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Christopher Barley
If Are.na was a place

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Have been thinking about Are.na as an offline experience. Using this channel to collect visions of Are.na as a real and metaphorical space.

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Jan van Toorn's calendar for 1972/73, designed for the Dutch printer Mart.Spruijt, is one of the most extraordinary and provocative graphic artifacts of its era. The calendar proposed a new form of engagement for the graphic designer as a mediator and manipulator of photographic meaning. The project still looks utterly remarkable 40 years later.

A classic calendar by Jan van Toorn has...

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Source: "Reboot the World," 2016. https://newrepublic.com/article/133889/reboot-world Quote as text: https://www.are.na/block/2001114

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In 1970, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill and his Taller de Arquitectura worked on a huge housing complex called La Ciudad en el Espacio (The City in the Space) which could acquire the characteristic of a whole neighborhood and provide the basis for a reflexion on the idea of city. Conceived to be “complex and flexible” at the same time, the project embodies a dose of utopian thinking but grounds that in a realistic fashion, through the development of a plausible construction system, a light prefabricated system allowing for the further growth of the complex over time. The growth system, by which the city could adapt to a progressive increase of population, is based on cubic volumes which can be combined as modules through “strict geometrical laws” obtaining an outcome which guarantees diversity. Streets, squares and arcades would be introduced on several, elevated levels, while the ground floor was occupied by services and parking spaces. The complex would have provided a mixture of functions on all levels and would be managed by a sort of collective Coop.

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My Gifs are a mix of public domain archives found on internet and contemporaries pieces of art like numeric photography, vectors, paintings, drawings, videos and so on... I try to make still alive old forgotten things and remember where we are coming from...

François Dejardin GIF - Find &...

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https://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-round-reading-room-at-the-british-museum/

Reading Room at British Museum

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If someone ever criticises your tidiness, show them this, the New York Review of Books office.

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