Participating Artists Press Agency
Thursday 28th of March 2024 – page 2
From day one, the correspondents in Labs and Projects post images on the PAPAwebsite. After one week we recognize patterns in the total amount of photographs the group of photographers have uploaded. In every lab we drew four mindmaps of the patterns we found. Look at the mind map as you would look at a photo. Allow your eye to wander from text balloon to text balloon. Then read the accompanying text. See it as collective knowledge, gathered by a group of photographers. Knowledge that you can apply in an intuitive manner, which shows the similarities and differences. The mind maps are time images as well. If you repeat the procedure after a few years you can find the patterns have changed.
Explore the mind maps of Lagos, the unplanned city, São Paulo, the informal city, Rotterdam, the regulated city, Bishkek, the patchwork city.
Sao Paulo -
There are great public spaces designed by architects that work really well like Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and culture building Sesci Pompei and Centre Cultural. The climate allows a…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Dhaka -
Life in public space in Dhaka Bangladesh is incredibly vibrant. The traffic is insane. From 6 in the morning till 1 in the night all roads are blocked with a…
Lino Hellings –
Dhaka Lab
Chaos and order. There are a lot of rules, regulations, advices, guidelines given in the Rotterdam Public space. Will they work or will they encourage the opposite? Are these ways…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Up to the day of today signs and signals of the Soviet times can be read everywhere in public space. On a flatbuilding it shows in big iron letters ‘Do…
Lino Hellings –
Bishkek Lab
There is less mobile business then in Lagos Nigeria.
 Mobile business men: the key chain holder. Mobile business of a greengrocer. In the traffic jam we see entertainers:…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
To live under circumstances like this, were you are locked up in little pieces of land, the quality of public space is of vital importance. Is it well maintained at…
Lino Hellings –
Ramallah Lab