Mia Lundström is Blurring Local and Global, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning with the Kalejdohill Project

2017-06-13T12:15:00-04:00

In today’s hyper-digitized environment, the local and the global aren’t so easily defined. Just search ‘locals only’ on Instagram, for example, and you’ll find photos tagged from around the world. So it’s only fitting that urban planning projects, when seeking to activate a new social space, should blur the lines as well. “Democracy in an age of social media, digitalizations, migration etc. asks for so many upgrades—how to plan cities is one of them,” states Mia Lundström, an urban planner and the Project Director of Kalejdohill, an initiative meant to activate a locality in a suburb outside of Stockholm years in advance of a future development.

Art + Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis between the monumental and the particular

2015-05-12T14:10:00-04:00

Buoyantly imaginative yet grounded by a commitment to sociopolitical realism, the work of the Greek-born architect Andreas Angelidakis defies categorization. In fact, while he was trained as an architect at SCI-Arc, Angelidakis' work is perhaps better known in contemporary art circles than among architects. After all, Angelidakis exhibits in museums (and online) more than he builds. Yet his work, which takes the form of renderings, videos, sculptures, dioramas and installations, is visibly marked by an architectural sensibility. With near-manic intensity, Angelidakis’ work operates fluidly on the uneven terrain of the contemporary moment, invoking ecological disaster, digital and post-digital networks, economic crises, celebrity culture – often all at once. At the same time, specters of history – both imagined and real – never escape his expansive purview.

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Mia Lundström is Blurring Local and Global, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning with the Kalejdohill Project

Art + Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis between the monumental and the particular