Workshop theme direction: In defense of social diversity
Ljubljana inventing its own process of social diversity, rather than following processes of segregation that its North American and West European counterparts have been practicing for years.
Léopold Lambert
www.thefunambulist.net
Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a bimestrial printed and digital magazine associated to a podcast and a blog. The five first issues of the magazine are respectively dedicated to Militarized Cities, Suburban Geographies, Clothing Politics, Carceral Environments, and Design & Racism. The three platforms of The Funambulist examine the political relationship between the built environment and bodies. He is the author of three books, Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012) about the intrinsic violence of architecture and its necessary political instrumentalization, in particular in Palestine, Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum books, 2015) about the politics of bodies in relation to these three scales of design, and La politique du bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (Bulldozer Politics: The Palestinian Ruin as an Israeli Architectural Project, B2 Éditions, 2016) about the use of the bulldozer by the Israeli army as a war weapon since 1948.
Design Biotop | Léopold Lambert: The Funambulist
Magazine covers exhibition
Opening: 28. 10. 2016, 18:00 / MAO
www.thefunambulist.net
The Funambulist is a bimestrial printed and digital magazine complemented with a blog and a podcast edited by Léopold Lambert. The three platforms of The Funambulist examine the political relationship between the built environment and bodies. Its subtitle, “Politics of Space and Bodies,” expresses it ambition to bridge the world of design (architecture, urbanism, industrial and fashion design) with the world of the humanities (philosophy, anthropology, history, geography, etc.).
The five first issues of the magazine are respectively dedicated to Militarized Cities, Suburban Geographies, Clothing Politics, Carceral Environments, and Design & Racism.
Léopold Lambert is a Paris-based architect. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist and is the author of several books about the political relationship of architecture and bodies.