Sofia Greaves
Nuclear bee hives
Short poems written about the Deliberative Democracy festival at the Joint Recent Centre, Ispra, 2022.
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Sofia Greaves
- Oct 9
My paintings, sea-slugs and post-development
Oct 9, 2022 Jacob taught me and Jo the stars this weekend using a circular chart which you line up with the sky according to the time of...
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Sofia Greaves
- Sep 25
Windpower, relationships and sausages
Over the past month I have been dreaming of my ex boyfriends, which is disturbing, but apparently you can sort this out by writing them...
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Sofia Greaves
- Feb 1
Vertical Taxis. The future?
The social implications of Vertical helicopters and technological mobility changes via Vertical Aerospace
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Sofia Greaves
- Oct 16, 2021
Eiffel Tower Economy
Standard ‘clock time’, was introduced in the late nineteenth century. The system was consolidated at the International Conference for...
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Sofia Greaves
- May 7, 2021
Post-doct @ Prospera: 'Imagine a New Society'
After researching ideal cities of the nineteenth century, I became obsessed with the idea that there must also be ideal cities in present...
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Sofia Greaves
- Feb 21, 2021
Kandinsky and the Circular Economy
Recycling is not a magic circle; it is more of a Kandinsky painting.
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Sofia Greaves
- Feb 3, 2021
The Degrowth City?
We need to put Degrowth and Urbanisation together The phrase ‘without growing’ seems to imply stasis, or ‘inactivity’. This impression...
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Sofia Greaves
- Jan 2, 2021
Can we talk about Fascism today?
There are problems with the Italian representation of the ancient Roman city in the public sphere. This was startlingly obvious at the...
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Sofia Greaves
- Dec 16, 2020
Cities as Palimpsests?
Many cities have classical origins, because in the ancient Greco-Roman world, founding, building, talking about and destroying cities was...
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Sofia Greaves
- Dec 6, 2020
Development and utopia
I remember being taught in geography that Gross Domestic Product could reveal which nations were 'developed'. UK and USA were at the top...
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Sofia Greaves
- Nov 29, 2020
Diversify your cake
I highly recommend Florence Given's 'Women Don't Owe You Pretty'. I've never read a feminist book in my life, and it has beautiful...
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Sofia Greaves
- Nov 14, 2020
Cheese-grater year
Some people know that I see the year as a cheese grater. It’s not clear why this happened, but it has a very specific shape. January sits...
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Sofia Greaves
- Nov 6, 2020
Rethink 'the city'
Imagining the city involves creating a boundary which does not exist. In this image, ‘the city’ is a space which can be escaped, it has...
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Sofia Greaves
- Oct 9, 2020
Classics & UN Urban Agenda
'Cities can be leaders in building a culture of sustainability. But this is futile if the economic model does not change. The world is...
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Sofia Greaves
- Apr 26, 2020
Trump and Ugly Modernism?
And it is precisely because the classical and the modern trade off each-other as categories, that they are politicised.
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Sofia Greaves
- Apr 26, 2020
Epidemic Urbanism. Comparing our story to the past
If the nineteenth century can teach us anything, perhaps we should reflect more on the stories.
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