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The Danish cultural organization Råderum will bring Rebar to speak at its October 14 conference, “Contemporary Art, Play and Temporality” in Copenhagen, Denmark. The principal objective of Råderum:

is to create new opportunities for contemporary art, and the ambition of the office is to work across the boundaries of established genres and institutions. The idea behind the office is to shape new constellations and develop new formats within the contemporary art scene.

The working title of Rebar’s talk is ElastiCity – User generated urbanism and the adaptive metropolis. We will post more about the conference, and Copenhagen as the date approaches.

Last fall a group of CCA architecture students, led by Landscape Architect David Fletcher and Rebar art and design studio shared a meal together at a local taco truck for a class assignment.  Our research seminar explored San Francisco’s food and wastesheds. Our premise was that a seemingly simple, familiar food like the taco truck taco could provide visceral insight into the connections between the systems we were exploring. By thoroughly learning the process of formation and lifecycle what it takes to make a taco, we would be better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future. What resulted was a richly complex network of systems, flows and ecologies that we call the global Tacoshed. The research seminar was a part of the URBANlab, an innovative curriculum component of The California College of the Arts Architecture Program.

Please join us for a talk by Jessica Diaz of Gracias Madre, a new restaurant serving organic Mexican cuisine to the Mission District of San Francisco, a presentation of Back to Basics by Materials and Applications - a recirculating fish taco farm charged with rainwater at the beginning of the season, stocked with locally spawned tilapia and raising tomatoes, onion, and lettuce by harvest / party time; and a presentation, exhibition, and discussion of the results of our Tacoshed research.

Thursday February 25^th, 7pm

The Studio for Urban Projects

3579 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 9411

Suggested donation: $5-$15 at the door.

Mark Andrew Gravel of Bouwerie will be serving organic black bean tacos from his Spotted Rooster project.

Mobile media, localisation media, new map-making and storytelling forms as well as other mobility instruments have infiltrated our cities and lifestyles.They have mutated city-dwellers relation to time and space; we are witnessing a multiplication of mobility practices and forms, of trajectories, of theintensity of the communication flow and trips. What is the impact on our perception of geographical areas, on urban forms and city planning, on ourlifestyles? This is the question that the artists are to explore in the workshop, developing varied artistic projects directly linked to the territory (strolling,mobile interface, urban game art, immersive systems, ephemeral architecture…)

Also at the conference are several artists and collectives from around Europe including Adelin Schweitzer, Ulrich Fischer, Studio 21bis, Antonin Fourneau, Zoom+Infraksound+Damien Masson, Collectif Zoom, Damien Masson, Christophe Goutes and Pixel 13. If you are in Paris, come see us. Rebar will be presenting on Thursday January 28th at 2pm, at the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. More updates on the Doxa, from the road!

We won’t actually be in Bilbao, but we will be streaming live from our studio to the conference over the internet. If you’re in Bilbao…or near our studio!…you can come check out the talk titled ‘Temporary Transformations and Tactical Urbanism’. Rebar’s newest intern extraordinaire, Berta Lázaro, will be translating and moderating. The talk takes places at 7:30pm Central European Time, or 12:30pm PST. More here.