![]() In the absence of a centralized voice, QSPACE is a hub for students, professionals, and academics to connect and collaborate. Beyond a collection of individuals, QSPACE is a platform for research projects by students and professionals working on queerness in the built environment, producing research and outputs on topics such as gender inclusive bathroom design, LGBTQ homelessness and housing, and queer histories in architecture. QSPACE pushes for organized action through exhibitions, publications, digital archiving, and design guidelines, making questions of gender and sexuality visible to a field that has traditionally subverted such questions. QSPACE is a queer architecture research and design studio that defines itself as mixing queer theory, social justice, and design practice. He has written, edited, and contributed to books on contemporary Dutch architects and architecture, contributed to Dutch television documentaries, been member of juries and awards, and lectured internationally. He published first and foremost in Archis and Volume, but also in other magazines like l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Baumeister, Rassegna, and Manifesto. As an educator, he taught architectural history and later on specialized in research and writing at schools of architecture. For Volume’s publisher Archis, he is engaged in book publications and projects, the current one being Trust in the Blockchain Society. With a background in architectural history he is editor-in-chief of Volume magazine (since 2007). In 1995, Van Lieshout founded his studio, Atelier Van Lieshout ever since, he has been working under the studio moniker to undermine the myth of the artistic genius.Īrjen Oosterman is a critic, educator and curator. In his projects, Van Lieshout focuses on systems, power, autarky, life, sex and death – the human individual in the face of the greater whole. His work is not limited to sculptures and installations, but also comprises buildings and furniture, as well as utopian and dystopian visions. Joep van Lieshout is a sculptor and visionary known for exploring the boundaries of art, of ethics, of society. Participants will reimagine the icons of the city, and will present manifestos for new “souvenirs for an ideal city” in an effort to explore the concept of iconography and what icons mean for the city today. The event invites an international group of architects, designers, photographers, curators, and researchers to reflect upon the objects and imaginaries that define the global city. Manifesto Series: Souvenirs for an Ideal City is organized as part of Storefront’s current exhi bition, Souvenirs: New New York Icons. They have become the reference points that anchor a particular culture in time, representing (consciously or not) political, cultural, and social values. Souvenirs produce collective imaginaries made up of lines that follow the profiles of superlative sculptures, buildings, and stories. ![]() Pocket-sized, acritical, and cheap, they populate tourist sites all over the world with a patina of innocence. #storefrontseries #manifestoseries #souvenirs Joep van Lieshout, Arjen Oosterman, QSPACE, and Marga Weimans.Īs a contemporary form of commercialized nostalgia, souvenirs are the ultimate cliche in the representation of a city. Manifesto Series: Souvenirs for an Ideal City
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