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The photo was taken in 2004, when I visited Zygmunt Bauman and his daughter, Irena Bauman, in Leeds, to do a double interview with them - the first interview, they had ever done together.
Om få dage er det 10 år siden en del af verden ændrede sig for altid. Når jeg skriver ‘en del af verden’ er det for at understrege, at angrebene på World Trade Center i New York og Pentagon bygningen i Washington nok fik betydning på et globalt plan, men at det primært var for os i den vestlige verden, at begivenhederne i september 2001 fik den ikonografiske betydning, der vil præge de kommende uger frem mod ti-års dagen.
Her på Byens Øjne vil vi prøve at give et par indspark til den reflektion, der forhåbentlig også bliver en del af de kommende ugers ‘kiggen tilbage’ på begivenhederne i USA omkring 11. september.
Det første indspark er en dialog som sociologen Zygmunt Bauman og hans datter, arkitekten Irena Bauman, førte med hollandsk TV i sommers.
Se og hør Zygmunt Bauman, sociolog, og Irena Bauman, arkitekt, fortælle om verden ti år efter 9/11 – hollandsk TV udsendelse fra juli 2011 (28:50 min) – selve interviewet er på engelsk, så fortvivl ikke, når det hele starter på hollandsk!
I kommende blog indlæg frem mod 9/11 2011 vil jeg bl.a. anmelde to nye bøger, der udover at tage udgangspunkt i angrebene på World Trade Center i 2001, også har det tilfældes – og det til forskel fra stort set al anden skønlitteratur – at arkitekter indgår som hovedpersoner i bøgerne. Det drejer sig dels om den amerikanske debutant, Amy Waldmans bog The Submission, og dels den tyske forfatter og arkitekt Friedrich von Borries bog, 1WTC.
1WTC by German architect and author, Freidrich von Borries, and The Submission, by American journalist and author, Amy Waldman - both books have just been published (2011).
Mit interview med Zymunt Bauman og Irena Bauman fra 2004 handler også om byer. Læs det her:
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In a few days it will be 10 years ago that a part of the world changed forever. When I write ‘a part of the world’ it is to underline, that the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington DC truly did acquire a meaning on a global scale, but that it primarily was to (us) in the Western world, that it acquired the iconographic meaning, that will mark our sentiments for the coming weeks of commemoration.
As part of the global ‘looking back at the events of 9/11′ Byens Øjne will provide some input to the hopefully also informed reflections, that will take place during the coming weeks.
The first input is an interview on Dutch television with sociologist Zymunt Baumand, and his daughter, architect Irena Bauman, on the world after 9/11.
Watch and listen to the interview with Zygmunt Bauman and Irena Bauman from Dutch television, july 2011 (28:50 min) - the interview itself is in English, thus don’t despair when the program starts out in Dutch!
Over the coming weeks on our way towards the 10 years anniversary of the 9/11 events, I will among other things be reviewing two new books, that both take their cue from the 9/11 events but also share the fact, that architects play main roles in the novels – something which is truly a rare thing in literature. One is Amy Waldmans book The Submission, the other German author and architect, Friedrich von Borries new book, 1WTC.
1WTC by German architect and author, Freidrich von Borries, and The Submission, by American journalist and author, Amy Waldman - both books have just been published (2011).
My interview with Zygmunt Bauman and Irena Bauman, from 2004, also is on cities. Read it here:
Mange tak for et super indlæg – fandt et par super kilder til min opgave her på gymnasiet