Issue 11
Speed
Issue 11
The urban conditions around us are constantly changing. With a faster or slower speed, the built environment is transformed as it does the way we experience and engage with it. In this issue we will be looking at the pace in which physical and social changes happen and the consequences and opportunities available.
Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Essay by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard and faculty at the GSD
Iker Gil interviews Camilla Nielsson, co-director with Frederik Jacobi of the documentary Mumbai Disconnected
Research and diagrams by Iker Gil
Project by Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer from Design With Company with Katharine Bayer and Hugh Swiatek
A Strategic Vision for the Center of Dense Cities: Madrid as a Case Study
Essay by José María Ezquiaga and Juan Herreros, architects and directors of PROYECTO MADRID CENTRO
Project by Candy Chang, co-founder of Civic Center, a civic design studio in New Orleans
Andrew Clark interviews photographer Michael Chrisman
Project by Ensamble Studio
Diagrams by Iker Gil and André Corrêa
Essay by Brendan Crain, founder of the Where blog and Communications Manager at Project for Public Spaces
Looking for a Theory of Real-Time Knowledge
Essay by Troy Conrad Therrien, founding partner in the creative curational agency TH-EY, and chief architect, cloud communication at Columbia University’s GSAPP
Research and diagrams by Stephen Killion
Photographs by Andrew Bush