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div class='rss_chapo'Les collectivités territoriales jouent un rôle majeur dans le développement numérique de leur territoire, notamment par l'implantation de lieux publics d'accès à Internet. Paradoxalement, le rôle et les interventions des Espaces Publics Numériques (désignés par « EPN » dans l'ensemble de ce document) restent parfois mal connus par une majorité des acteurs des collectivités. La pérennité de ces lieux nécessite une évolution des activités proposées pour les inscrire au cÅ“ur des politiques de développement territorial/div div class='rss_texte'p class=spipLa Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations au travers du réseau Cyber-base qu'elle anime et l'association CRéATIF (Collectif des réseaux d'accès aux technologies de l'information en France) ont réalisé ces fiches pratiques pour aider les animateurs des espaces à mettre en valeur leurs actions auprès des collectivités territoriales et permettre de consolider leur collaboration avec elles et les partenaires qui les entourent./p p class=spipLe kit est composé de deux catégories de fiches :/p p class=spip· 6 fiches méthodologiques (numérotées de A1 à A6) qui permettent à l'animateur de comprendre le monde des collectivités, l'aident à nouer des relations de travail durables avec les élus et les agents territoriaux, à valoriser son espace public numérique et à construire de nouveaux projets qui répondent aux besoins des populations et aux priorités politiques des collectivités territoriales ;/p p class=spip· 5 fiches thématiques (numérotées de B1 à B5) qui permettent de mettre en Å“uvre des actions sur les champs d'intervention les plus pertinents pour les acteurs de l'accès public à Internet. Rédigées à partir d'initiatives existantes, elles définissent les éléments clefs de méthodologie et présentent des exemples concrets d'activités pouvant être développées sur chaque thématique./p p class=spipstrong class=spipChaque semaine nous publierons l'une des 11 fiches de ce kit dont voici le sommaire général/strong/p p class=spipA-1 - a href=http://www.creatif-public.net/article1018.html class=spip_outComprendre les collectivités territoriales/a/p p class=spipA-2 - Comment entretenir une relation privilégiée avec ma collectivité/p p class=spipA-3 - Comment améliorer la visibilité des actions de mon EPN au sein de ma collectivité/p p class=spipA-4 - Comment présenter le rôle et les missions de l'EPN à mon interlocuteur/p p class=spipA-5 - Comment présenter les activités et les publics de mon EPN/p p class=spipA-6 - Comment développer de nouvelles actions avec la collectivité/p p class=spipB-1 - Administration et citoyenneté/p p class=spipB-2 - Emploi/p p class=spipB-3 - Développement économique et formation/p p class=spipB-4 - Education et enfance/p p class=spipB-5 – Action sociale/p/div div class='rss_ps'L'adresse originale de cet article est a href=http://www.creatif-public.net/article1017.html class=spip_outhttp://www.creatif-public.net/article1017.html/a/div

Là où Ninja Tune créait la surprise en 2006 en produisant un artiste folk, il fallait voir en réalité une collaboration déjà bien entamée d'une dizaine d'année. Une attente qui à l'origine s'est... par TiComo La Fuera

pLes Etats-Unis et l'Inde ont signé vendredi à Washington un important pacte de coopération nucléaire. Cet accord, qui met fin à des décennies d'interdiction de collaboration nucléaire avec l'Inde,nbsp;marque la fin d'un long processus à la fois historique et diplomatique./p

TV Guide Network goes behind the scenes of BODY OF LIES, the new collaboration between Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio and director Ridley Scott! Get inside info from the stars themselves, and see what Leo had to say.More TVGuide

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centerimg id="image1464" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/1959/_MG_9094websmall.jpg" alt="_MG_9094websmall.jpg" //centerbr / piThis week I spoke with Aaron Levy, Executive Director and a Senior Curator of the Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary non-profit art space a href="http://slought.org/"Slought Foundation/a, about his participation in the U.S. Pavilion at a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/"La Biennale di Venezia, 11th International Architecture Exhibition/a. Working in a team with William Menking and Andrew Strum, the exhibition, titled "a href="http://positioningpractice.us/"Into the Open: Positioning Practice/a," investigates contemporary socially-engaged architectural practice in the United States. Sixteen practitioners were selected for the exhibition, including The Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), Design Corps, Detroit Collaborative Design Center, Gans Studio, The Heidelberg Project, International Center for Urban Ecology, Jonathan Kirschenfeld Associates,Project Row Houses, Rebar, Rural Studio, Spatial Information Design Lab/Laura Kurgan, Studio 804, Smith and Others, The Edible Schoolyard/Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Estudio Teddy Cruz. Levy, along with William Menking and Andrew Strum, a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/index.php?pageData=1/12/5/"will discuss the exhibition at Columbia University on October 13th/a and downtown at a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/calendar.html"Studio-X on October 14th/a. - Ceci Moss/i/p bpCeci Moss: The title for the U.S. Pavilion is "Into the Open: Positioning Practice." Considering the wide range of approaches represented in this exhibition, I'm wondering if you can discuss why you selected this title, and how it speaks to the premise of community involvement through architectural practice./p/b pAaron Levy: What should our place be in this world, and how should architects help shape our sense of place? These are two of the questions that our exhibition gestures towards, through a new American taxonomy of conflict and urgency that takes visitors through some of the richest and the poorest neighborhoods of North America. The sixteen practices we have selected embody an expanded definition of architectural responsibility, whereby architects and designers become activists, developers, facilitators of a more inclusive urban policy, and producers of unique urban research. The exhibition explores not just what these architects and activists have built, but how they have built. In this sense, it is very much in keeping with the contemporary focus on process./p pI recently read Karsten Harries' iThe Ethical Function of Architecture/i, which follows Sigfried Giedion in arguing that the main task for architecture today is the interpretation of a way of life valid for our time. Harries argues that architecture is more than just an aesthetic approach, and that for some time now, architecture has been profoundly uncertain of its way. Can the problem of where architecture is going ever be thought separately from the larger problem of community and public forms of solidarity? Why must the ethical and the aesthetic always be in opposition? These questions are not just for philosophers; these are some of the questions that the field of architecture needs to consider today./p centerimg id="image1467" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/1959/Exhibit-Edible1small.jpg" alt="Exhibit-Edible1small.jpg" //centerbr / centeriImage: The Edible Schoolyard/Yale Sustainable Food Project, Model Schoolyard Garden (Installation Photograph) (Photo credit: Ryan Reitbauer/Duggal Visual Solutions)/i/centerbr / pbHow did you become involved with this exhibition? /b/p pIt's a really great question--although it doesn't have all that interesting an answer...There were a fair share of procedural and logistical headaches that are incredibly mundane though perhaps interesting to curators! /p pOur team (William Menking of iThe Architect's Newspaper/i, Andrew Sturm from PARC Foundation, and myself, in dialogue with architects Teddy Cruz and Deborah Gans) submitted a preliminary conceptualization to the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), responding to a public call for proposals. Once our proposal was accepted, we only had about 90 days to actualize what was a fairly rough schematic and fundraise. The lack of easily available documentation for many of the community-oriented practices in our exhibition called into question a typical curatorial approach privileging the display of cultural artifact and encouraged us to highlight architectural process instead. We viewed limitations such as these productively, allowing them to organically determine our approach./p !--more-- pI can't even begin to describe how difficult it was to stage this exhibition in Venice! The biennale opens just days after Ferragosto, an Italian holiday which effectively shuts down Venice for the month of August. Additionally, everything in the exhibition -- from our shipping crates filled with cultural artifacts to the vegetables we planted in the courtyard of the pavilion for Alice Water's Edible Schoolyard -- arrived to the pavilion by barge (a rather curious process which you can view online on our blog). In hindsight, perhaps what was most difficult about curating the U.S. Pavilion was not the pressure to deliver, but rather the lack of time for extended deliberation -- an aspect that I think of as quite central to any curatorial process. The exhibition was ultimately installed on-site in less than two weeks, with the finishing touches made as the press conference began./p pIt is quite interesting that the different perspectives, tensions, and sensibilities that each member of our team brought to the table are still evident in the exhibition. What role should artifacts play? How should process be communicated without too heavily relying on text? What position should text and video occupy in the exhibition? In the end, we decided that visitors to the U.S. Pavilion should be able to interact and engage with the featured practices in a variety of ways, rather than through just one interface. There are models to interact with, video panoramas and slideshows to watch, but also books to read, blogs to contribute to, and even installations to walk through. The exhibition is less a site of formal instruction than one of participation and social critique. In this sense, the pavilion is decidedly unmonumental this year, intimate even, resisting spectacularity. /p pbHow did your work with Slought Foundation contribute to your position on the team? /b/p pAt Slought Foundation, we encourage sociability and activism through public programs that are purposely critical and provocative; we invite audiences to consider culture and critical exchange as a source of dynamism and enjoyment. As a young organization, we stand for a quintessentially American do-it-yourself culture that is intellectually entrepreneurial and newly resurgent. Our projects take place in Philadelphia against a backdrop of inequality, urban blight, and socioeconomic disparity, which is very much in keeping with the practices and sites of conflict represented in the U.S. Pavilion./p pIn Venice, we were specifically interested in exploring how architecture can go beyond building (director Aaron Betsky's overall theme for this year's biennale), but also how architecture can go beyond the biennale itself. We wanted to invite viewers to think of architecture not just as a physical infrastructure but also as a social practice. Is an exhibition more than the display of models or cultural artifact? What is possible, and what is placed at risk, when architects become developers, work as artists, curators, or even community activists, acting not just intellectually but also entrepreneurially? We hope that the exhibition catalyzes contemporary practice by prompting questions such as these. /p pMany of the artists, architects and theorists we work with in Philadelphia and in Venice consider research as a fundamental component of their work; they challenge us to reconsider the politics of exhibition display and prevailing curatorial approaches by evading clear distinctions between artist, architect, critic, and curator. In Venice we also departed from past convention by omitting celebrity practices from consideration, instead highlighting projects with a grassroots, community sensibility. These practices work primarily with communities through complex choreographies of collaboration that balance on the edge of the professional. The sixteen practices offer sixteen different models of community engagement--a diversity of approaches in place of one. /p bpWould you argue Slought's own place vis-a-vis the culture and community in Philadelphia provided you with a unique vantage point in which to think about civic engagement?/p/b pThe selection of Slought Foundation (in partnership with PARC Foundation) to represent the United States is an enormous honor for our small West Philadelphia non-profit, but also recognizes a new spirit of community activism and inclusiveness across the country. Our selection highlights how the local site and emergent practices are newly empowered today, despite the absence of major public and private support for grass-roots social and cultural organizations that challenge conventional wisdom. In preparing for Venice, we thought a great deal about how to scale intimacy and informality to the international level of a biennale. European audiences seem to have noticed and appreciated these gestures of curatorial humility in representing the United States./p bpThe curatorial statement describes how local initiatives, such as Project Row Houses and the Heidelberg Project, arose out of the lack of large-scale public infrastructure projects in the United States. While these organizations successfully and creatively navigated private, public, and non-profit sectors in order to support and stage their projects, their existence also speaks to the abandonment, in part, of the communities they serve by larger government. Given the potential overreaching effects of the economic downturn of the past few weeks, do you see local initiatives such as these becoming more central to the health and well being of our cities? Could you argue that this direction is potentially problematic?/p/b pI completely agree. In the absence of large-scale public infrastructure projects in the United States, local initiatives are necessarily becoming newly empowered and dynamic arenas for the exploration and generation of new forms of sociability and activism. Teddy Cruz has referred to this development as the "radicalization of the local;" by this he means that the unique complexity of the local urgently demands our attention today. Project Row Houses and the Heidelberg Project are two great examples of the way in which grassroots non-governmental organizations are reclaiming the ability to shape community and the built environment on the scale of the individual neighborhood. /p pbYou collaborated with architects Teddy Cruz and Deborah Gans for this exhibit. I wanted to touch on their work, because their individual projects take on issues of migration and national boundaries. Due to a continued growth of population displacement, movement, and migration, these in-between zones have become more prevalent. Can you tell us more about their practices? Within the nation-specific format of the biennial, how were their ideas in particular framed in the exhibition? /b/p pEstudio Teddy Cruz's contribution to the U.S. Pavilion is a photographic reproduction of the border fence that spans the U.S. border with Mexico at San Diego. It is at once a form of architectural research and a political practice of intervention. This visual representation of the border, together with its photographic montage illustrating the 30 miles north and south of the fence, take visitors through a landscape of conflict that courses through the affluence north of San Diego and the homelessness and neglect in Tijuana. Visitors to the pavilion literally and metaphorically pass through perforations in this porous border to enter the exhibition in the courtyard and inner galleries. These perforations, rather than taking the form of clear interruptions or breaks along the entire facade, instead take the form of small, vertical micro-incisions, thus encouraging on the part of the visitor a landscape of swerves and detours. With this small shift in perspective, the seemingly formal relationship between San Diego and its informal counterpart Tijuana, gives way to San Diego and Tijuana being understood as part of the same, larger urban system. /p centerimg id="image1465" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/1959/Exhibit-Border2small.jpg" alt="Exhibit-Border2small.jpg" //centerbr / centeriImage: Estudio Teddy Cruz (Installation Photograph), 60 linear mile section, San Diego/Tijuana, 2008 (Photo credit: Ryan Reitbauer/Duggal Visual Solutions)/i/centerbr / pGans Studio is devoted to rethinking how architecture can participate in the emergence of social forms. It focuses on extreme situations that also foretell the general. It has designed housing and infrastructure for populations displaced by environmental and political disaster in Kosovo, New Orleans, and New York City. The current universal solution to refugee housing is a tarp that cannot withstand extreme climate conditions; it does not provide for basic domestic needs such as bathing and cooking. Refugee camps lack many forms of urban infrastructure and also deplete natural resources, wreaking ecological havoc and disempowering the refugee population in their will to become self-sufficient./p pFor the biennale, Deborah Gans designed a "Roll Out House" prototype that responds to the extremely degraded conditions on Native American reservations, where a lack of infrastructure and endemic poverty calls for an urgent and easily deployable response. A house can be rebuilt around the deployed "roll out" house. One column holds a cistern, and the other a kitchen. Three hollow columns of various materials can support a roof or even a second floor. They also make possible a domestically-scaled infrastructure of waste, water, or heat. The "roll out" houses can also be assembled in larger formations to cultivate the structure of a town. A physical and social infrastructure emerges according to new principles of "roll out" housing./p centerimg id="image1466" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/1959/GANS-1small.jpg" alt="GANS-1small.jpg" //centerbr / centeriImage: Gans Studio, House with Roll Out Core, 2008/i/centerbr / pbThe theme for this year's biennial is "Out There: Beyond Architecture"- thus salient topics such as the implementation of emerging technologies with architectural practices, green design, and the intersection between contemporary art and architecture were elaborated in the exhibits. Clearly, there's an underlying progressive ethos at work here, and I'm wondering if there will be any effort to continue these dialogues and/or projects beyond the realm of the biennial./b/p pRight now our organization is working to realize a mixed-income, mixed-use community development near Lancaster Avenue here in Philadelphia. We are undertaking this project with People's Emergency Center, a social services and community development corporation, in partnership with PARC Foundation and Estudio Teddy Cruz./p pThe exhibition in Venice is therefore a sort of testing ground, a conceptual prelude to what we hope to actualize in the coming months in Philadelphia. Although we are still in the planning stages, we envision a series of social and cultural services being joined under one roof, including digital inclusion programs, employment offices, and a dedicated space for Slought Foundation. In so doing, we hope to mitigate the paucity of social and cultural organizations in neighborhoods of need. /pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-fp/~4/417108114" height="1" width="1"/

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Henry's Dress - "Target Practice" Eventually the space between buildings will get so small that you can walk from window to window like you would some kind of pair of high doors. But don't drop your keys down the crevice, then you'll find yourself flat against the wall, shimmying your way down three stories to the dirty soft ground, softened by rain. Searching with your hands in the mud, trying to find your stupid keys, it's a good idea to have a friend to pull you up after. It's a great way to get close with someone, having them pull you up three stories between the 8-inch crevice that will exist between all human structures. You're muddy, they're sweaty, you're both tired, think about it. [out of print, used copies on Amazon] David Liebe Hart and Adam Papagan - "No More Blues" I don't have any opinions on David Liebe Hart, so don't expect any. I don't have any opinions about this song, I really don't. I don't think about how it reminds me of Daniel Johnston with about a hundredth of the musical talent. I don't consider David's "beginnings" on the Tim and Eric show, nor do I think anything about his place in comedy. I don't even have any opinion on what Adam Papagan is getting out of this collaboration. Those things are too nebulous to me, they're hazy and full of "well, if he's this way then it means this" unsureness. The only clear thing is that this song contains beauty. I know that. And you know it too. [buy from CDBaby] -- Elsewhere: Popsheep is having a funding drive. They are consistently incredible, and one of their contributors is in one 2008's best new bands, Diamonds. Go help them out with it, if you can. Also: In the video contest earlier this year, one of the winners was Ninian Doff for his "Beast of Dance". Apparently he has a full version of this video in the works, which is very exciting, but in the meantime, he has hooked up with Fulton Lights through the Wonderful Video Contest to create a video for a song of theirs, and it's right here, and it's really great. We're charmed and delighted to have helped with this meeting, but we're downright proud as punch that it's produced something excellent.

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