[Nettime-nl] Presentation by Meta Haven: Design Research (SMART, July 3)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

`Signs´
A presentation by Meta Haven: Design Research

Date: Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Location: SMART Project Space
Time: 20.00 - 22.00

Meta Haven: Design Research is an Amsterdam-based collective. Its 
current members are Vinca Kruk, Daniël van der Velden and Gon Zifroni. 
The collective’s research results in models, proposals, essays, 
lectures, conferences and publications. Meta Haven’s first project was 
in 2003-2004, and consisted of research into a corporate identity for 
the Principality of Sealand, a tiny nation state located on a former 
war platform in the North Sea. This project centered around the 
pro-active engagement with a non-commissioning subject, coming to terms 
with myth and symbolism, territorial identity and its dissolution into 
information networks. Since, Meta Haven is investigating an array of 
case studies where the linkage between visual imagination and the 
political is key. The ´History vs. Future´ project, focusing on the 
relationship between identity and history, is resulting in a research 
of the architectural remains of Cold War communist regimes, notably the 
Casa Poporului in Bucharest, under the banner of ´The Museum of 
Conflict´. Meta Haven’s latest publication is a free newspaper 
addressing the future of the monument, edited together with Mihnea 
Mircan as a contribution to the 52nd Venice Biennial. Meta Haven: 
Design Research is currently preparing a book, ´Uncorporate Identity´, 
scheduled for publication in 2008 with Lars Müller Publishers.

See also www.metahaven.net

For `A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own´, the current exhibition at 
SPS, Meta Haven has created ´Models for the Political´, a series of 30 
inkjet prints in which the interconnection between architecture, 
iconography and the political is explored. Among the prints are models, 
chessboards, newspapers, posters, stamps, grids and other proposals 
that attempt to formulate a reflection on the twisted state of symbolic 
power today.

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