Nick Axel

Does anyone know anyone who has done research on the various attempts (contemporary and/or historical) to build a canal across Nicaragua?

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For the past two weeks, we've been publishing collections of "field notes" from repair thinkers, scholars and doers around the world. Check out the latest — and penultimate — installment of the series, now up on our website.

On repair, preservation & care in a broken world:

After Comfort: A User’s Guide - After Comfort Collective - Climate Portraits: Nieuwe Instituut Architecture can reduce dependence on carbon fuels by reimagining the collective relationship to comfort.

We made a film about changing the climate and conditioning system at Het Nieuwe Instituut for the International Architectural Biennale Rotterdam #aftercomfort

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

It's amazing how deep the loss of connection through social media has gotten thanks to algofeeds.

Turns out I just can't keep any profile up to date

It's annoying how the duration of art exhibitions here in Amsterdam have largely decreased to 1-2 days/nights. But it's also interesting to think of the duration of an exhibition as a performative project. i.e. the opening as the exhibition, yet without relying on "performance" art.

Brussels launch of After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Announcements - e-flux In the framework of the exhibition POWER and its public program, CIVA hosts the launch of After Comfort: A User’s Guide, a new long-term project by e-flux Architecture in collaboration with Danie...

We will be holding a series of launch events for this project over the coming months around the world, the first of which is in Brussels this Saturday, October 14, at CIVA.

Frans Saraste; Panu Savolainen; Second Edition; TEd’A; The Hustle Architect; Rachel Wakefield-Rann; Xu Tiantian; and more.

Ikko Kobayashi and Fumi Kashimura; Mae-ling Lokko; Soha Macktoom, Nausheen H. Anwar, and Mariam Ahmad; Charlotte Malterre-Barthes; Muoto; Studio Other Spaces; Octave Perrault; Camilo Restrepo; Susan Roaf; Yamina Saheb; ...

The project features contributions by Joe Addo; Marc Angélil and Cary Siress; Sarah Bell and Enzo Lara-Hamilton; Silvia Benedito; Roger Boltshauser and Matthias Peterseim; Gail Brager; Salmaan Craig; Amica Dall; Ecosistema Urbano; Aziba Ekio; Simone Ferracina; Aleksandra Kędziorek; ...

"Rather, the duration of fossil fuel dependency is in large part determined by how rapidly and radically existing buildings can be decarbonized."

"This is in part because of the ways that fossil fuel use is locked into buildings and has become integral to so many aspects of our lifestyles. As a result, we cannot just “build more efficiently” to stem the extraction of fossil fuels.

"The fossil fuel era is ending rapidly. The International Energy Agency has indicated that global use of fossil fuels will peak by the end of the 2020s. However, the projected data looks more like a cliff than a pinnacle, whose long, flat plateau will stretch decades into the future.

After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Daniel Barber et al. - Editorial After Comfort: A User’s Guide is a project by e-flux Architecture in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Liverpool, and Tran...

After Comfort: A User’s Guide is a project by e-flux Architecture in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Liverpool, and Transsolar, co-edited with Daniel A. Barber, Jeannette Kuo, Ola Uduku, and Thomas Auer.

LINA Conference: Alliances for a Resourceful City - Announcements - e-flux The 2023 LINA Conference will bring together the platform’s member organisations and the newly selected emerging talents—LINA fellows—along with local and international keynote speakers.

Honored to be delivering the annual State of Architecture address at the 2023 LINA Conference in Copenhagen this coming week. The entire conference will be streamed on e-flux as well as LINA's YouTube channel.

www.e-flux.com/announcement...

Exercises in not-entirely-free association

Reviews are pretty often little more than "this thing made me think of this other thing"

"How is it possible to envision rebuilding when the field is in a constant state of flux? How long will it take until any strategy proposed is rendered obsolete? What value can scholars offer when war, destruction, and resistance are still underway and there is no end in sight?"

It features contributions by Oleksandr Anisimov, Ammar Azzouz, Gruia Badescu, Polina Baitsym, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ievgeniia Gubkina, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Simon Johnson, Joanna Kusiak, Oleksandr Kravchuk, Vladyslav Rashkovan, Galyna Sukhomud, and Yuliya Yurchuk.

Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture; Re-Start Ukraine; University College London; Urban Forms Center, Kharkiv; Yale University; and Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv.

The project draws from and elaborates on “The Reconstruction of Ukraine: Ruination, Representation, Solidarity,” a symposium held on September 9–11, 2022 organized by the Center for Urban History, Lviv; Center for Urban Studies, Kyiv…

Reconstruction - Daša Anosova et al. - Editorial How is it possible to envision rebuilding when the field is in a constant state of flux? How long will it take until any strategy proposed is rendered obsolete? What value can scholars offer when war,...

Very excited to finally launch Reconstruction, a project by e-flux Architecture in collaboration with Michał Murawski, Daša Anosova, and Dan Jonas Roche.

*one of the main reasons being to look at other people posting the same

Maybe this is why people have finstas lol

For long enough the main things I've posted on twitter were professional, like new project announcements etc. On the one hand, this is one of the main reasons I use social media. But on the other, I feel bad for reducing it to that, and have difficulty doing both at the same time in the same place

That said, the question of the relation between the personal and the professional is one that I currently haven't resolved with regards to this platform.

Alas, I'm happy to be here, but I am exhausted of hope or optimism about it. Maybe this is just a healthy process of naturalizing something that used to hold so much intrigue and possibility.

A while ago I started keeping things I would have used to share. Ideas (qua speech) became private notes. Twitter served as a public notepad. But it was also semi-private, insofar as I felt comfortable to share, and that there weren't actually that many people on it

I've been thinking a lot about what this app, this platform means. This is not That. What does that mean for we who are here? Should I be someone else from who I became there?

Lol posted on twitter last night when I meant to post here. Good start