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June 2009
«White Spots Black Holes» has been invited by to participate in a research project titled «Cultural Spaces in India». Initiated by the Goethe-Institutes in India, this project investigates the potential for innovation that is offered by flexible, temporary and modular spaces for art and culture in the urban landscape of metropolitan India based on extensive research an mappings on the status-quo of cultural life in India.
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ongoing
«Have fun today. (Applause.)», a mapping project investigating George W. Bush (Jr.) defintion of Rogue States and the Axis of Evil will see a major update within the next two months.
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May 2009
«Mapping Designresearch», an installation by Institute Design2Context during DMY, International Design Festival in Berlin
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May 2009
«Radical Cartography», an exhibition previously on display at Casco in Utrecht will be shown in Zurich as part of «White Spots Black Holes» role in «Civic City» Research Project, University for the Arts Zurich. More information soon.
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January 2009
«Refuge Urbanism» is a project initiated by Urbanists Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay from Istanbul investigating the pheonomon of “Gated Communities” in the Middle East. Matthias Görlich has been invited to join the first international workshop as an external consultant for information visualization and mapping. This project is part of the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam in October 2009. Participants during this workshop at Istanbul Bilgi University were Rami Farouk Daher (Amman, Jordan), Jasser El-Sheshtawy (Dubai), Martina Rieker and Dina Shehayeb (Cairo), Mona Fawaz (Beirut), Murat Güvenç and Tansel Korkmaz (Istanbul).
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December 2008
Camp Development Pilot Research Project, United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugee Camps in the Near East, Amman Jordan.
Matthias Görlich has just completed a three-years research and publication-project for the UNRWA, the United Nations Research Commitee in Amman Jordan. Products include a series of mappings, appendices, research-documentation and reports aswell as a bi-langual manual with guidelines for the urban development in Palestinian Refugee Camps.
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September 2008
«White Spots Black Holes» will be part of «Civic City» a research project investigating the Role of Design in the Development of a social City hosted by Institute for Designresearch Design2Context, University for the Arts Zurich. Matthias will also be hosting an expert seminar in the accompanying course program. This seminarblock investigates whether the map of the civic city may be a process or perhaps it must be. As an image and a built environment become mutually supportive of one another, they in turn react and affect each other. The question of which plan (which map from which and whose interest) arises and whether or not cartographic representations can serve as a mediator in the process? How does mapping influence one’s own perceptions, identity, sense of belonging or accrual? Can the map serve as the basis for a game between the perception and regulation of urban space? This seminar is led by Matthias Görlich, communications designer and researcher at the Institute Design2context in collaboration with Philippe Rekacewicz, cartographer, «Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris» and Eyal Weizman, architect and urbanist, London (both requested).
— September, 13th 2008
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