Exhibition Jugaad Urbanism
with the book “Tacit Urbanism” and the installation movie “Kolkata Monodosis” I participated in Center for Architecture New York first exhibition in US on contemporary Indian urbanism Exhibition on view in New York February 10 – May 21, 2011 Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC 10012 Jugaad: a definition There is no one […]
DLW Archive
photography johanna lippmann 2011 2011 dlw technical rider Kritiken DLW live 2011_gorbauch_boulez in real-time_ Frankfurter Rundschau 2011_Darmstädter Echo 2012_DLW + John Tchicai Eberswalde Foto: Torsten Stapel Infos 2012_dlw_info 2013_dlw_info 2014_dlw_info 2015_dlw_info+maneri Kritiken DLW feat. John Tchicai “The Traveller” 2010_Rondo_29_12_Tchicai 2011_Jazzthetik 2013 Grammar I grammar I cover 2013_DLW Moskau Goethe […]
Thinking Space Musically
Lecture Performance at Architectural Association London date: 2010-02-16 link to video Christopher Dell will explain his concept of a musical approach to conceptualise space. He will refer to the performative notation concepts of new music and present parts of his actual studies ‘Improvisations on Urbanity’ and ‘Tacit Urbanism’. Born in 1965, Christopher Dell lives and […]
Architectural Behaviourology- Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Sunday, 21 March 2010 A lecture by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto – Atelier Bow Wow, Tokyo followed by a conversation led by Matthias Sauerbruch and Christopher Dell. in cooperation with the Japan Foundation This event takes place during the Units of Ecole Special d’Architecture, Paris and University College Dublin “Behaviour comes to mind as a […]
Improvisations on Urbanity
Christopher Dell, Ton Matton, Evelien van Vugtgraphic designmagazinestudio.nl In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, […]
Tacit Urbanism
Hawkers and the production of space in every day Kolkata Studying the tacit urbanism, and making explicit the tacit political and cultural levels of the urban becomes an important part not only of understanding the urban as totality but also of how we act as citizens and how we participate in the constitution of new urban structure.The […]
Kolkata Monodosis
a documentary artist movie by Christopher Dell and Ranu Gosh in collaboration with Patrick Ghose, funded by the Goethe Institute Kolkata under supervision of Reimar Volker. Inspired by the diverse and exciting social life on Kolkatas pavements (which is very much owed the cultural practise of the Hawkers, who occupy it), I decided to do […]
