research and writings by_ Peter Mörtenböck_ and_ Helge Mooshammer_ on art, architecture and politics
RESEARCH
OTHER MARKETS
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Mapping typologies and conditions of informality:
How informal markets intersect with global governance
NETWORKED CULTURES
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The struggle for new forms of artistic practice in an era of global deregulation
SUPPLY LINES
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An ecological view on resource politics
SEA OF MARBLE
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Looking out to the sea: A navigational convergence on the imaginary and the realities of the sea
EXHIBITIONS
Networked Cultures -
documentary
Gunners & Runners
Trading Places
Networked Cultures
Gone City
Temporary Zones
Operation Desert
You'll Never Walk Alone
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly
Volume 12 – issue 3-4
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Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (2008)
Spaces of encounter: informal markets in Europe Architectural Research Quarterly, 12 , pp 347-357 doi:10.1017/S1359135508001267 Cambridge Journals |
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Spaces of encounter: informal markets in Europe
abstract:
In the past two decades numerous large-scale informal markets have emerged on the fringes of European cities in the wake of global geopolitical transformations. Relying on individualised long-distance connections and adapting to diverse local situations, they produce a proliferating array of unregulated urban architectures while providing habitats for millions of undocumented existences. One such case is the infamous Arizona Market not far from the north Bosnian town of Brcko, a place that has been transformed from a border guard post into a major hub for people trafficking and prostitution and now into a multi-ethnic centre of ubiquitous consumption. Another one, Izmailovo Market in the north-east of Moscow, the largest informal trading centre in the region with links to all parts of the Russian Federation and beyond, has grown into a Babylonian site of 15 specialised trading areas that rivals the Moscow Kremlin both in terms of size and visitor attractiveness. And when the 22nd World Congress of Architecture was held in Istanbul under the motto ‘Grand Bazaar of Architectures’, a bazaar of a very different kind traded outside the tourist centres: a vast network of provisional, informal street markets that establish themselves right alongside the building sites of official urban regeneration, beneath terraces of motorways and next to newly constructed tram lines. Before exploring the dynamics of these spaces in more detail, let us address briefly the socio-economic conditions underlying the rise of informal markets …
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BOOKS
OCCUPY:
Räume des Protests
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Space (Re)Solutions:
Intervention and Research in Visual Culture
Netzwerk Kultur:
Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt
Zwischen Architektur und Psychoanalyse
Networked Cultures:
Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
Cruising:
Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures
Visuelle Kultur:
körper, räume, medien
Die virtuelle Dimension:
Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace
