Tag Archives : San Francisco

Reimagining the Urban: Louise Pubols

This entry was posted in Blog Reimagining the Urban - September 2013 and tagged Reimagining the Urban urban layered landscapes environmental movement San Francisco on by .

How will the baylands be used? And who will use them?

These two questions lie at the heart of the environmental history of the San Francisco Bay, and current debates over its uncertain future. A richly productive estuary, San Francisco is also densely urban. Its landscape is the joint creation of people and nature, locked in a relationship neither can escape from. And if you were to pick one spot around the bay’s shoreline to illustrate just how contentious this relationship has been over time, you’d be hard pressed to find a more richly layered one than the wet and squishy ground underneath this wooden dragon.

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City, Arts and Public Spaces: Mélanie Perrier and Barbara Formis

This entry was posted in Blog City Arts and Public Spaces - June 2013 and tagged San Francisco City Arts and Public Spaces Paris homeless on by .

The homeless people are very present in the public spaces of the city of San Francisco. Mélanie and myself have been noticing this presence as a certain way to occupying the public space by way of performance art and methods of exhibition. Above all, we have been noticing a split between the American homeless and the French S.DF. A certain number of differences can be drawn. Above all, the terminology.

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