Lecture, Bas Princen, Rotterdam
Organizer: Assistant Professor's Chair Stalder
Date : Thursday, 12. November 2009
Time : 17:00
Location : HIL D 60.1
In his work the artist and photographer Bas Princen investigates the transformation or rural and urban spaces, and uses the medium of photography to demonstrate possible future developments and scenarios. In particular, he focuses on the artificial character of the landscape, which due to appropriation by humans is far removed from the myth of the natural idyll and is meanwhile seen as an ideological and cultural construct characterised by suburbanization, leisure time culture, industry and infrastructure.
Bas Princen (1975, Zeeland/NL) studied at the Academy for Design in Eindhoven and at the Postgraduate Laboratory for Architecture of the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. He was a member of the research team of the current 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam (IABR) 2009, on the occasion of which his latest book In Refuge. Five Cities Portfolio was published. Princen lives and works as a designer and photographer in Rotterdam.
Organizer: Assistant Professor's Chair Stalder
Date : Thursday, 12. November 2009
Time : 17:00
Location : HIL D 60.1
In his work the artist and photographer Bas Princen investigates the transformation or rural and urban spaces, and uses the medium of photography to demonstrate possible future developments and scenarios. In particular, he focuses on the artificial character of the landscape, which due to appropriation by humans is far removed from the myth of the natural idyll and is meanwhile seen as an ideological and cultural construct characterised by suburbanization, leisure time culture, industry and infrastructure.
Bas Princen (1975, Zeeland/NL) studied at the Academy for Design in Eindhoven and at the Postgraduate Laboratory for Architecture of the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. He was a member of the research team of the current 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam (IABR) 2009, on the occasion of which his latest book In Refuge. Five Cities Portfolio was published. Princen lives and works as a designer and photographer in Rotterdam.