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New Architecture Culture – Daz & Holzmarkt
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Accompanied by the director of the German Architecture Center (DAZ) Matthias Böttger, the Harvard Mellon Berlin portal research group paid a visit to the DAZ, in which they saw a current exhibition about new housing projects in Berlin. Among other issues...
Berlin Workshop June 2015: Reconceptualizing The Urban
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As part of the 2015 research visit to Berlin, HMUI Berlin portal organized a workshop in collaboration with the Center For Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University Berlin. The workshop included lectures and presentations divided into two main...
Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
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The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative’s traveling exhibition is at the Druker Design Gallery of Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA from August 27 to October 14. Together with Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative, the exhibition Race...
Boston
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About the Boston Portal Cultural, social, and economic diversity in the United States is expanding. Nowhere is this demographic complexity more evident than in urban centers where people of different races, ideologies, religions, sexual orientations, and...
Berlin
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Berlin is the site of new regional and cultural interactions in a reconfigured post-industrial and post-socialist Europe. The subject of intense scrutiny in the 1990s and early 2000s, Berlin is due for renewed scholarly attention. Today, Berlin is one of...
LocalView: Studying Urban Policymaking in American Cities
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The vast majority of decisions on urban politics in the United States are made in local public government meetings, but the decentralized nature of local governments in our federal system makes it difficult to collect data on these meetings and study them...
Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
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Urban Intermedia * is a multifaceted research project, begun during phase one of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and part of an ongoing exploration of new collaborative practices that bring together scholarship, design, and media around the study of...
Energies and Imaginations: Hypotheses for a Present in Transition
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Energies and Imaginations brings together scholars, artists, architects, and designers to reflect and speculate on the perils and potentials of energy transitions in Latin America. How are creative practices harnessing the material, social, and spiritual...
Technology, Ecology, and Urban Nature
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This event investigates changing theories of nature and the relationship of nature and technology, taking concrete examples of new public open spaces built on the sites of old and often abandoned infrastructure as a point of departure. It will address...
Recovery Through Remediation: Landscape and Economic Transformation of the GDR’S “Energy District”
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Recovery and Remediation carries forward research begun in the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) Urban Intermedia Project and takes the investigation into the dynamics of urban transformation and intermedia practices in new directions. The focus is...
Mumbai
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The Mumbai portal seeks to understand the city as a set of disparities between formal urban design and planning intentions and their spatial manifestations on the ground. The increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and...