#Civic space

[fall24iksection]

EN-POINTE, KAGRAN / AUSTRIA, THE OPEN WORKSHOP, Europan 12 competition 2013

"Seven bars run through the site to both operate at the scale of the surrounding infrastructures as well as organize the local scale of the neighborhoods. These bars contain nine housing types to cater to differing demographics and touch down on the site lightly to activate the arcaded public realm below in a precise manner.

Ten different scales of arches are employed within the bars to mediate between the scales of public and private. These range from four to thirty meters, providing for intimate as well as monumental civic spaces."

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[lsbubastudio2]

“BFI National Library 2.0”, Dean Street, Soho, London _ Student: Charlotte Elliott-Ford / BA2 _ 06.05.2023

The new BFI National Library 2.0 recombines the film archives and library into one location for the convenience of filmmakers and researchers, as well as provide accessible storage for analogue and digital film archives. The site is on 2-4 Dean Street, which has several film-related organizations and companies nearby.

Module 202 _ “Urban Arboretum: Treehouse (or The House of Trees)” _ BAS2 _ 2023-2024.

[humanrightsday]

Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Freedom of Association: The double helix of civic space and labour rights.

ILO and OHCHR are organizing an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87). The event aims to inspire more decisive action to preserve and expand both human and labour rights. It will celebrate the contributions of the OHCHR and of the ILO and its tripartite constituents to the promotion of Freedom of Association and related civil liberties for the protection of civic space.

[internationalwomenday]

Solutions to strengthen civic space and women’s digital rights: Addressing the pushback against gender equality.

In line with the priority theme of CSW67 focusing on technology and gender equality, UN Women is convening a high-level side event in collaboration with The Feminist Movement and Leadership and Gender-Based Violence. The side event will be a 75-minute, in-person event.

PANEL DISCUSSiON on Solutions to strengthen civic space and women’s digital rights: Addressing the pushback against gender equality. 13 March 2023, 1.15–2.30pm EDT, Conference Room 8, UN Headquarters.

 Registration is required. The event will be webcast UN Web TV.

[skarloeyspa]

imagine being 160 years old lmaooooooooooooo

[arc-hus]

Sands End Arts and Community Centre, London - Mae

https://www.mae.co.uk/

[out-of-heaven-and-hell]

Okay I hate calling people oversensitive but if simple talk of abortion upsets you that much in two posts where it's tagged so you have no excuse in terms of being able to avoid it then you shouldn't be online

[kenjed]

My car parked outside Dillon and Mom's in Connecticut, November 2022

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for April 8, 2023; #348.

Sandrider: “Alia”

Civic: “Blood Rushes”

Torche: “It Never Began”

Still Form: “Gums”

Blacklisters: “Why Deny It?”

Tunic: “Whispering”

Godcaster: “Vivian Heck” + “Diamond’s Shining Face”

Heavy Mother: “Louie Louie”

Brain Cave: “Solo Gazebo”

Gloop: “I Never Really Knew”

Hickey: “Backseat Driver”

Fucking Lovely: “Lamp”

Slifft: “Unseen” + “The Real Unseen”

Knub: “Dark Room”

Colonial Wound: “YSL”

Space Camp: “Space Camp Intellectual Property Lawsuit”

Oozing Wound: “The Good Times (I Don’t Miss ‘Em)”

Nag: “Repulsion”

Weeping Icon: “Two Ways”

Shove: “Swing”

Desperate Living: “Gone”

Haunted Horses: “The Garden”

Pigs: “Donnybrook”

Mulva: “Futuremind”

Deluxe noise rock and garage.

[widowshill]

i'm going to eventually write up something coherent about why i think liz makes sense as a post wwii queer woman / the reverberations in her own Myth. but in the meantime: excerpts from this article.

[urfaveautisticlesbian]

I still don’t understand the whole “anti (insert fan base/source material/creator/person)” blogs when there’s no substantial reasoning behind it. Like I can understand if it’s smth that is very much problematic or bad (attack on titan, mindless self indulgence, that one gross BL manga and anime abt high school boys. You know the one.) but when I see people being like “oh I don’t like (whatever) because the fans are irritating and cringe mehmehmeymeh” like congratulations no one cares! If you think it’s cringe no one really gives a fuck, people left cringe culture a long time ago and I’m sorry you can’t let it go yet. Like I don’t care for the my hero academia series or it’s fan base but I’m not going out of my way to talk abt it all the time, I just acknowledge there’s people who like it and there’s nothing wrong w liking something. God forbid.

[punishedmemelia]

Don't have a car rn and Veronica might get written off from the damages and the fact she's got 275,000 km on her back 🙃 RIP

[novemberthewriter]

ok last thing!

i hope ppl start getting normal abt voting (re: remembering it's not the end-all be-all of political action + activism) again in the wake of this bc this, of all things, should rly show you the system is rigged

[canichangemyblogname]

I would never in a million years tell people to abstain from voting. I will always encourage people to vote, never as the end-all-be-all of political action, but as a form of political action and political voice.

I would also never look someone in the eye and say something like, “Vote blue no matter who.” I’m not going to lie to someone, and I’m not going to pretend the two party system isn’t the 4th circle of hell. I’m not going to pretend like the Republicans aren’t fascists and an increasingly aging, rural and niche party, and I’m not going to pretend the Democrats aren’t an exceedingly broad party with few ideological commitments, but what commitments they have are conservative.

Absolutely get out and vote. Also get out and organize. Protest. Run for office. Sit in. Work on campaigns. Go to local meetings. City council meetings. PTO meetings. School Board meetings. County board meetings. Planning meetings. Contact elected officials, repeatedly. Start community movements. For example: Join or start a movement to address local zoning laws that discourage density & low income housing. It can be both an environmental-based and supportive housing-based coalition. Same goes for a local movement to provide people fresh groceries.

If you want to see change, it is essential to get involved in every corner of public-political life. Get creative. And vote for the person, not the party. Broad, sweeping statements from white “progressives” who like to hear themselves pontificate more than take steps to enact change like “I won’t vote because the system’s inherently broken” ignores just how many tools are at our disposal to enact change. It also writes off decades and centuries of community organizing movements and tactics pioneered by black and brown and indigenous political activists. And it ignores how much they have reformed.

It’s really actually fucking frustrating. It ignores how the 2 party system is the 4th circle of hell. The 2 party system forces people to rely almost exclusively on local changes and movements for larger, national problems. It gives next to no room for third parties, forcing communists to run under the same party as genocidal warmongers. It means “coalitions” are too broad and ideologically fractured. Or, it makes it easier for the ideologically insular and fringe to find mainstream platforms. It leaves a lot of people unrepresented, ideologically. And we circle right back around to how people are forced to rely on underfunded, grassroots movements to see representation.

But fuck if those community movements aren’t really fucking important. And fuck if they haven’t helped reform things, starting at the local level.

And I will *always, always* stress how important local elections are. A lot of those offices don’t even have a party affiliation. And if there is a distinct lack of information for voters in your community, that’s something you can fix. If you see a need, fill it.

[fall23iksection]

https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/market-hall-and-civic-center

GUILLERMO VAZQUEZ CONSUEGRA, MARKET HALL + CIVIC CENTER, TORRENT /SPAIN

The program for the new building includes a construction of the new market, a high quality commercial area and a supermarket, and as well as a large civic center, a public space for community activities and celebrations.

The juxtaposition of spaces evokes the typological model of the great Italian Renaissance buildings, which consists of a large communal hall over the market, a public space of great capacity with direct access from outside.

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[giorgio52fan]

The Art of Trash Talk: A Hilarious Guide to Waste Collection and Cleanliness in Public Spaces

Have you ever sat on a park bench, savoring the fresh air and chirping of birds, only to look down and realize you’re sitting next to a discarded pizza box that someone, for reasons unknown, thought should cohabitate with nature? No one wants that. So, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty (pun intended) of waste collection and maintaining cleanliness in public spaces. Strap in, folks. It’s about to…