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DRONE is the first issue to be published from the Unmanned, Architecture and Security research project and publication series.
Drone brings together researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds whose work seeks to understand and represent the nature and extent of drone operations. The book investigates the relationship between drone technology, cultural production, and forms of surveillance and violence. It analyses and speculates upon how these technological developments affect life in cities.
A FINE LINE. Scenarios for Bordering Conditions project is part of the first International Architecture Biennial in San Sebastián.
Curated by Maite Borjabad, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas, Enrique Espinosa, Lys Villalba.
Participants include: C+ (Nerea Calvillo & Marina Fernández), CAMPO, Cooking Sections, Echoing Borders, Matteo Ghidoni, Husos, Kosmos Architects, M7red, Gili Merin, Pez Estudio, RUJA (Jose Jajaja & Ruohong Wu), Malkit Shoshan, Takk, Taller de Casquería, URBZ & Venida Devenida.
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“Since the end of the Cold War, the United Nations, the European Union, individual states like Switzerland, as well as companies and NGOs have done a great deal to promote peace. Over the years, though, there have been repeated setbacks and previous successes keep being challenged by the latest developments. In the wake of political instabilities and violence in states such as Syria, Iraq, and Nigeria, we believe it is urgent to tackle the theme of peace in new ways.
The BLUE exhibition is part of a group show ‘Change the system,’ curated by Annemartine van Kesteren.
The exhibition ‘BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions‘ was first exhibited as the Dutch entry to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. The installation at the Boijman Museum includes elements such as the Design for Legacy models and the recommendation to the UN.
‘Spaces of Solidarity’ aims at examining community-driven spaces and spatial processes that pool and share resources to build social cohesion in times of crisis or absence of government, at a variety of scales, places, and contexts. ‘Spaces of Solidarity’ attempts to explore environments of community formation and open up a dialogue on the agency of design in enacting and facilitating actions of solidarity.
November 6, 2017 – December 15, 2017
Gund Hall, Frances Loeb Library Lobby, Harvard GSD from
The exhibition of BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions is part of a group show Change the System curated by Annemartine van Kesteren.
Borders shape and consolidate relations between states, people, jurisdictions, political entities, and territories, and they often lie at the center of conflict between them. They are tools entangled in complex socio-political and economic ecologies. While some borders are relatively stable, others are in a constant flow. They regulate economic relations and people’s access to places, resources, and rights.
FAST’s on going investigation of the footprint and legacy of UN peacekeeping missions is continuing with the study of the decommissioning of UNMIL.
More information will be available soon.
The book will be published in 2018. It will include our entry to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale ‘BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions’ and our ongoing investigation ‘Design for Legacy’ .
BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
FAST was invited to develop and produce a breakout session for the 2017 Future Force Conference in The Hague.
The breakout session is part of our long term research, advocacy and design project ‘Design for Legacy.’ It aims at introducing architecture and urban design thinking into the planning processes of UN Peace Operations.
“Footprint 19 focuses on the more recent roles of architecture in the contemporary spaces of conflict. Departing from a spatial understanding of geopolitical, climatological and economical conflicts, the various contributions highlight the large scale and phenomenal transitions in the physical world and in society by extrapolating, through examples, the abundance of relations that can be traced between conflict, territory and architecture. Conflict areas often prove to be fertile grounds for innovation and for the emergence of new spatial forms. The issue reports on the state of perpetual global unrest in architecture through a series of articles and case studies that highlight the consequences of conflicts in the places and spaces that we inhabit. In the introduction, these are discussed as an interlinked global reality rather than as isolated incidents. In doing so, the contemporary spaces of conflict are positioned in the context of emerging global trends, conditions, and discourses in the attempt to address their indicative symptoms while reflecting on their underlying causes.”
Our long term research and design project “Design for Legacy,” and the exhibition “BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions” at the Venice Architecture Biennale inspired a series of conversations and breakout sessions at the 2017 Future Force Conference.