city of desire2

white female city, mature, hilled and atlantic, a bit shy but enjoys great adventures (the best were 500yrs. ago) searchs for a young partner, dynamic, relaxed, not yet metropolized, preferably tropical. contact: 38º43'N9º08'W

City of Desire

Female, 23, seek city for sleepless nights, long walks and easy access entertainment.



Hey Everyone,
can you please post a classified ad for the city of your desire?
A small example is above; although yours can be longer or shorter or more detailed.
It would be pretty great to get some of your ideas so that I can continue to work with the themes that we have been discussing in the group. I have been working with the themes of nostalgia and desire... maybe this can help you out.

Thanks and see you on Friday,
Cris

Menza photoshoot

place: Mensa
date: Wednesday 10th December
time: 12:00-14:30

photoshoot for "broke" magazine

Volunteers wanted!

(many surprises for the participants - be there!)

City Art

Postcards and Souvenirs - Idea

Hello Everyone,

I explain the idea of my project:

Ítalo Calvino says in his book “Invisibles Cities”, “of a city, not capitalize on its seven or seventy-seven wonders, but the response it gives to our questions”

So I think to write a poetic text that approachs the experience of self-knowledge from the knowledge of a city, or another body (To keep the analogy with persons, that justifies the use of the term sexy to a city) Its aims is to confront the experience of the “Soft cities the “travel” with the “Spetacle cities – the “tourist” (paper given by Daniela) and try to understand the meaning of Postcards and souvinirs in these contexts, not necessarily antagonistic.

I also propose an intervention in the city:

I would like in Berlin (it’s “flagship”), but on practical issues, could be in Weimar, since it is also a tourist city.

When visiting any city, people buy things, to communicate through them to other people (known) their experiences in this city (Postcards) or to say that thought them during the visit (souvenirs)

The objective would be playing with the meaning of these elements and make people think about the exchange and interaction that exists between them and the city: Tourists create a large postcard to the city and give it a souvenir - Tourists would be invited to express their experiences in the city. In exchange would take a copy of the text (a souvenir!)

The photos of this process and the outcome of the "postcard" illustrate the text in the magazine.

It would be nice if someone will join me in this project!

Main Entry:

¹re·dress

Pronunciation:

\ri-ˈdres\

Function:

transitive verb

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French redresser to set upright, restore, redress, from re- + dresser to set straight — more at dress

Date:

14th century

1 a (1): to set right : remedy redress social wrongs — W. R. Inge> (2): to make up for : compensate b: to remove the cause of (a grievance or complaint) c: to exact reparation for : avenge2archaic a: to requite (a person) for a wrong or loss b: heal

synonyms see correct

— re·dress·er noun

getting started

Broke#1 has been published on the summer 2008, as an outcome of the seminar "arm aber sexy" I conducted within the framework of my PhD research at the Architecture Faculty at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Broke#2 - or 2 BROKE - will be published this winter. It is being developed by an interdisciplinary group of 22 people that is doing a block seminar with me in the current winter semester. This block seminar aims to create an open platform of discussion, where the idea of "urban sexiness" can be questioned and investigated. The magazine is an evolving process, where the group decides together - based on classroom exercises, open discussions and personal experiences - on content and format. This blog is a space for the participants (who are at the same time the editors and designers of 2 BROKE) to do some brainstormings, upload their doubts and desires, as well as to open up topics of discussion with the public in general.

One important feature to be highlighted is that Broke editors have very different backgrounds, mother languages and of course points of view. They were born in Alicante, Albacete, Athens, Bandung, Bangalore, Beja, Berlin, Cárceres, Erfurt, Galway, Ibadan, Jakarta, Leipzig, Madrid, Paderborn, Pittsburg, Rennes, Rio de Janeiro, Russelsheim and Santiago (Guatemala); and they have lived in: Acera, Amsterdam, Angers, Antananavivo, Bonn, Brighton, Carceres, Chachoengsao, Chicago, Coimbra, Darmstadt, Delhi, Dijon, Dresden, Dublin, Essex, Eisenach, Frankfurt (Oder), Helsinki, Ithaca, Kingstown, Lagos, La Paz, Lisbon, London, Mainz, Miami, Mumbai, New York, Oxford, São Paulo, Serpa,The Valley, Toronto, Valos, Vancouver, Vienna, Washington and Zürich. uff.

So this big blend of experiences - I suppose and expect - will give us a multiplicity of perspectives and provocations on what a "sexy city" might be. So, everyone welcome! I hope we will have here some space to go through interesting debates, disturbing agreements and loving conflicts....

... let's post!

willkommen!!!!bienvenido!!!! Welcome!!!! Bienvenue!!!! bem vindo!!!!