Constant

Cartography as a common good

nicolas maleve — 2010-09-23T12:56:50Z

Cartography as a common good is a contribution by Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts (La Cambre) and Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant, to the book Human Cities, Celebrating Public Space, edited by Barbara Golicnik Marusic, et al, (Brussels: Stichting Kunstboek, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and Promateria, 2010, p. 47-51). - Towards / Counter cartographies, Collaborative, Publication, Intellectual property

Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight)

nicolas maleve — 2010-02-25T17:48:04Z

Nicolas Malevé, Constant member, will take part in Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight), an afternoon of reflections about the history of aerial view through art history, through the histories of thought, techniques and sciences, war imagery, cartography and of course, cinema.

See online : http://www.cinereel.org

Busboîtescartesmaps

Peter Westenberg — 2008-10-12T13:11:12Z

Busboîtescartesmaps is an event in the framework of the Towards project that combines subjective representations of the Brussels' terrain which the development of a software for subjective cartography. Also inspired by the experiences springing from the Routes + Routines series of explorative performative walks, that take us to unexpected corners of the Brussels region.

Post boxes are a familiar repetitive phenomenon in the urban landscape. Even when postoffices become privatized and disappear, these boxes remain firmly planted in the urban soil. Busboîtescartesmaps invites us to validate these entities as more than just utilitarian tools. Drifting from one box to another, the walks propose to climb them, to explore their musical qualities, to listen to the stories that echo from their interiors. Among other things the walks contribute to a collective mapping in which the trace of one walk echoes the existence of other walks. You can participate in the walks starting from Recyclart, where also the communal map can be consulted, and also the Atlas of subjective and collaborative maps of Brussels.

Your guides :

Peter Westenberg is visual artist, videomaker and member of Constant. He works onsocial cartographies, urban anomalies and complexity of identity and geography.

Christina Clar and Natasha Roublov are artists based in Brussels, moving between performance, events, installations and urban interventions focussing on the meeting points between sound, visuals and architecture.

Lottie Child is a British artist who produces Street Training Manuals for playful/antisocial engagement with urban places exchanging expertise and knowledge on the notions of safety and joy in increasingly sanitized and controlled urban places. Research is wandering, talking, thinking; and intervention might include climbing, penetrating, playing with, nurturing, and/or pissing on encountered boundaries - physical, mental and social. "In Brussels I will engage with interested people to create a StreetTraining circuit featuring the joyful behaviour Belgian street users employ and those we innovate together during an initial session."

Busboîtescartesmaps is a project of Constant in collaboration with Recyclart and Speculoos, Jeugd en Stad, Yota! and Beam. Also with the participation of Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts.

Hours of the walks Two walks per day, with a maximum of 10 participants per walk on 4, 5 and 6 november.

Departures at 14:00 and 17:00, starting point Recyclart

The collaborative maps of l'Atlas & Yota! are on show from 14:00 to 18:00 at Recyclart

More information on the project: http://www.towards.be/busboitescartesmaps

See online : Project webpage

Gender Art Net

Emma — 2008-10-10T11:25:28Z

Gender Art Net will be developed throughout 2008 as an interactive Map, offering accessibility and readability of a broader range of artistic positions, which explore the complex interrelatedness of gender, ethnicity, race, sexualities in contemporary Europe. Seminar for Master and BA Students at the invitation of Anne Quirynen, in the framework of this project commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation developed by curator Bettina Knaup in cooperation with Constant vzw. Several Organisations, curators, artists and critics will be involved in the participatory development of this project, which also aims at providing access to distributed archives.

Europäische Medienwissenschaft

See online : http://emw.fh-potsdam.de/studium_vv...

Constant vzw, Nicolas Malevé, Laurence Rassel, Anne Quirynen, Bettina Knaup, European Media Studies Potsdam, European Cultural Foundation

Towards

Emma — 2008-10-08T09:17:36Z

A newspaper on subjective carthographies of urban interventions in Brussels, in collaboration with Citymin(e)d, Recyclart and Speculoos.

See online : http://www.towards.be/

Citymin(e)d, Recyclart, Speculoos, Nicolas Malevé, Pierre Huyghebaert, Nathalie Mertens, Nedjma Hadj, Kathleen Mertens, Rival, Tiziano Lavoratornovi, Benoit Deuxant, Harrisson, Agentschap, Syndicat d'initiative

Urban Act

An — 2008-10-07T16:00:47Z

What is a collective platform and how can it operate? This is the central question of the book, Urban Act, produced by Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, Paris.

The book contains essays, statements and presentations by a wide array of activists connected through the PEPRAV network (AAA, AG Gleisdereieck, Ald, Atsa, Blok, Citymine(d), Constant, Daniel Kuhne & Hogler Lauinger, Echelle Inconnue, G.L.A.S, Iyo, Laboratorio Urbano, Meike Schalk & Apolonia Sustersic, Metrozones, Obersvatorio Metropolitano, Park Fiction, PS², Pttl, Public Works, Recyclart, Rotor, Sharrow Community Platform, Syn- ).

The publication includes contributions by Constant's members Laurence Rassel and Femke Snelting who describe the methods and tools we use in our practice.

To order a printed copy of the book (20 euros): info@peprav.net

There will be a PDF version of the book available on the PEPRAV's website under a Creative Commons license (the contributions of Constant will be available under the terms of the Free Art License).

See online : Peprav

Blind Softspots & Deviating mapware

Femke Snelting — 2008-09-26T17:00:34Z

Nicolas Malevé and Peter Westenberg present in IBAI/Recyclart their exercice in exploiting the imperfections and in-between-spaces that grow in stitches, blind spots and the data-abundance of navigation-software, routeplanners and cartopgraphic satellite images.

Is it possible to hide by overexposing yourself? Can you be unfindable through making yourself searchable? Can you map by not having an overall view?

Tags: track, hotspots, surveillance, gps, camouflage, MIVB.be, Google Earth, Open Streetmap, …………

OpenStreetMap

Femke Snelting — 2008-09-26T16:44:12Z

Benjamin Henrion who joined the July cartography workshop talked about the openstreetmap project (1). We organize a first workshop on open cartography of the center of Brussels.

We wander through the streets of the city center with our bike and GPS and we will process the data acquired in the morning and upload them on the openstreeetmap's website. http://www.openstreetmap.org/

(1) about openstreetmap:

OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.

European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City (Peprav)

Femke Snelting — 2008-09-26T16:27:41Z

Peprav is a project that is partly financed by the CULTURE2000-program of the European Union.

The platform formalizes a collective critical research on urban alternatives in the city: presentations, experiments, discussions based on feminist and collaborative practices.

A collaboration between atelier d'architecture autogérée (aaa, Paris), School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Recyclart (Brussels) and metrozones (Berlin).

See online : Peprav

Towards

Peter Westenberg — 2007-07-11T17:47:13Z

Towards is a collection of subjective cartographic representations of Brussels connected to the creation of a collaborative tool for subjective cartography.

Several artists have participated in the first phase of this project by, all in their own way, mapping urban interventions and memories of Brussels. This resulted in an exhibition, a publication and a considerable amount of reflections and questions.

In parallel the project puts forward a workshop, urban interventions, a collection of Brussels' maps and an 'atlas of brussels'.

The project addresses following questions: How to represent subjective territorial data? How do maps influence our perception of a terrain? How to interconnect these data? Which form and function should a collective cartography software aim for? The blog feeds these questions knowing that answering them is important for the realisation of a collaborative cartography software.

A project of www.citymined.org, www.recyclart.be, www.constantvzw.com, www.speculoos.com

See online : http://www.towards.be

citymined, recyclart, constant, speculoos, prepav, aaa