Editor’s Note: This is the first post in this month’s theme, The Latinx City By Ryan Reft If you’ve been even remotely paying attention in 2024, immigration and its impact on America has been a hot topic this year (and to be honest, nearly every election cycle since the 1990s). Granted, it’s a discussion largely […]
In my last post here on Blogger that was much overdue, (the delay was unavoidable due to my having very serious medical complications), which were mostly as a result of my having Neurofibromatosis (NF), part of what I state in this post is, “Depending on the outcome of that appointment, I’m not sure how frequently I’ll post but […]
An extensive exhibition titled Ai Weiwei. Don Quixote will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC) in León, Spain, on November 9. This ambitious project showcases a variety of works, including large-scale installations, pieces created with toy bricks, and films. Spanning around 1,700 square meters—more than half of the museum’s […]
A number of books have come to our attention as our interests in urban and visual space, time, the scales and tempos of climate warming and architectural issues including architects’ northern, boreal and Arctic utopian cities, housing crises, deoclonization and Indigeneity. All these are linked by concerns over the geopolitical respatialisation and struggle over the […]
By Guest blogger: Urban Ag Ambassador, Julia Featheringill It would be impossible to sum up in one blog post the totality of my amazing experience this spring and summer with the Urban Ag Ambassador program and my volunteer work with the Somerville Community Growing Center. Promptly after I graduated from the Urban Ag program I […]
Water: A propagation area will always be a little messy. Make sure to protect any carpet, hardwood flooring, or other delicate material in the area. Most seeds are planted very shallowly, so use a gentle stream of overhead water or bottom-water your flats. Because of the limited soil volume and shallowness of the containers, transplants […]
As I’m leaving Singapore, the last stop on my 3-week Asian tour, I want to write down a few notes about its quite excellent urban rail system. But as Craig M. has provided a very extensive report in 2017, I will use that as a starting point and simply add my comments where necessary. I […]
The Norman Port by Eugene Isabey. Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-norman-port-161547 Proposals for papers are welcomed to be part of a selected anthology regarding the historic moral, religious, medical, legal, political, physiological or environmental ‘corruption’ of coastal culture in the 18th and 19th century. Entries are to make contributions to a ‘New Coastal […]
As some readers know, I spent this winter on the job market. As an art educator, I was often asked to talk about my personal artwork. While some of the best art educators I know do maintain active studio practices, I also know many for whom teaching is their primary artform*. So the expectation behind […]
The Beginning… Over the last 2 months, I have been adapting to the change from my previous structure of the Higher Apprenticeship I completed in the summer of 2024. Joining the MAUD course in September 2024, I started my focused further educational journey at Newcastle University, with this being my first experience of the campus, […]