By Elisha Buttler and Michele Stockley
People have been talking about the relationship between art and change for a long time. Art as an agitator for change, a messenger for change; art as an act of activism or assertion. These days, this relationship may feel like a natural one; however, this hasn’t always been the case, with many of the artistic practices and theoretical concepts linking art and change having shifted over time but especially within the last two decades. Dr Geoff Hogg, Adjunct Professor in the School of Art at RMIT, notes:
The last twenty years have seen a growth in socially engaged art as an accepted field of creative practice. Today this feels normal, and it is becoming harder to remember that for much of the twentieth century this was highly controversial. The concept of ‘art for art’s sake’ was a nineteenth-century philosophy that extolled the intrinsic value of art independent of political, moral or educational purposes. In the tw
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Rotterdam-headquarted KAAN Architecten has revealed the initial phases of an ambitious renovation and extension of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KSMKA) in Antwerp, 18 years after winning the contentious project.
Led by co-founder Dikkie Scipio, the firm’s team has created a ‘museum-within-a-museum’, completely restoring and refurbishing the existing 19th-century building and creating a large, new, 21st-century structure at its heart, where there was once a courtyard.
The resulting plan is complex, with a layering of different scales and uses, including walkways in the new museum that cut across the 19th-century galleries and are hidden within the walls of the old building and public facilities like a restaurant, which all connect to the museum plaza.
Dezeen wins two trophies at British Society of Magazine Editors awards
Dezeen has won two more awards, scooping the specialist editor of the year and independent editor of the year categories at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards.
Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs was named specialist editor of the year at the BSME s 2020 awards, which were announced on 11 February 2021 after being delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Always at the top of their game, this brand continues to evolve, innovate and find new ways to engage its audience, said the judges.
Fairs also won independent editor of the year, with judges particularly praising Dezeen s Virtual Design Festival.
AR Reading List 042: displacement Add to Bookmarks
The latest instalment of our series of AR Reading Lists: a collection of carefully chosen pieces from our archive, free for registered users
This week’s reading list looks at an apparent inevitability in the life of any city: displacement. Gentrification’s mechanisms of improvement and erasure fill the coffers of the wealthiest around the globe, supported by policies of demolition and rehousing that push people out of their homes and out of their communities, set adrift at the edges of the cities they once sustained.
We look to Brazil, South Africa, Portgual and Belgium for stories each inflicted by the specific conditions of the place. Jaffa’s story is one turned on its head: once a bustling merchant hub, its architecture is now ‘typified by unadorned signs of decay’, as Nadi Abusaada wrote in our AR October 2020 issue on Land. Palestinian residents are pushed out nonetheless, the city’s logic of improvement ‘i
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