Festival of Ideas. Postópolis: Urban Portraiture. I recently spent the better part of five days sitting on a cinderblock in the courtyard of Museo Experimental el Eco , listening to various creative people, mostly from Mexico, talk about their work. I am not entirely certain why I did this, but I am glad that I did. The event, Postópolis , is described as “a public five-day session of near-continuous conversation curated by some of the world’s most prominent bloggers from the fields of architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, music and design.” I applaud the premise: to celebrate and take stock of the extent to which sophisticated discourse and debate about design and urban culture (and the creative forces which influence them) have migrated to online formats.
But I am not clear on the outcome. Certainly, as an audience member, I am today more informed of about the dizzying amount of creativity and innovation at the heart of Mexico City’s cultural life than I was pre-Postópolis. Eduardo Terrazas | Photo by Cassim Shepard. Proxy. Museum of Craft and Design.