senseofplace LAB – laurie halsey brown

ASHES TO ASHES
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sky becomes ashes. / Iceland volcano settles. / land becomes ashes.

CYPRIEN GAILLARD PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
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http://www.stroom.nl

Stroom Den Haag presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the French artist Cyprien Gaillard. Intrigued by contemporary ruins and concerned by the rapid destruction of modernist architecture, Gaillard explores notions of state vandalism, gentrification and the picturesque. Gaillard includes a site-specific project which is a excavation of a World War II bunker currently buried in a hill overlooking the beach of Scheveningen.

PLACEHOLDERS
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idea of place. / 2D versus 3D home. / But something to touch.

PALASTINE @ LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
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http://www.palestinecoveniceb09.org

The first Palestinian participation in the Venice Biennale takes on a conceptual framework that embraces the Palestinian people questioning the disproportionate use of the media image of the nameless faces and voiceless people. Two of the art projects are collaborative interventions with diverse Palestinian communities whose members will travel to Venice.

The End-user Perspective
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http://thearchitectstake.com/interviews/zackdevito-architecture-designers-master-builders-part-1/

“When you become the client, you realize how hard it is to be a client. Working on our own homes has given me a lot more empathy for the role of the client. When you live in your own projects… you get a heightened understanding of where things should go, and how to accommodate the human body. In my own designs, I emphasize views and vistas, both of other parts of the house and of the outside. Each view is constantly referring to something else, but it’s also telling you where you are.” – Lise de Vito

A Shift in ‘place’.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/weekinreview/17bell.html?ref=books

Today is a good day to remember that in Haiti, nobody ever really dies. The many thousands who’ve had the breath crushed out of their bodies in the earthquake, and the thousands more who will not physically survive the aftermath, will undergo instead a translation of state, according to the precepts of Haitian Vodou, some form of which is practiced by much of the population. Spirits of the Haitian dead — sa nou pa we yo, those we don’t see — do not depart as in other religions but remain extremely close to the living, invisible but tangible, inhabiting a parallel universe on the other side of any mirror, beneath the surface of all water, just behind the veil that divides us from our dreams. – Madison Smartt Bell

Sparks Fly at Midnight – Wildforest Sanctuary, Anapolis CA
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trees leaning forward / to bathe in burning warmth. / twenty ten begins.

Urban RE:vision
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http://urbanrevision.org/

The mission of Urban Re:Vision is to help cities develop safe, sustainable and enriching urban blocks.  They do this through a series of activities designed to inspire collaboration and to bring out the best solutions.

…To learn more about this organization, click link above.