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Archway Trail
Buck Creek Trail (OH)
State: OH
Canal Feeder Trail
Cardinal Greenway
Celina Coldwater Bikeway
Creekside Trail
Dayton-Kettering Connector
Franklin Township Greenway Trail
Great American Rail-Trail
3743.9 mi
State: DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, MD, MT, NE, OH, PA, WA, WV, WY
Great Miami River Trail
Greenville Creek Trail
Hydraulic Canal Run
Iron Horse Trail (OH)
James Ranch Connecting Spur
Lebanon Countryside YMCA Trail
Lima Rotary Riverwalk
Little Miami Scenic Trail
Mad River Trail
Miami & Erie Canal Towpath
Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Ohio to Erie Trail
Piqua City Linear Park
Prairie Grass Trail
Roberts Pass Trail
Simon Kenton Trail
Steve Whalen Boulevard Bikeway
Stillwater River Bikeway
Tecumseh Trail Multi-use Pathway
Towler Road Spur
Union City Gateway Trail
State: IN, OH
West Bank Trail
Whitewater Gorge Trail
Wolf Creek Trail (OH)
Wright Brothers Huffman Prairie Bikeway
Xenia-Jamestown Connector
Centerville's Archway Trail runs adjacent to a new road on a former railroad corridor that connects downtown to a recently developed neighborhood. The wide, paved trail is one of several open...
IN 0.6 mi Asphalt
The Buck Creek Trail runs between Buck Creek State Park and Plum Street by Wittenberg University. At its eastern end in Buck Creek State Park, the trail makes a loop and heads into 2 different...
OH 6.1 mi Asphalt
The Canal Feeder Trail begins at Graceland Cemetery on the south end of Sidney and continues southwest on a former historical canal towpath dating back to the 1840s. The paved trail parallels the...
The Cardinal Greenway, the longest rail-trail in Indiana, connects Marion, Muncie, Losantville, Richmond and a host of other small towns in rural northeastern Indiana. The trail takes its name from...
IN 61.2 mi Asphalt
The Celina Coldwater Bikeway is an early rail-with-trail project from the 1980s. Long a popular trail, users follow the Penn Central Railroad between the village of Coldwater and the city of Celina,...
OH 4.61 mi Asphalt
The Creekside Trail is part of a network of more than 340 miles of trails that travel throughout Ohio's scenic Miami Valley. The route follows a nature-filled corridor offering many opportunities for...
OH 15.2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Dayton Kettering Connector combines a historic rail-trail and bike lanes, and shared road riding for 7 miles between the two municipalities. The off-road portion is 1.9 miles long and sits in the...
The Franklin Township Greenway Trail runs on flat terrain through conservation, agriculture and residential areas just beyond the southern shoreline of Grand Lake, Ohio's largest inland lake. Portions...
The Great American Rail-Trail highlights some of the country's most iconic landmarks, well-known geography and storied history across a 3,700-miles-plus route between Washington and Washington....
DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, MD, MT, NE, OH, PA, WA, WV, WY 3743.9 mi Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
The Great Miami River Trail is the backbone of one of the nation's largest paved trail networks, spanning 340 miles throughout Ohio's Miami Valley. The route connects beautiful natural areas, small...
OH 86.2 mi Asphalt
The Greenville Creek Trail is a nice, albeit short, retreat through suburban Greenville. The paved path follows its namesake creek, passing under streets and linking neighborhood parks with downtown....
Hydraulic Canal Run begins in picturesque French Park, where stands of mature trees provide the perfect shady spots to picnic. From here, you can also connect to Piqua City Linear Park, a rail-trail...
The 7-mile Iron Horse Trail (open in two disconnected segments) utilizes approximately 2 miles of former Penn Central right-of-way, providing users a pleasant route through neighborhoods, as well as a...
The James Ranch Connecting Spur provides an important link between two major trails spiraling out of the trail hub of Xenia. On its east end, the trail connects to the Little Miami Scenic Trail, which...
OH 1.2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Lebanon Countryside YMCA Trail offers 8 miles of paved pathway winding through Lebanon, from downtown to a connection to the 78-mile Little Miami Scenic Trail. The trail begins in the north near...
The Lima Rotary Riverwalk trail follows the southeast bank of the meandering Ottowa River between Heritage Park southwest of Lima and Schoonover Park northeast of city center. At its north end, the...
The Little Miami Scenic Trail is a jewel in the crown of Ohio rail-trails, spanning just over 78 miles from the outskirts of Cincinnati to Springfield over historical bridges and through tranquil...
The Mad River Trail offers a paved route connecting a handful of parks along its namesake river in northeastern Dayton. The scenic pathway is also part of one of the nation's largest network of paved,...
The Miami & Erie Canal was built between 1825 and 1845, an engineering marvel stretching from Cincinnati to Toledo. This canal was heavily used until competition from the railroad caused the decline...
OH 36.6 mi Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Ohio to Erie Trail is a colossal project, not just for the state of Ohio but also nationally. Dreamed up more than 25 years ago, this route will eventually connect the Ohio River in Cincinnati to...
OH 271.9 mi Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
Piqua City Linear Park was constructed on an abandoned railroad bed from the city's easternmost point to its westernmost point. Midway, it connects to the Great Miami River Trail and is part of the...
The 29-mile Prairie Grass Trail is one of four rail-trails that radiate from Xenia Station, the hub of a vast, paved trail network in southwestern Ohio. The site is a former Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)...
The Roberts Pass Trail runs from downtown London, Ohio, to rural Fairfield Township. The trail passes through farmland for 6.5 miles, although dense tree cover shades the route at all...
Seamlessly spanning the 35.5-mile distance between the Ohio communities of Bellefontaine and Springfield, the Simon Kenton Trail presents visitors with ample opportunities for recreation and wildlife...
OH 35.5 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Steve Whalen Boulevard Bikeway is a short neighborhood trail in East Dayton. The trail parallels the boulevard of the same name, starting at its intersection with Hamilton Avenue, and then heading...
OH 0.7 mi Concrete
The Stillwater River Bikeway winds through Dayton's northern suburbs, following the tree-lined eastern shore of its namesake waterway for much of the way. Two disconnected segments of trail are...
The paved Tecumseh Trail skirts the quaint city of New Carlisle. The trail takes users through some beautiful wooded areas along a former railroad corridor and connects to Smith Park. At the popular...
The Tecumseh Trail Multi-use Pathway offers a pleasant route, partially on the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Saint Louis freight mainline. The rail route was also once used for Lincoln's...
The Towler Road Spur is a short but pleasant route in the trail hub of Xenia, Ohio. Although the paved pathway parallels the roadway, it's separated from traffic by a wide grassy median dotted with...
The short Union City Gateway Trail is significant in that it was the first trail to cross the Indiana–Ohio border. A highlight along the paved pathway is the beautifully landscaped park on both sides...
IN, OH 0.72 mi Asphalt
Celina's West Bank Trail follows the shoreline of the Grand Lake St. Marys, Ohio's largest inland lake, and offers beautiful views of the lake and Rotary Lighthouse, as well as providing access to...
D Street Trailhead Park is nestled along Richmond's waterfront on the East Fork of the Whitewater River. From the park, travelers can go north on the Cardinal Greenway (which, at 62 miles, is...
Ohio's Miami River Valley, with 340 miles of off-road trails, is home to one of the nation's largest paved trail networks. Heading northwest from Dayton, the Wolf Creek Trail is one piece of this...
The Wright Brothers Huffman Prairie Bikeway runs from South Street in downtown Fairborn, along the north side of Kauffman Avenue adjacent to an active rail line, to National Road. At that point, the...
The Xenia–Jamestown Connector links these two eponymous communities and travels east beyond Jamestown to the Greene–Fayette County line at Rosemoor Road. It's part of Ohio's Miami River Valley trail...
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A Good Bicycle Commuter Route into Dayton
July, 2019 by orangedoug
As far as the Dayton-Kettering Connector goes it is a pretty easy trail to ride. Trail may be an exaggeration, it is more like a route. Most of the this trail is an on-road route using sharrows or bike lanes with a 2 mile rail trail in the middle. The rail trail portion heads south from the University of Dayton's RecPlex and ends at Wiltshire Blvd. in Kettering. The route continues further south on residential streets and connects with other bike routes but most specifically with the Iron Horse Trail.
The Miami Valley Trails organization says that the Dayton-Kettering Connector (DKC) is an ideal commuting route for individuals working in downtown Dayton while the rail trail portion provides a gentle climb into the south suburbs, not found on any of the roadways heading the same way. I found the 1.9 mile rail trail section is a climb but not a strain. There was one additional sustained climb up Ackerman Blvd. beside climbing the rail trail when heading south. The trail is well signed with frequent bike route signs with direction arrows at turns and every other sign seemed to have the bike route number at the top of them. In this case the Dayton-Kettering Connector is Bike Route 19.
When I reached the Iron Horse Trail in Kettering I turned around and rode the back the same way I came but continued through the University of Dayton campus and followed the bike lanes on Brown and Jefferson Streets to RiverScape Metropark along the Miami River in downtown Dayton. It seems that the Dayton public has a more enlightened attitude about sharing the road with cyclists. I felt safe in the bike lanes, although I was not riding in them during rush hour. Getting back to the UD campus from RiverScape MetroPark is a bit tricky because there is no southbound bike lane on the roads you just traveled on to reach RiverScape. I suggest returning to the UD campus by traveling on the Great Miami River Recreational Trail until it rises from the river at W. Stewart Street. From there you can take a bike lane that runs parallel to Stewart Street back to Brown Street and then into campus where you need to go.
The only reason I sought out this trail was because it was listed as one of Ohio's trails listed on TrailLink.com and it is my goal to ride every Ohio trail listed there. This trail at this point can only be considered a commuter or local recreational trail. It is only 0.7 miles long and parallels Steve Whalen Boulevard between Wyoming Street and Hamilton Avenue. I started at Highland Park off of Wyoming Street. There is parking there but it doesn't much look like a parking lot, so be warned. The asphalt trail surface was in good shape as this trail can't be very old. However, like many urban trails there were several areas where their was broken class on the trail which could have punctured my tires.
I don't know if this is phase one of a much larger planned pathway or route (similar to others in the Dayton area), but at this point this is such a short trail I say leave it to the local residents.
A Key Connection in Ohio's Miami Valley Trail Network
This paved rail trail probably gets its name because it follows Shawnee Creek out of Xenia, crosses the Little Miami River around Trebein, parallels the Little Beaver Creek in Beavercreek and eventually meets up with the Mad River in Eastwood Metropark. There are quite a few areas of shade along this route but it is not a constant canopy of shade like many rail trails. In particular, you will find little shade when the trail parallels U.S. Rt. 35. This trail is fairly flat — typical of a rail trail. It is wide and well maintained with very few problems in the pavement like tree root uplifting or undermining erosion.
This trail connects to many other trails in the region. In Xenia, you can connect to the Little Miami Scenic Trail as well as the Prairie Grass Trail both part of the cross-state Ohio to Erie Trail Route. There is also the Xenia-Jamestown Connector that starts at Xenia Station. In addition, there are two lesser local spurs, the Towler Road Spur and the James Ranch Connection Spur, that connect to a local park and the Greene County Fairgrounds, respectfully. As you get closer to the Eastwood Metropark in Riverside, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, you can connect to the Iron Horse Trail, a Dayton recreational trail. In the Eastwood MetroPark you run into the Mad River Trail which will take you into downtown Dayton (and to many other trail connections) or out to Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the United States Air Force Museum.
I have only two minor complaints about this trail. First, there are 4 road crossings in quick succession as you leave Xenia Station over roads where caution is required. Secondly, I would also suggest making sure that you have plenty to drink on hot summer days as there are few places to find or buy something to drink without going off the trail. There is water and Gatorade available through vending machines at Beavercreek Station (pretty much at the trail's midpoint) but half the selections in the vending machines there were sold out when I was there early in the day. I'm not sure how often those machines are serviced, so be prepared on really hot days.
Very nice trail, but needs a little TLC.
July, 2019 by jeffd3
I ride this trail frequently. It is a very nice trail, but it needs a little TLC. There are a few areas where tree roots are pushing up the asphalt and there are a couple other areas where holes need repaired. Very enjoyable otherwise.
Cool towns along the way
June, 2019 by vikkb34
We rode 2 days 2 different sections. First day started at xenia station & rode to Corwin & then back. About 32-34 miles round trip.Ate lunch at a cute place in Waynsville right on trail.Pretty flat,nice scenery. Second day parked at Milford on hill. Little tight ,small parking lot. We rode to almost morrow. 40 miles round trip. VERY busy.Some parts are alittle narrow.Pretty flat mostly & some inclines. Loveland was a really cool town. Had a great lunch there.
Follow stream
Started at xenia station. Rode about 20 miles,10 one way & 10 back.Nice trail,paved.Have a few rode crossing,have to watch because cars have right of the way.Follows stream,but can't see a lot because of all the leaves.Was pretty fat most of it.
Love This Trail
June, 2019 by bryan.pitts
My wife and I bike this trail multiple times throughout the year and we've ridden (in sections) nearly every mile of it. We're leisure riders, so the (mostly) flat, shaded nature of this trail is perfection. There are so many spots along this trail to stop and enjoy life.
From the Milford trailhead, 50 West Brewing and the Schoolhouse Restaurant are just a short ride. Additionally, downtown Milford is full of charm
Downtown Loveland is an amazing spot to hit this trail, with an entire section of town seemingly centered on the trail with multiple restaurants, bars, bike shops, etc. Just to the north of Loveland is the Monkey Bar which is an extremely cool little watering hole. And a little farther to the north, the historic Peters Cartridge Company, which is slated for renovation into a brewery/taproom in late 2019.
If you're not able to bike as far north as Yellow Springs, we highly recommend driving up for a ride there. It's a very cool little town with the Yellow Springs Brewery right on the trail and the Glen Helen Nature Preserve just to the south. It is well worth parking your bikes and taking a hike through the preserve to visit the famous Yellow Spring.
Just can't say enough good things about this trail.
Wolf is Worth It
May, 2019 by brstacy2672
I have traveled to ride this trail several times, and will continue to do so as it gives you open space to speed up your pace for a good workout. The trail is smooth with not too many cracks or crevices in the surface, and lends itself to really getting your speed up. Wolf Creek is like a lot of other rural trails in the Midwest which are mostly flat with some gradual inclines. Most of the trail is located in rural setting, and gives some good distance between road crossings.
I have only ridden the Verona-Trotwood portion and find that it is not too busy when I have been here. Brookville is a nice town with several places to eat, and convenient trailhead parking just off of I-70. The trail is marked very well with mileage between places, and you can also easily access Sycamore State Park.
Northern Stretch of the Simon Kenton Trail
April, 2019 by smnartker
My bike riding partner and I enjoy riding the trail from Bellefontaine, the northern part, but it is challenging on the rough stone path really meant for erosion protection of the rails. It is too bad that this part of the trail hasn't been developed yet except for 3 miles at the beginning in Bell. If this what the finished trail will look like, it will be great! The stretch from Bell to W Liberty is beautiful and full of wildlife. Only a short way out of Bell one will encounter Deer, Wild Turkey, Rabbits, and enough birds to satisfy any avian enthusiast! Looking forward to the completion of the trail!
Flat, straight, and shaded
March, 2019 by jilldewert
This is great for what it is - a converted railway, so it is flat. It is well maintained and does have scenic tree shading. We don't do this one often, as we prefer more technical walking and riding, but it is a great trail for the purpose it serves.
A Nice Local Trail
December, 2018 by orangedoug
I rode this trail in October 2018. The Celina Coldwater Bikeway is a straight as an arrow converted rail line that connects the two towns of Celina and Coldwater, Ohio. As with most of the farmland in the western Ohio, it is very flat with little variation in elevation. This allows the rider to ride at a good clip and cover quite a bit of ground. On this Sunday, there were a number of bikers, walkers, and runners out on the trail, but it was not busy at all.
An interesting feature of this trail is how they mark mileage. There are two sets of tiles that are placed along the trail indicating how far you have ridden from your starting town. Heading south out of Celina the markers are green and heading north out of Coldwater the markers are red. They are placed in the pavement every quarter mile and at the end of the trail with a 4.61 mile marker which is the length of the trail. In addition when you reach a street crossing, there will be a sign telling you the name of the road and the exact mileage to the town you are heading toward.
The Celina Coldwater Bikeway is a nice trail for what it is, a local commuter trail. It is not a trail I would recommend going out of your way to ride. But for these two local communities it serves a purpose. Looking at the map of the area around Grand Lake St. Marys I could see that a plan could be drawn up to use the CCB, the Franklin Township Greenway, and the Miami & Erie Canal Towpath could be used as the basis of creating a greenway all the way around Grand Lake in the future.
A Short Trail that Can Only Be Appreciated by the Locals
I rode this trail in August of 2018 in my effort to ride all TrailLink.com listed Ohio trails. This half mile trail seems to only serve the purpose of connecting the Greenville City Park with the nearby Caddie Shack driving range. I'm not sure that there would be many Greenville golfers who would take a half mile walk from the city park with golf bag on their shoulders to hit a bucket of balls. The trail might be of more importance should the Piqua City Linear Park, the Tucumseh Trail Multi-use Pathway and the Union City Gateway Trail were eventually connected to commemorate the path that was taken by President Lincoln's Funeral Train through western Ohio in 1865 but until such time this trail will not be of interest of anyone outside of Greenville, Ohio.
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Az Audi TT az Audi Hungaria Motor Kft. által, Győrben készített sportautó. Jelenleg a harmadik generációját állítják elő, és 2+2 személyes kupé, és 2 személyes kabrió kivitelben vásárolható meg.

Eredete
Az Audi TT fejlesztése 1994 szeptemberében a kaliforniai Audi Design Centerben kezdődött meg. A TT-t első alkalommal, koncepcióautóként, az 1995-ös frankfurti Motor Show-n mutatták be. A belső tér tervezéséért J Mays, Freeman Thomas, és Martin Smith kapott díjat. A korábban még nem használt lézeres illesztés, ami a csavarok nélküli összeszerelést teszi lehetővé, az Audi TT első generációján kezdték el alkalmazni, aminek bevezetése késleltette az első generáció bevezetését.

Elnevezés
A TT a man-szigeteki TT motorversenyen rendszeresen sikerrel szereplő NSU miatt kapta a nevét. Az NSU 1911-ben kezdte a TT versenyeken való részvételt, majd később egyesült azzal a céggel, ami jelenleg az Audi nevet viseli. Az Audi TT így az NSU által a versenysportban elkezdett elnevezést (NSU 1100TT, 1200TT, és TTS) menti át az 1960-as évekből.

Első generáció

Az autót 1998 szeptemberében mutatták be kupé karosszériával, majd 1999 augusztusában a kabrió kivitelt is bemutatták. A modell a Volkswagen csoport A4-es padlólemezén alapul, ugyanúgy, ahogy a VW Golf IV, vagy a Skoda Octavia I. A stílusa kicsit változott a koncepcióautó óta, az újratervezett lökhárítók, és a hátsó oldalablakok újratervezésével.

A TT elöl, keresztben elhelyezett motort alkalmaz, első-, vagy összkerékhajtással. Először 1,8 l-es, turbófeltöltéses, sorban elhelyezett, négyhengeres, 20 szelepes motorral kínálták 180 vagy 225 lóerős kivitelben. Az egyetlen különbség a két kivitel között, hogy a nagyobb teljesítményű nagyobb turbófeltöltővel és töltőlevegő-hűtővel (intercoolerrel) van ellátva, továbbá kovácsolt hajtókarral rendelkezik.

A nagysebességű balesetek jelentős száma miatt az Audi 1999-ben és 2000 elején visszahívási programot hirdetett meg a kanyarstabilitás érdekében, és menetstabilizáló rendszerrel, hátsó spoilerrel és módosított felfüggesztési beállítással látta el a TT-ket.

2003-ban a négyhengeres motorok mellé érkezett a 3,2 literes, 250 lóerős VR6-os motor, összkerékhajtással. 2004-től kapható DSG (dupla kuplungos) sebességváltóval, aminek hatására javult a gyorsulás, a csökkentett váltási időnek köszönhetően.

Második generáció

Az Audi 2005-ben a Tokyo Motorshow-n mutatta be az Audi Shooting Brake tanulmányautót, amely a második generációs Audi TT előfutára volt.

Az Audi 2006. április 6-án jelentette meg a második generációs TT-t, aminek a tervezési kódja a Typ 8J. A vázszerkezet eleje alumíniumból készült, a hátulja acélból, annak érdekében, hogy közel egyenletes legyen a súlyeloszlás. Az autó mind első-, mind összkerékhajtással elérhető. Először két motorvariáció volt választható, a 3,2 literes VR6-os 250 lóerővel, vagy a 2 literes 200 lóerős közvetlen befecskendezésű turbófeltöltéses változat. Ez utóbbi eleinte TFSI-ként, később TSI néven ismert, alapjai a Le Mans-ban győztes R8 versenyautóból származnak. Alacsonyabb fogyasztás és nagyobb teljesítmény érhető el vele, mint a hagyományos szívócső-befecskendezéssel. Alapfelszereltségként 6 fokozatú kézi sebességváltóval rendelhető, a DSG váltó opció, a quattro négykerékhajtás alapfelszereltség a 3,2 literes motorhoz, míg a 2 literes motorhoz opcionálisan vásárolható.

Nagyteljesítményű modellek

2005-ben az Audi kiadta a limitált számú Clubsport (Európán kívül TT quattro Sport elnevezéssel) modellt. Megnövelt teljesítménnyel árulták, 1,8 literes motorja 240 lóerőt teljesített, és tömegét 49 kg-mal 1416 kg-ra csökkentették. Ezt a tömegcsökkentést a pótkerék és a hátsó ülések eltávolításával érték el. Kétszínű fényezésekkel volt megvásárolható (Avus Silver, Phantom Black, Mauritius Blue vagy Misano Red elnevezésekkel).

2008-ban Detroitban az Észak-Amerikai autókiállításon mutatta be az Audi a TTS modelljét, 2 literes, 272 lóerős TFSI motorral, átalakított futóművel, nagyobb teljesítményű fékekkel. A TTS-t quattro összkerékhajtással árulják, és hatsebességes kéziváltóval, vagy hatsebességes DSG váltóval lehet rendelni.

2009 februárjában az Audi sajtóközleményben jelentette meg a legnagyobb teljesítményű, TT RS modell képeit. A sajtóközlemény szerint a bemutatóra márciusban, a Genfi Autószalonon kerül sor. A modell megnövelt méretű légbeömlői segítik a nagy teljesítményű motor levegőellátását, és a fékek hatékony hűtését. Az autót 2,5 literes, közvetlen befecskendezésű, öthengeres turbómotor hajtja, 340 lóerővel és 450 Nm-es forgatónyomatékkal. A TT-RS 2009 második negyedévétől megvásárolható.

2012 februárjában jelentették meg a második generáció eddigi legerősebb változatát TT RS plus néven. Az öthengeres, 2,5 literes turbómotor teljesítményét 360 lóerőre, nyomatékát 465 Nm-re sikerült emelni, az autó így a hétfokozatú DSG-váltóval, rajtelektronikával akár 4,1 másodperc alatt is képes álló helyzetből 100 km/h-ra gyorsulni, a végsebessége pedig 280 km/h.

Harmadik generáció

A harmadik generáció az Audi Allroad Shooting Brake koncepcióautón alapult, melyet a 2014-es Detroit Motor Show-n mutattak be. A szériamodell ugyanezen évben, a Genovai Motor Show-n debütált, ez a generáció van jelenleg is gyártásban.

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6 days, 5 nights, 1 island, 0 regrets.
Our Stewart Island Discovery Expedition is an unbelievable journey of exploring, learning and discovering. The perfect way to visit New Zealand's Stewart Island/Rakiura.
For those who value nature and wild places, this is the spot for you. Determining the highlights of this experience is no easy feat, with every second from beginning to end being memorable.
Stewart Island sunrises and sunsets
A quick hop across Foveaux Strait and you are in the land of epic sunrises and sunsets. Rakiura (Stewart Island) translates as the Land of Glowing Skies. To cruise along picturesque waters and witness awe-inspiring sunlight was pretty spectacular. What a thing – to begin each day and end each day with utter beauty.
The Milford Wanderer
A vessel fit for the explorer in all of us, with no compromises on luxury. The cabins are equipped with power plugs, a bed-side table, luggage rack, plenty of wall hooks and comfy-as beds. The saloon is kitted out with booth seating, cool tartan carpet and plenty of windows so you don't miss a thing outside! The onboard tender allowed us to venture ashore, which was a frequent occurrence. Quick access to nature walks and historic sites on Stewart Island was definitely a highlight.
Port Pegasus and Belltopper Falls
A spectacular portion of the expedition was venturing down south to Port Pegasus, a part of Stewart Island that is not frequently visited. A three-hour sea voyage down the east coast of the island shows off some breathtaking scenery, with vantage points all over the Milford Wanderer. The photo opportunities didn't stop there, with an afternoon of kayaking to the Belltopper Falls and around peaceful coves.
A definite highlight was hiking up Bald Cone, which offers rewarding views at the summit. The Milford Wanderer docked in the bay gives perspective on just how vast this land of forest and nature really is.
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The day trip to Ulva Island had been pegged as a highlight from the get go. Ulva Island is predator-free making it not only unique but also a sanctuary for native wildlife and flora. The well maintained tracks allowed for ease as we strolled through this wonderland, listening to bird sound and spotting orchids, fungi and more. Ulva Island is where we were fortunate enough to encounter a kiwi, foraging in the day light.
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I went about my day, noting, with some degree of concern, that there was always something lurking in the corner of my right or left eye. I worried I might be getting a migraine, but my head felt fine.
The bus ride home brought more flickers in the periphery; shadowy dots not unlike the floaters people get in their eyes, except different in how they moved. In my experience, eye floaters can get blinked away. These persisted. Even when I closed my eyes, they swarmed like masses of black gnats just outside my line of sight. I was struck by how dark they were. It was the first time I'd seen something darker than the inside of my eyelids.
At home, I popped two Advil, poured myself a drink, and sat on the couch. I sipped the whiskey with little enjoyment and watched television. I felt a growing pain in my right eye, as though someone had pressed an ice cube against it. The swarms of black dots coalesced and widened, and before I knew it, I'd lost sight in that eye.
I panicked. Realizing I needed to go to the hospital, I jumped off the couch and headed toward the kitchen where I'd left my keys and phone. The moment I stood, the same thing happened to my left eye. Everything went black. Black and cold.
I shrieked and stumbled, falling onto the living room carpet. Varying shades of dark pulsed behind my eyelids. The sensation of cold grew into something else. Beyond frigid – beyond glacial. It was an utter absence of warmth.
Unable to move and entirely blind, I screamed for help despite knowing no one would be able to hear. I remained on the floor, shivering, in the blackness.
I don't know how much time had passed before I started to see things again. Perhaps my eyes had gotten used to the darkness that had swallowed them, or perhaps it was something else. I began to make out pinpricks of light in the shadows. They were almost impossible to see, but they were undoubtedly there. I was reminded of stars.
The perspective moved and whirled and a round mass grew in prominence in my field of vision. I couldn't determine any features other than its roundness, and only that because it blocked the tiny sources of light in a rough circle.
It grew larger as I got closer. Through my shivering, I gasped as I started to make out details. It was a moon or a planet or some other faraway celestial body. Mountains and frost heaves jutted out of its rocky terrain. Vast rivers flowed in and out of seas. There were no trees. No plants.
I realized my acclimation to the dark had gotten better. I could make out fine details now, and when I craned my head over my shoulder, I could see a star that was bigger than the others – about the size of my pinky nail. Its illumination didn't help much, but it was all I needed as I got closer and closer to the shore of one of the mighty, turbid rivers.
I did my best to gather my thoughts. I remembered back to my college days, as an astronomy minor. Millions of years ago, liquid nitrogen coursed through channels on Pluto and flowed into great lakes and seas. Despite my fear and pain, I laughed. It was right then I knew this was all in my head; that I was having some kind of episode. I had to have been hallucinating some memory from a college lecture I thought I'd forgotten.
Regardless, I was still in pain. I still couldn't move. All I could do was watch as I touched down on the sharp rocks and saw the mighty river flowing silently before me.
Nothing happened for a while. I shivered and tried to curl into a ball. I couldn't.
In the distance, a geyser erupted. I watched the torrent of fluid gush into the sky and simultaneously freeze and boil and coat the ground with a residue of rime.
Something caught my eye. Something at the river's edge. A dark, clumpy mass was emerging from the liquid nitrogen. It was jellylike and wet – not frozen like one might expect. It glistened in the light of the distant sun.
More and more and more of its bulk flopped out of the river. It was streaked with veins and pitted with deep pores. Hard, bony portions that may have been legs or antennae straightened up all over its body. It began to inflate. Its color lightened to a dark yellow and the pores inverted into fleshy lumps and it rose into the sky.
I was rising with it. My feet left the ground and I floated alongside the creature until we were about a hundred feet up. The bony masses on its body split. Innumerable black lines exploded from within and streaked into the midnight sky. They flew in a torrent, still connected to the main body, into space.
For the first time in what seemed like days, I experienced a tingle of warmth.
Brightness detonated throughout my skull and I gasped and writhed and realized I could move again. I was on my back, staring at the ceiling of my living room. I was still freezing, but I could feel the heat from the nearby radiator warming me.
Scrambling to my feet, I finished my rush to the kitchen, grabbed my phone, and called 911.
I spent the night in the hospital undergoing many, many tests. Once they determined nothing was wrong with me, other than very mild hypothermia, the psychological tests began. At any other time in my life, I would have been upset – angry, even – at the thought of someone testing my competence. That night, though, I welcomed it.
When the paramedics rushed into my house, I noticed infinitesimally-fine lines emerging from their eyes and going straight up into the clouds. When I reached the hospital, everyone there had the same thing. The lines went straight up, through the ceiling, and didn't seem affected by their blinking or movement.
I spent the next couple days trying to ignore the hairlike filaments protruding from the eyes of everyone I saw, everyone I passed, everyone I talked to, and everyone on television. Not me, though. Not mine. All I had were the same dark flickers in my peripheral vision that were present on the day of my incident.
On New Year's day, once my hangover had dulled, I rummaged around in my closet for my old college telescope. It was the first sunny day since the incident and I wanted to check something. I pointed the telescope out the window and followed where all the lines led. Like I'd thought, they all coalesced on one point. The point was moving very slightly.
I clicked around on the computer, put in the coordinates of where my telescope was pointing, and determined the direction of the lines out into the sky. It didn't take long before my suspicions were confirmed. All the eyelines were fixed on the position of Pluto.
It's been another week and while I can't stop thinking about what happened, I know I need to get over it. If what I'm seeing is a hallucination, so be it. It's now a part of my life and I'll deal with it as best I can. This morning, though, I did make a phone call. Several, actually.
You see, the little, dark "gnats" I've had in my peripheral vision distract me. I want to get rid of them. I've been hoping they're something unrelated to the incident and maybe happened to coincide with it. Fat chance, I know – but still. I called to get an appointment with an optometrist to get them checked out. The nearest one was all booked up.
Since then, I've called 28 optometrists. Every single one of them is booked for a solid month. I was told they're all for the same complaint I'm having. What that means is anyone's guess, but I haven't been able to get warm since.
Thank you for getting back to writing! I've missed your stories. Hope to read more soon.
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Tea with Penelope
A 2-Point Perspective of the Edenton Tea Party
Lesson Prepared By
Teresa Potter, NBCT
The decisions citizens make about social and political issues are often influenced by what they see, hear and read in the news. Therefore, it is important for them to learn about the techniques used to convey those messages and influence attitudes. In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer to analyze and evaluate a political cartoon for its meaning, value and persuasive message.
One to three 45-minute class periods
Students will discuss and analyze a political cartoon to determine the point of view of the creator
Students will use the point of view to discuss general attitudes leading to the Revolutionary War
Students will discuss the significance of Penelope Barker's actions in organizing the first political demonstration by women in the United States. Did Penelope Barker set an example for the future?
Make copies of the political cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, North Carolina, October 25, 1774. You can either download and print these, show a copy on a Smart Board or print a poster sized copy.
Optional-Portray Penelope Barker. Set up the room for a tea party. After a brief historical interpretation, analyze the political cartoon, then serve tea during the discussion.
Copies of political cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, North Carolina, October 25, 1774
Copy of Arthur Iredell's Letter to James Iredell, January 31, 1775
Graphic Organizer (pg 5)
(Optional) Tea Party Supplies (coffee urn, apple juice, tea cups, cookies, napkins, serving tea pot)
Lesson Plan pdf
(Optional) Dress in colonial costume. Introduce yourself as Penelope Barker. Give background historical information to lead up to the tea party at Elizabeth King's home.
Ask students, "What is the purpose of a political cartoon?"
Discuss the techniques of political cartoon artists to persuade their audience.
Symbolism-using symbols to stand for larger ideas
Exaggeration-Over exaggerating physical characteristics or things to make a point
Labeling-labeling a part of the cartoon to draw attention to and make clear their standpoint or belief
Analogy-making a comparison between two unlike objects
Irony-the difference between the way things are and they way they should be or are expected to be
Distribute copies of the political cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, North Carolina. Also, distribute graphic organizer, Tea with Penelope: A 2 Point Political Perspective.
Show a 2-Point perspective painting. Discuss the technique of drawing in the middle ground, foreground and background. Call students' attentions to the fact that the organizer is divided into middle ground, foreground and background. Discuss the middle ground, foreground and background of the political cartoon. (I would divide it up with what is happening on the floor, observations of those at the table, and what is going on behind the table.) Ask students to write down as many observations as they can on the graphic organizer and decide on the main technique used by the artist.
During tea which in this case would be apple cider (optional), discuss student observations and ask the following questions:
What type of technique was used by the artist?
What perspective do you think the artist was trying to get across?
If a cartoon is meant to persuade, what do you think Philip Dawe, the artist was trying to accomplish?
Explain to the students that the image, A Society of Patriotic Ladies, appeared in the London newspaper on March 25, 1775. The women are portrayed with masculine features, and represent various social backgrounds to include a slave. In the foreground, a child is playing without supervision. You can also see a dog licking its face, and also urinating on a box of tea. In the middle ground, the ladies are signing the petition, but you also see a man leering at the woman. In the background, a lady is drinking from the punch bowl while the others appear to be socializing. In the political cartoon, Dawes insinuates that the women were not behaving as ladies. He suggests that the colonial protests were led by those (the ladies) who were unfit to express political opinion or hold political power.
Tell the students the reason why this is called 2-Point perspective is because there is always more than one opinion to every story. Share the letter from Arthur Iredell to James Iredell, January 31, 1775 and ask students what they think Arthur Iredell is saying.
Assessment / Homework
Ask students to find a current political cartoon. Analyze the cartoon to determine the artist's persuasion technique and message. Hold discussions to voice the 2 perspectives to the argument.
D2.His.10.3-5. Compare information provided by different historical sources about the past.
D2.His.13.3-5. Use information about a historical source, including the maker, date, place of origin, intended audience, and purpose to judge the extent to which the source is useful for studying a particular topic.
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A symbolic figure in the American Revolutionary War, the woman known as "Molly Pitcher" reportedly brought water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth and worked the cannon after her husband was wounded.
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Chi-Lites/Romanceers — Chi-Lites/Romanceers ... LP
Pickwick, 1970s. Very Good+ ... $7.99
Titles include "Ain't You Glad The Winter's Over", "The Mix Mix Song", "She's Mine", "The Monkey", and "Never No More" by The Chi-Lites – and "You're The Man", "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", and "Walking In The Rain" by The Romanceers. LP, Vinyl record album
Chi-Lites — (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People ... LP
Brunswick, 1970. Very Good+ ... $9.99
Seminal work from one of the 70s greatest groups! The band had always been great at love songs and uptempo numbers – but this record has them moving into more righteous area, picking up on some of the more socially conscious soul of their generation that had been working its way up the charts. The album features excellent production by Chi-Lite Eugene Record, who also wrote a lot of the material – plus arrangements by Tom Tom and Sonny Sanders. Great stuff all around, with the righteous social tunes "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to The People", "Trouble's A Comin", and "We Are Neighbors" – plus classic love songs "Have You Seen Her" and "Love Uprising", which are still kind of the band's strongest point. Loads more great stuff on this one, the album that helped the second wave of Chicago soul break out into the international market! LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has light wear.)
Chi-Lites — (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People (180 gram pressing) ... LP
Brunswick/ORG, 1970. New Copy (reissue)... On February 5, 2021
Also available (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People ... LP 9.99
Chi-Lites — I'm Not A Gambler/The Devil Is Doing His Work ... 7-inch
Brunswick, 1975. Near Mint- ... $0.99
... 7-inch, Vinyl record
(UK pressing with push-out center.)
Chi-Lites — Love Your Way Through ... LP
Excello, 1981. Very Good+ ... $19.99
An obscure later album by The Chi-Lites – a mix of smooth modern soul styles, very different than the usual southern soul grooves you'd expect from the Excello label. The group's in fine form harmony-wise, and the best cuts feature some mellow stripped-down production that's sort of an update of the hits of earlier years. Titles include "The Only One for Me", "We're Right For Each Other", "Love Your Way Through", "You Won't Be Lonely For Long", "Stay A Little Longer", "All My Life", and "Getting Back At You". LP, Vinyl record album
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Marshall & The Chi-Lites — Pretty Girl/Love Bandit ... 7-inch
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Chi-Lites — Half A Love ... LP
Brunswick, 1975. Near Mint- ... Out Of Stock
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TK/Ultra Vybe (Japan), Late 70s. New Copy ... $28.99
Classic cuts from the TK Records stable of Miami disco from the 70s – all of which are served up here on 7" single mixes, a fair bit of which appear here on CD for the first time ever! TK is maybe best known for it's long-spun club cuts that were a perfect fit for the budding 12" format in the mid 70s – but the label also turned out plenty of cuts with a tight, catchy groove that was perfect for a funky 45 – which might have been why TK was one of the few labels to rule both on the radio and on the dancefloors back in the day! Japanese DJ T Groove takes us through 20 TK singles here – with tracks that include "Return Of Vader" by AD, "Macho" by Celi Bee & The Buzzy Bunch, "Higher" by Chi-Lites, "Star Cruiser" by Gregg Diamond, "Moon Ride" by Universal Love, "Let's Dance" by Wild Honey, "Have A Good Day (part 1)" by Gail Eason, "Music (voc)" by Montreal Sound, "I'm Gonna Dance" by Asha Puthli, "Dancin In My Feet" by Laura Taylor, "Holding Back" by Gregg Diamond, "At Midnight" by T Connection, "If There's Love" by Amant, "Spank" by Jimmy Bo Horne, and "The Break (short)" by Kat Mandu. CD
Delroy Wilson — Go Away Dream ... LP
Pressure Sounds, 1982. New Copy (reissue)... Out Of Stock
A fantastic record from the great Delroy Wilson – a set that's dubby at the core, but also has a righteous sense of soul too – almost a Jamaican extension of the hippest styles of early 70s American soul! Delroy's vocals are wonderful – very powerful, even without trying too much – and set up amidst some great production from Bunny Lee that really makes the whole thing shine like a slow-burning dark star – a perfect vibe that's laidback, but never lazy – and a great change from some of the more polished early 80s Jamaican soul. Titles include a great remake of the Chi-Lites "Go Away Dream" – plus "No More Heartaches", "Spit In The Sky", "When She Was My Girl", "I Can't Take You Back", "I Can't Fight It Anymore", "Won't You Come Home", and "Silhouette Silhouette". LP, Vinyl record album
Various — Funky Breaks & Sampled Soul ... CD
Music Club (UK), 1970s/Early 80s. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
Famous break tracks abound – in this all-star batch of tracks that includes some of the better known samples from classic years! The tracks here go beyond the ordinary hip hop breaks, and include a number that have been used in more mainstream dance tracks as well – but that doesn't stop them from being great funk tracks on their own, making the set a delight no matter how you recognize the tunes! Titles include "Candy" by Cameo, "Super Freak" by Rick James, "Knee Deep" by Funkadelic, "You Can't Turn Me Away" by Sylvia Striplin, "Hercules" by Aaron Neville, "Wicky Wacky" by Fatback Band, "Funky Worm" by Ohio Players, "We Are Neighbors" by Chi Lites, "Are You Being Real" by Bar-Kays, "Funky Drummer" by James Brown, "Free At Last" by Al Green, and "I'm A Good Woman" by Barbara Lynn. CD
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Pat & Pam — Hey Love/My Baby & I ... 7-inch
Day Dreaming, Early 70s. Near Mint- ... $6.99
A great female harmony duo from Chicago! "Hey Love" is a sweet swinger with a nice little bounce – arrangements by Tom Tom, and nicely cracking vocals by the girls, singing in a style that's almost like The Lovelites! "My Baby" is mellower, but still has a good groove at the bottom – some nice rhythms that chug along with a good stepping feel, and vocals that really have an honest soulful approach! 7-inch, Vinyl record
Various — Ska After Ska After Ska ... CD
Treasure Isle/Heartbeat, 1960s. Used ... $6.99
Mad ska from the King of Soul & Blues, proprietor of the heavy, heavy Trojan Sound System – after which the famous UK label would name themselves – Duke Reid! While Coxsone Dodd's Studio One has dominated the reissue scene for decades, back in the day he was the underdog compared to Duke Reid's Treasure Isle, home to some of the biggest ska and rocksteady numbers ever to rock Kingston! Heartbeat collects 21 scorching Treasure Isle ska jams on this outstanding set, for a non stop set of full blast gems, including "Thoroughfare" and "Street Corner" by Don Drummond & The Skatalites, "Magnificent Ska" by Lynn Taitt & The Baba Brooks Band, "It's Real" and "True Confession" by the Silvertones, 'When You Are Wrong" by the Techniques, "Rough & Tough" by Stranger Cole, "Only Suffering" by Funny Man & The Boys, "Get Your Feet Moving" by Eric Monty Morris, "Burial" by Duke Reid & His Group, "Storm Warning" by Lynn Taitt & His Comets, "Nuclear Weapon" by the Baba Brooks Band, "Carry go, Bring Home" by Justin Hinds & The Dominoes and "Alley Cat Ska" by the Treasure Isle All Stars. CD
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Emotions — Heart Association/Touch Of Your Lips ... 7-inch
Volt, 1970. Near Mint- ... Temporarily Out Of Stock
Two great little ballad cuts from The Emotions – a beautiful blend of the sweeter harmonies they forged in Chicago, and some of the harder Memphis soul of the Volt label. "Touch Of Your Lips" is especially great, and it sounds like some lost little gem from The Lovelites! 7-inch, Vinyl record
Lovelites — My Conscience/Man In My Life ... 7-inch
Lovelite, Early 60s. Good ... Temporarily Out Of Stock
One of the greatest tracks ever recorded by this hip Chicago girl group! "My Conscience" begins with a great stepping soul groove – really tight, and a perfect foil for the lyrics of the song, done up nicely by lead singer Patti Hamilton. "Man In My Life" is a bit mellower, but a great sweet number with a late night sound, and some dreamy lyrics about love and loyalty. 7-inch, Vinyl record
(Label has some wear and some faded marker.)
Various — Studio One Story (CD & DVD – NTSC version) ... CD
Soul Jazz (UK), 1960s/1970s. Used 2CDs ... Temporarily Out Of Stock
To say this one's been a long time coming would be an understatement! This awesome set features a 4 hour (!) DVD, loaded with rare footage of the Skatalites, Jackie Mittoo and Ernest Ranglin, plus in-depth interviews with Dodd and a whole host of artists that had worked their way through the Studio One stable throughout the years. Then there's the 16 track CD – a fitting complement to the film and next worthy installment in the fine series of compilations of Studio One material that Soul Jazz has undertaken, this time spanning all the genres that Studio One would cover, including ska, rocksteady, roots and dancehall, including Theo Beckford "Easy Snapping", The Skatalites "Guns Of Navarone", Delroy Wilson "Dancing Mood", The Heptones "Baby", Alton Ellis "I'm Still In Love With You", Tommy McCook "Tunnel One", Sugar Minott "Jah Jah Children", The Dub Specialist "Banana Walk", Dennis Alcapone "Run Run", The Lone Ranger "Love Bump" and Jackie Mittoo "Freak Out". And if that weren't enough, there's the 100 page booklet, loaded with photos and a complete history of the label, making this choice set one of the nicest packages we've come across in a long, long time! CD
(Out of print, in the original slipcase.)
Derrick Harriott & Others — Derrick Harriott – Reggae, Funk, & Soul 1969 To 1975 ... LP
Dub Store (Japan), Late 60s/Early 70s. New Copy 2LP Gatefold ... Out Of Stock
The title certainly gets it right – as Derrick Harriott serves up a wonderful mix of sounds that owes plenty to American funk and soul of the early 70s – some cool Kingston covers of famous US tunes, and some other originals that are equally groovy overall! The set's one of the best that we've ever heard from the Dub Store label – and almost has a Soul Jazz level of track selection – really wonderful work that either features Derrick in the lead, or working with some hip contemporaries, in a groove that's totally great – neither straight reggae, but also quite far from more familiar funk and soul too. Titles include "Black Moses" by The Preacher, "Tougher Than Tough" by I Roy, "Brown Baby" by Derrick Harriott, "Hell Below" by Crystal Generation, "Going Back Home" by The Chosen Few, "Psychedelic Train" by Derrick Harriott, "Slippery" by Karl Bryan & The Crystalites, "Home Sweet Home" by Bongo Herman & Les, "Rescue The Children" by Junior Murvin, "Phoenix" by Noel Brown, "People Make The World Go Round" by The Chosen Few, and "Message From A Black Man" by Derrick Harriott. LP, Vinyl record album


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More News In Brief: Venice launches first permanent art district on Giudecca island; study finds museums in US still failing with artist diversity; Nomura Art Award to offer US$1m prize to 'nurture creativity in contemporary art'.
Tate art galleries to no longer accept donations from Sackler family The Tate group of galleries, which includes Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool, will no long accept gifts offered by members of the Sackler family, who own the US maker of the drug OxyContin. The prescription painkiller is at the centre of the opioids public health crisis in America.
In a statement, Tate said: "In the present circumstances we do not think it right to seek or accept further donations from the Sacklers." Tate added that it does not intend to remove references of previous Sackler philanthropy, such as the Sackler Octagon in Tate Britain.
The news comes just days after the National Portrait Gallery announced it would no longer accept a £1m gift from the Sacklers. The American art photographer Nan Goldin, who was herself addicted to OxyContin after being prescribed it, had told the gallery that she would refuse to allow a planned retrospective of her work to go ahead there if it took the Sackler money.
According to the Guardian, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died of prescription painkiller overdoses in the last 20 years.
Eight members of the Sackler family are being sued in a number of lawsuits in the US that accuse them of fraudulently promoting OxyContin and encouraging over-prescribing. They are also being accused of knowingly misleading doctors and patients about the risks of addiction, even when used as prescribed.
Venice launches first permanent art district on Giudecca island The newly established Giudecca Art District is a new initiative that will establish a permanent art district on the former industrial island of Giudecca. Launching at the 2019 Venice Biennale it will encompass 11 art galleries and art spaces, plus three national pavilions including Estonia, Iceland and Nigeria. There will also be new contemporary art space, Giudecca Art District Gallery and Garden.
Launching the new space will be 'Body As Home', a three channel film presentation by artist Aleksandra Karpowicz with October! Collective. The work 'documents a journey of self-discovery, identity, migration' and a search for the meaning of home. It was filmed in four different cities: Cape Town, London, New York and Warsaw.
In total, 60 artists from 30 countries will be included in 20 exhibitions on the island for the launch. There will be additional collaborations with established art galleries and spaces including Chiesa delle Zitelle, Starak Foundation, Galleria Sant'Eufemia, Spazio Bullo, Spazio Raunich, Sudiolacittà, and Spazio Silos.
Previous artists who have exhibited on the island include Marina Abramovic, Damien Hirst and Ai Weiwei. It is also known for having had a number of high-profile residents, including Elton John and Miuccia Prada.
Nomura Art Award to offer US $1m prize to 'nurture creativity in contemporary art' The Japanese financial services group has created a new award to help an artist 'take on new challenges and embrace change'. The prize can be used in whole or part to support an 'ambitious new project that the winner did not previously have the means to realise'.
Nomura has also created two annual Emerging Artist Awards of US$100,000 each, which will be given to two 'exceptional artists in early stages of their careers'. No applications are accepted and the recipients are chosen by an independent, international jury of museum directors and curators, foundation leaders, and art experts.
The inaugural jurors are: Nicholas Serota, chair, Arts Council England; Doryun Chong, deputy director, curatorial and chief curator, M+; Kathy Halbreich, executive director, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Yuko Hasegawa, artistic director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Max Hollein, director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Allan Schwartzman, founder and principal of Art Agency, partners, and chairman, Fine Arts Division of Sotheby's.
Commenting on the award, Schwartzman told Artforum: "From the beginning, this has been a process of great interaction and active dialogue about how best to deploy substantial funds.
Study finds museums in US still failing with artist diversity The report by Williams College found that the collections of major American institutions are 85% white and 87% male. The next largest groups were white women at 10.8%, followed by Asian men at 7.5% and Hispanic men at 2.6%.
The data was taken from 18 major US museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with 10,000 artist records analysed for demographic analysis.
Researchers found that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art had the highest percentages of female artists. 10.6% of artists at Atlanta's High Museum of Art are black – compared with 1.2% across all recorded.


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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious." (Bill Hicks)
March 27, 2013 July 18, 2013 / madamebibilophile	/ 5 Comments
I try to post once a week, and failed totally to do so last week. This means the post I planned on funny books, to coincide with Comic Relief , was oh-so-topical last week but now is about as current as Christmas. What the hell, I won't let my ineptitude deter me from my course. I've written in a previous post about my friend H insisting on lending me light reads, this week I'm going to look at two more books H hopes will encourage me to relinquish my default solemnity and embrace the sunny side of life (particularly difficult here in the UK at the moment as Spring refuses to be sprung and it's snowing. There's even talk of a white Easter, which is so unnecessary). I'm concerned this post is self-defeating, because humour is so personal that whether or not I found something funny is really irrelevant as to whether anyone else finds it funny, but let's crash onwards, and hopefully I'll be able to give you an idea of whether you want to read the novels or not. Probably I should stop thinking about it all so seriously!
Firstly Small World by David Lodge (1984, Penguin). H lent this to me because I am one of those nerds unable to function in the real world so I keep holing up in universities, refusing to leave until I develop book-fanciers lung (which is a disease I think I've just invented) from hanging out in libraries the entire time. Well, everyone needs a life plan…. So, Small World is set amongst academia, and mainly derives its humour from its portrayal of vain, self-serving academics competing with each other for a Chair of literary criticism post that only exists virtually – they don't have to do any work for it, deliver lectures, or even use an office. This forms the background to series of conferences where the cast of characters intermingle, bitch, gossip and have sex with one another. The nearest character to a hero is Persse McGarrigle, a ridiculously idealistic post-graduate who has spent too much time in books and too little in the real world (I obviously have no idea what that's like). His thesis is on Shakespeare's influence on Eliot, then on a whim he tells his fellow academics that its actually about Eliot's influence on Shakespeare, a preposterous notion which rather than ridiculing, they all get terribly excited about. And so the foibles of contemporary academia are astutely satirised. I say contemporary because although it was written in 1984, the following sentence convinced me of its relevance:
"How gratifying to encounter, in the dreary desert of contemporary criticism, an exponent of that noble tradition of humane learning, of robust common sense and simple enjoyment of great books."
Unlike references to long-deceased shop chains like Rumbelows and Sketchleys, and Persse being completely confused as to what a karaoke bar is, this part of the book doesn't seem to have dated at all. Much as I enjoy my study (and therefore keep returning to it), many is the time I've sat in tutorials wishing I could just state that I liked something, without placing it in its post-modern, post-feminist, post-post-post framework to deconstruct its meaning to the point where you start to doubt your own sanity and whether you even know what a book is.
I have to admit I didn't love Small World, I thought it was clever rather than funny, and it didn't really engage me, but if you are involved in any sort of academia I'm sure you will recognise the characters and university politics and derive a few wry smiles of recognition at the very least.
But as I planned for the blog to be celebratory rather critical (and keep getting knocked off this course by the books H lends me, I may have to stop reading them, or at least stop blogging about them) I would like to balance this out by flagging up that David Lodge is an insightful critic as well as a novelist, and I highly recommend his The Art of Fiction. Each chapter takes a topic around creating fiction and uses an example as a discussion point, for example Defamiliarisation in Charlotte Bronte, Intertextuality in Conrad, and so on. It's really accessible, readable way of beginning to explore ideas, written in a non-pretentious way that his characters in Small World would be incapable of.
But The Art of Fiction is not fiction itself, and so I return to my second choice of novel, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton 2001). This was Fforde's first novel featuring his heroine detective, Thursday Next. If you think that's a bad name pun, here are a few more: Millon De Floss; Jack Schitt; Landen Parke-Laine (a British monopoly pun "land on Park Lane" which perhaps doesn't translate as well as the others) and many more. As the pun Millon De Floss shows, this is a silly, fun book for literature lovers. The Eyre of the title is Jane, and in an alternative 1985, Thursday has to defeat the evil Acheron Hades (great name) who is taking first editions of books and removing characters from them, causing all subsequent copies of the story to change. Thursday pursues him into Jane Eyre (literally, she enters the story), where she has to stop him wiping out the heroine of one of her favourite novels without changing the story herself. Things don't go exactly to plan, but then Jane Eyre in Thursday's world doesn't have the ending we know and love….
The story is great fun, and if you love literature there are plenty of jokes to enjoy. Thursday works as a literary detective, and this is a world where literature is taken very seriously. Teenagers swop Fielding cards:
""I'll swop you one Sophia for an Amelia."
"Piss off!" replied his friend indignantly. "If you want Sophia you're going to have to give me an Allworthy plus a Tom Jones, as well as the Amelia!"
His friend, realising the rarity of a Sophia, reluctantly agreed."
The literary dedication of the populace continues into adulthood, such as when the Baconians, a group concerned with proving Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare, have their meeting fire-bombed by the radical splinter group, the New Marlovians.
The idea of characters being kidnapped from fiction works really well, as Fforde is able to use examples of characters that are abandoned by their authors to support the premise. For example, Christopher Sly, the drunkard from the start of The Taming of the Shrew, has been found "wandering in a confused state just outside Warwick". He did disappear from the play, so maybe he was kidnapped in this world also?!
There is a feel of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy about The Eyre Affair and if you enjoy Douglas Adams I think you'll enjoy this. It's very clever but it's not out to prove its own cleverness, and while it could have done with a slightly more heavy-handed editor in places, The Eyre Affair is a pacey, joyous tale about what happens when characters really come alive. And if H is reading this: success! It made me laugh, my friend.
Here are the books doing their bit for Comic Relief by donning this year's deelyboppers and red noses:
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde)
March 9, 2013 April 16, 2014 / madamebibilophile	/ 2 Comments
I inherited all the great loves of my life from my mother: literature, the theatre, film, Islay single malt whisky, and cheese that will blow out your nasal passages from 50 metres. We don't agree on everything: Kris Kristofferson remains an enduring source of contention (me: total 1970s love god, have you seen A Star is Born? She: eyes are too small. Neither of us is willing to back down.) These enormous differences aside, we get on pretty well, and so Mother's Day is a source of celebration in my family. In the UK Mother's Day is 10 March (for once I've managed to post on time, in fact a day early as tomorrow will be spent cooking up a feast for the family), so to any of you who aren't from the UK, Ireland or Nigeria (ie where Mother's Day is the 4th Sunday in Lent), I apologise and ask that you view this as a postponed/pre-emptive post depending on when Mother's Day occurs for you. I've chosen one book written about a mother from the point of view of a child, and one written from a mother to her child. Both merge fiction with biography and contain significant sadness, but both are about the triumph of the human spirit. Well, mother-child relationships can be among the most complex…
Firstly, a novel that my English teacher at school thought was very nearly perfectly written: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1985, my copy Vintage, 1991). Oranges tells the story of Jeanette, who grows up in an evangelical household in the north of England. Her mother is a strong, dominant and domineering woman who initially believes Jeanette will help her in her idiosyncratic crusade against sin. As Jeanette gets older, she realises she is attracted to women, and acts on this. Her refusal to subdue who she is to the will of her mother leads to a failed religious intervention (almost exorcism) and eventually a breakdown in their relationship. If this sounds utterly heavy and depressing, let me assure you it's not. Humour runs throughout the whole of Oranges, a gentle prodding at the absurdity of life:
""You can always tell a good woman by her sandwiches," declared Pastor Finch.
My mother blushed.
Then he turned to me and said, "How old are you, little girl?"
"Seven." I replied.
"Ah, seven," he muttered. "How blessed, the seven days of creation, the seven branched candlestick, the seven seals."
(Seven seals? I had not yet reached the Revelation in my directed reading, and I thought he meant some Old Testament amphibians I had overlooked….)
…"Yes," he went on, "how blessed," then his brow clouded. "But how cursed." At this word his fist hit the table and catapulted a cheese sandwich into the collection bag;"
The narrative is interspersed with a fairytale that echoes the main narrative. This serves to broaden the perspective away from its immediate setting, and emphasise that while it is a unique story that is being told, it is also something familiar to us all, a fable. We may not all be northern English, evangelical Christian and gay, but, in the words of the author:
"Everyone, at some time in their life, must choose whether to stay with a ready-made world that may be safe but is also limiting, or to push forward, often past the frontiers of commonsense, into a personal place, unknown and untried."
Oranges is fantastically well written (when the author was just 24) and succeeds in being challenging and complex, but also easy to read and reassuring. The language is poetic and exacting but never overblown:
"We lived in a town stolen from the valleys, a huddled place full of chimneys and little shops and back-to-back houses with no gardens. The hills surrounded us, and our own swept out into the Pennines, broken now and again with a farm or a relic from the war. There used to be a lot of old tanks but the council took them away."
Oranges is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors and so of course, I highly recommend it. The author was asked if it was autobiographical. Her answer: "No not at all and yes of course." For those of you who enjoy it, I also recommend Why Be Happy when you Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson's autobiography, (the title taken from a question her mother asked her when she came out) which shows the story behind Oranges, and also beyond it.
Secondly, Paula by Isabel Allende (1994, my copy Flamingo, 1995 trans. Margaret Sayers Peden). Tragically, in 1991, Isabel Allende's 28 year old daughter Paula fell into a coma caused by porphyria, and died in 1992 having never recovered. Paula is the story Allende writes for her daughter as she waits for her in the hospital, bringing her novelist's sensibilities to the story of her family's life:
"Listen, Paula. I am going to tell you a story, so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost. The legend of our family begins at the end of the last century, when a robust Basque sailor disembarked on the coast of Chile with his mother's reliquary strung around his neck and his head swimming with plans for greatness."
Those of you who enjoy Allende's fiction will find the same style here, and some very recognisable characters from The House of the Spirits. Allende writes vividly and with love of and for her family past and present.
"[Your grandmother] was drinking cheap pisco, and hiding the bottles in strategic places. You Paula, who loved her with infinite compassion, discovered the hiding places one by one and without a word carried off the empty bottles and buried them amongst the dahlias in the garden."
"Celia and Nicolas have asked me to come home to California for the arrival of their baby in May. They want me to take part in the birth of my granddaughter; they say after so many months of being exposed to death, pain, farewells, and tears, it will be a celebration to welcome this infant as her head thrusts into life. If the visions I had in dreams come true, as they have in other times, she will be a dark-haired, likeable little girl , with a will of her own. You must get better soon, Paula, so you can go home with me and be Andrea's godmother."
Time is not linear or earthbound in Paula, as the family's past, present and spirits all exist in a mother's story, evoked in a hospital room. The final third of the book sees Allende stop talking to Paula and instead speak to the reader, as she loses hope that her daughter will recover. However, the death of her daughter is not an irretrievable loss for Allende who has an acute awareness of the afterlife and sees her family around her whether they are alive or dead.
"She died in my arms, surrounded by her family, the thoughts of those absent, and the spirits of her ancestors who had come to her aid. She died with the same perfect grace that characterised all the acts of her life."
Paula is a hugely affecting narrative of one of the hardest experiences a mother can live through, but ultimately the enormity of the familial love that surrounds Paula is the strongest force, and this makes it a great Mother's Day read.
Here are the books alongside the gorgeous Kris. To my mother I say, Happy Mother's Day, Maman, and I hope titling this post with a quote from your beloved Oscar compensates for my insistence on presence of Mr Kristofferson. And yes, I am planning a substantial cheese plate for the meal tomorrow, don't worry….
"We look before and after, and pine for what is not" (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
March 2, 2013 July 18, 2013 / madamebibilophile	/ 2 Comments
My lovely friend H feels I take life too seriously & this is reflected in my choice of reading matter. As such, she keeps lending me light reads in the hope that I'll chill out & stop living my life like I'm a some sort of doomed Hardy heroine (which I dispute: I harbour no plans to start bedding down at Stonehenge. Far too cold, I prefer central heating. Probably just as well as they've restricted access to the monument now.) But because she is a good friend & I love her (and she's probably right in general), I read the books she gives me. This week it was Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James (Faber & Faber, 2011), so I decided to write about it here, making the theme of the post prequels and sequels.
Death Comes to Pemberley is a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, set 6 years after the end of Austen's novel, where Darcy & Elizabeth are happily married with 2 sons. I'm not a big crime reader, so I hadn't read any PD James before, but I know crime aficionados who highly rate her. To me the crime element of this novel was its weakest link – the plot was very slight and there's no detective work as such, the crime is solved as the murderer confesses. But I never wanted to blog about books in a critiquing way, so I'll stop and look at what is to celebrate, as I planned. James has great fun with the concept of a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, with comments on the backstory like: "If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?" (Answer: Yes). She also explains potential problems in the original, like why Darcy's first proposal and following letter were so rude (he was trying to make Elizabeth hate him so he wouldn't have to deal with his attraction to her). Whether or not you like this explanation depends on how you've read the original, and while it's a shame to pad out the room for interpretation which helps readers feel a sense of ownership over a novel, James is as entitled to her view as anyone else. She is obviously a huge fan of Austen and characters from Emma also make an appearance thorough a verbal report: a child is adopted by Mrs Harriet Martin nee Smith, friend of Mrs Knightley.
Part of modern scholarship on Austen is to look at what is hidden in her work: the slavery hinted at in Mansfield Park, for example. Writing from a 21st century perspective, James can make explicit certain factors like feminism and the Napoleonic War which readers today may pick up on but are only shadows in Austen's works:
"We have entered the nineteenth century; we do not need to be a disciple of Mrs Wollstonecraft to feel that women should not be denied a voice in matters that concern them. It is some centuries since we accepted that a woman has a soul. Is it not time that we accepted that she also has a mind?"
"The war with France, declared the previous May, was already producing unrest and poverty; the cost of bread had risen and the harvest was poor. Darcy was much engaged in the relief of his tenants .."
In this way James' novel offers a chance to view well-known characters in more well-rounded way, taking into account their social and political circumstances in a wider perspective, beyond that of the Regency marriage market. However, and I realise this is an obvious point so I won't linger on it, PD James is not Jane Austen, and as such the novel reads a bit flat. The effervescent wit is gone and there's not really anything to replace it.
It was a brave decision that James made with Death Comes to Pemberley, as writing a sequel to Pride and Prejudice is really a thankless task. Austen and her characters are so greatly loved I doubt any author other than Austen herself could do them justice. While placing them in genre fiction like crime is probably a good idea so that its clear you're working within conventions other than those of the original novel, I can't help feeling that Death Comes to Pemberley may prove disappointing for both crime fans and Austen fans.
For the prequel part of this post I've chosen probably the most well-known of all prequels: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966, my copy Penguin 1993). Wide Sargasso Sea looks at the events that occurred prior to Jane Eyre, and how Rochester's first wife became the madwoman in the attic. Rochester marries the Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway in the Carribean. There is a strong sexual attraction between them as Rochester describes:
"Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was – more lost and drowned afterwards."
But this is not enough to cover the differences between them "It was all very brightly coloured, very strange, but it meant nothing to me. Nor did she, the girl I was to marry." and the cracks in their marriage soon start to appear, with distrust, jealousy and violence on both sides. The result of this we already know…
What happens to Antoinette is a commentary on both men's exertion of power over women, and the coloniser's power over the colonised. Rhys takes the "other" of Jane Eyre and gives her a voice, placing us alongside Antoinette and showed how flawed and racist notions of "other" are. Rochester, the rich white Englishman, seeks to control Antoinette and does so by renaming her and confining her – the parallels with slavery are clear. As a woman, she is also subjugated by a society that is on Rochester's side:
"When a man don't love you, more you try, more he hate you, man like that…"
"I cannot go…I am not rich now, I have no money of my own at all, everything I had belongs to him…that is English law"
However, by giving the narrative voice to Rochester as well as Antoinette, Rhys ensures a balance to Wide Sargasso Sea that means you can't write it off as limited perspective polemic. It has had a huge influence on how Jane Eyre is read, and I think this is because it is so sensitive and subtle a reading and portrayal of the characters. Rhys succeeds in creating a backstory that is wholly believable and recasts the frames of reference through which Jane Eyre is viewed, without ever undermining the original work. This can be seen in interpretations such as the BBC's 2006 version of Jane Eyre which emphasised Bertha's (as she is then named) sexuality, associated her with the colour red as in Wide Sargasso Sea, and had her played by the beautiful Claudia Coulter to make Rochester's physical attraction to her easy to understand (the BBC also filmed a version of Wide Sargasso Sea the same year). The fact that Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's behemoth of feminist literary criticism took the title The Madwoman in the Attic (1979, Yale University Press) shows how the character of Bertha (and characters like her) are being reassessed, and I think it's reasonable to assume Wide Sargasso Sea played no small part in that. Unlike Death Comes to Pemberley, Wide Sargasso Sea stands alone as a great novel, and simultaneously hugely enhances reading the source work. I recommend the latter unreservedly, and the former as a point of interest and a quick, throwaway read.
I was wondering how to photograph the books in a way that represented the theme, then as I looked at the covers I realised they sort of represented a before and after already – la petite mort followed, inevitably, by le grande mort. What a depressing note to end on – I think H has got her work cut out…….


More than a century ago LA was known for its freeways than its architecture; with its urban expansion directed by the automotive infrastructure. Though still a place defined by its traffic woes, LA is fast assuming the status of an architectural hub with a new centrality in Grand Avenue. Lined with Walt Disney Concert hall and MOCA (Arata Isozaki represent), The Broad and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Grand Avenue is now considered the cultural center of the city. This book as the name suggests, goes into the depth of The Broad right from the inception of the idea by Eli and Edythe Broad to the site selection, its cultural significance in the Grand Avenue to the engineering and design of its free-standing complex "Veil".
The book is 'broad'ly divided into four sections. It begins with an extremely detailed photo essay by Iwaan Baan, with bonus photos of the storage rooms and other spaces which are inaccessible to the public.It then moves on to cover the Roundtable discussion by Eli Broad (the founder), Elizabeth Diller (Chief architect of the DS+R) Paul Goldberger (Architecture critic of Skyline) and Joanne Heyler (Director of the Broad), where they give insider information about the building.The third segment of the book discusses in depth the very nature of the Broad as an institution and how it is reflected in the building program which is further steered into a more concrete vision by the architects. This is followed by detailed plans and photographs during the construction. The book finally ends with a zoomed-out view of the urban infrastructure surrounding the art gallery with emphasis on the Grand Avenue and The Broad's significance and relation to its neighbors.
Plans, Elevations, Sections and details of the Alhambra: From drawings taken on the spot in 1834.
This is one of those rare books that will be placed in a capsule for the future along with Monalisa and Klimts' if the civilization is about to end. Its cultural importance and documentation that follows military precision are the key factors as to why this book is forever in our special collection.
It covers the design and details of the Alhambra fortress and palace complex in Spain. This is a two-volume publication, with complete translations of the Arabic inscriptions and historical notice of the kings of Granada, Spain. It also consists of a detailed history from the conquest of the city by Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors. The second volume consists of detailed lithographs by Owen Jones and Jules Goury.
More importantly this is a book about friendship. In 1834, after staying in Granada for 6 months, Jules fell victim to Cholera while documenting this book. Devastated by the loss, Ar. Jones took over to the publication of the project and further archived the palace. Impressions of every ornament is meticulously taken either in plaster or unsized paper. These casts have been tremendously important for preparing drawings for this publication.
The site plan of the Alhambra shows the most significant spaces in the palace like the Court of Lions, Court of the Fish pond and the Hall of the Two sisters.
This perfect portion of the palace is a parallelogram surrounded by portico with small pavilions at each end. This space consists of a hundred and twenty-eight columns. Due to the restoration works undergone by the court from time to time, the walls are defaced with several layers of whitewashing, beneath which it is still possible to see traces of the original coloring.
The intricate details in the Hall of the two sisters.
The most common pattern that crops up in several halls are the interlacing lines done in plaster. It is remarkable both for their variety of designs and for the simple means by which they are produced. They are formed by two principles exhibited in the diagram.
"Because the fret is one of the simplest and most natural of decorative forms, it is one of the most widely spread, found from early times in most art forms and on all continents"-Britanicca encyclopedia.
To review this massive book, make an appointment with our special collections department of Architecture and Planning Library.
New books newsletter is back a second time this month! Surprisingly, both the books kind of belong to a similar category: Social Design. These books give an in-depth look into designing, especially, addressing social issues of our times.
Studies show that about 3 million people move to the cities every week! Apart from the privilege of having SoulCycle at every corner, cities provide better education, infrastructure and more importantly, culture. Therefore, getting our cities right should be the order of the day. There are two ways to do this, one is getting on to the suburban craze of "sprawl" (ugh! Boring!) or retrofitting our inner cities to suit the incoming populace. This book deals with the latter.
This essentially means that "even the smallest building gaps are closed, peripheral block buildings are complemented, small buildings are replaced by larger ones, living spaces are created by reuse, plots are divided and inner courtyards are used for construction." If you're good at Tetris, you will probably be good at this urban retrofitting thing. One such example is the Cordoba-Reurbano Housing building in the historical La Roma neighborhood of Mexico City. As a part of an urban recycling initiative, it adds on a succession of terraces and built residential volumes on top of a historic building.
Design Solution for Urban Densification presents 41 outstanding projects of urban redensification that illustrate the different approaches adopted by architects and planners to build for the cities today. Explore a range of amazing and surprising unconventional buildings and creative solutions across the entirety of the book with graphical plans and detailed sections and of course lots of beautiful photo spreads.
Social Design talks about designing for the society… with the society, addressing complex social issues of our times through the perspective of interdisciplinary design. It addresses 25 international projects that represent unique solutions and tackle the redesign of social systems. The projects range a wide breadth of topics from creating human scale neighborhoods in China to sustainable weaving communities in Ethiopia. These are framed by three essays that talk about Social design in the past and present, it's job in education/ research and the concept of plan making in shaping socially conscious societies.
Antonio Scarponi's Teh Campo Libero (The innocent house) was designed for Italian organization, Libera. This mobile, self sufficient and reversible pavilion is a tool in this process.
Some of the feature projects include Fairphone, 10,000 Gardens for Africa (Slow Food Foundation), Paper emergency shelters for UNHCR by Shigeru ban among a few.
We see an architectural marvel and the first thing we do is record it. We sketch, we take pictures, we remember how it looks. But do we feel it? Sense it? Smell it? "The inhumanity of contemporary architecture and cities can be understood as the consequence of the neglect of the body and the senses, and an imbalance in our sensory system." This book challenges the hegemony of vision and the ocular-centrism of our generation. Pallasmaa calls it the violation of the eye, he goes to the extent of calling it the Narcissistic and Nihilistic eye.
Above: The eye of the camera, detail from the film, The man with a movie camera.
Below: Regardless of our prioritization of the eye, visual observation is often confirmed by our touch. Caravaggio, The incredulity of St.Thomas.
As if we actually need to convince you to read this book. We are sure most of you have already read it. And if not, you are missing out on realizing architecture to its full potential. This polemic book on architectural philosophy and teaching, was first published in 1996 as an extended essay to Questions of perception: Phenomenology of Architecture written by Steven Holl, Pallasmaa, and Alberto Pérez-Gómez. The eyes of the skin is broken down into two neat essays, the first runs us through the historical development of ocular-centric paradigm in western culture, starting from the Greek civilization and its effect on the architecture today. Part two examines the function and presence of our other senses in experiencing architecture and how they could potentially bring us to building spaces that are integrated and personable.
Above: Le Corbusier's proposed skyline for Buenos aires – a sketch from a lecture given in Buenos aires in 1929.
Below: The hill town of Casares in southern Spain.
We highly recommend it if you just started getting into the whole architectural philosophy readings. It is a particularly interesting book to start off with and debate over as well as most don't really accept this idea of Pallasmaa's. A good book to get some really romanticized quotes about architecture and planning for your class essays.