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!
De 25e editie van de internationale fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht draait om de aard van natuur. Hoe natuurlijk is natuur? Hoe ver gaan we bijvoorbeeld om met de wens in Nederland ‘ongerepte’ natuur te hebben, zoals bij de Oostvaardersplassen? Op de tentoonstelling ‘In Vivo’ komen bijna alle fotografen uit het buitenland, en daar spelen grote thema’s: het dooien van de permafrost in Alaska, de koloniale erfenis van het landschap in Tasmanië, en de vraag hoe de aarde er ná het Antropoceen uit zal zien.
Lees hier mijn recensie voor NRC Handelsblad.
‘So what can we do to protect our city from climate change?’ Every city in the world is asking itself that question, including Montclair, New Jersey, just across the river from New York. New Jersey and New York were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. And that was the question that Gray Russell, sustainability officer of Montclair, put to me in our interview for a special edition of the local cable tv show ‘Greater Montclair’. I was in town to give two lectures in the month-long program Rising Tide at Montclair University. Read the article…
‘So what can we do to protect our city from climate change?’ Every city in the world is asking itself that question, including Montclair, New Jersey, just across the river from New York. New Jersey and New York were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. And that was the question that Gray Russell, sustainability officer of Montclair, put to me in our interview for a special edition of the local cable tv show ‘Greater Montclair’. I was in town to give two lectures in the month-long program Rising Tide at Montclair University. Read the article…
I interviewed urban planning professor and author of ‘Emerald Cities’ Joan Fitzgerald for the John Adams Institute. Given the lack of national policy on climate change, cities have stepped into vacuum and are developing strategies of their own. Good for the climate, good for the economy, says urban planning professor Joan Fitzgerald.