Geoffrey Nunberg - the history of "protest" Topics/country/53/topic/15. In the UK, the freedom of assembly is traditionally regarded as a residual right, which everyone has the right to exercise provided there is no breach of the law. Therefore, in rare instances has domestic law bestowed a positive right to demonstrate. For long, in the absence of a general statutory power to demonstrate, the right of peaceful assembly depended on the goodwill of the judiciary when enforcing the variety of legal provisions that impact on the right to demonstrate. With the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 - which gives the courts the direct right to take ECHR rights and case law into account when interpreting and developing the law, and enables individuals to rely directly on Convention rights in the domestic courts -, the approach has changed.
Today, it is under the Public Order Act 1986 that can be found those provisions that impact on the right of peaceful assembly. Processions Notice requirements Imposing Conditions The power to ban processions Public assemblies. Dark Age Ahead: Amazon.co.uk: Jacobs Jane: 9781400076703. The West is living "The Hazard" of an impending "Dark Age", unable to anticipate clearly because of widespread "mass amnesia". The Dark Age is predictable from history, which shows that each major collapse of civilization was followed by a disturbing social transformation.
The Dark Age Ahead (the book) agrees in part with Jared Diamond's account that Mesopotamia, for example, fell to ruins because of "environmental ignorance" (p. 15), but that was not the whole story. Part of the story is that there are cultural failings that have signaled the decline of major civilizations in the past, which offer lessons for the present and forecasts for the future. In that connection the book identifies five factors that jeopardize pillars of the culture of the West, where West = North America + Western Europe.
The superimposition of the household (economic family unit) over the nuclear family (biological family unit) has condemned many a family to failure. Amavilah, Author. Jane Jacobs. Biography • Perspectives • Quotable • Publications • Links • Contact Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urban writer and activist who championed new, community-based approaches to planning for over 40 years. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, became perhaps the most influential American text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of urban planners and activists. Her efforts to stop downtown expressways and protect local neighborhoods invigorated community-based urban activism and helped end Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’s reign of power in New York City. Jacobs had no professional training in the field of city planning, nor did she hold the title of planner.
She instead relied on her observations and common sense to illustrate why certain places work, and what can be done to improve those that do not. Together with William H. “Mrs. Biography In 1968 Jacobs moved with her family to Toronto, in opposition to the Vietnam War. Books. “Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today” by AIA Panel. On December 17, 2011, the New York Chapter of the AIA held a panel discussion about the Occupy Wall Street events that have spurred people from all over the country into political involvement. The discussion featured nine panelists with introductory remarks from Lance Jay Brown and Michael Kimmelman and closing remarks by Ron Shiffman (all listed below). It focused on aspects of the built environment, public spaces and how they reflect the way in which people assemble. Follow us after the break for more about this discussion, including video. The discussions were varied and from many different perspectives: design, history, law, psychology.
Each aspect highlights the moments of the movement that bring into question the physical space of our cities and how they should be used, but also how we are permitted to use them. Panelist Alexander Cooper mentions that the success of a city, according to Jane Jacobs, is the health of its public spaces. Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today. Freedom of Assembly, In an age of social unrest, political upheaval, and economic uncertainty, the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and around the c. Irina Vinnitskaya. The Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) cuts through myriad neighborhoods on its route between Queens and Brooklyn. Sometimes it takes the form of an elevated six-lane highway with nothing but dark parking lots below; sometimes as a deep trench that segregates neighborhood pockets. The Cross Bronx Expressway in the South Bronx similarly creates boundaries, isolating neighborhoods from each other. Projects such as these, built under the heavy handed politics of Robert Moses in the mid-20th century, show little regard for community development.
The effects of these projects can be seen today; the spaces below the highway overpasses of New York City tend to be dark, dingy places that we avoid or rush past. They’re perceived as “lost space” within the city, yet they have an innate potential to be much more. The Design Trust for Public Space, a non-profit dedicated to promoting public space, sees that potential. More on this exciting program, after the break. Thomas Balsley on NYC’s greater obligation. What to Do With Zuccotti Park? The Designer Behind More POPS Than Anyone Has Some Ideas. Thomas Balsley is one of the foremost landscape architects in New York who happens to hold a special distinction as the person who has designed more Privately Owned Public Spaces, better known as POPS, than anyone else. A zoning anomaly until Occupy Wall Street made them famous, POPS have become an important part of the city’s landscape, and their fate is no doubt going to be debated in the year to come.
Here, Mr. Balsley shares his thoughts on the vital importance of these spaces in our city and what their future holds. In the recent flurry of newspaper accounts about the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, we read a lot about how Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park was a Privately Owned Public Space, a small, publicly accessible park maintained by private owners in exchange for zoning incentives. As an urban landscape architect in New York City, I’ve designed dozens of these spaces. Successful POPS require just this kind of design response to fulfill their dual duty to the public and owners.
METROPOL PARASOL. 17M in Seville, Spain © Antonio Rull Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl from dpr-barcelona. Photographs by Antonio Rull Current worldwide movements related with occupying public space are leading architects to re-think the relationship between our practice and public space. Reinhold Martin [1] says that is also important to note that urbanistic — and to a lesser extent, architectural — considerations have played a key role in the physical occupation of prominent sites in cities and towns. We have referred recently to the Metropol Parasol as a megastructure [2], due to its large scale and the philosophy behind the project.
The idea of relating Jürgen Mayer’s project with those years of avant-garde architecture is reinforced by the fact that you never know if an Utopic project will really work or not, and part of its value lies in the immanent presence of a poetic approach. A few months ago, we wrote about the project: Plaza de la Encarnación. “There is no lack of money. Footnotes [1] . [2] . [3]. Bad Subjects: 65: Protest Cultures. Bad Subjects: Introduction: Protest Cultures. As both year-ending and year-beginning, the issue looks at immediate pasts and futures of anti-war and anti-capitalist politics. Cynthia Hoffman, Joe Lockard, J.C. Myers, and Scott Schaffer Issue Co-editors Issue #65, January 2004 This special issue of Bad Subjects arrives at the end of a tumultuous 2003 and the beginning of a 2004 that promises no less political tumult. As both year-ending and year-beginning, the issue looks at immediate pasts and futures of anti-war and anti-capitalist politics.
This last year of protests against the Iraq War and globalist organizational structures that generate and maintain massive international economic disparities has created new prominence and critical roles for protest cultures Protest and organization are inseparable. Too, the range of prose genres in this issue should be noted as a reflection of the human mélange of a demonstration crowd. Analyzing Protests Opposition to US war policy in Europe was especially strong among the young. Bad Subjects: The Revolution Will Be Visualized: Emory Douglas in the Black Panther. Beret-wearing, gun-toting, angry young black men in black are the most persistent icons representing the Black Panthers from the 1960s and 70s. According to mainstream media accounts, their mission was essentially to scare white people about armed revolution in retaliation for discrimination.
Mission accomplished; people were scared. Colette Gaiter Issue #65, January 2004 Beret-wearing, gun-toting, angry young black men in black are the most persistent icons representing the Black Panthers from the 1960s and 70s. According to mainstream media accounts, their mission was essentially to scare white people about armed revolution in retaliation for discrimination. Mission accomplished — people were scared. About thirty years after newspaper ceased publication, the work of Emory Douglas as a protest artist is not widely known. On the back of each Black Panther weekly tabloid paper was a poster, usually created by Douglas.
"Hallelujah! We want freedom. We want full employment for our people. Architecture as a Stage for Protest. Cheeky Greenpeace UK Fighting Climate Change With Architecture - Protest Architecture. Activist architects needed to block Heathrow's third runway. In what could be one of the most exciting design competitions of the year, Greenpeace is challenging architects to don arms and take up the front line in the fight against climate change. The environmental activist group has launched a “battle of the architects” to create an “impenetrable fortress” to physically block the construction of a third runway at Heathrow. The structure will be built at the centre of the site in west London, where airport operator BAA hopes to construct a $12.7 billion runway and sixth terminal. Greenpeace bought the plot of land on which the stronghold will be built last year, before distributing its ownership to people across the world. There are now over 60,000 beneficial owners of the runway land, with more people signing up every day on the Greenpeace website, creating a legal headache for any government trying to push ahead with Heathrow expansion.
“Architectural education is, in its very nature, left of centre. More information… Heathrow protesters plan third runway site 'fortress' Protesters plan to build a "fortress" occupied by "ordinary people" on land earmarked for the construction of Heathrow's third runway. Last year a Greenpeace coalition bought an acre of land near Sipson village and gave ownership to 60,000 people. It has invited architects to submit designs for a "fortress" to resist bulldozers, if the runway goes ahead. The government-backed runway is due to be built in 2015. Conservatives and Lib Dems are fighting the £7bn plans. The coalition gave ownership of the land to 60,000 people in a bid to create legal obstacles to delay or stop the runway scheme.
It launched a competition to design the "impenetrable fortress", to be built as soon as possible unless the airport expansion is abandoned. Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said: "Whoever wins the next election, they will come under enormous pressure from the all-powerful aviation industry to push ahead with a third runway. 'Business boost' Pavilion of Protest at the RIBA | The Critics. [THIS WEEK] Is it brave or foolish to host Pavilion of Protest at the RIBA? James Pallister ‘Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in,’ Lyndon B Johnson famously said of J Edgar Hoover, in a pleasingly vivid summation of the politicking of inclusion – killing through kindness.
With its current show at Portland Place, the RIBA has taken wily LBJ’s strategy to heart. It has invited the Pavilion of Protest into its central space, the Florence Hall. The show is made up of illustrations by architecture students, depicting the struggle and strife of their education. While the brief doesn’t rule out a celebratory view of architecture teaching, its intention to publish a ‘compendium of architectural defiance’ makes its stance clear. The exhibition follows up on research (AJ 25.05.11) on the huge increase in the cost of qualifying as an architect between 2000 (£36,000) and 2011 (£88,726). 1276261776-axonemetric-projection-528x383.jpg (528×383) OWS Goes on Hunger Strike to Occupy “Lent Space” Bad Subjects: Street Protest Architecture - Dissent Space in Australia. Street protests appear suddenly in prominent public places - their effect is to stand out in public, in dramatic and symbolic contrast to a context.
In their conspicuousness, they enliven and animate the city as a form of public theatre. Gregory Cowan Issue #65, January 2004 Street protests appear suddenly in prominent public places — their effect is to stand out in public, in dramatic and symbolic contrast to a context. This article suggests that conflicts and encounters between the ancient continent of Australia and its more recent Western/global architecture and culture are indicative of a process which gives rise to an architecture of protest. This article highlights a series of Australian case studies of protest constructions, from the 1970s and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra to more recent protest constructions for Sydney 2000 and Perth 2003, noting that the architecture of protest construction is ephemeral, mobile, and highly collaborative.
Collapsible Architecture. Outsides : Clemens Behr. Outsides Several noncommissioned and commissioned installation works in public spaces. Street: Helsinki, Finland Apollo 11: Full Pull Festival, Malmö Sweden Big Skull: Postbahnhof, Berlin Untitled: Sommerloch Festival, Wuppertal GER Run VIE Festival: Vienna, Austria : Helsinki 2011 Garden Piece: Koblenz, Germany Beuth University Berlin: Done by architecture students. Newspaper launches 'family friendly' campaign. A weekly newspaper has launched a campaign to urge its local council to improve facilities for families with young children in Canterbury. The Kentish Gazette launched ‘Make it Family Friendly’ after readers and mum complained that Canterbury was falling short of providing modern facilities for families with young children.
In launching its campaign on Friday, the paper said it wants the city to succeed in the modern age. It had previously featured stories in the paper about young mums having to use insufficient facilities in the city’s shops with mothers saying there was a lack of baby feeding facilities. The campaign calls on Canterbury City Council and Canterbury city Partnership bosses to meet with mums and listen to their views. In an article launching the campaign editor Leo Whitlock said the paper was calling on the council, partnership and the shops, restaurants and cafes it represents to work with mums to make shopping in the city a pleasurable and stress-free experience. Www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/drivers_urb_change/urb_infrastructure/pdf_public_private_services/UNDP_PPPUE_Joint Venture_1.pdf. Www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2017-interactions-public-places.pdf.
Ex-archbishop wrings hands at St Paul's 'debacle' Make it Family Friendly: Join our campaign. Rrugated Cardboard Types. Corrugated Cardboard Types. Design « Branch. How Kinetic Architecture Can Redefine Folding Space through Variation : Sensing Architecture by Maria Lorena Lehman. Home. Furniture « Morph Interior Blog. Properties of Cardboard. Properties of Corrugated Cardboard. E-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:1369/eth-1369-01.pdf.