Artfactories. Nous, espaces intermédiaires, Nous qui occupons des espaces délaissés, Nous, pratiques d’espace membres de la grande famille des occupations, au côté du mouvement squat, du Tiers-paysage, des Tiers-lieux, de l’occupation des places, du mouvement 15M... Eléments de la ville fluctuante. LES LIGNES DU MONDE. CitID. The Journal of Urban Typography. Pôle des arts urbains | Pôle de recherche et d'expérimentation sur les arts et la ville. Urban disbehavior in design and architecture. Cityofsound. The primary interface between the UK’s planning system and the people and places it serves is a piece of A4 paper tied to a lamppost in the rain.
OK, not always rain. But rain often enough. The paper is a public notice describing a planning application for some kind of ‘development’ somewhere in the vicinity. If it’s a significant development, and very close to your property, you may also get a notification in the post. However, this bit of A4 paper, via the local council, is essentially the only attempt to communicate how a neighbourhood may be about to change. For something as fundamental as this—how your actual, physical neighbourhood may change—it seems little more than a token gesture.
The paper notices are ubiquitous, tied at eye level in well-trafficked places. If one did notice the notice, you’d find language which is often alarmist (Camden lead with HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOU? I seem to be the only person even looking at the notices, never mind filming them. Cities / People / Place. Monday, April 14th, 2014 Street Food in Busan I can still remember the ssiat hotteok in Busan: moist, thick pancakes stuffed with brown sugar, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds, as if a French crêpe had voyaged to America, eaten too many Krispy Kremes and stumbled head-first into a Korean dry goods shop. It was the perfect salve for the early winter chill. In Seomyeon, a busy shopping and nightlife hub that is the closest thing Busan has to a centre, there were two hotteok stalls on the street behind a large department store. One had a perpetual line of customers, evidently because it had been featured in magazines and on TV — there was a small screen fixed to the side of the stall playing clips of food show hosts eagerly snacking on the pancake.
Immediately adjacent was another stall, which never seemed to have any customers. I first tried the popular one and then, feeling sorry for the competitor, I returned the next day to try it out, too. In a way, that’s kind of how I felt about Busan. La boite verte : Site de découverte sur la photographie, la science, les arts et tout ce qui est insolite.