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Notes on Being Urban
The ‘now more than half live in cites’ argument has reached internet meme status. That this sentence has been incorporated into the ‘Batman Slap Robin’ meme signifies something. When discussing what...
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Stillness Matrix
Thinking about the idea of the Still City, I came upon an idea for a matrix that might help in asking the question; what is Stillness? How does Stillness for instance relate to notions such as...
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This is a world in...
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Growth = War
The growth economy is really a war economy. This is what I recently learnt when reading Rutger Bregman‘s piece (NL) on de Correspondent “Leugens, grove leugens en het bbp“. Bregman writes that:...
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Hong Kong – Shenzhen Travel / Notes
Monnik was invited to present the Babel project —the development of a logographic script for Europe— at the Urbanism/Architect Bi-City Biennale in Shenzhen (UABB). Day 1 / Monday / AMS ✈ We’re waiting...
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Basic Income
Notes is a new category we’ve made. In the Notes format we try to simply gather and organise information on a certain topic we’re interested in without writing an elaborate argument around it. It can...
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Producing Reality
This weekend we explored Marl (Germany) in advance of a comparative study to new towns Marl, Lelystad (Holland) and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgian). Part of the reconnaissance was a tour of Evonik’s...
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Master – Apprentice
In an interesting move Dutch minister Bussemaker recently announced the expansion of the master-apprentice system in MBO (middle level professional education) education. This system, which according to...
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Unfulfilled Dream
This weekend we explored Marl (Germany) in advance of a comparative study to new towns Marl, Lelystad (Holland) and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgian). During our reconnaissance Tim Verlaan of Failed...
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A Romantic Idol
This weekend we explored Lelystad (Netherlands) in advance of a comparative study to new towns Marl (Germany), Lelystad (Holland) and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgian). (Before I put the next idea on paper I...
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