The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Köln gave recently a series of lectures in the context of its excellent afropolis exhibition. I had the opportunity to attend one of them: “Envisaging New Urban Futures for Kinshasa” presented by Prof. Filip de Boeck. It turned out to be somehow connected to the paper I wrote few months ago advocating a nomadic approach to the appropriation of space.
Urban visions for Kinshasa
Mar 22nd, 2011 by Christophe Bruchansky
Beautiful brutalism
Mar 8th, 2011 by Christophe Bruchansky
I love concrete and brutalism. Concrete is crude and fits well in a natural environment. It doesn’t need paint and decorative accessories. It is there and fills the space.
Louvain-la-Neuve where I spent my years at university, 1999
Gardens at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, 2002
Station of the Washington DC Metro, 2003
The Barbican Estate in London, 2009
The Rise of Complex Systems Theory: Power and Ethics
Feb 22nd, 2011 by Christophe Bruchansky
ECCS'10 was held in Lisbon, I saw this huge graffiti by the artists Os Gemeos one evening when I went back to my hotel, also about ethics...
Complex System Theory: The Science of Policy Making for a Better UK
Feb 16th, 2011 by Christophe Bruchansky
Policy making in UK is currently making the headlines because of its very aggressive spending cuts program. I’m not going to speak about politics here, but about scientific models that should play a pivotal role in the design of any successful policies. The role that science could play in policy making is most often overshadowed by political dogmas. I believe that many important questions of society would be better addressed if data and predictive models were more widely used. Here are four examples from the ECCS 2010 conference in Lisbon.
Applications of complex systems theory in policy making
“Intervention and Policy Making in Complex Socio-Economic and Technical Systems”
Complex Systems Theory applied on Urbanism: the Segregation Dynamics
Feb 8th, 2011 by Christophe Bruchansky
“Geographical segregation exists whenever the proportions of population rates of two or more populations are not homogenous throughout a defined space”. It is the norm in most of our cities: wealthy vicinities, china towns, Italian and Turkish districts are examples of non-uniform spread of populations. Laetitia Gauvin explained at the ECCS 2010 conference in Lisbon why it happens and presented some interesting variants of the phenomenon. I have edited the authors’ introduction in order to make it more accessible. I think there is much more here than technical jargon, with many social and philosophical implications.
Schelling’s segregation model for an open city: emergence of physical frontiers from a socio-spatial dynamics
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