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Open City
Open City is the theme of the 4th International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam. ‘Open City: Designing Coexistence’ is the publication to accompany this international event, which will be held in Rotterdam from 24 September 2009 to 10 January 2010. The book demonstrates the crucial role that architecture and urban design can play to enable access and facilitate coexistence—to stimulate conditions for an Open City. Accessible city Today, the Open City is a tenuous notion; as our cities grow and diversify, social and cultural groups struggle to coexist, and make conflicting demands on the city’s resources. For many, the opportunities the city promizes are scarce, or unattainable. How c...
Memminger Zeitung
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FLEXEN
Flex|en, das, – kein Pl.: 1. trennschleifen 2. biegen 3. Sex haben 4. das Variieren der Geschwindigkeit beim Rap 5. die Muskeln anspannen 6. seine Muskeln zur Schau stellen 7. Flâneuserie In 30 verschiedenen Texten mit 30 verschiedenen Perspektiven auf Städte, alle geschrieben und erlebt von Frauen*, PoC oder queeren Menschen. Texte, die beweisen, dass das Flexen, die Flâneuserie endlich ernst genommen werden muss. Die Figuren in der Anthologie streifen durch Berlin, Paris, Jakarta, Istanbul und Mumbai. Sie erzählen uns u.a. davon, wie eine Frau mit Kinderwagen die Großstadt erlebt, eine Frau eine Großdemonstration in Dresden miterlebt, wie Flanieren in Indien schon Aktivismus bedeutet, wie sich die Geschichte in den Ort einschreibt und manchmal wird die Stadt sogar selbst zur Figur.
Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheaval...
