HENRIK DRUFVA

Architectural observations. All photos by author except reposts. ©HenrikDrufva

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S’lim

Issue 5  – Hong Kong (November 2017)

Guest edited by Yip Kai-chun.

To Leave, to Come, and to Stay – Editorial by Yip Kai-chun

Lee Chuen-ming & Li Guixiang – Yip Kai-chun

Treasure Island – Host in a Shell – “Anne from Berlin”

Feral Colonies of Causeway Bay – Chiu Yee-ling & Olli Tapio Leino

Close to Heaven – Ryan Chan Hon-yan

Girl with a Box – Joel Kwong

you know where to find me – Jolene Mok

ISSN 2343-1016 (online) / ISSN 2343-1024 (print) / color / 36 pages with covers

S’lim is a zine, focusing on a particular place at a time, merging the contemporary and the historical experiences of visiting, living, staying and theorizing.

S’lim is available for online viewing, but we try to get each issue out there also in print. If you’re interested, let us know ([email protected]).

© 2017 Selim Projects / Henrik Drufva and Mika Savela

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“Sofa”

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“Envelopes”

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Proxima Utopia. A world atlas of utopias – to be considered in the era of post-everything.

Perhaps following a cycle (and anticipation) of global crisis developing today, architecture finds itself again drawn to utopias. However, as today our understanding of modernities has become multi-centered and simultaneous, we are witnessing also several deviant ways in how future societies are being pursued. “Proxima Utopia” represents a project for an atlas that seeks to provide speculative cartography and imagery for these developments. It is not as such a “mappa mundi”, consisting of what we currently know of the world, but more of a design-led inquiry into the “other” directions that global development might take – with or without the benevolent and harmonious past understandings of utopias. While not potentially desirable, the scenes discussed in the atlas seem yet plausible, deriving from current global politics, power relations, economy, surveillance, the post-internet and the looming ecological changes – the real contexts of future architecture.

From Proxima Utopia (2016) by Selim for Future Architecture Platform.

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Interview about our project Proxima Utopia with curator Ana Jeinić in the new blog launched as part of the Architecture After the Future exhibition at Haus der Architektur in Graz.

Project illustrations by  Andreas Töpfer.  Exhibition design by Ana Dana Beroš. Web programming by Nice Department.  Graphic design by milchhof:atelier. Editing by Dawn Michelle d’Atri.

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Items 1-10 from Proxima Utopia, on display at the Architecture After the Future exhibition 23 Jun - 30 Jul 2017 at Haus der Architektur in Graz.

“At the exhibition in HDA, we present around fifteen fictional or utopian objects. Together they form a kind of classical vitrine display, popularised by museums and natural history collections. Laid out on a neutral grey fabric with exhibition labels, each object is meant to read as evidence of speculative future scenarios. The items range from books and other printed objects to memorabilia and souvenirs of utopian futures. They are presented together, even though their storylines might be contradictory or improbable.”

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S’lim

Issue 4  – Tehran (August 2017)

Guest edited by Farbod Fakharzadeh.

Looking at a City Through a Peephole Editorial – Farbod Fakharzadeh with photos by Aman Askarizad

Passing, Recording, Passing – Mahsa Imani

Tehran ghadim – Babak Esmaeli & Ahmad Mousavi

Tomorrow Sings Another Song – Sana Ghobbeh

Tehran on Wall – Behnam Sadeghi

A Few Unsound Urban Narratives – Hadi Azari Azqandi

Assembling the Resemblance – Chow Yik

ISSN 2343-1016 (online) / ISSN 2343-1024 (print) / color / 36 pages with cover

S’lim is a zine, focusing on a particular place at a time, merging the contemporary and the historical experiences of visiting, living, staying and theorizing.

S’lim is available for online viewing, but we try to get each issue out there also in print. If you’re interested, let us know ([email protected]).

© 2017 Selim Projects / Henrik Drufva and Mika Savela

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Be Our Guest (Editor)

As you may know, S’lim is a visually driven zine that focuses on one place at a time, merging the urban, contemporary and historical experiences of visiting, living, staying and theorizing. The core idea is to utilize and publish mostly already existing imagery (social, archival, residual…) to re-frame and showcase potential alternate contemporaneities and observations through a momentary, curatorial lens.

We are now calling for guest curators / editors for an upcoming issue #6 on Helsinki.

Send us a small blurb (max 150 words) describing an editorial idea, highlighting a specific viewpoint on “Helsinki”. We are particularly interested in margins, side-eyes and off-conditions.

Email your ideas to [email protected] by 30 October 2017

We will choose the most relevant proposal by mid-November and work together with the guest editor to produce the issue by early 2018, both digitally and in print. The chosen editor is tasked with seeking and selecting suitable contributions and providing a small editorial text for the issue (max 500 words). Past issues have held around 5-7 contributions each (you can view examples at www.selim.fi/slim). In exchange, we can offer a small honorarium.

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Proxima Utopia. A world atlas of utopias – to be considered in the era of post-everything.

Perhaps following a cycle (and anticipation) of global crisis developing today, architecture finds itself again drawn to utopias. However, as today our understanding of modernities has become multi-centered and simultaneous, we are witnessing also several deviant ways in how future societies are being pursued. “Proxima Utopia” represents a project for an atlas that seeks to provide speculative cartography and imagery for these developments. It is not as such a “mappa mundi”, consisting of what we currently know of the world, but more of a design-led inquiry into the “other” directions that global development might take – with or without the benevolent and harmonious past understandings of utopias. While not potentially desirable, the scenes discussed in the atlas seem yet plausible, deriving from current global politics, power relations, economy, surveillance, the post-internet and the looming ecological changes – the real contexts of future architecture.

From Proxima Utopia (2016) by Selim for Future Architecture Platform.

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Selim Projects / Exhibitions

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Selim Projects / Publications

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Selim Projects / Projects

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Interview about our project Proxima Utopia with curator Ana Jeinić in the new blog launched as part of the Architecture After the Future exhibition at Haus der Architektur in Graz.

Project illustrations by  Andreas Töpfer.  Exhibition design by Ana Dana Beroš. Web programming by Nice Department.  Graphic design by milchhof:atelier. Editing by Dawn Michelle d’Atri.

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Items 1-10 from Proxima Utopia, on display at the Architecture After the Future exhibition 23 Jun - 30 Jul 2017 at Haus der Architektur in Graz.

“At the exhibition in HDA, we present around fifteen fictional or utopian objects. Together they form a kind of classical vitrine display, popularised by museums and natural history collections. Laid out on a neutral grey fabric with exhibition labels, each object is meant to read as evidence of speculative future scenarios. The items range from books and other printed objects to memorabilia and souvenirs of utopian futures. They are presented together, even though their storylines might be contradictory or improbable.”

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“Past and future achievements of architecture and design are becoming indistinguishable. Failures or success stories of the modern past and contemporaneity are turning equally objectifiable. Global urbanization as modernity becomes a shared past.”

From Proxima Utopia (2016) by Selim for Future Architecture Platform.

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“Popular conservatism and surging nationalism are already shaping the physical world. Walls, barriers, institutions and monuments are becoming more commonplace. Traditional homes, nuclear families, safety and surveillance are becoming rhetorically coupled. ”

From Proxima Utopia (2016) by Selim for Future Architecture Platform.

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“Clustered technology industries are effecting cities, regions and their planning and economies in an unprecedented way. However, their affluence and smart lifestyles are still tied to corporations, instead of communities or traditional urban mechanisms.”

From Proxima Utopia (2016) by Selim for Future Architecture Platform.