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Spring 2013: (in)visible

After a small winter sleep we move from the dutch landscape, city, building and street to an overall theme for the upcoming months: (in)visible

The theme derived out of the text ‘21 shameless observations for a 21ste century of Dutch architecture’, by Abdelkader Benali. This text was written for the launch of the ‘Jaarboek Architectuur 2011/12’ published by NAI Publishers. In the text Benali advocates for all the invisible buildings, the buildings that don’t take part in the traditional registers: ‘Invisible buildings bear their sorrow in silence. No one seems to bother, nobody notices them.’

Meanwhile Merleau-Ponty’s text The visible and the invisible provides a philosophical background to discuss aspects of our sensory perception and the intriguing relation between subject and object.

Within this theme we challenge everyone to consider the haptic qualities of our ((un)build) environment. Feel free to approach the theme within the different categories;  the creative exercise, theory, and book reviews for our digital library.

January 2013: Street

A new year, the second year of Writing Place. Our first associations in the new year: streets. The streets where we live, the street as a social space, the street as a universe.