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Tuesday, 30 June 2009

ESP - new website

The website was required by the team to further explain and communicate the concept of ESP, capturing the interest from and informing the public, and to provide resources for regeneration professionals. We built a WordPress site which features blog, videos and downloadable resources. The blog from this website is also an RSS feed into Slider´s main website.
Launch the new website: www-esp-sim.org

ESP - leaflet print

ESP printed flyers, part of Slider´s growing leaflet package...

ESP - graphical toolkit

In parallel to YouCanPlan brand I have been working on toolkit for ESP - Enabled Self Procurement - trying to visualise processes in architecture and planning. These are examples of booklet in progress that hopefully is soon to be found at www.esp-sim.org

What others say

" I am not all against modern architecture, I only think that as well as the permit to build, there should be permit to inhabit."
Jacques Tati, 1958

" Space, place and use are no longer seen abstractly as separate layers (space as background on which use occurs sometimes creating place) but as an interwoven sociospatial process." Pano Lehtovuori, 2009

" Space is a peculiar product - it is simultaneously the end result of production and the context of production, setting its conditions."

" ... many contemporary ideas about public space assume that a public space must, above all, be big enough. I believe the opposite is true: a space must be small enough to be public." Sjoerd Soeters, 2009

"... space is not constructed by one body but interaction of bodies. I am interested in bodies that are culturally and universally different, that encounter, ignore, desire, or even hate each other. Architecture sets the stage for this type of representation..."
Ignasi de Sola-Morales, 1996

" ... if we think of space as that which allows movement, then place is pause; each pause in movement makes it possible for location to be transformed into place."
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1977

"... improving the ordinary would be the really extraordinary move..." Descartes

"The sign is usually said to be put in the place of the thing itself, the present thing, 'thing' here standing equally for meaning or referent. The sign represents the present in its absence. It takes place of the present. When we cannot grasp or show the thing, state the present, the being 'present' when the present cannot be presented, we signify, we go through the detour of the sign. We give or take signs. The sign, in this sense, is deferred presence." Jacques Derrida