{"id":4260,"date":"2018-02-14T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:07:00","slug":"julie-westerman-hard-engineering-gulbenkian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/julie-westerman-hard-engineering-gulbenkian\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hard Engineering: Propositions for Future Ruins&#8217; &#8211; Julie Westerman&#8217;s exhibition open at the Gulbenkian in Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gulbenkian.pt\/biblioteca-arte\/en\/evento\/hard-engineering-propositions-for-future-ruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hard Engineering: Propositions for Future Ruins<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>explores how the urban environment is produced by everyday acts and how the city is constructed from material and immaterial structures of civic organisation, representation, power and control. Six speculative guides to Lisbon re-imagine the contemporary urban environment by\u00a0exploring overlooked livelihoods, traces of profound social mutation, and the scars of past natural disasters, economic crisis and human conflict. These\u00a0propositional interpretations of Lisbon are the result of interdisciplinary collaborations across Art, Architecture,\u00a0Civic Engineering,\u00a0Physical and Human Geography and Social Anthropology. The videos on display are made up of short moving-image episodes of transformation and decline, thoughts and propositions for identifying and navigating the future ruins of the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gulbenkian.pt\/biblioteca-arte\/en\/evento\/hard-engineering-propositions-for-future-ruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hard Engineering &#8211; Propositions for Future Ruins<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nArt Library Atrium<br \/>\nAv. de Berna, 45A, Lisbon<br \/>\nThursday 08\u00a0February 2018 to Tuesday 03 April 2018<\/strong><br \/>\nFree admission, open 9AM to 7PM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4265\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/julie-westerman-hard-engineering-gulbenkian\/westerman-2018-02-gulbenkian-exhibition-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?fit=900%2C637&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,637\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WESTERMAN 2018-02 Gulbenkian exhibition (1)\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Image of Hard Engineering exhibition, from Gulbenkian website&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image of Hard Engineering exhibition, from Gulbenkian website&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?fit=860%2C609&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?resize=860%2C609&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image of Hard Engineering exhibition, from Gulbenkian website\" width=\"860\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?resize=400%2C283&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/02\/WESTERMAN-2018-02-Gulbenkian-exhibition-1.jpg?resize=768%2C544&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Curated by:\u00a0<\/strong>Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Susanne Prinz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/julie-westerman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Westerman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants:\u00a0<\/strong>Ana Sim\u00f5es, M\u00f3nica Amaral Ferreira, Marta Jecu, Jelena Milosevic, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Ian Kiaer, Bruno Leit\u00e3o, Sofia Mar\u00e7al, Filipa Roseta, Miguel Santos, Jonathan Skinner, Carlos Noronha Feio, Susanne Prinz, Pedro Rufino, John Wainwright, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/julie-westerman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Westerman<\/a>, Daniel Zamarbide<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic Designer:\u00a0<\/strong>Pedro Rufino<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translator:\u00a0<\/strong>Susana Pomba<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliographic display:\u00a0<\/strong>Ana Barata<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/julie-westerman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Westerman<\/a>\u00a0is a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, working across sculpture, drawing, film, animation, and as a curator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard Engineering: Propositions for Future Ruins\u00a0explores how the urban environment is produced by everyday acts and how the city is constructed from material and immaterial structures of civic organisation, representation, power and control. 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