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Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing cover

Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

Urgent publishing pertains both to timeliness and relevance. What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? Revolving around the key notions of relations, trust, and remediation Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing presents methods and prototypes that counter the […]

Letters to the Mayor Rotterdam. Photo: Petra van der Ree. Courtesy of Nieuwe Instituut.

Letters to the Mayor: Rotterdam

Our Letter to the Mayor of Rotterdam. The exhibition ‘Letters to the Mayor: Rotterdam’ is a result of a collaboration on the theme of ‘City Forces’ between Het Nieuwe Instituut and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. As a part of this project, 66 architects and urbanists wrote 46 letters to the Mayor […]

Archifutures: The Studio

The Studio is the second book in the Archifutures series conceived by dpr-barcelona and &beyond collective for The Future Architecture Platform. This volume’s focus is on cutting-edge thinking and wider theoretical questions and themes that underpin the series, from reflections upon what our ideas of the “future” really mean to the changing role of the architecture profession as a whole.

Participants of Future Architecture Platform Conference in Ljubljana, 2016

Future Architecture Platform

The first pan-European platform presenting ideas for the future of architecture. In 2016, Amateur Cities was selected to be a part of the first 25 Future Architecture Platform (FAP) cohort of emerging talents to participate in a year-long program of various cultural events organized by the member organizations of FAP. Between February and October 2016 […]

Article: Critical Imagination

Amateur Cities

On Amateurs

The word amateur has two meanings. One refers to the etymological origin of the word and is derived from French – amateur ‘lover of’ or from Latin – amator ‘lover’. Both come from the verb amare ‘to love’. According to this definition an amateur is a person that engages in a pursuit on an unpaid […]

Letters to the Mayor: Rotterdam cover.

Letters to the Mayor: Rotterdam

Five manifestos by Rotterdam’s architects. Letters to the Mayor: Rotterdam publication emerged as a follow-up to the exhibition under the same title organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut in collaboration with the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. The publication includes five short manifestos on the most pressing issues for the city accompanied by […]

Book cover Kto Odzyska Plac Defilad?

Kto Odzyska Plac Defilad?

In this book, published by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on the occasion of the 9th edition of the Warsaw Under Construction Festival of Architecture Tomasz Fudala, Werner Huber, Grzegorz Mika, Michał Murawski, Ania Molenda and Cristina Ampatzidou, Artur Jerzy Filip, Marlena Happach, Magda Grabowska, Aleksandra Litorowicz, Bogna Świątkowska, and Tim Tompkins write and discuss how to turn a parking lot into an urban square, the shadow of Stalin and the Palace complex.

MoneyLab#3 Failing Better program booklet

Moneylab #3 Failing Better

A series of double interviews on financial surveillance, platform cooperativism and distributed ownership, perceptions of value, debt, and playfulness. Conducted in the framework of the Moneylab #3 conference, this series of double interviews brought together six speakers to discuss a number of issues connected to the conference topic. Under the title “Failing Better”, Moneylab #3 […]

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New Media in Old Cities: The emergence of the new collective

New media give rise to a new set of spatial strategies and tactics that can be employed to either build on a centralized technocratic view of the city or lead to the definition of a new type of public. Published in Footprint Journal #16 – Commoning as Differentiated Publicness, this article examines the new ways […]