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Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven
Film maker Fatih Akin gets a lot of credit here in Germany at the moment, and that is for sure what he deserves. As the magazine quantara.de outs it the ideas and views transported in his newest film ‘Auf der anderen Seite’ (The Edge of Heaven) – are indeed able to be Transcending Prejudice and ...
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The multicultural Issue
The multicultural Issue is the headline of a discussion series which developed over the last months on the signandsight.com website around the controversy how to deal and react to islamic traditions and views throughout Europe or more generally the West. Who should the West support: moderate Islamists like Tariq Ramadan, or Islamic dissidents like Ayaan ...
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persecution seems to have taken the place of prosecution
Sadly enough this seems true on more than one level concerning the political and social arguments and actions here in Germany these days .. Very recent in mind are the more than stupid statements of the major of Mügeln following the persecution of foreigners last weekend. No one prosecuted for that severe case of racism? ...
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travelling helps ..
.. as stated so many times to widen ones horizon, to open the mind .. and discover eventually a different angle to look at things. Cairo, Egypt – view on the nile riverSo this time the post comes from Cairo, where I had the luck to be right there in time for a lecture, or ...
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the concept of the other
.. usually I try to not point to items which one needs to buy, order, pay a fee .. etc to be able to access them fully on this medium and form of a blog which lives from being freely accessible to those who have at least access to computers. But in this case the ...
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Outside <> Inside: Lygia Clark
> Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica: A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation for a Telematic Future. The work of both has been shown in Europe during Documenta X in 1997 and more recently under the title ‘Tropicalia’ – the name of the 1960s the brasilian art movement. Just recently I came across some texts and ...
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… give a damn ..
.. is the suggestion of a this year’s publication entitled: Design Like You Give a Damn. It has been edited by architecture for humanity and shows a collection of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives: The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing ...
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space for changing identities .. more than just ..
... symbolic capital of /sub/cultural economies. Thanks to some prize winning (2006 AESOP prize) the selected article by Kate Shaw, as the best paper in the planning field, published in a European Journal during 2005, has gone online for free. Reading the paper titled ‘The Place of Alternative Culture and the Politics of its Protection ...
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MigMap – Europe’s present day migration policies
An interesting project in virtual catography with carefully done visualisations is MigMap – Governing Migration / A Virtual Cartography of European Migration Policies >>> linkMigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is currently taking place in the area of migration – and of who is participating in and has access ...