Great Urban Thinkers: Maurice Cox, stadsplanner van Detroit
America’s ‘Automotive City’, Detroit, has suffered its share of setbacks: the demise of car manufacturing, white flight, black flight, the economic crisis and a huge mountain of debt. Thousands of houses still stand derelict, inhabited by drugdealers or with trees growing through the roof. The city went bankrupt in 2013 – a blessing in disguise, as its 18 billion dollars of debt were erased. The city is on its way back up: downtown is undergoing a marked renaissance and Ford Motor Company, believe it or not, is actually returning to Detroit. Ford will be setting up a new mobility research center in Detroit’s beautiful old train station, which stood empty for decades.
In Detroit I made a video interview with the head of urban planning, Maurice Cox, about Detroit’s upturn – and what still remains to be done.
Expositie BLOOT: naakt of bloot, choquerend of ontroerend
De mooie expositie BLOOT in Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen, samengesteld door gastcurator Thomas Widdershoven in samenwerking met Marie Stel, is soms choquerend en ontroerend, soms grappig en soms ook heel gewoon. Opmerkelijk dat tussen de lullenvazen en de vaginabroeken, de grootste controverses gingen over een tampontouwtje en een onschuldige peuter op het strand. Hoe anders is bloot dan naakt? Naakt ben je in de ogen van anderen, bloot bén je gewoon.
jan 2019
25/01/2019 – John Adams: Christiane Amanpour
feb 2019
04/02/2019 – Stadsleven: FemCity: Ben ik nu feminist?
06/02/2019 – John Adams: David Eicher and André Kuipers
mrt 2019
28/03/2019 – Stadsleven
mei 2019
29/05/2019 – Stadsleven
TRACY·TV #61: Dutch Design Week 2018
The Design Academy Eindhoven has moved its 2018 graduation show to the former Campina milk factory on the edge of town.. There’s lots of space not only for the objects, but also for the ideas behind them. I chose four that address both the physical and the digital domains, from morphed office chairs to the way women sit in public, with their knees together… but not on Anna Jensen’s chairs!
TRACY·TV #60: Robot Love
What does it mean to be human in a time when man and machine merge? The exhibition Robot Love, curated by Ine Gevers, asks whether our capacity for love still distinguishes us from robots, now that robots – thanks to artificial intelligence – have the ability to learn. Can robots learn to love? Ine Gevers is also a guest in my talkshow Cinema Stadsleven in EYE Film Institute on Oct. 24th.
