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Joan Backes is an American artist who participated at the Waldkunst in Darmstadt 2010. Her Work is called ‘Forest House’ which connects architecture, nature and painting. You can still visit the house and all the other art pieces in the forest of Darmstadt.

Deniz Köse, a Turkish architecture student in Darmstadt, was attracted by the work of Joan and so asked her a few questions. Enjoy the podcast produced by Deniz Köse.

#english follows below#

Chamada/Convite Artistico (So criando se vai pra frente!)

Una-se a danca para fazer a chuva parar ( movimento-anti-chuva) e envie uma foto, caricatura, desenho para o ar2com com uma critica, sugestao ou solucao para comentar a situacao urbana do rio de janeiro, ou algum outro lugar que voce gostaria.

Fotos devem ser enviadas em JPGs medidas minimas 450px e tamanho maximo 500kb para anti-rain-dance_rio@ar2com.de
Ao enviar voce estara autorizando o seu trabalho a ser publicado no www.blog.ar2com.de. Cada JPG mostrara o autor criador da obra. Links a seu flickr ou outros websites sao tambem bem vindos e tambem seram publicados. O trabalho tera uma licensa nao comercial cc 2010.
Videos so poderam ser aceitos se tiverem maximo 3 minutos e serao “upload” no Vimeo.

Heavy rains are making obvious urban planning mistakes in Rio de Janeiro. Decades of mis-planning are to be paid by the poor. Landslides and flooding are in the news since ever, but recently the number of deaths is increasing too much. Ignorance will not help it anymore. 180 landslides are reported since Monday (reuter).
When will we start to design sustainable infrastructure and help urbanization grow in a healthy way. I believe that people are able to built their homes by themselves; we can see the results. The problem is the missing infrastructure which is a basic need to be served by the city.
I feel extremely sad after having participated at the world urban forum just 2 weeks ago where nothing of that was discussed at all.

this is a call for entries

Join the anti-rain-dance and send one foto/comic with one sentence to ar2com with a criticism / solution / suggestions / comment about the urban situation in rio de janeiro or elsewhere.
fotos should be send in as JPGs min width 450px max size 500kb to anti-rain-dance_rio@ar2com.de

while sending me the JPG you agree that I publish your work on www.blog.ar2com.de. Each JPG will state the author in the caption. Links to your flickr or other sites are welcome and will be published, too. the work will than have a cc-license non-commercial 2010.

videos can be accepted if they are uploaded to vimeo or youtube. max running time 3:00

The use of all that is too remember the missing basic needs for all inhabitants which is their basic right to the city in a FUNNY, IRONIC way – just a jeitinho brasileiro!

results can be seen here:
resultados sao postados aqui:
Anti-Rain-Dance.campaign

Marco Casagrande is an architect from Finland. I called him a an anarchitect mixing anarchy and architecture, since I feel his work REAL. Including ideas of urban acupuncture his work is soft and violent at the same time – something which has to be beautiful because of its honest trueness.

0:00 is it just provocation to burn your architecture or to build ruins?
2:45 what is the energy you take out of ruins?
5:33 living at the edge of habitat …
7:05 is nature the first architecture?
7:58 what are your origins? what do primitive tools like a fireplace have to do with architecture?
12:30 skin … patina … being present >>> what is your message to visual 3d software architects?
17:00 hope on teaching = celebrate the time of being FREE
19:25 connection and communication, use of web 2.0
22:28 ‘the medium is the message’ – McLuhan: are we changing with our new environment? GREEN buildings???
26:25 why are you an architect?