Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer
research and writings on art, architecture and politics


RESEARCH


DATA PUBLICS
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Public plurality in an era
of data determinacy




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



WORLD OF MATTER
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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


La Biennale di Venezia - 17th International Architecture Exhibition 2021

XX Architecture and Urbanism Biennial - Chile 2017

Ephemeral Urbanism

World of Matter
@ HMKV Dortmund
@ James Gallery New York
@ Ellen Gallery Montreal
@ Nash Gallery Minnesota

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


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



PDF
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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IN/FORMAL
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PLATFORM
URBANISM
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DATA
PUBLICS
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AS
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INFORMAL
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INFORMAL
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OCCUPY:
Räume des Protests
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