dom Novogo Byta premiere We are happy to announce the premiere of our new film Dom Novogo Byta Wednesday 13 March at Moviemento Kino, Kottbusserdamm 22, Berlin (Germany’s oldest cinema!). The screening will start at 6.45 pm with Doble Forza, first episode of the documentary series. Dom Novogo Byta will be presented at 7.15 pm. Both films are spoken in a mix of original languages (Spanish, Russian, French) and non-native English, with English […]