Re: [Nettime-nl] Presentation by Meta Haven: Design Research (SMART, July 3)

[Marinus de Vries <deschool@home.nl>]

On 27-jun-07, at 12:06, Geert Lovink wrote:

> `Signs´
> A presentation by Meta Haven: Design Research
>
> Date: Tuesday, 3 July 2007
> Location: SMART Project Space
> Time: 20.00 - 22.00
>
> Meta Haven: Design Research is an Amsterdam-based collective. Its 
> current members are Vinca Kruk, Daniël van der Velden and Gon Zifroni. 
> The collective’s research results in models, proposals, essays, 
> lectures, conferences and publications. Meta Haven’s first project was 
> in 2003-2004, and consisted of research into a corporate identity for 
> the Principality of Sealand, a tiny nation state located on a former 
> war platform in the North Sea. This project centered around the 
> pro-active engagement with a non-commissioning subject, coming to 
> terms with myth and symbolism, territorial identity and its 
> dissolution into information networks. Since, Meta Haven is 
> investigating an array of case studies where the linkage between 
> visual imagination and the political is key. The ´History vs. Future´ 
> project, focusing on the relationship between identity and history, is 
> resulting in a research of the architectural remains of Cold War 
> communist regimes, notably the Casa Poporului in Bucharest, under the 
> banner of ´The Museum of Conflict´. Meta Haven’s latest publication is 
> a free newspaper addressing the future of the monument, edited 
> together with Mihnea Mircan as a contribution to the 52nd Venice 
> Biennial. Meta Haven: Design Research is currently preparing a book, 
> ´Uncorporate Identity´, scheduled for publication in 2008 with Lars 
> Müller Publishers.
>
> See also www.metahaven.net
>
> For `A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own´, the current exhibition at 
> SPS, Meta Haven has created ´Models for the Political´, a series of 30 
> inkjet prints in which the interconnection between architecture, 
> iconography and the political is explored. Among the prints are 
> models, chessboards, newspapers, posters, stamps, grids and other 
> proposals that attempt to formulate a reflection on the twisted state 
> of symbolic power today.
>
> SMART Project Space
> Arie Biemondstraat 105-113 | NL-1054 PD Amsterdam
> phone: +31 20 42 75951  | fax +31 20 247 59 53
> http://www.smartprojectspace.net/
> Location map: www.smartprojectspace.net/info/location
>
> Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00-17:00 hrs
>
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