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BERLIN AND STOCKHOLM
Free Time

The Acceptance of the Passage of Time Free Time   Matilda Tucker The modern history of time is largely an economic one and the story of its standardisation is closely tied to…

al hogra (الحكرة)

{ al hogra (الحكرة) }   Widely used in North-African societies, this word comes originally from the Arabic noun “Ihtiqaar” (إحتقار), meaning contempt. In the Maghrebi dialects spoken in Morocco, Algeria and…

CASABLANCA
Sidi Moumen

Moving beyond Stigma: The slow healing process of a community Sidi Moumen   Meryem Saadi On a warm and dusty Spring day of May 2010, I visited Sidi Moumen for the first…

threshold

{ threshold }   A threshold as an archetypical form is a passage, a space that connects by separating and vice versa. For example, we say that we reach or overcome a…

diy

{ DIY }   The do-it-yourself (DIY) ethic promotes the idea that anyone is capable of performing a variety of tasks rather than relying on paid specialists. It requires that the adherent…

KINGSTON
Sound System Culture

When the dancefloor links tribalism and utopia Sound System Culture   Marco Cechet Stretching the idea of sites of knowledge production, I have focussed my research on Sound System culture, where the…

heterotopia

{ heterotopian view }   Foucault states that space is the relation among sites, and that sites can be analysed through their relations. There are, however, sites that do not allow themselves…

amnesia

{ carceral amnesia }   “A development like no other, Pentridge is a true Melbourne icon reimagined for the 21st century. Unique F&B and specialty retail opportunities are now available to join…