Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes

Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier Luigi Sacco ◽  
Sendy Ghirardi ◽  
Maria Tartari ◽  
Marianna Trimarchi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Renewal Processes ◽  
Art Practices

Serous Glands in the Skin of the Tungara Frog, Engystomops pustulosus (Cope, 1864) (Anura, Leptodactylidae): Degenerated Secretory Units are Selectively Removed by Macrophages

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 281-290
Author(s):  
Irina Arifulova ◽  
Giovanni Delfino ◽  
Tatjana Dujsebayeva ◽  
Galina Fedotovskikh ◽  
Filippo Giachi
Keyword(s):  
Renewal Processes ◽  
Functional Rehabilitation ◽  
Present Case Report ◽  
Macrophage Response ◽  
Scavenger Activity ◽  
Neuromuscular Apparatus ◽  
Product Manufacturing ◽  
Organ Models ◽  
Engystomops Pustulosus

The cutaneous apparatus of Engystomops pustulosus (Cope, 1864) (the Tungara frog) includes serous glands that show impressive patterns of degeneration in their syncytial secretory units, and thus represent suitable organ models to investigate the role of macrophages in renewal processes of multicellular structures. The present case report exploits this chance and highlights that: (a) degenerating glands pertain to the Ia line of the polymorphic serous gland assortment in Tungara skin; (b) resident macrophages migrate from spongy dermis and remove syncytium debris; (c) secretory syncytium collapse results from impairment of the equilibrium between serous product manufacturing/storage and merocrine release into the dermal environment; (d) Intercalated tract (or gland neck) and myoepithelium (included its ortho-sympathetic nerve supply), are neither involved in degeneration nor affected by macrophage response. According to present evidence and current literature, it is concluded that the scavenger activity of macrophages prepares secretory unit renewal, performed by stem cells from the neck. In addition, gland functional rehabilitation may rely on effectiveness of the preexisting neuromuscular apparatus to achieve secretory bulk release onto the cutaneous surface.

scholarly journals Parallelotopia: Ottoman transcultural memory assemblages in contemporary art practices from the Middle East

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-513
Author(s):  
Gabriel Koureas
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Etel Adnan ◽  
Dynamic Exchange

This article engages with the conversations taking place in the photographic space between then and now, memory and photography, and with the symbiosis and ethnic violence between different ethnic communities in the ex-Ottoman Empire. It questions the role of photography and contemporary art in creating possibilities for coexistence within the mosaic formed by the various groups that made up the Ottoman Empire. The essay aims to create parallelotopia, spaces in the present that work in parallel with the past and which enable the dynamic exchange of transcultural memories. Drawing on memory theory, the article shifts these debates forward by adopting the concept of ‘assemblage’. The article concentrates on the aesthetics of photographs produced by Armenian photographic studios in Istanbul during the late nineteenth century and their relationship to the present through the work of contemporary artists Klitsa Antoniou, Joanna Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige and Etel Adnan as well as photographic exhibitions organised by the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Athens, Greece.

scholarly journals Weaving seams with data: Conceptualizing City APIs as elements of infrastructures

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171982761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Raetzsch ◽  
Gabriel Pereira ◽  
Lasse S Vestergaard ◽  
Martin Brynskov
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Renewal Processes ◽  
Application Programming Interfaces ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Programming Interfaces

This article addresses the role of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating data sources in the context of smart cities and communities. On top of the built infrastructures in cities, application programming interfaces allow to weave new kinds of seams from static and dynamic data sources into the urban fabric. Contributing to debates about “urban informatics” and the governance of urban information infrastructures, this article provides a technically informed and critically grounded approach to evaluating APIs as crucial but often overlooked elements within these infrastructures. The conceptualization of what we term City APIs is informed by three perspectives: In the first part, we review established criticisms of proprietary social media APIs and their crucial function in current web architectures. In the second part, we discuss how the design process of APIs defines conventions of data exchanges that also reflect negotiations between API producers and API consumers about affordances and mental models of the underlying computer systems involved. In the third part, we present recent urban data innovation initiatives, especially CitySDK and OrganiCity, to underline the centrality of API design and governance for new kinds of civic and commercial services developed within and for cities. By bridging the fields of criticism, design, and implementation, we argue that City APIs as elements of infrastructures reveal how urban renewal processes become crucial sites of socio-political contestation between data science, technological development, urban management, and civic participation.

«AVANGRAD»: VOLGOGRAD PERESTROIKA AND POST-SOVIET PERFORMANCE (1986–2005)

Servis plus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Антон Вальковский ◽  
Anton Valkovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Education ◽  
Performance Review ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Systematic Process ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Abandoned Spaces ◽  
The City

The article aims to reconstruct systematically the history of the Volgograd performance, trace the lineage and interferences, the role of the major art-festivals in the emergence of new generations of artists, as well as to disclose variability of procedural art-practices in Volgograd from 1986 to 2005. Summing up the performance review of the Volgograd two decades (mid-1980s to mid-2000s), the author notes that it was not a coher- ent movement or systematic process, and was not institutionalized due to the lack of a system of commercial galleries, inspiring artistic process in Moscow and St. Petersburg. A gradual attenuation of the Square as a social and cultural education and place of attraction for artists, localized in the heart of the city, caused a gradual centrifugal movement towards the outlying, uninhabited, abandoned spaces and places of pilgrimage (the graveyard of ships, Krasnoslobodskaya kosa, Moratnike), which was associated with their romanticize, aestheticization, by a certain opacity. However, throughout the period under review we can identify several General trends: the desire of artists to theatrical, carnival, spectacularity, as well as spontaneous and impro- vised action.

The Role of Public Space in Urban Renewal Strategies in Rotterdam and Dublin

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne Van Melik ◽  
Philip Lawton
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Renewal

scholarly journals Beyond gentrification: Diversified neighbourhood upgrading in the inner city of Budapest

Geografie ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Kovács ◽  
Reinhard Wiessner ◽  
Romy Zischner
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Dimensional Analysis ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Renewal Processes ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
Neighbourhood Renewal

The concept of gentrification has been extensively used in post-socialist context in association with neighbourhood renewal processes, despite the exact meaning of the term and its social effects not always being sufficiently clarified. This paper builds upon empirical research from downtown Budapest. Our investigation primarily focused on the interplay of three groups of stakeholders involved in urban renewal: politicians, investors and residents. On the basis of our multi-dimensional analysis, we could identify three main types of upgrading: classical gentrification (with two sub-types), as well as incumbent upgrading and soft forms of revitalisation. In the studied neighbourhoods, a mixture of these forms of upgrading could be identified, reflecting a diversified rejuvenation. Gentrification was spatially limited to poverty ridden neighbourhoods subject to local government organised regeneration programmes. The predominance of soft forms of revitalisation is a function of housing market mechanisms as well as the planning control of local districts, which in general together create a healthy social mix despite pervasive regeneration activities.

scholarly journals Urban Renewal, Rehabilitation, and Remodelling of Santiago, Chile

2013 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Armando de Ramón ◽  
José Manuel Larráin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Investment ◽  
Dominant Characteristic ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The City ◽  
New Infrastructure

We study the history of the changes in Santiago, Chile, between 1780 and 1880 to verify the stages of urban renewal and the role of state and private investment in the processes. We find that before 1780 the dominant characteristic is conservation, i.e., repair or rebuilding of existing stock of buildings. Between 1780 and 1880 the stages were habilitation, rehabilitation, and remodelling of buildings and spaces for optimum use of urban land. Involved also were more intensive use and the creation of better and more expeditious communication to knit the various quarters of the city together and to provide communication with surrounding entities, such as the port and centres of supply. These stages and developments may follow each other but also may occur in superimposed rhythm. In the earlier years, state investment in new infrastructure is paramount; that investment, in turn, leads both to the development of new quarters and the entrance of private investors who profit from the unearned increment brought about by the state investment.

scholarly journals Common Space and Individual Space: Comments on a Group Task from the First Half of 1993

ARTMargins ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Monika Dzik ◽  
Monika Zielińska ◽  
Artur Żmijewski
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Academic Year

The introductory text presents “Common Space and Individual Space: Comments on a Group Task from the First Half of 1993,” a document translated into English from Polish and published here. The original document was first published in Czereja, a magazine created by the students of Kowalnia, a studio for diploma art students run by Grzegorz Kowalski in the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. “Common Space” compiles the students' accounts of a performative group activity entitled Pierożek drewniany, zimnym mięsem nadziewany (translated as Wooden Dumpling, Filled with Cold Meat) from the 1992–93 academic year. The introduction analyzes “Common Space” as a part of the very creative process within the Wooden Dumpling activity and describes its meaning within the socio-political contexts of post-1989 Poland. It explains the role of Kowalnia's practices as a unique pedagogical experiment anomalous within the fairly traditional art education systems of Central and Eastern Europe of the time. The introduction argues that the document is not only relevant for our understanding of Polish art in the 1990s, but also provokes broader questions about the feasibility and efficacy of socially engaged art practices as well as the communicative strategies employed within them.

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