possibilities of activites and the recent case of Skateistan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPlnGa5ubVg

within the above youtube link, you will get introduced to Skateistan. this is the issue of changing the urban environment and the daily traumas with the help of a neutral activity. this issue is an issue of humanity definitely. This is design/game/architecture/social behavior/ culture and networking.

We as a team tried to develop a triathlon project in the city of Mostar 2 years before. the recent realisation was a tryout triathlon via artists from a local center. Some of you may remember my beginning links and texts about the Mostar Triathlon. Unfortunately sponsorship did not work out so effectively until today and still political unstability as well as hard to solve details about implementation kept this project as a conceptual work and a tryout via art.

thus I congratulate Skateistan and all the people for this initiative who took responsibility and courage. they are having an ongoing costruction currently and aim to finish up the park in the end of this year. great!

All the neutral activities within post crisis locations and minds...
sante!

for more information about SKATEISTAN and their recent supporters Architecture for Humanity here are the links:
http://skateistan.org/
http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/
http://gamechangers.architectureforhumanity.org/proposals

Paris Photo 2008

A promising wind blows in from contemporary Asia

Guest of honour: Japan

From November 13 to 16, 2008, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for
19th century, modern and contemporary photography, will bring
together 107 exhibitors (86 galleries + 21 publishers) from 19 countries
at the Carrousel du Louvre.

Spotlight on Japan : an exceptional overview of Japanese photography
For the first time, Paris Photo is looking towards the Far East and inviting Japan as its guest of
honour. This coincides with growing international interest in Japanese photography. Photography
has been one of the most intense and major areas of Japanese culture since it was first introduced in
the country in 1848, towards the end of the Edo Period.

website: http://www.parisphoto.fr/?lg=en#

Are you interested in young and interesting magazines about art, architecture and culture?

Recently been in Berlin and getting the latest art and architecture magazines, issues from the newly opened bookshop "do you read me??". I found some really nice magazines there and here is the brief for the ones who are interested like me.

About Yvi Magazine

Although the current issue is published i could get the first one called "Borders". Deals with the visible, invisible territory divisions, artistic visualizations of the situations on the locations. The second and the recent issue is "Consumption" as they wrote in their website works with the observation of consumerism

Yvi Magazine is a new English-language art magazine published in the Netherlands. Each issue of Yvi Magazine focuses on a central (social) theme seen from the perspective of art. A wide range of artistic visions on a pertinent social theme are brought together in the form of photography, design, architecture and visual art. Yvi Magazine is published twice a year. Yvi Magazine is published and designed by KSMT, a young design and publish agency residencing in The Hague, The Netherlands.

website: http://www.yvimag.com/index.php?page=home

icon

The issue touches to London Design Festival, Architecture without Buildings, and gives news about the Venice Biennial. But I have to say the most impressive thing is the cover photograph of the magazine in this issue from Peter Guenzel.

Icon is one of the world's finest architecture and design magazines since 2003. Every month there is an interview the most exciting architects and designers, visit the best new buildings, analyse the most interesting new cultural movements and technologies, and review an eclectic range of exhibitions, books, products and films.

website: http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1&layout=news&Itemid=18

VENICE ART BIENNIAL 2007

“TEMPORARY ART INTERVENTIONS AS AN URBAN PLANNING STRATEGY, CASE OF MOSTAR”
with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and German Study Center Venice

On the occasion of the opening of the 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation presented three artistic projects, one of them „Mostar 2007“, as strategies for urban development under the motto “Bauhaus ArtInterventions”. The projects have been discussed with Mrs.Ute Meta Bauer, Director and Associate Professor, MIT Visual Arts Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Mr.Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President, San Francisco Art Institute, Mr.Veselin Gatalo and Mr.Nino Raspudic, Urban Movement Mostar.

The presentation of the project aimed to introduce several temporary artistic interventions created and developed by the project team and activated on ground by the help of a local organization for showing the possible leading effects of the temporary art interventions as a tool for a sustainable urban planning approach which takes local aspects as well as glabal issues into its account for a further step. Mostar 2007 in this manner defines a unique example of an intervention which aims to heal a divided city after an ethnic war by using a neutral transformation catalyst.