Joost Beunderman
Researcher
Joost Beunderman joined Demos in December 2005 as a researcher. His primary research interests are in the field of urban policy, in particular the relation between people and the shaping of the everyday built environment.
- Waiting for Panto... The new extension to Coventry's Belgrade Theatre was opened in September of this year. It was designed by the architectural practise, Stanton Williams, the firm behind Compton Verney, the refurbishment of the RSA, the Tower Environs Scheme at Tower Hill and several other major projects of recent years.We have just published a review of the theatre in this week's Architectural Journal. It's registration only site I'm afraid. However, very briefly, we examined the theatre from... continue reading on 17th December 2007
- Producing the Games I am quoting from a forthcoming collection of essays, the result of the BCN-LON Work Party, held here in London last year together with the Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas from Barcelona, in an effort to re-think urban policy narratives in the two cities. In one essay, Lise Autogena, artist and NESTA Fellow in Residence at Imperial College in London, writes about a small park making way for a (footpath of) a Park.“The Manor Garden Allotments in Hackney Wick go back to 1900 when a... continue reading on 16th February 2007
- I heard John Reid say... I heard John Reid speak about "moving away from the traditional view that justice has to involve going to court".I heard him say that "The problem we face is what I call the justice shortfall. That is, the difference - sometimes big - between what you and I think is justice, and what a lawyer or legal academic might think it is. My kind of justice is swift, effective and matches the crime."(in The Guardian, 15 November 2006) continue reading on 15th November 2006 Comments (1)
- City of strategy, cities of tactics This year’s Architecture Biennale is an interesting one. Go to the main exhibition, and what you will see is not architecture. Instead of fetishizing architectural drawings and models, curator Ricky Burdett has decided that it is the city we need to be concerned with. So, great - Yes, but. continue reading on 12th September 2006 Comments (1)