BUU: Bureau for Unstable Urbanism

BUU: Bureau for Unstable Urbanism

[photo: jb]

In keeping with our current theme of urban representation, I'm going to make a point of using the Vague Terrain blog to share related content over the coming weeks and months. First on the agenda is the Bureau for Unstable Urbanism (BUU). We received an email about this project (and related conference in Oslo this May) from Jeremy Welsh at the?Bergen National Academy of Arts. The newfound BUU describes itself as "as a trans-national network of individuals and groups involved in a variety of practices that engage in different ways with contemporary urban space, actually or conceptually". Poking through their blog archives yielded some interesting musings on urban readymades and speculation on?shotgun architecture - I guess it is safe to assume this spirit of experimentation will be the driving force behind their conference this spring. Take a look at the BUU website for more info on the project, they've got quite the team of bloggers/artists hard at work examining urban space throughout the EU and beyond.