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Progetto Arcevia 2.0/12
In 1972, Italo Bartoletti initiated Progetto Arcevia, a vision of an existential community which simultaneously enriched the local community of Palazzo d’Arcevia (Italy) while at the same time providing a site for creatives – artists, philosophers, architects – to come together and collaborate.
40 years later, Bartoletti’s vision has been embraced by a group of young London-based designers, Unit +. In September 2012, five members of Unit + journeyed to Riserva Privata San Settimio, the very site that Bartoletti first cultivated for Progetto Arcevia, and which is still owned by his family today. Using experiential and live mapping techniques across a range of different media (conceptual documentaries, sketches, models and a fairy tale inspired comic book), Unit + explored, documented and analysed their impressions of the site.
Through their dynamic engagement with all aspects of the Riserva, they experimented with colour-coded navigation systems, a proposal for a ‘floating’ meditation room and a towering sundial. Through the support and enthusiasm of Bartoletti’s family and the Riserva, Unit + will return in Spring 2013 to initiate these projects.
Crucial to Progetto Arcevia 2.0/12 is the fact that the fundamental ideals remain the same; Unit + are committed to operating as “a thought factory and creativity lab”, a team that values collaboration and cooperation. Their work at the Riserva in 2013 represents not only a continuation of one man’s vision, but the revitalisation of concepts that are intrinsic to collaborative design.
Stephen Hawking’s dead. Martin’s having a breakdown. And Ellie? She’s feeding the fish.
When Martin hears that the world’s greatest scientific mind has died, he’s tipped over the edge. Who will figure out where we came from, and why we’re here?
Lucky for him, chance – or destiny – finds him in an aquarium with Ellie, a PhD student studying astrophysics. As the fish swim in circles, so too do these strangers, running through science, philosophy and theology as they search for the meaning of life – and whether there is such a thing at all.
Existential Fish & Dread is a philosophical comedy drama that deals with vast, unanswerable questions through the story of a very unlikely friendship. It explores the impact of genuine human connection, and makes those existential feelings just a little more bearable.
London Pub Theatres – “…clever, moving & well performed” ****
Theatre T – “A well structured walk-through of the human condition” ****
Within Her Words – “…perfectly timed, with a finesse in its script that heightens it from a simple 2 hander…” ****1/2
Gwenan Bain - Director
Martha Reed - Playwright
Steph Hartland - Producer
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
Up to five years ago, our politicians claimed Germany wasn't an immigration country, although there are the 'insignificant' number of 5 million Turks living here. Today, our industry says it direly needs immigrants to offset the lack of skilled labor with our ageing population. But our society still has not found a way to integrate our 'citizens with a migratory background' (politically correct German speak for immigrants).
By Grayson Perry
Glazed ceramic urn
Previously a furniture factory, the Victoria Miro Gallery lies just off City Road. The garden at the back also holds a reclaimed part of Regent's Canal at Wenlock Basin.
Existential crisis cat… either that or I was a second away from a scratch attack -
Existential crisis cat… either that or I was a second away from a scratch attack – Cats, kittens and kittys, cute and adorable! Aww! (via ift.tt/29KELz0)
- via ift.tt/29KELz0. Cats, kittens and kittys, cute and adorable! Aww!
The Truth Is ... I really have no idea what the industry I am training students for will look like.
Journalism is, according to one of its young stars, undergoing an existential change and where that will end no-one knows.
But as Hamish Macdonald told journalism students at QUT today there are a few truths about the industry.
There is a greater hunger for information than there has ever been in the past but how people want to receive that is changing and the industry has to change to meet that. Falling audiences tell us we can't just keep doing more of the same.
Macdonald doesn't purport to know all the answers but he has developed a new way of telling journalistic stories.
The Truth Is? will premiere on Network 10 next month and if the reaction of the next generation of journalists is anything to go by he has a hit on his hands.
Macdonald today delivered a shot in the arm for any student worrying about the state of the industry they are entering, reminding them that more Australians watch the news and the average news viewer is younger than in other countries.
On top of that, the new journalism students - those who check Twitter and Facebook before turning on the radio, television or picking up the newspaper - will be the ones leading the change and they should seize the day.
And Macdonald's top tip for how to get that elusive journalism job - go overseas. The world is your oyster go grab it. The Truth? I reckon they can handle that truth.
Some people think depression is like sadness, unhappiness, grief, negative emotion.
It is the opposite of all these things.
It is meaninglessness itself.
This panel could really stand on its own, but it leads into a further four-parter which I really need to keep together.
For quite a while I debated whether or not to upload this to flickr. This is very confessional, and brought tears to my eyes when I scanned it and saw the results.
This is about my childhood and my childhood dreams. That tree is about as old as I am (parts are frequently sawed off so it doesn't destroy everything around it), and I'd spend lonely afternoons lying around the grass, listening to Astor Piazolla on a cassette tape walkman, dreaming of being great -- an artist, a scient, a poet, a warrior, a magician, a king.
I seem to be cursing things as I photograph them; many urban scenes I've posted on flickr have been destroyed to build something else weeks after I took pictures. I don't know how I would react if the Seventh Tree (don't ask) was cut down. I might lose days of work lying on my bed crying about how living means throwing away most dreams to focus on a few and how one is constantly losing almost (and this is a key word: almost) everything that once mattered.
Anyway, there it is -- a representation of my happiest and most meaningful formative moments and of the existential weight that being a dreamer carries, captured in a 36 x 24mm piece of film. This is probably the most personally significant photograph I ever took. Thread with care on this one.
i kept the lens distortion, i like what it adds to the composition and a bit of fallibility humanises the image
Danish existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard died at the age of 42 at the height of his fame. He was laid to rest in Assistens Kirkegård Cemetery in Copenhagen (Kierkegaard's last name does sound like the word for cemetery in Danish, i.e. 'church-garden'). He was buried together with members of his family. This photo shows one of the memorial stones in the family plot, with Soren Kierkegaard's name below two siblings who died aged 12 and 25. The writing below Kierkegaard's name is a poem by an 18th century Danish Christian hymn writer, Hans Brorson, that Kierkegaard wished to be inscribed on his tombstone:
"It is a little while
then I have won,
then the whole struggle
with one disappeared,
then I can rest
in rose halls,
and incessantly
my Jesus speech"
Brian was in an existential funk.
Get up, take the subway, go to work, take the subway, go to bed… what for?
He never realized that his very presence gave us strength, as he was proof there was real porpoise in life.
Progetto Arcevia 2.0/12
In 1972, Italo Bartoletti initiated Progetto Arcevia, a vision of an existential community which simultaneously enriched the local community of Palazzo d’Arcevia (Italy) while at the same time providing a site for creatives – artists, philosophers, architects – to come together and collaborate.
40 years later, Bartoletti’s vision has been embraced by a group of young London-based designers, Unit +. In September 2012, five members of Unit + journeyed to Riserva Privata San Settimio, the very site that Bartoletti first cultivated for Progetto Arcevia, and which is still owned by his family today. Using experiential and live mapping techniques across a range of different media (conceptual documentaries, sketches, models and a fairy tale inspired comic book), Unit + explored, documented and analysed their impressions of the site.
Through their dynamic engagement with all aspects of the Riserva, they experimented with colour-coded navigation systems, a proposal for a ‘floating’ meditation room and a towering sundial. Through the support and enthusiasm of Bartoletti’s family and the Riserva, Unit + will return in Spring 2013 to initiate these projects.
Crucial to Progetto Arcevia 2.0/12 is the fact that the fundamental ideals remain the same; Unit + are committed to operating as “a thought factory and creativity lab”, a team that values collaboration and cooperation. Their work at the Riserva in 2013 represents not only a continuation of one man’s vision, but the revitalisation of concepts that are intrinsic to collaborative design.
The olive tree has not only an existential meaning for the Palestinians, but it is part of the family as well. The fields are inherited from generation to generation. During the olive harvest in autumn, the whole family comes together and collects the valuable livelihood.
During the 41 years of occupation, the Israeli occupation forces uprooted hundreds of thousands of olive trees. The most beautiful were taken and planted in Israeli settlements - e.g. in Maale Adumim.
Seen at a prominent junction near San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Wall grafitti in Spanish language with an existential message which translates roughly to 'we are the species in danger of extinguishing everything'
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Oh how I loved this book! Tina is assigned to keep a diary for her Existenstialism class at a Southern California high school - and she bares all. Wry commentary on her life as a teen girl (crushes and all), and some cultural idiosynracies experienced as a young East Indian female living in America. I would love to buy a copy of this book, just to color the gorgeous illustrations!