Rotundas de Portugal II

Atalaia-Margem Sul


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Rotundas de Portugal

Um dos trabalhos mais visiveis dos arquitectos paisagistas. O mais abundante. O mais desejado e pedido por presidentes da câmara.
Aceitam-se e anseiam-se fotografias de rotundas de todo o país (paisagir@gmail.com). Publicar-se-ão todas e quando o número for razoável - votação. A ideia é atribuir o prémio Paisagir Rotunda de Ouro ao presidente da câmara com a rotunda mais votada e o prémio Paisagir Fotografia da Rotunda ao melhor fotógrafo de rotundas.

Rotunda de Pegões Novo - como boa terra vinhateira que é, Pegões não poderia deixar de homenagear o precioso néctar.

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O estilo universal

Vendas Novas - Estrada de Lisboa

cada vez mais abundante, mais desejado, mais aceite


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o talude da amante de d. joão V

casa do picadeiro-alpedrinha


podia-lhe ter dado na cabeça fazer a casa adaptada ao terreno, sem grandes obras de movimentos de terras, como são todos os outros solares na região. mas ao bom estilo de quem mandou fazer um palácio como aquele em mafra, mandou arrasar a encosta e fazer um enorme muro de granito para a sua amante. um muro e um conjunto de fontes colossais. no topo um enorme terreiro a dominar a cova da beira. o conjunto resulta especialmente bem. vale a pena ver.


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Women

JR continua a desafiar os limites da intervenção no espaço público.

A sua fórmula original, usada pela primeira vez no projecto Portrait of a Generation, continua a ser o motor e desencadeador de uma filosofia de confrontação social. Quando a bourgeois parisiense se viu observada pelos habitantes dos ghettos da cidade, na forma de posters de grande formato ilegalmente colados nas fachadas e paredes de edifícios, sob olhares rebeldes, a provocação estava lançada. O que estava em questão era a representação social destes bairros, conhecidos apenas através dos media, como problemáticos.

Agora, no seu mais recente projecto, Women, são fotografias de mulheres maltratadas e desfavorecidas, que sofrem com a guerra e com a descriminação, que forram as paredes dos seus próprios espaços de actuação diários. Pretende-se evidenciar a diginidade das mulheres e o papel pilar que desempenham nas suas comunidades, numa tentativa de emancipação dos seus estatutos.

Fica o trailer.

TRAILER " WOMEN ARE HEROES"
by JR

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Conservation & Society

A melhor revista sobre conservação da natureza do mundo



(todos os artigos disponíveis em http://www.conservationandsociety.org/)

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organic slum

Organic Slum
23 Sep 08 - Sloweb
In Kibera, Nairobi’s - and possibly Africa’s - most populated slum of one million inhabitants, a group of young people has formed the Youth Reform Group to recuperate some of the large areas of abandoned land around the slum and convert them to organic agriculture.A shantytown rife with delinquency, poverty, aids and critical hygiene conditions, Kibera has also experienced violent ethnic disputes in its history, the most recent followed the political elections that overtook the nation at the beginning of 2008. In this difficult environment, this group of young people - barely over twenty years old and many of whom have already spent time in prison- have found a new hope in growing food for their themselves, their families and the slum’s population. The Youth Reform Group is committed to reclaiming plots of land which have been left to become rubbish dumps and open-toilets. With help from Green Dreams, a pioneer company in organic cultivation in Kenya, the youth have transformed these former wastelands into strictly organic farms full of zucchini, spinach, sunflowers and other crops.‘The only problem is the soil,’ confirmed Victor Matioli, member of the Youth Reform Group. ‘The level of toxins is still high, even if it is not dangerous, because we don’t have the necessary technology to reclaim soil from deep down. But we are cultivating organically, using natural fertilizers and no pesticides and we believe the soil will return to full health within a few years’. This summer the first vegetables were harvested and consumed by the youths and their families, while the surplus was sold within the slum. In this poor angle of the world, agriculture has given these young people a hope for the future.Source:The GuardianWN NetworkGreen DreamsBess Muckeb.mucke@slowfood.it

em www.slowfood.com


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TIME - Heroes of Environment 2008

A revista Time organizou uma recolha de pessoas que parece que estão a mudar o mundo para melhor. Aqui, o caso de Silas Siakor que não gosta da conservação=expoliação=exploração.


Conservation in Africa isn't just about protecting the environment. With weak rule of law and millions of people depending directly on the land, it's often about saving lives and defending those most vulnerable to economic exploitation. Which helps to explain how Liberian Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor set out as a champion of fair development and ended up helping to save West Africa's biggest forest.
After distributing humanitarian supplies for the U.N. during Liberia's 1989-1996 civil war, Siakor joined a local pressure group calling for equitable development for Liberia's poorest. He helped write a newsletter, and it was during reporting trips to Liberia's destitute forest villages that he uncovered a scandal: President Charles Taylor was using logging profits to pay for his war. Siakor also discovered that logging firms were falsifying their records, as well as employing militias that beat and raped villagers and smuggled arms.
Siakor's evidence led the U.N. to ban the export of Liberian timber in 2003, and eventually helped form part of the legal case against Taylor, now on trial in the Hague on war-crimes charges for his role in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone — charges Taylor denies. In the run-up to Liberia's 2005 general election, opposition leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf took her cue from Siakor and adopted forest protection, along with poverty alleviation, as a key policy. Johnson-Sirleaf was duly elected President and canceled all Liberia's logging concessions. The importance of that one act to Africa's ecology is difficult to overestimate. Liberia's are the last significant virgin forests in West Africa. They cover 11.8 million acres (4.8 million ha), are home to nearly half of Africa's mammal species, and play an important role in the battle to slow climate change. If you're interested in conservation in West Africa, says Siakor, "Liberia is your first stop."
Siakor, 38, has since founded the Sustainable Development Institute of Liberia. The two-year-old NGO's mission, he says, is to look at environmental issues "from a human perspective. It's not really about greenery. It's about people whose lives have been affected by the unsustainable and destructive exploitation of resources." Siakor says it's his commitment to people that gives him his edge as an environmentalist. "The level of deprivation, the abuse, the suffering, the poverty that they were compelled to live in — I saw it all." Witnessing these hardships up close "takes a lot out of you," he says. "But it puts a lot into you too."

por Alex Perry em:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841781_1841809,00.html


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