Technical University Eindhoven organizes event on Urban Wastlands, November 2007.
Author Archives: Merten
Renovation of Ford River Rouge complex
Impressive renovation project of what once was the largest industrial complex in the world, and notorious for its pollution (in the 1970´s the river itself even caught fire!). The renovation by architect William McDonough implemented the worlds largest vegetation roof and the penetration of daylight into the assembly halls.
The Ford Motor Company Rouge plant was inaugurated in Dearborn (Detroit) Michigan in 1917, employed 100.000 people at its peak and was renovated in 2002.
www.thehenryford.org/rouge/regeneration.asp
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=189&category=business
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rouge_Plant
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/10510
www.mcdonoughpartners.com/projects/ford-dtp/
www.ford.com/en/goodWorks/environment/cleanerManufacturing/rougeRenovation.htm
Public Interventions
SASSEN, Saskia. Public Interventions. The Shifting Meaning of the Urban Condition.
In this essay, she looks at the possibilities of artistic practice to ‘make’ public space that can produce unsettling stories and make visible that which is local and has been silenced.
Space Hijackers
Group of so-called Anarchitects who intend to claim back their influence upon public space. The group criticizes the arid and oppressive planning of public space by institutions, urbanists and commerce, by means of spontaneous actions in the city, mainly in the greater London area.
Bijari
Coletivo de artistas plásticos em São Paulo que têm organizado intervenções urbanas para discutir gentrificação, trabalho informal etc.
Artists collective in São Paulo that has organized urban interventions to discuss gentrification, informal labour etc.