Building from Scratch: The aesthetics of post‐disaster reconstruction(Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

This article looks at the visual character of post‐conflict and post‐disaster settings, and shows how states of physical ruin can help to produce an ‘aesthetics of post‐disaster reconstruction’. With examples primarily drawn from the author's field site in Timor‐Leste, the article shows how ruins, ashes and demolition may be perceived as enabling particular kinds of agency and opportunity. Thus, some of the most hopeful of international‐intervention dreams of recent decades have been produced out of sites of mass‐scale destruction.     

初夏 阳光之吻

时值初夏，不堪忍受居于室内带来的无形压力，想找一处曾参与过的异国风情活动释放自己那蓄积已久的激情？这个5月《世界》精选5处不可错过的特色活动，随着我们的脚步，以放飞心情的名义出发！