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The River and the Risk
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Keep Safe, photography, landscape, river landscape, floods, Germany, Ahr Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, landscape conservation, landscape protection, AfD, Heimat
2 July 2024
The River and the Risk
Leonie Hartung asks what it means to legally protect a (river-)landscape when the concept of landscape itself is no longer tangible
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Playing it Safe
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Keep Safe, playgrounds, safety, risk, regulation, public space, control, contemporary playground design,
8 July 2024
Playing it Safe
Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan, and Angie Door on the creation of play subjects and playgrounds
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Learning from… Lagos
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
29 March 2007 , 6pm
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The expanded role: SITU
Bradley Samuels presents recent SITU Research work and the role that research plays within the larger practice of SITU as a whole. A series of case studies will be presented which explore an expanded role for architectural and spatial practice across a range of fields—from human rights and public policy to earth science and workspace design. SITU Research’s past work(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 January 2016
The expanded role: SITU
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Bradley Samuels presents recent SITU Research work and the role that research plays within the larger practice of SITU as a whole. A series of case studies will be presented which explore an expanded role for architectural and spatial practice across a range of fields—from human rights and public policy to earth science and workspace design. SITU Research’s past work(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
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La pensée en architecture au risque de l'événementialité / Dorra Ismaïl ; préface de Youssef Seddik.
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340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Paris : L'Harmattan, ©2009.
La pensée en architecture au risque de l'événementialité / Dorra Ismaïl ; préface de Youssef Seddik.
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340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Paris : L'Harmattan, ©2009.
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190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Paris : J.-M. Place ; Lille : Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Lille, ©2006.
La ville durable : au risque de l'histoire / textes réunis par Sophie Descat, Eric Monin, Daniel Siret.
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190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Paris : J.-M. Place ; Lille : Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Lille, ©2006.
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173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Marseille : Parenthèses, [2016]
Atout risques : des territoires exposés se réinventent / sous la direction de Fréderic Bonnet ; avec Jean-François Morel et Jenny Reuillard.
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173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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Marseille : Parenthèses, [2016]
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1 v. (310 p.) : illustrations en coul., cartes, couv. illustrations en coul. ; 23 cm
Paris : Archibooks + Sautereau éditeur, DL 2016.
Paysages urbains parisiens et risques climatiques / sous la direction de Olivier Jeudy, Yann Nussaume, Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki.
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1 v. (310 p.) : illustrations en coul., cartes, couv. illustrations en coul. ; 23 cm
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Paris : Archibooks + Sautereau éditeur, DL 2016.
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163 pages
Paris : Recherches, 2004.
Trafics en ville : L'architecture et l'urbanisme au risque de la mobilité / Serge Wachter.
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Paris : Recherches, 2004.