‘There is an economy of narrative, it will be said, an economy of memory. One cannot recount everything,’ wrote Jean-François Augoyard. ‘What can be known about what occurred during a walk?’ (2007: 68) Over the last decade, explorations on foot of New Delhi have erupted as urban practices indicative of global tourism. These range from middle-c…[Read more]

On July 29th, 2016 the Women’s Classical Committee UK, with the support of the Council of University Classics Departments, hosted a workshop at the University of Birmingham titled ‘Classics and Feminist Pedagogy: Practical Tips for Teaching’ workshop. This is one of two reports that came out of that workshop and presents some practical tips for t…[Read more]

On July 29th, 2016 the Women’s Classical Committee UK, with the support of the Council of University Classics Departments, hosted a workshop at the University of Birmingham titled ‘Classics and Feminist Pedagogy: Practical Tips for Teaching’ workshop. This is one of two reports that came out of that workshop and presents some practical tips for t…[Read more]

Review of Peter Eisenman, Palladio Virtuel

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]

The late medieval wall of Rimini is an important monumental presence in the present-day fabric of the city, bounding its historic center. However, even though a good knowledge exists through written sources about it, the subject has not been checked enough from the archaeological point of view. This article intends to take stock of the situation…[Read more]

An essay that weaves historical perspectives with a unique interpretation of Kerensa Dewantoro’s performance art of Menjahit Marat Sade/ Sewing Marat Sade in Urban Kampong Dago Pojok, Bandung-Indonesia

The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Since the end of the prohibition of Chinese New Year celebrations, the night sky of towns and cities across Indonesia has been illuminated with fireworks on the eve of Chinese New Year. Most notably, the traditional street parades and accompanying festival on the fifteenth day of the New Year have been growing in size in a number of West…[Read more]

Public space as a visual spectacle contributed for discovery and possible strengthening of new rhetorics outside the planning sector. Contestation of public space featuring various aspects of life residents, including; economy, entertainment, politic, and life style. One of the paradox emerging from this, manifest in the use of public space that…[Read more]

Public space as a visual spectacle contributed for discovery and possible strengthening of new rhetorics outside the planning sector. Contestation of public space featuring various aspects of life residents, including; economy, entertainment, politic, and life style. One of the paradox emerging from this, manifest in the use of public space that…[Read more]

The Pasupati flyover (Pasteur-Surapati) connecting Bandung to Jakarta has become a new symbol for the city. Recent policy has made the space located under the bridge, transformed from ‘dead space’ into a socially-significant urban space for marginal people governed by many stakeholders and consequently a contestation of multiple and con…[Read more]

Traditional society cosmology is an instrument of territorial, space and buildings order as a whole language.Megalithic Nias was found with its organizational and architectural concept arranged with its cosmology.The belief of three worlds/cosmos: upper world or ancestor’s world, human world, and underworld, is local cult approved as local…[Read more]

The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

Local wisdom producing genius loci is a conceptual idea that lives, grows and develops in the society. It develops continually and in relation with society awareness, organizing sacral and profane parts of their lives. Genius loci in traditional settlements can be found in the different pattern and order corresponding to traditional values of the…[Read more]