{"id":24,"date":"2016-09-16T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:59:58","slug":"orientation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/2016\/09\/orientation-week\/","title":{"rendered":"ORIENTATION WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/file\/61121\/download\"><strong>Designing Cities Orientation Week<\/strong><\/a>, 19\/21 September 2016. Introduction and Project@London on &#8216;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/visit\/tate-modern\/display\/living-cities\">Living Cities<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; @TateModern, ways to discovering London! Picture: kids playing on\u00a0a large\u00a0floor-based rubber map of the city of Beirut, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artworks\/rechmaoui-beirut-caoutchouc-t13192\/text-summary\">Beirut Caoutchouc<\/a>&#8216;,\u00a0Marwan Rechmaoui, 2004-8\u00a0\u00a9 Tate, London [2016]. The\u00a0map of the city &#8216;is embossed with roads and highways represented in precise detail. It is segmented into sixty individual pieces following the division of neighbourhoods in the city, yet when it is exhibited the map appears singular and complete. Consequently Rechmaoui\u2019s installation examines the physical and social formation that make up one of the world\u2019s most conflicted cities. However, other than the demarcations of roads and neighbourhoods, landmarks or specific points of identification \u2013 including the green line that divided Christian and Muslim communities during the Lebanese civil war (1975\u201390) \u2013 are absent, mapping a terrain empty of the political and religious divisions that have characterised the city\u2019s recent history. The artist\u2019s use of rubber stresses the city\u2019s resilience, despite human and natural threat, while it also provides a durable surface for the viewer to walk across, initiating a personal encounter with both the artwork and the city it represents&#8217;. A way to\u00a0reflect, through art, on the\u00a0physical and social dimensions of space.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"artwork-heading\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing Cities Orientation Week, 19\/21 September 2016. Introduction and Project@London on &#8216;Living Cities&#8216; @TateModern, ways to discovering London! Picture: kids playing on\u00a0a large\u00a0floor-based rubber map of the city of Beirut, &#8216;Beirut Caoutchouc&#8216;,\u00a0Marwan Rechmaoui, 2004-8\u00a0\u00a9 Tate, London [2016]. The\u00a0map of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,27,28,41,42,53,74,78,91],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programme","tag-city","tag-descities","tag-design","tag-living-city","tag-london","tag-orientation-week","tag-students","tag-tate","tag-westminster-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/designingcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}