tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12217755604331806642024-02-15T03:40:36.849+00:00the roof above my headcmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.comBlogger323125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-7304267906450214712015-02-22T11:41:00.001+00:002015-02-22T11:42:31.824+00:00Coming back soon...I now think it makes sense to come back to this space. So many things have been happening over the last few years and I have been missing these moments sharing with the roof, sharing with the world. A few things will change though... The focus and the layout (needs a bit of work on that! suggestions welcome) mainly.<br />
More to come soon! <br />
<br />cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-45752478607237475392011-11-15T08:44:00.001+00:002011-11-15T08:46:02.227+00:00EBUK - Earth Building UK Conference and AGM 2012, January 13th, York<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Earth Building UK Conference and AGM 2012, January 13<sup>th</sup>, York.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The conference will explore the use of earth and clay plasters with leading experts. <span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The use of earth and clay plasters has increased in recent years, with interest groups concerned with the conservation of historic buildings, ecologically sensitive new construction, alongside a growing interest from industry in innovative materials. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The conference is a brilliant opportunity to meet fellow EBUK member and exchange ideas.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Find out more on the website by following this link: <a href="http://www.ebuk.uk.com/index.php/?p=317" target="_blank">http://www.ebuk.uk.com/index.<wbr></wbr>php/?p=317</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Conference Location: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ron Cooke Hub at the University of York, Heslington, York. YO10 5GE. </span><a href="http://www.york.ac.uk/hub/facilities/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.york.ac.uk/hub/<wbr></wbr>facilities/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Conference fee:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The conference fee for EBUK members is £42.00. This includes refreshments and lunch. If you are not already an EBUK member the conference fee is £63.00 (this includes a full year’s membership of EBUK).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Post conference tour:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Saturday January 14<sup>th</sup> 2012. A tour of York House, Malton to view the historic building and get an expert introduction to the earth mortars and plasters investigated and conserved in the recent conservation project. This tour will be with </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Nigel Copsey (Earth, Stone and Lime company) and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ben </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Gourley (University of York).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Showcasing your work:</b> <i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Space will be available for display of materials and products.</span></i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">If you offer services or products, the conference is a great place to showcase your work and support EBUK at the same time. You can promote your project or business at very reasonable rates throughout the conference. For example, for £160 you can put up a display next to the main conference room or for £60 put brochures into every delegate's conference pack. For more details about sponsorship email </span><a href="mailto:lu_ebuk@btinternet.com" target="_blank"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-size: 11pt;">lu_ebuk@btinternet.com</span></a><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">or telephone 01944 728441.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Students</span></b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">: Fancy a free conference? Load your images of earth buildings in the UK to our EBUK Flickr stream.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthbuildinguk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/<wbr></wbr>earthbuildinguk/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">The EBUK directors will decide on a winning image and the winning image will be announced on the day. We will reimburse the conference fees for one student. The winning image will be announced on the day. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Spread the word:</span></b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"> Please spread the word of the Earth Building UK conference to your colleagues and friends – EBUK is a network </span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">fostering the understanding, appreciation and development of building with earth. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.ebuk.uk.com/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.ebuk.uk.com/"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.ebuk.uk.com</span></a></span></i>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-4740885257694818542011-11-14T19:19:00.000+00:002011-11-14T19:19:58.764+00:00Rammed earth workshop in Oxford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLSQrXGIEixbYTqSKYZ27LO_N6vtFRSaWKDKEBBeNCgRvDSuxs3AsTaO3w5ccVKcrKYXi0cuACzuFHobDfGWiXg7u4O2_pEkGFwnouxUHdNPNoJ_Ebu-BL8rA7OaD8zJ-mKtlpKuU3Wpm/s1600/IMG018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlLSQrXGIEixbYTqSKYZ27LO_N6vtFRSaWKDKEBBeNCgRvDSuxs3AsTaO3w5ccVKcrKYXi0cuACzuFHobDfGWiXg7u4O2_pEkGFwnouxUHdNPNoJ_Ebu-BL8rA7OaD8zJ-mKtlpKuU3Wpm/s400/IMG018.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bQK8-lp32_pOs0fKGs0mydzLeeRBVFP_-EGQS9MenldNaOdcu04iC7YXWZVMKdvIs_Z1iF6xxQoUHGOmBFjP7zczLnh1hyphenhyphenygPn7lpMRjru7v8Axu_uHV0pIYFORw5WHwIznrIKPV0YBO/s1600/IMG019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bQK8-lp32_pOs0fKGs0mydzLeeRBVFP_-EGQS9MenldNaOdcu04iC7YXWZVMKdvIs_Z1iF6xxQoUHGOmBFjP7zczLnh1hyphenhyphenygPn7lpMRjru7v8Axu_uHV0pIYFORw5WHwIznrIKPV0YBO/s400/IMG019.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The images above were captured during a rammed earth workshop that took place at Oxford Brookes University last Friday. This workshop was organised by the OxArch Society who, once again, brought Rowland Keable (<a href="http://www.rammed-earth.info/">Ram Cast</a>) to orient the works. Unfortunately this time I was unable to attend so I haven't seen the finished work yet. Will make sure to visit the site this week and take a few more pictures!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oh, and remember the <a href="http://theroofabovemyhead.blogspot.com/search?q=composting+toilet">posts about the construction of the composting toilet</a>? I never managed to post photos of the final stage of construction, but you can see it finished in the background of the first photo above. Doesn't it look great?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-24093732034539719452011-11-04T10:06:00.000+00:002011-11-04T10:06:42.080+00:00Back to the start<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aMfSGt6rHos?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-3631588289277573772011-11-01T07:57:00.000+00:002011-11-01T07:57:48.178+00:00Crazy Clown Time - David Lynch<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2GXGc4EobS8?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">David Lynch, the genius behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (one of my all time favourites!), The Straight Story (beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!) and other masterpieces, has got a new work coming out soon!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After filmmaking and visual arts, Lynch is now launching his first solo music project (<a href="http://davidlynch.com/">Crazy Time Clown</a>).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have to say that, for me, this does not come as a big surprise. One just has to watch his films to understand how important music has always been in his career. His films would not be as interesting without that slightly crazy music in the background, that always seems to fit in so perfectly in the surrealist environments he creates. Just watch Mulholland Drive and you'll understand... Apart from that, Lynch has done musical collaborations before with other artists, most of them with wonderful results. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">From what I have heard so far, I can only say that this album could only have been created within the depths of David Lynch's mind :) Play the video above and you'll see what I mean.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also check <a href="http://www.chrystabell.com/">THIS WEBSITE</a> to listen to another one of his musical projects, with a singer called Chrysta Bell. A bit different, but wonderful nevertheless.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The man is a genius and so good at everything he does... Unbelievable! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Crazy Time Clown will be available from November 7. </div>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-18017140246029337782011-10-28T21:51:00.001+01:002011-10-29T14:00:52.452+01:00First images of Tim Burton's new film released !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVTFe0fVj1tOV1FrqKj0owLykU56bCSU0vEG-9Cr1ot-NcfEqUsN_sWrleAGUGJPth-PoF7H-8mUfAYO0bb3ZkucbaFR7WbzbBTw3shfzUH3qXZgmaQC9VsZHrHsfTzNspV8JsXEBXFgP/s1600/TB1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsVTFe0fVj1tOV1FrqKj0owLykU56bCSU0vEG-9Cr1ot-NcfEqUsN_sWrleAGUGJPth-PoF7H-8mUfAYO0bb3ZkucbaFR7WbzbBTw3shfzUH3qXZgmaQC9VsZHrHsfTzNspV8JsXEBXFgP/s400/TB1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_D_1lChdVR9d43TD89n6vSS1jA6Xyt8BWW9WPbREbvgROfNs2nTkrJO1KyfhaH0HUvcfooc0HptlZ_pLfsXajBKTuinV4NzWk4H_Bjz_uriq2x5gxkLo_XDhm5qssuJqr0weetrc8sD_/s1600/TB2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_D_1lChdVR9d43TD89n6vSS1jA6Xyt8BWW9WPbREbvgROfNs2nTkrJO1KyfhaH0HUvcfooc0HptlZ_pLfsXajBKTuinV4NzWk4H_Bjz_uriq2x5gxkLo_XDhm5qssuJqr0weetrc8sD_/s400/TB2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">The first two</span> <span class="hps">images of the new</span> <span class="hps">project</span> from <span class="hps">director Tim</span> <span class="hps">Burton</span> - </span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">the creator</span> <span class="hps">of </span><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Edward Scissorhands</span>" and <span class="hps atn">"</span>The Legend of the <span class="hps">Headless Horseman</span>" -</span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"> were released this week <span class="hps">on the internet</span>, <span class="hps">to the delight of</span> <span class="hps">millions of fans</span>.<br />
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<span class="hps">The new film</span> <span class="hps atn">is called "</span>Frankenweenie" and is actually the <span class="hps atn">'</span>remake' of <span class="hps">a</span><span class="hps"> short film by</span> <span class="hps">Burton</span> <span class="hps">with the same name, but made in </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">1984</span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en">. <span class="hps">The</span> <span class="hps">short film</span>, <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">parody of</span> <span class="hps">the Frankenstein story</span> <span class="hps">was produced</span> <span class="hps">for Disney</span> <span class="hps">- and</span> <span class="hps">resulted in Burton's being dismissed...</span><br />
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<span class="hps">Lucky for us</span>, Disney <span class="hps">dismissed</span> <span class="hps">this 30 min </span><span class="hps">film so much, that</span> <span class="hps">allowed it to</span> <span class="hps">be</span> <span class="hps">placed</span> <span class="hps">in full on</span> <span class="hps">YouTube! </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">(Part 1 below) </span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Complete photo gallery <a href="http://fugas.publico.pt/Viagens/295523_viagem-pelas-mais-belas-estacoes-de-comboio-portuguesas">HERE </a></div>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-1682250131772730282011-10-28T11:03:00.000+01:002011-10-28T11:03:59.579+01:00Fado for "Intangible Heritage of Humanity"<div style="text-align: justify;">According to <a href="http://www.publico.pt/Cultura/fado-entre-os-sete-mais-elogiados-para-patrimonio-da-humanidade--1518549">PUBLICO</a>, <i>FADO </i>music may be elected Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Fado, already considered worldwide as a symbol of Portuguese culture, is now amongst the seven favourites in the lot of 49 applications. The winner will be selected in a meeting of experts that will take place between 22 and 29 November in Bali.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The experts considered that <i>FADO </i>has "a kind of poetic and musical versatility" with "a strong sense of belonging and connection to Lisbon."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I could not agree more and, being a complete <i>fado </i>lover, I am very happy that FADO can be finally recognised for what it is! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those of you who don't know that much about <i>fado</i>, below is the video presented at the time of the application for fado as "Intangible Heritage of Humanity".</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5JJktDWWOLs?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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And, just in case you would like to listen to some more...<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>'Witchcraft versus smart power: who owns human rights in the postcolonial world?'</b><br />
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The talk is based on historical research in Zimbabwe and the presentation is intended to stimulate questions and discussion, rather than provide a fully-formed argument. Prof. Jeater is looking to identify an interface between international political ideologies and local Zimbabwean understandings of human rights and community morality.<br />
Prof Jeater has an interest in how indigenous ideas about spiritual and community well-being have been harnessed, distorted or destroyed by the work of international NGOs and solidarity organisations; about the consequences of this for politics in Zimbabwe in recent times; and about the implications for Suzanne Nossel's advocacy of 'smart power' as a way of maintaining US hegemony in a changing world.</div>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-37363664539318555412011-10-25T21:36:00.003+01:002011-10-25T21:37:24.719+01:00A walk through Chicala<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ii4qxAfQmdE?rel=0" width="640">&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br&amp;amp;amp;gt;THis &lt;/p&gt;</iframe>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-21514951759244215982011-10-21T09:49:00.002+01:002011-10-25T15:09:47.097+01:00Adeus Luanda...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqfVDRcT8k0T17WuqLrKQo1n9iOerF4_wGR5wF3B3FnJEZqFX5A8tMkGoeTVkrEjNROmHUNdTMGzLVDJAR5lGkWKsevHLeEG0E6BK5qhJw3j1qgjq-VXEw5DaY8ZMRexsS37VMVn8hbUj/s1600/SANY0557.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqfVDRcT8k0T17WuqLrKQo1n9iOerF4_wGR5wF3B3FnJEZqFX5A8tMkGoeTVkrEjNROmHUNdTMGzLVDJAR5lGkWKsevHLeEG0E6BK5qhJw3j1qgjq-VXEw5DaY8ZMRexsS37VMVn8hbUj/s400/SANY0557.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnB7h1Vxi0_2BnLfYMRbrK0MkPByOxdIXJ-gQbyZkfrcn9lixxUy6y336ILoi-m4lq-BeX0joOdpL95W_gBoWWzLKyYJK79QPTW7z-Ec6XLT82fNkveFn1QLRI_Q-o1RaAUTscOFw25tH/s1600/SANY0588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnB7h1Vxi0_2BnLfYMRbrK0MkPByOxdIXJ-gQbyZkfrcn9lixxUy6y336ILoi-m4lq-BeX0joOdpL95W_gBoWWzLKyYJK79QPTW7z-Ec6XLT82fNkveFn1QLRI_Q-o1RaAUTscOFw25tH/s400/SANY0588.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Hoje escrevo em Português, como homenagem ao Português que se fala em Angola! Amanhã estarei de volta ao Reino Unido. Tenho a certeza que vou sentir saudades desta bela terra de boa gente... Vou também sentir falta da banana-pão e do jindungo, assim como doutros sabores fantásticos que descobri por cá :)<br />
Um grande abraço aos nossos "Kambas", que tanto nos mostraram e proporcionaram uma estadia maravilhosa em Luanda. <br />
O que aprendi cá não é quantificável, mas percebo agora quando me diziam que uma visita a Luanda tem a capacidade de mudar uma pessoa... <br />
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Até já Luanda... Até já Angola!! :)cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-72809410942433566382011-10-20T11:55:00.000+01:002011-10-20T11:55:27.465+01:00Musseque Chicala - view from the Fort<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VUyMxWomyYLjW55FysdZSmH5pIh50GFKoxAW55e960ZUzoEc7-vFYndT-TOsxQ0dPQR0PGOlrDOnFeyvWsz3dUxGCkFn6Qq4KGtrbgMBAqnXg1wo_JQ6FZx3zRtUGorqydLbetmijznE/s1600/Chicala+from+the+fort_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VUyMxWomyYLjW55FysdZSmH5pIh50GFKoxAW55e960ZUzoEc7-vFYndT-TOsxQ0dPQR0PGOlrDOnFeyvWsz3dUxGCkFn6Qq4KGtrbgMBAqnXg1wo_JQ6FZx3zRtUGorqydLbetmijznE/s400/Chicala+from+the+fort_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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I never thought I was going to experience this, but my house nearly caught fire today! The generator had been working for many hours and one of the circuits must have overheated or something. Suddenly everything went pitch black and the generator was sounding like it was going to explode! One of the lamps then caught fire and the flames were all over the timber - you really have to see houses in the musseques to understand just how dangerous a fire can be. At the time I was shouting like crazy but luckily it was all sorted in a matter of minutes. Nothing that a bucket of water couldn't fix.<br />
Seriously, I don't even want to think if this had happened whilst no-one was looking (we often leave the generator on if we are, for example, next door) :( <br />
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This self-building culture is a double-edged sword. Yes, it is great to build your own house, but the problem begins when people want to do everything by themselves, even if they haven't got a clue what they're doing! The precarious conditions of electric wiring, often left exposed to the elements (like the one we have here) can lead to very serious consequences. I mean, you sort of guess what may happen if, in order to turn on a light, you have got to put two wires together...</div>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-76506588947054123782011-10-16T23:56:00.002+01:002011-10-17T00:03:52.795+01:00Zango<div style="text-align: justify;">I visited Zango (I, II, III and IV) today, an incredibly big area with thousands of houses 60 Km away from Luanda. Zango's houses were by the government with the intention of housing those who, for some reason, have been evicted from their houses. From what I understood, Zango was built in 4 different phases. In fact, Zango IV is still under construction and people have only just started to move in. This allowed me to see different stages of the process, from construction to post-occupation. Interestingly enough, the houses from Zango I (the first ones to be completed) have all been altered by the occupants to meet their different needs. For this reason, most of the times it is difficult to see the original house behind the walls, extensions, trees, plants, etc.. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zango IV, on the other hand, is still mostly unoccupied and the houses are nothing but empty shells in the middle of nowhere. It makes you wonder whether these houses were built for human occupation in the first place... I am sure that with time the place will look better, though.</div><br />
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15.10.2011 - 20:42 Por Cláudia Carvalho<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">"O encontro estava marcado para as 15h em vários pontos do país, mas só mais tarde é que as manifestações portuguesas começaram a ganhar força. A organização aponta para 100 mil pessoas na manifestação de Lisboa, o jornal espanhol <i>El País</i> baixa a estimativa para 30 mil. Ainda não há resultados à vista, mas já há uma nova manifestação agendada: 26 de Novembro."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">The meeting</span> <span class="hps">was scheduled for</span> <span class="hps">3pm</span> <span class="hps">in various</span> <span class="hps">parts of the country</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">but only</span> <span class="hps">later did</span> <span class="hps">the Portuguese demonstrations</span> <span class="hps">began to gain</span> <span class="hps">strength.</span> <span class="hps">The organisation</span> <span class="hps">points to</span> <span class="hps">100 000</span> <span class="hps">people</span> <span class="hps">in the Lisbon's demonstration</span><span class="hps">, the</span> <span class="hps">Spanish newspaper</span> <span class="hps">El Pais</span> <span class="hps">lower</span>s <span class="hps">the estimate to</span> <span class="hps">30,000</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">There are still no</span> <span class="hps">results</span> <span class="hps">in sight,</span> <span class="hps">but there is already</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">new demonstration </span><span class="hps">scheduled</span><span class=""> to</span> <span class="hps">Nov. 26</span></span> </div><br />
Artigo completo <a href="http://www.publico.pt/Mundo/stop-troika-e-passos-ladrao-comandaram-a-revolucao-dos-indignados-1516693">AQUI</a>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-8812539316943511712011-10-15T19:38:00.003+01:002011-10-15T19:39:51.670+01:00Lindo...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L0d7j8BYTSk" width="420"></iframe>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-852286286802854582011-10-15T16:06:00.000+01:002011-10-15T16:06:56.803+01:00Today is definitely NOT a very good day!!!cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-4566107439624003742011-10-14T19:10:00.001+01:002011-10-14T19:13:19.479+01:00One week to go<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVNBq4XHzvfy3b8m3tbvz1de1QsJ3NPSBueI_1aP9xcHZJ09sIMAzmMuBiSBS3EXSAYZ4B3h82eUUdihikkk1Ixfis9TMpZTGr90SLdkNeb7Evn9c9Oc91B8AfbaVOnaM7-3P5bFRGJh_/s1600/SANY0207.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">Half of the day was completely lost... I was supposed to have an interview in the morning with someone in the National Housing Institute but, unfortunately, he had to postpone to Monday... Couldn't do much at DW today either. With only one week left here I feel that I am a bit behind on my work, and fear that I will not be able to achieve what I planned, especially in terms of interviews to people from the musseque. Now I see how helpful it would have been to have had some research assistants...</div><div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">It's almost impossible to plan these things from a distance. You can never truly predict what is going to happen. For example, it is incredibly hot every single day, which means that after only three interviews I am completely tired. In the city centre, where I have been almost every morning, it takes ages to get everywhere because of traffic. Also, even you you have a meeting at a certain time you usually have to wait a bit (often more than a bit...) longer until people are available to talk to you. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">And last, but not least, as there does not seem to exist such thing as a quiet night, I haven't slept properly since I arrived – I am not exaggerating :). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">Next week I hope to visit one of the new cities built from scratch in the outskirts of Luanda. Everyone has been telling me so many interesting things about it during the interviews, that I really want to see things for myself. This idea of building an entire city where there was literally nothing is very interesting for me as an architect. In this case I am particularly interested in the architectural solutions adopted for the low-cost housing. I'll post some photos if I manage to go there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">Tomorrow the plan is to visit other musseques (Cazenga, Rangel and Sambizanga), so I am looking forward to it!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">In the meantime here are some photos taken over the last days here in Chicala.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Also a few days ago we had a very interesting moment in Chicala. During the seminar on urban development, which took place at University Lusíada of Angola, I had the pleasure of meeting <a href="http://www.kza.de/">Axel Koschany</a>, a German architect with 20 years of professional experience and with an assumed interest for dynamics of informal settlements. His lecture, entitled 'Global becomes Lobal becomes Glocal', was thoroughly enjoyed by myself as well as by everyone else in the room. We had a nice chat afterwards about the issues he had addressed and so I decided to propose a challenge – visit Chicala! Axel immediately said yes and ended up bringing two more people with him, Filip de Boek and Ann, two anthropologists who were also in the seminar.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Next day we picked them up from the city centre and came back to Chicala where we spent a nice few hours walking around the bairro. We had a really nice time!Axel is now back to is work in Germany but I hope he still carries in his heart what he has experienced here in Chicala. And of course, that such experience can also somehow positively inform his professional practice. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I really wish more people could visit such places and demystify the false ideas constructed around them. If all goes well – and I get to do enough interviews by then – probably I will invite the Portuguese architects I met during my first week in Luanda for lunch this Sunday. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">It's my last weekend so I need to prepare something special :)</span></div>cmcmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05922671729038144689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221775560433180664.post-38601586740959596902011-10-10T21:43:00.000+01:002011-10-10T21:43:08.153+01:00Faces II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dSqPeno1_kwHVCfuh07B_qZODRXNJXhyaRJMb43XMIfoizpGjuWficOji-uD9I__UmHdhpOUzyCbwQhFeedSnBH74IwjO2hWWiZIhw7f0_3KWbOCYru1gwALTpXxMxVKWVG5UzNlvFYS/s1600/O+meu+kubico_by+Bruno+Rodrigues.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2dSqPeno1_kwHVCfuh07B_qZODRXNJXhyaRJMb43XMIfoizpGjuWficOji-uD9I__UmHdhpOUzyCbwQhFeedSnBH74IwjO2hWWiZIhw7f0_3KWbOCYru1gwALTpXxMxVKWVG5UzNlvFYS/s400/O+meu+kubico_by+Bruno+Rodrigues.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> O.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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