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- van Toorn, Roemer, 1960-, et al.
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Granica (border)
- 2016
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Ingår i: Rzut. Kwartalnik Architektoniiczny. - Warszawa : www.kwartalnikrzut.pl. - 2353-4133. ; :11, s. 2-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Architecture is about space, about aesthetics, about representation, performance, the longe duree, topology and much else. In this text Roemer van Toorn and Ole Bouman unfold how architecture and the idea and concept of border relate.
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Architecture in effect : vol 1. Rethinking the social in architecture: making effects
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies. The book compromises a wide-ranging collection of essays emerging from a multi-year research collective that has brought together partners from Sweden, the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social, is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.
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- Bouman, Ole, et al.
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The Blinders that make the visionary : Ole Bouman, Roemer van Toorn, The Invisible in Architecture (London: Academy Editions, 1994), 442– 53
- 2019
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Ingår i: OMA/Rem Koolhaas. - Basel : Birkhäuser Verlag. - 9783035619812 ; , s. 214-216
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas’ own writings. The book contains about 150 selected texts - interviews, feature articles, essays, lead articles, reviews, letters, introductions, appraisals, and competition reports that have been compiled for the first time. This compilation not only provides a fresh and critical view of the oeuvre of one the most important contemporary architects, but also represents an account of the debate on architectural and urban design in recent decades.
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- Gromark, Sten, et al.
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Rethinking the social in architecture: making effects : editors' introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Architecture in effect. - Barcelona, New York : ACTAR. - 9781940291994 ; , s. 19-35
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies. The book compromises a wide-ranging collection of essays emerging from a multi-year research collective that has brought together partners from Sweden, the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social, is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.With the contributions ofAlberto Altés Arlandis, Mariana Alves, Thordis Arrhenius, Anders Bergström, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Katarina Bonnevier, Brady Burroughs, Ragnhild Claesson, Fran Cottell, Hélène Frichot, Hannes Frykholm, Catharina Gabrielsson, David A. Garcia, Charlotte Geldof, Katja Grillner, Sten Gromark, Sophie Handler, Maria Hellström Reimer, Ben Highmore, Katja Hogenboom, Ebba Högström, Nel Janssens, Mark Jarzombek, Sepideh Karami, Daniel Koch, Thérèse Kristiansson, Mattias Kärrholm, Jennifer Mack, Jesper Magnusson, Helena Mattsson, Marianne Mueller, Katrin Paadam, Christina Pech, Karin Reisinger, Jane Rendell, Helen Runting, Gunnar Sandin, Meike Schalk, Miriam von Schantz, Bettina Schwalm, Erik Sigge, Erik Stenberg, Tijana Stevanović, Apolonija Šušteršič, Roemer van Toorn, Fredrik Torisson
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Radical Swedes* : Studio: Celebrating Diversity. Towards a Cosmo-Political Outlook
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Speaking about Radical Sweden or Radical Swedes may sound like an oxymoron, but it is real. In the Swedish welfare state many people like to believe that all that counts is goodness in Sweden, while in fact this concept of Swedish goodness has denied the radicalization of its society; racism, the existence of antisemitism, islamophobia, even sexism; and that it’s social democracy’s global flagship is under threat due to the country’s ongoing Neo-liberalization and the rise of the far-right, against the backdrop of economic decline and arrival of migrants.And yet – against, and due to the troubling and complex background of a Radical Sweden – a new progressive radical responsibility of Radical Swedes starts to emerge thinking the climate, the economy, the common, humanity, living, work, nature and free-time otherwise. It has to do with a need and desire to recover and deepen democratic values, and to recognize and care for the social nucleus present in our societies; how a renewed idea of the common and private can be constructed towards a renewed idea of democratic and ecological imagination. It concerns a radical transformation of our global contemporary society as a whole; how through its paradoxical community’s; where we all have become foreigners – another Cosmo-Political reality can be thought and constructed. The projects documented in this book make difference relate, foster the radical inconsistencies of possibility, situate an otherness of unexpected places, displacements, and interrelationship of people and things that in potential allow new relationships of citizenship to emerge. What the projects situate is a new beginning, or in other words concerns a radicality of ideas, of organizations and its articulations; is about an aesthetics performance that shifts the social, the economic and the political of our doing and thinking, now that the failure of Neo-liberalism has become apparent.
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- Shirke, Sangram, 1984-, et al.
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Celebrating Diversity : Towards a Cosmopolitan Outlook
- 2018. - 1
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We live in a globalized world and identify ourselves as global citizens. Yet, globalization has desensitized us to the diversity we live in today and the social potentials it has for a better future. In the latest demographics, about 25% of the Swedish population today has already foreign roots. The aim of the studio is to embrace the sociocultural variations we live in and explore the potential in this diversity, sketching out new relations between globality and locality, diversity and solidarity, country and city, the real and the digital, the tribal and the communal. In other words: What sort of forms of life can be imagined beyond secularisation, by starting to invite the foreign(er) to take part? And what role can architecture play in developing these new forms of cultural co-existence when it starts to create platforms exploring the potential of an architecture directed towards new forms of cultural expressions, exchanges and dialogue of a common future? In our investigation of the domestic and the public sphere we took a detour to reinvest what the meaning and ethos of these notions can be, reinvesting them with controversial potential and intense meaning through the idea and mapping of the foreign: how migration fuels innovation; can initiate an idea of the cosmopolitan where cosmopolitanism is not staged in order to paralyze political action, but on the contrary, to understand that the contradictory logic at the heart of the cosmopolitan concept is permanent negotiation, and by enacting so opposes the conservative rhetoric’s of a clash of civilisations.
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- Van Toorn, Roemer, 1960-
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A de ambigüedad, B de banalidad, C de crítica…. : Conversación con Lars Lerup
- 2019
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Ingår i: Minerva (Madrid). - Madrid : Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. - 1886-340X. ; :33, s. 13-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conversation over email with dean, architect and designer Lars Lerup, analysing, reviewing and discussing his work, and approach. Abridged version and translated for the journal that paid attention to his exhition in Madrid.A Lars Lerup (Suecia, 1940) ocupa un lugar inclasificable en el mundo de la arquitectura y el diseño. Como Manfredo Tafuri y otros arquitectos de su generación, ha escapado de la indentificación de arquitectura con edificación y desarrolla su obra en los campos del dibujo, la escritura y el diseño de mobiliario e interiores, así como en la docencia (es profesor de la Universidad de Rice, tras haberlo sido en Berkeley).
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- Van Toorn, Roemer, 1960-
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Closing lecture at Beyond ism: the Landscape of landscape urbanism
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Three day international conference on contemporary Landscape Urbanism at the SLU in Malmo. Organized by Lisa Diedrich, Gunilla Lindholm and Vera Vicenzotti. With keynote speaker Greet de Block, Noël van Dooren, Elizabeth K. Meyer, Charles Waldheim, Dana Cuff, Thomas Sieverts and Roemer van Toorn.
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- Van Toorn, Roemer, 1960-
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Opening lecture at LO-RES magazine launch : "Why architecture needs low-resolution critique"
- 2015
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Welcome to the first KTH-A Thursday event of the academic year, highlighting the recently launched architectural theory journal LO-RES. Hailing from the northern edge of Europe, Sweden, LO-RES is published biannually in English, and is supported by ResArc, the Swedish National School of Architectural Research. The editors of LO-RES – Helen Runting, Erik Sigge, and Fredrik Torisson – are hosting the talk, with a contribution from Roemer van Toorn, Professor of Architectural Theory at Umeå School of Architecture.LO-RES is an international architectural theory journal. Eschewing the slick, the finished and the true in favour of the tangential, the speculative and the fuzzy, LO-RES publishes essays on architecture that resonate at lower resolutions. In an over-saturated discourse that is full of sharp images which reveal very little, we believe that lo-fi commentary, plagued by interference and inconsistencies, both travels further and says more.Hailing from the northern edge of Europe, Sweden, LO-RES is published biannually in English, and is supported by ResArc, the Swedish National School of Architectural Research.HELEN RUNTING: Helen Runting is an urban planner and designer, and a PhD student within at the KTH School of Architecture. Her research addresses practices of criticism and the relation between art, architecture, and urban planning.ERIK SIGGE: Erik Sigge is an architectural historian and preservationist, currently pursuing a PhD in history and theory of architecture at the KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm.FREDRIK TORISSON: Fredrik Torisson is an architect and writer, and a PhD student at the Department of architecture and the built environment at Lund University.ROEMER VAN TOORN: Roemer van Toorn is Professor of Architectural Theory at Umeå School of Architecture. He is currently investigating how different contemporary practices can make architecture politically under the title Aesthetics as a Form of Politics, while also finalizing his Society of the And text-image publication
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