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Rau muống, nostalgia, and war, by Tuyen Le, Mary Le.There are deep remnants of the Vietnam War in how the rest of the world views Vietnamese cuisine.…View →
Bnieuws edition 56/01. Published October 2022.Then we venture into the nostalgic commemoration for the Vietnam War through the journey of Tuyen’s favorite vegetable.…View →
Nah That Won't Happen Here Again, by Nathan Döding.Usually I never think of war. It’s something for far away countries in Africa. There’s prosperity and democracy here. Surely the Belgians can be on our skin but we don’t really feel like going to war with them (we also don’t have the money).…View →
Be Naked, Be Healthy, Be Well, by Tuyen Le.Long before the hippie movement via the resistance to the Vietnam War, the German beauty movement promoted a holistic approach to living, including anti-smoking, vegetarianism, naturalism, and nudism.…View →
Gordon Matta-Clark: Poetic Anarchy, by Juliette Khoo.In 1969, Matta-Clark returned to a chaos-ridden SoHo, marked by violent civil protests against the Vietnam War and the government’s plans to demolish entire neighbourhoods to build a steel and glass metropolis.…View →
Traces of War, by Jan Pruszyński.Traces of War. Jan Pruszyński. For a large majority of the student body of TU Delft, the four-year-long siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996), is a thing they might have learned from history books.…View →
Collective Trauma - War and Humour , by Oliwia Jackowska.Clumsy, unsuccessfully conformist, but most of all unlucky Jan Piszczek goes through different periods of his life, which spread through the 1930s, the war period and the post-war aftermath.…View →
The Richness In Living Cheaply , by Daniel James Keeffe.I have lived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for 5 years now. Like all modern cities, it is inhabited by a co-existing range of social and economic classes.…View →
Bnieuws edition 55/04. Published May 2022.When we started this edition, the war also started. We all dealt with our emotions differently at the time and thought differently about what it meant. It’s a situation that we are all still shocked by.…View →
I Feel Out of Place, by Tuyen Le.The post-war era greatly influenced the modernist thinkers to opt for capable human figures, ones that can handle new technology, can adapt to the revamped metropolitan, and ultimately, are not locking the building.…View →
Haunted Landscapes, by Maja Liro.After the end of the Second World War, one of the first sights encountered by residents returning to Warsaw were burnt walls and “a desert of debris”.…View →
Ark[s], by Aikaterina Myserli.Is writing for the war in Syria still relevant? Given that refugee flows have been regulated to a certain extent, the war doesn’t make the latest news and headlines anymore.…View →
Abandoned Buildings, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.During the First World War, it served as a military hospital of the Imperial German Army. In 1916, Adolf Hitler was admitted after he his leg was injured during The Battle of Somme.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/04. Published January 2020.The aging of buildings becomes visible through chronological inscriptions; the overlay of material traces etched by use, weather conditions, vandalism, even by war.…View →
The Freedoms of Suburbia, by Amy Young.After the second world war, suburbia began to expand at an unprecedented rate, cheap housing in its masses was being erected to compensate for what had been lost during the Blitz.…View →
Soviet Dreams, by Jānis Bērziņš.To understand how this absurd story could somehow be considered a reality, it is important to get an insight into the Soviet Dream and what happened in the Soviet Union after World War II.…View →
Incredible Nottingham, by Dorsa Ghaemi, Francien Fons, Jolt Wiersma and Sun Ah Hwang.The Act was a response to the shocking lack of fitness amongst many recruits during World War One, attributed to poor living conditions; it provided subsidies to local authorities and aimed to help finance the construction of 500,000 houses within three…View →
Cheap Queens and Real Queens, by Minh Anh Nguyen.Consider this: a woman in Vietnam wears a t-shirt that says “Supromo,” a near-missed spelling of the brand Supreme; a traveller captures an image of it as she drives past on her motorbike and puts it online; people love it.…View →
Shooting at the Verge, by Alessandro Rognoni.Later she would be rescued by the inhabitants of the wasteland or, in other words, the southern outskirts of post-war Rome.…View →
Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.Rotterdam had been heavily bombed in World War II and large parts of the cities were wiped out once the war was over.…View →
Abandoned Lounge, by Christopher Clarkson.In the basement of a World War II bunker beneath Berlin's abandoned airport, Tempelhof, a modest wooden chair stands stark in the yellow fluorescence of a single tube overhead. Most of the time, the chair waits quietly in a dustless darkness.…View →
Hunting Witches, Devaluing Housework, by Maria Novas.Even in times of war. Dedicating their lives to keeping people alive. Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. #books. #literature. #witches.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/01. Published September 2019.Odyssey. , written by Homer, encompasses a series of 24 books describing the arduous 10-year travels by Odysseus, who fought in the Trojan War and then wished to return to his home, the paradise island of Ithaca.…View →
What Are You Reading Right Now? The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, by Hilde Sennema.After working in the field of urban planning and heritage, she is now finishing her PhD on post-war reconstruction in port cities at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.…View →
Bnieuws edition 55/01. Published October 2021.We will take you into the confidence of criticising, some international humour, stereotypes, war of humour and more. But very important even though architects seem to others very rigid and straightforward. We know that we have a lot of fun, right?…View →