« Transition France LIFT Living Archive LIFT started in 1981 as the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), and has over the past 20 years presented ground-breaking events and festivals to audiences of over 800,000 with 300 international premieres from 60 countries. LIFT has been instrumental in placing international theatre and performance on London's cultural agenda. LIFT events have been staged at over 30 London venues as well as numerous sites including streets, disused buildings, parks, open spaces and on the river Thames. In 2001, after twelve festivals of international performances LIFT decided to break with the traditional biennial festival format and begin the LIFT Enquiry, a 5 year process of investigating theatre while presenting an on-going programme of events. On this website you can search and view 1000 items selected from the LIFT Living Archive. The archive is now held in Special Collections at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Green Art Lab Alliance | Transartists The Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA) is a partnership between 18 European cultural organisations which aims to explore what environmental sustainability means for the visual arts and design. All partners believe that it’s time for culture and the arts to take responsibility in their own innovative and artistic ways. This ambition has been acknowledged by the European Commission, which co-finances the GALA project in the framework of the EU Culture programme 2007-2013. During the two years of collaboration (April 2013-May 2015) the partners want to find out what the arts can do to promote sustainability. Together with designers, artists and scientists, the GALA partners investigate the challenges and opportunities that environmental sustainability implies for artists and art institutions. The overall aim is to share knowledge and raise awareness amongst artists, citizens and policy makers. The participating organisations have a variety of different profiles. Green Art Lab Alliance activities
German ′Transition Towns′ ride wave of change | Germany | DW.COM | 25.09.2012 The water simply won't boil. No surprise really. The pot is far too large for the small camping stove. Cornelia Dorsch takes off the lid to check whether she can add the vegetables yet. She's standing in front of a makeshift table on Servatii Square, where she's about to serve free soup to passersby. All the ingredients are vegetables from the local farmer’s market that were discarded for being slightly discolored. The cooking project is called "Eat up," and its site has been chosen carefully. Vegetables are sourced regionally The topic is serious For a long time, the "city exodus" was a well-documented phenomenon in Germany. It all started in southern England in 2006. Experiment Münster Georg Heinrichs, co-founder of Transition Town Münster, is also excited about Hopkins' ideas. Fostering a new community spirit is the key to the future "Resilient Town" also is the name of a development scheme by the German Ministry for Education and Research. Hands off oil
LIFT 2012 - LIFT With London as its stage LIFT 2012 was the largest and most ambitious festival in our history. Over five weeks LIFT presented a festival of daring, witty and dazzling theatre that took place across the city, from the heart of the West End, to a car park in Croydon, to the spokes of the London Eye. With 21 productions from over 15 different countries LIFT 2012 was bigger, bolder, braver and with more surprises than ever before. With a host of new commissions and partnerships this is a year of firsts: LIFT 2012 took us into the West End for the first time in our history with Elevator Repair Service's extraordinary Gatz, billed the theatrical event of the decade; we established a major partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company's World Shakespeare Festival, co-commissioning three new international productions from dreamthinkspeak, Iraqi Theatre Company and Artistes, Producteurs, Associés that testify to Shakespeare's power as a global property. There's a lot to thank LIFT for...
micro research - Martin Howse [Berlin] micro_research is a mobile research platform exploring psychogeophysics and asking the question of where precisely the plague known as software executes. micro_research is active worldwide and is supported by workshops, performances such as: substrate.html and earthvoice.html, exhibitions and the sales of detektors, eurorack modules and the divinatory noise module series, aka. The Dark Interpreter. shop twitter soundcloud biography_and_CV new/s recent events - 2016 current projects and research Author: root Created: 2017-01-03 Tue 14:06 Emacs 24.4.1 (Org mode 8.2.10) Validate
about the book | cohousing cultures CoHousing Cultures: self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable. Integrating, non-speculative and open to the neighborhood. Innovative projects motivated by a search for ecological, affordable and socially designed homes. CoHousing Cultures Handbook for self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable living Editor: id22: Institute for Creative SustainabilityLanguage: English/GermanNumber of pages: 208 pages with approx. 120 imagesSoftcoverDimensions: 13 x 18,3 cmPrice: Euro 25.00 (incl. shipping)ISBN: 978-3-86859-148-4Date of publication: September 2012
BAC | BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE the earthcodes project: substrate/shifting the site of execution The shapes of the chasms themselves become "verbal roots" that spell out the difference between darkness and light. Poe ends his mental maze with the sentence — "I have graven it within the hills and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock." [A Sedimentation of the Mind. Robert Smithson. 1966.] Substrate can refer to a (mined) semiconductor base which is later doped, etched, imprinted on with other minerals and materials within a complex industrial process to form an electrical logic gate, a processing unit, the core of the networked machinery which surrounds us. Substrate interfaces with code, yet this set of symbolic, lingustic and logical operations denies the being-substrate, just as the carrier of any signal is erased by the receiver. Despite software's abstraction the geological maintains a particular attraction, as earth substrate, that which surrounds us, our material.
Housing Prototypes: Collective House Street facade, detail. Sven Markelius was an important member of the Stockholm architectural avant-garde in the 1930's. Along with Gunnar Asplund and others, Markelius was instrumental in bring the ideology of Modern Architecture to Sweden as one of the authors of the Functionalist manifesto acceptera, published in 1931. Markelius also socialized with a group of radical Social Democrats who shared an interest in the new architecture and a new social order. From this time, Markelius, along with Alva Myrdal who was a leader in the movement advocating communal housing as a means of emancipating the working woman from the burdens of housekeeping and child rearing, developed an interest in the idea of collective housing. In 1932, Markelius developed a housing scheme for the Alvik area in Stockholm, which applied these collective principles for the first time. Eva Rudberg, Sven Markelius Architect, Arkitektur Förlag, Stockholm, 1989, pp. 77-83. Howard Smith, Marina Botta,
BAC | Rio Occupation London Launch by mirandam on December 06, 2013 Mythical characters are catapulted into modern day settings as we bring back three epic shows created in partnership with groundbreaking artists: Orpheus, Brand New Ancients and The Paper Cinema's Odyssey. Mythical characters are catapulted into modern day settings as we bring back three epic shoBBBBws :BOOK TICKETS & READ MORE Coal Fired Computers | YoHa Showman's Engine,AV Festival, YoHa 2010 A one-hundred year old, 18-ton showman's steam engine powers a computer with 2.5 tons of coal. Black lungs inflate every time a database record of miners' lung disease is shown on the computer monitors. It feels like you've been invited into a fun fair, but one where the rides log their own accidents – a fun fair run by people who long ago became indistinct from the machines they maintain. Discovery Museum, 2010 Over three days at the Discovery Museum, with groups of miner activists, Coal Fired Computers articulated relations between Power, Art and Media. Jean Demars, Miners Activist Posters. Coal Fired Computers reflects on the complexities of our global fossil fuel reliance and especially on how coal transforms our health as we have transformed it. It could be said that coal dust gets into everything. Originally Commissioned by AV Festival 10 and produced in partnership with Discovery Museum. Copd, lungs,YoHa 2010 Download the booklet
Cohousing Now: Home – in Swedish Kollektivhus NU – is an association working to promote collaborative housing and other alternative ways of living. The association supports existing co-housing units as well as groups intending to create new units. Originally formed in 1981, it has recently been revitalised with the prime purpose to inform the public about cohousing as an alternative, and to influence authorities to facilitate the creation and running of such units. "Kollektivhus NU currently has 42 cohousing units as full members, and 15 organisations working in favour of collaborative housing. There are also a number of individual supporting members. The over 40 cohousing units that exist in Sweden are mainly the result of civil society campaigns and positive responses from public housing authorities during the 1980s. Today the trend is again turning in favour of collaborative housing. EU project for elderly cohousing How can elderly people with disabilities get more influence over their housing situation?