Etiqueta: urban heat

  • 09 Umbrellas and other Umbracula

    09 Umbrellas and other Umbracula

    Margherita Tess and Santiago Orrego prepared this issue. Zeynep S. Akinci curated it, and Santiago edited and designed it. We close our trilogy on urban shadows by presenting a collaborative number on umbrellas, parasols, canopies, and other personal devices producing minimal shade. The issue has the Japanese city of Fukuoka as its primary site for exploration and Medellín, Colombia, as…

  • 08 Prototypes for a Department of Umbrology

    08 Prototypes for a Department of Umbrology

    Collective work on the DoU hypothesis and the zine (in alphabetical order): Zeynep S. Akinci, Zahra Behrouzmoghadam, Carla Boserman, Maria Cifre Sabater, Tomás Criado, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Adolfo Estalella, Ricard Espelt, Elena García Nevado, Rubén Gómez Soriano, Anna Koskinen, Daniel López, Ali Maddahi, Isaac Marrero Guillamón, Francisco Martínez, Marta Morgade, Davoud Omarzadeh, Santiago Orrego, Irra Rodríguez Giralt, and Enric Senabre. Essay: Tomás Criado.  Graphic report of the event: Tomás Criado and Santiago Orrego. DoU zine…

  • 06 The City of Shades

    06 The City of Shades

    This issue was prepared by Tomás Criado and curated by Zofia Buni and Paloma Yáñez Serrano—design and edition: Santiago Orrego. Our climate cultures are in crisis. Heat is no longer a distant or abstract event, something that happens to us. It is among us. And in its most extreme versions, it appears more like a chronic illness with profound, unequal, and devastating…