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A Love Affair

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TM & ATLAS Projectos

London, 2023

Paperback

100x150mm

92pp

1 colour

ISBN : 978-1-3999-4018-4

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Book presentation and discussion with
Joshua Olsthoorn, Kostas Vlachakis (Typical Organization for Standards & Order)
and John Bingham-Hall (Theatrum Mundi)
with a screening by Myrto Delimichali
Friday 5 December
@ometeoritis
19.00 – 20.30
FREE

Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass the embodied experiences of those that live them every day. In response, the publication 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performance scores developed through a residency programme offering new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures.

As part of an international series of conversations around the book, Theatrum Mundi invites the graphic designers @typicalorganization to share their 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧. They will discuss their design methodology, that repurposes the visual apparatuses of power structures, and how it informed an identity for the Staging Ground project based on the road signs of the French motorway system. Our current systems, as they remind us, are temporary embodiments of values that could and should be revoked or altered.

This observation also drives the investigations of Athens-based artist @post_raw____, whose project 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬, created through the Staging Ground residency in Paris, is a feminist choreographic research that re-appropriates elements of urban landscapes to find opportunities for rest.

Through a dialogue between her two films and the design research of Typical Organization, chaired by @public_culture_ we will explore scores and strategies for rethinking and re-inhabiting infrastructure from a human scale.

Published by @dpr_barcelona & @cityastheatre as part of the @lina.community European Architecture Programme.

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