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Book SynopsisShifting economies have left the world's post-industrial cities with isolated zones of abandonment - iconic yet dormant sites that are both physically and culturally vacant. These sites are typically dislocated, contaminated, and often construed as a danger to be made safe or an economic burden to be made profitable. They exist within the urban fabric, though through disuse or disconnection, they exist distinct from that fabric. They are Urban Islands. The research articles and design projects in this book consider how postindustrial sites may be used as templates for new ways of energising cities with cultural activity. The Urban Islands Project on Cockatoo Island is a pointer to the possibilities.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1: islands and urbanism 1. Business/culture Martin Kornberger 2. Feedback architecture Joanna Jakovich 3. Jellyfish house Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott 4. Soft architecture/soft urbanism Jin Hidaka 5. A brand new urbanism Ingo Kumic 6. Sonic islands Kirsty Beilharz Part 2: Sydney and cockatoo 7. A collage of yearnings Tom Henegan 8. The mould loft Samantha Hanna and Olivia Hyde 9. Systems of change, reality and revelation Henri Praeger 10. Daedalus: a fable for cockatoo Thomas Rivard 11. Parallelisms Jaime Rouillon 12. The fat, the old and the beautiful Dagmar Reinhardt 13. Cockatoo: derive as program Matias Echanove 14. A brief, an island, and a chance to enhance design culture' Christopher Walsh 15. Postcard from a 21st century city Ingo Kumic Part 3: works and critiques 16. Soft responses to a hard place Chris Abel 17. Rethinking parameters Marc Aurel Schnabel 18. Emancipation of the surface Liz Bowra 19. Responsive Environment Studio Led by Satoru Yamashiro and Jin Hidaka 20. Soft inversion Installation by Responsive Environment Studio 21. Void/threshold studio Led by Jaime Rouillon 22. Subtractive Networks Studio Led by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott 23. Ambient Loop Studio Led by Henri Praeger and Chris Abel Acknowledgments Contributors
