Jaime Correa

This book explores the concept of spolia-the reuse of building materials and architectural fragments-as a vital tool for contemporary design. Far from being a nostalgic gesture, spolia reveals profound insights into the forces that shape architectural and urban transformations. Encompassing practices such as expropriation, collage, ad hoc interventions, assemblage, simulacra, recreations, and reappropriations, spolia challenges us to see the city as both archive and laboratory. Documented here is the imaginative work of students from the Brian Canin Urban Design Studio at the University of Miami's School of Architecture. Set in the context of Miami, a city on the front lines of climate change, the studio investigated visionary yet practical design responses to the threat of sea-level rise. The result is a compelling demonstration of how past fragments can become the foundation for future resilience.

A counterproposal and revision of the ideas of social-utopian Charles Fourier. This colorful project proposes an alternate system of floating phalanxes and phalansteries for the South Florida region in response to the current period of uncertain climate conditions. More than just a project of urban design and architecture, this counterproposal is a conceptual art intervention by an imaginative contemporary scholar interested in the intersection between architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and urbanism.

The philosophical idea of absurdism, which addresses the irrationality and meaninglessness of the universe, finds a special literary form in magical realism. In magical realism, the combination of the mundane and the fantastical reflects the absurd nature of reality itself; in this literary style, seemingly impossible or supernatural elements coexist with the ordinary in a seamless manner, obfuscating the boundaries between the believable and the fantastical; this blending of the extraordinary into the ordinary fabric of life reflects the absurd condition of human existence, where the logical and the inexplicable frequently converge without explanation or justification. The 25 stories in this book are excellent examples of contemporary magic realism. Each story is introduced by a rather consequential and momentous poem, which could also be understood as a piece of music (so, if you wish, you are welcome to dance while you're reading them); each poem is followed by a short story about death and the departed; stories that dwell on the absurd and the fantastic-two qualities that should not be absent in the work of any Latin American writer.

We live in a world in which security threats do not lie exclusively in conflicts between states, but in many ways go beyond the state vision and focus on a regional, heispheric or even global vision. Threats such as climate change, poverty, terrorism, transnational organised crime (and all its manifestations), among others, are elements that generate pressure on society and states directly. Based on the above, this text emphasises issues such as terrorism and drug trafficking, starting with two actors such as the FARC and Al Qaeda, which, through the phenomenon of convergence, join forces to achieve their objectives. All this in a space generated by the phenomenon of deviant globalisation, which brings together the interests of these groups to strengthen their local, regional and even global actions.

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Viviamo in un mondo in cui le minacce alla sicurezza non risiedono esclusivamente nei conflitti tra Stati, ma piuttosto, per molti versi, vanno oltre lo Stato e si concentrano su una visione regionale, emisferica o addirittura globale. Minacce come il cambiamento climatico, la povert , il terrorismo, la criminalit organizzata transnazionale (e tutte le sue manifestazioni), tra le altre, sono elementi che generano pressione sulla societ e sugli Stati direttamente. Sulla base di quanto detto, questo testo pone l'accento su questioni come il terrorismo e il narcotraffico, partendo da due attori come le FARC e Al Qaeda che, attraverso il fenomeno della convergenza, uniscono le forze per raggiungere i loro obiettivi. Il tutto in uno spazio generato dal fenomeno della globalizzazione deviante, che riunisce gli interessi di questi gruppi per rafforzare le loro azioni locali, regionali e persino globali.

Wir leben in einer Welt, in der Sicherheitsbedrohungen nicht ausschlie lich in Konflikten zwischen Staaten bestehen, sondern in vielerlei Hinsicht ber den Staat hinausgehen und sich auf eine regionale, heisp rische oder sogar globale Vision konzentrieren. Bedrohungen wie Klimawandel, Armut, Terrorismus, grenz berschreitende organisierte Kriminalit t (mit all ihren Erscheinungsformen) und andere sind Elemente, die Druck auf die Gesellschaft und die Staaten aus ben. Ausgehend davon werden in diesem Text Themen wie Terrorismus und Drogenhandel hervorgehoben, ausgehend von zwei Akteuren wie der FARC und Al-Qaida, die durch das Ph nomen der Konvergenz ihre Kr fte b ndeln, um ihre Ziele zu erreichen. All dies in einem Raum, der durch das Ph nomen der abweichenden Globalisierung geschaffen wurde, die die Interessen dieser Gruppen zusammenf hrt, um ihre lokalen, regionalen und sogar globalen Aktionen zu verst rken.