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We just found out that the Stazione di Servizio Agip, the beloved building topic of our 2012 Design Lab, has been officially listed. According to the public authorities – namely the Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo – the building is “of  particularly outstanding historical and artistic interest” and will be now subject to safeguard. The official document stating this important judgement features a short bibliography that includes our Lab-int-2012 as a reference.

It goes without saying that we consider this a huge achievenment for the commitment played out by our students in that project.

Are monuments only records of recorded histories? How can they act as a prompts for on-going reflection? Could a traditional monument be the starting point for individual commemoration? Does a memorial have to be fashioned out of bronze or marble to make a significant impression on our psyche? [James Young]

press release

Talk
Beyond the monument
19FEB2014
18:00-21:00
@ Gerhard Hofland gallery

Performance
The Jewish Resistance Monument revisited
22-23FEB2014
12:00-17:00
25FEB2014
11:00-15:00 / 18:00-21:00
@ Amstel 41 gallery

Browse The Book of Fragments

[omaggio al Cappuccetto Bianco di Munari]

[pic by Jorge Lascar]

IP-programme workshop
Creating Context #3
will be held in Krakow
13 – 27  > now 6th to 20th July  2014

POLIMI will take part with 6 MA students & 2 staff members: call for students is now open!

Sixty students working in nine cross-disciplinary (Art and Architecture) and transnational (5 Nationality) groups will develop proposals for public artworks in Kracow. Two academics, again, cross-disciplinary and transnational, are appointed to each student group to support them in the organisation and execution of their project.

Have a look at the WS programme and if interested send, using we-transfer or similar, your Portfolio in PDF format [max A3 size and 50MB].

Submission deadline Sunday 16 FEB 2014

WS Conditions:
– Accommodation supplied by organisers free of charge
– Travelling reimboursed at 90%
– Food on your own budget
– 4 ECTS for Polimi students

For programme details just browse the previous editions: the agenda for Krakow is not yet fixed.

Here is the link to the workshop home page

Lablog has been invited to share the Villard 15 International meeting in Venice [29-30/01/2014] and to present the new issued volume Re-enacting the past ed. by Michela Bassanelli and Gennaro Postiglione. Venice was immersed in the water – as it happens in this season – and all transfers required much more time and a lot of patience, but for sure giving to all of us the precise feeling that this is a city like no one else in the world.

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