Visual Essay: The Winners

We are glad to finally announce the winners of the Visual Essay competition.
Since we received so many wonderful pictures, the team decided to choose 4 images, according to the votes and the characteristics the pictures should have, and that graphically are appropiate for an "end of the year" card.
This images will be available as cards on the arch-peace site on a few days for all the members to enjoy and use as will.

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Old Door, by Marwa Yousef, Palestine
taken in Birzeit, Palestine

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by Judith Vargas Araya
taken in Valparaíso, Chile

10
by Gabriela Sabadini, Chile
taken in La Serena, Chile

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by Susanne Bruecke
taken in Havana, Cuba

Visual Essay, the voting procedure

First and foremost, as Arch-Peace we thank all of you that participated in any way on this event, whether sending pictures or promoting it within your contacts and colleagues.

Now is the time for you to vote, we are looking for images that are graphically appropriate for an "end of the year" card (season's greetings). This means that it has to have the right balance between meaning and hope, according the Arch-Peace principles and ideals.

The images are now with a number, now have to vote for the top ten images that for you have what it takes to become the greeting card for this year.

You can cast the vote commenting here, through the Facebook event created to vote or sending a mail to gabriela@architectsforpeace.org.

Visual Essay

Visual essay is a new category among our news. Members are invited to submit original photographs of their city/town or other visual clues on urban or architectural character. Among the submissions we will chose an image for our end of the year card (with due credit to the author).

Now we invite you to keep sending pictures, the deadline is November 8th at gabriela@architectsforpeace.org , or to vote to choose the winner.

You can find more details here.

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BORDERS

where do they startsmarter we become = produce high technology high borders
better materials worse borders

Maybe i will live for a short time but i can't develop this way

Architects for better solutions

* WORKSHOP KOSOVA : “Ecologies of Identity”

BAD-INN (University for Business and Technology in Prishtina, Kosova) invited BAD-MIL/Lorenzo Bini (Politecnico di Milano) with Prof. Gennaro Postiglione to lead a joint-workshop in Pristina, during November 2008. 5 students from Milan, Italy and 10 students from Pristina, participated in this urban design workshop.

The idea is to work on the complex topic of “building” a national identity of Kosovo and its consequences for the urban development of Prishtina and the whole Kosovo. The framework is the recently declared independency of Kosovo from Serbia and the need to build its own identity in order to proceed with the international discussion. A clear and visible identity is vital if you need to assert your country in relation to other countries. This is a consequence of a long term policy dating from last century where the idea of Nation & State was gathered together bringing also the theme of ethnicity.

The following documents cover some of the topics discussed during the workshop:

• Ecology of Narration [PDF]
• Ecology of Network [PDF]
• Ecology of Heritage [PDF]
• Ecology of Buildings [PDF]
• Ecology of Borders [PDF]

Playing on Freeways

By Anthony McInneny

Since 2005 Anthony McInneny has been a studio leader in the RMIT Art in Public Space program. In 2008 he was appointed as the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Public Art, Art in Public Space.