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Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss!
No full textEs ist Zeit, Europa neu zu denken. Weg mit der Brüsseler Trilogie aus Rat, Kommission und Parlament! Die Nationalstaaten pervertieren die europäische Idee und spielen Europas Bürger gegeneinander aus. Europa muss aber heißen: Alle europäischen Bürger haben gleiche politische Rechte. Vernetzt die europäischen Regionen! Schafft ein gemeinsames republikanisches Dach! Wählt einen europäischen Parlamentarismus, der dem Grundsatz der Gewaltenteilung genügt!
Dieser Text ist ein utopisches Experiment. 'Res publica' bedeutet Gemeinwohl - daran fehlt es in der EU heute am meisten. Die Idee der Republik ist von Aristoteles bis Kant das normale Verfassungsprinzip für politische Gemeinwesen. Wenden wir es doch einmal auf Europa an. Bauen wir Europa neu, damit sich die Geschichte der Nationalismen nicht wiederholt. Damit Europa in der Welt von morgen nicht untergeht, sondern zur Avantgarde auf dem Weg in eine Weltbürgerunion wird
Monocle
No full textMonocle’s July/August issue is a celebration of the city – it spotlights the cities, leaders and luminaries shaping urban life for the better. We’ve doubled down on our reporting and scoured the globe for outposts of opportunity worth uncovering. Plus: we profile 20 urban projects that are adding a sense of purpose to planning: from skinny parks in Seoul to libraries in Nairobi and somewhere to swim in Stockholm
Metropolitan Life
No full textSince the late 2000s, German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi has been creating works at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and photography. Her large-scale installations investigate the history and memory of places, exploring the connections between time and space from a transnational perspective, and have gained her international recognition and praise.
This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909—and the world’s tallest structure until 1913—the building displays a hybrid identity, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, Renaissance and Modernism.
Published alongside the images of Metropolitan Life and other works by Pousttchi are an essay by art historian Greg Foster-Rice and a conversation between the artist, critic, and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect and writer Markus Miessen
Agonistic Assemblies: On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
No full textThis anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses the relevance of small-scale and decentralized spatial formats of local knowledge production to community building and embedded political decision-making in the context of the socio-ecological transition. It reinforces the role of both individual and collective action while proposing distributed assembly and proximity as core attributes in the production of the contemporary and future city. It calls for a revised form of spatial politics.
Miessen’s ongoing research trajectory Cultures of Assembly was initially kicked off during a Harvard GSD fellowship in collaboration with Joseph Grima, in which the two architects investigated the sociopolitical dimension of (urban) spatial design. Observing the Kuwaiti cultural and social landscape with a specific interest in the politico-spatial phenomenon of Diwaniya, this distributed urban form of para-institutional assembly established a starting point for a long-term body of research.
Diwaniya can be understood and interpreted in multiple ways. Beyond a techno-futuristic idea of progress, it presents a showcase of an alternative that attempts to imagine a model of a (more) solidary city. On the scale of a city, and in fact small country, it interrogates how we—as a society—can learn from and produce alternative formats of physical exchange, working towards realistic scenarios of decentralized decision-making and spatial justice.
Agonistic Assemblies asks: how can spaces—both physical and virtual—be envisaged to create publics? How is collectivity and society being generated spatially and in terms of policy? How do we “practice” society as a bodily, spatial form, and how does this practice contribute to spatial justice? Are there specific spatial settings that can intensify these practices? What kind of spatial design can we imagine as platforms for change?
Central to this project is the reflecting on and rendering of the underlying driving forces of informal institution building at the interface of agonistic (urban) spatial politics—in a global political climate facing what Mark Fisher famously framed as “capitalist realism” in conjunction with the social-ecological transition while, arguably, also facing a crisis of imagination.
This project articulates a curatorial impetus towards urban policy making in conjunction with spatial proximity as a tool to mediate between the individual, the collective, the neighborhood, the city, state politics, and society at large. If we understand assembly as a form of spatial gathering, and the bonfire as the prehistoric space of assembly, what constitutes its contemporary equivalent? Contributions by ZAHRA ALI BABA, OLE BOUMAN, FRANCELLE CANE, GIANCARLO DE CARLO, CLAUDIA CHWALISZ, KENNY CUPERS, ANNE DAVIDIAN, DIANE E. DAVIS, ERHARD EPPLER, JESKO FEZER, JOSEPH GRIMA, AMELIE KLEIN, CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES, FLORIAN MALZACHER, MARKUS MIESSEN, CHANTAL MOUFFE, GUSTAV KJÆR VAD NIELSEN, CÉSAR REYES NÁJERA, DENNIS POHL, PATRICIA REED, VERA SACCHETTI, NIKOLAJ SCHULTZ, RAHEL SÜSS, PELIN TAN, ROEMER VAN TOORN, DAVID MULDER VAN DER VEGT, SARAH M. WHITING, MIRJAM ZADO
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