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When artefacts become pieces of evidence and artists are transfigured into fictional characters animated by their worship of Western art, culture shrinks into the narrow border of the state nation:" would state Tweetu, the weird curator and main suspect of the plot. Detective Elchmanyahu's auto-da-fe follows the bound to fail investigation on the fire that burned a public art collection in southern Tel Aviv. The dodgy officer in charge uses all imaginable tricks and trades of whodunit novels to unfold a police investigation that casts a gloomy yet lucid look over the Israeli culture and its visual art scene. Framed in between fact and fiction by the tendentious writing of Jonathan Touitou, this book is a layered investigation of the art world and its deeds. Against the backdrop of the second Intifada and today's recurrent undermining of Palestinian rights, this controversial book will provide its readers with a perspective of an infiltrated outsider on the Israeli society, possibly supply the welding torch for the cynical ones, a bonfire for the freaks and fireworks for the wholehearted.

On ecological and social metabolisms, cohabitation, engineering and economy in urbanised shallow water territories. This magazine explores two extreme cases of urbanized shallow water territories - Markermeer/IJsselmeer in the heart of the Netherlands and the Venetian Lagoon. One is probably the most technologically controlled water on Earth, while the other negotiates a balance of natural water cycles, extreme weather, and a robust tourist economy. Providing points of reflection for similar territories where prospective sea level rise in the near future poses urgent questions about human and more-than human cohabitation, engineering, economy, and both ecological and social metabolisms. BIOBureau LADA (Landscape, Architecture, Design, Action) is a cross-disciplinary Amsterdam based studio with a focus on architecture. Currently active between Amsterdam, Venice and Cairo, the practice specialises in design strategy, social ecology, and the future of education. Established in 2010 by Croatian-Dutch architect and urbanist Lada Hršak, the studio collaborates with practitioners from the fields of ecology, science, art, heritage, and sociology. The studio's research initiative Shallow Waters was selected for the Parallel Program of the Dutch pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennial. The bureau's team members engaged in the Shallow Waters project are Ludovica Beltrami, Juliette Gilson, Lada Hršak, Zoe Panayi, Simone Spiga, and Zhao Zhou.

An engaging appraisal of photobook culture today and the future of the formElucidating key issues and themes in contemporary photobook culture--from the medium's post-digital and post-photographic condition to the aims of publishing, issues of accessibility and the act of reading--Matt Johnston's Photobooks & combines research and interviews with key individuals from the photobook world. Informed by his experience with the Photobook Club project, Johnston examines current trends and practices, emphasizing connections (made and missed) between makers and readers. Johnston calls for a recalibration of a maker-centric discourse to address the communicative potential of the medium: aligning making with making public.Contributors include: Alejandro Acin, Eman Ali, Mathieu Asselin, Sarah Bodman, Bruno Ceschel, Natasha Christia, Juan Cires, Ángel Luis González, Larissa Leclair, Russet Lederman, Dolly Meieran, Olga Yatskevich, Michael Mack, Amak Mahmoodian, Lesley Martin, Tate Shaw, Doug Spowart, Jon Uriarte, Anshika Varma, and Amani Willett and Tiffany Jones.

A chunky artist's-book homage to the Russian Constructivist style that also probes the fluidity of screen and printThis dynamic and superbly designed book is Berlin-based graphic designer Polina Joffe's investigation into Russian Suprematism and Constructivism, demonstrating the fluidity of design in the digital age.

On the physical and digital possibilities of public space in a world transformed by COVID-19Featuring the works of nearly 40 artists, designers and writers, this publication surveys the formation of community and perceptions of the public amid COVID-19, exploring new communal digital spaces produced in response to physical isolation. Themes explored include: liminal public spaces as sites of community; body politics as markers of citizenship; dualisms of place and space; codes of community, care and intimacy in the digital sphere: and the spatial blending of public spaces in private arenas. Contributors include: Brogen Berwick, Cleo Broda, Roberta Cesani, Lenn Cox, Jolien De Nijs, Gilles Dedecker, Lewis Duckworth, Alexandra Fraser, Quentin Gaudry, Amy Gowen, Myriam Gras, Floriane Grosset, Claudia Hackett, Melle Hammer, Jess Henderson, Emily Herbert, Eva Jack, Jonathan Johnson, Tamas Kondor, Zoie Kasper, Ola Korbanska, Clara Amante Mendes, Anna Maria Michael, Gina Moen, Ronal Nijhof, Riitta Oittinen, Amy Pekal, Katerina Sidorova, Maaike Twisk, Iris Van Wijk, Nico Vassilakis, Jorne Visser, Anna Weberberger, Jodie Winter and Chiara Zilioli.

Writers and theorists on the dynamism of the image in the digital eraThis collection of writings examines the function of the image in relation to the digital imperative of the creation of content.

A case study on the possibilities of embedded designThis book documents the work of designers who embedded themselves in and around the former penal colony in Veenhuizen, in the Netherlands, soon to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It reveals the experience gained and lessons learned, illustrating them with design projects and events.

Artists take on the sandwich as form in this inventive, fun cookbookDeploying sculpture, found imagery, drawing and much more, Breadcrumb compiles 41 sandwich recipes by artists from across the globe, presenting the sandwich as both an art form and a gustatory pleasure. Recipes by: Bea Turner, Nadine Lohof, Lara Smithson, Rafael Pérez Evans, Rubén Grilo & Sonia Fernández Pan, Thomas Pausz, katrinem & Sam Auinger, Soy Division, Esther Kokmeijer, Gillies Adamson Semple & Harry Smithson, Diana Duta, Matei Bellu & Andrea Bellu, Nestor García, Verena Buttman, Vasile Leac, Alex Hamburger, Lucia Cuba, Daniela Palimaru, Daria Blum, Madalina Zaharia & Ross Taylor, Ian Waelder, LH, Anastasia Alekseeva, David Martínez Suárez, Ran Zhang, David Reiber Otálora, the Mycological Twist, Esther Gatón, Felix Leon Westner, Bakudapan Food Study Group, Jin Ningning, Hannah Lees, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Sara Rodrigues & Rodrigo B. Camacho, Jonas von Lenthe, Mariana Sarraute, Víctor Payares, Sophie Mackfall, Aya Fukami and Gabriel Pericàs.

Two New York Times fact-checkers spark a multidisciplinary meditation on truth and fictionThis volume connects two seemingly contradictory paradigms of knowledge-seeking: speculation, which attempts to think and act beyond existing knowledge and structures, and fact, which seeks a robust consensus on which reality can be built. The backbone of the book is an email exchange between Alex Carp and Jamie Fisher, two fact-checkers from the New York Times Magazine, to which artists and writers respond, via an initiative at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. The publication includes the original letters and workshop scripts, as well as additional texts by philosophers, journalists, writers and artists, addressing the question: when expanding knowledge and speculating with fiction, what sense of responsibility is needed in times of democratized opinion and fake news?

A collection of design analyses that denounces elitism in critiqueHow can we encourage more people to become actively aware of and critical about the design of their environments? How can we make the realm of design criticism more inclusive? These were the questions that motivated Onomatopee Projects to launch an open call for (un)professional everyday design criticism. This publication presents a series of essays that were selected from this open call, in which participants were asked to submit a short text that reflects upon an everyday design object, system, environment or construct. The result is a rich and varied collection of essays that provides a refreshing take on design criticism aimed at laymen, professionals and everyone in between. The book features an interview with Ellen Lupton.Contributors include: Vanessa Brazeau, Lara Chapman, Pete Fung, Iskander Guetta, Adina Glickstein, Judith Leijdekkers, Rosannagh Maddock, Jo Minhinnett, PLSTCTY Studio, Josh Plough, Bessie Rubinstein, Y. Selim, Lauren Thu, Anniek Tijmes, Joannette van der Veer, Vincent van Velsen, Stijn van de Vyver and Zack Wellin.

On the impact of Dutch colonialism on Indonesian architectureThis book presents new perspectives on Dutch colonial architecture in Indonesia, focusing on the village of Kaliurang (a region of Yogyakarta). What Bungalows Can Tell addresses the conflicts around growing tourism and gentrification processes, and their effects on the quality and continuity of local ways of life, aiming to critically understand the spatial effects of globalization and heritage formation on a local scale.The authors' research looks specifically at the colonial bungalows of Kaliurang and the stories around them, questioning how they were used in the past, what their function is today and what they can represent in the future. In doing so, this book seeks to take into account the colonial history of the village, while also bringing to the fore the voices, stories and local wisdoms often eclipsed by more prominent forms of Western knowledge production.Tracing a variety of historical and contemporary influences on local architecture--including cosmological symbolism, Javanese mythology and heritage-preserving infrastructure--this publication records an enduring, lively coexistence somewhere between a heritage site and a local neighborhood.

The De Stjil furniture designer's most iconic chairs, personalized by five contemporary creatorsThis hands-on workbook playfully explores the tension between originality, imitation and individual taste by delving into Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld's (1888-1964) design legacy through a selection of five do-it-yourself copies of his iconic chair designs. Who are the people behind these chairs? What motivated them to "improve" the original design by Rietveld?Rietveld produced a wide range of iconic chairs throughout his lifetime, including the Zig-Zag chair, the Red and Blue chair and the Steltman chair. An advocate for "the universal" in design, he was extremely critical of individualism. Rietveld by the People shows how individualism today is reflected within the remakes, personal interpretations and DIY versions of Rietveld's designs. The project is part of Residency for the People, led and initiated by Lucas Maassen, an independent designer, educator and curator based in Eindhoven.

Communal cooking as political pleasure: recipes and ideas for collaborating in the kitchenIn this imaginative and incisive take on both the cookbook form and on the labor and culture attending it, food preparation is assessed as both a creative outlet and an inherently political pursuit, a means of nourishing the community and nurturing meaningful conversation. Along with tasty dinner recipes, Home Works expands upon its central ideas through a series of essays and interviews that address the gendered division of domestic labor. This global perspective challenges what labor we value and how work is organized. The book originated as a research project by Spanish architect Anna Puigjaner investigating housing designs in New York that were developed without fully equipped kitchens, or in some cases no kitchen at all. This led to an exploration of community responses to these kitchenless homes involving communal urban kitchens, which today can be found across the world from Lima to Tokyo. In these examples, the kitchen mutated from a space that defined the clichés of family and home to a space for the development of political communities that took control over their living situation. What would happen if we would do away with our kitchens and collectively gather and share a kitchen? What does it mean to eat together? What type of togetherness would this kind of communal dining create? Upending the model of cookery as an isolated act, Home Works argues for communal eating in fun and life-enhancing ways.

How people sit and are seated: an anthropology of chair designThe anatomy of our bodies invites sitting; but do we design seats in the same way? Has our means of sitting been colonized by modern design? And how is the culturally various act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity?Matteo Guarnaccia's (born 1954) Cross Cultural Chairs is a research-based design project "about the cultural context of furniture, understanding how globalization is shaping design around the world," he writes. "It's an exploration that lies between social and technical aspects of chairs." To execute this project, Guarnaccia visited eight different countries to conduct research and talk to local design studios, ultimately collaborating with them to portray each culture in the form of a chair. Cross Cultural Chairs plumbs the hidden depths of furniture design and the ways in which cultural norms assert themselves through functional commodities, opening up a conversation about identity, community and expression through chairs.

Pedagogical and participatory art from the coauthor of Making and BeingIn Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard, this acclaimed New York-based artist and educator (born 1984) proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished gallery installations. Readers follow the behind-the-scenes work that is required to produce interdisciplinary art projects, from a commission at MoMA to a self-organized, international barter network with over 20,000 participants. With contextual analysis of the political economy of the arts, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the Covid pandemic of 2020, this book suggests that artists can bring studio-based sculptural techniques to an approach to art-making that emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue.

An artist's assembly of contemporary speculations on politics, technology and moreEdited by artist Anne de Vries in collaboration with an AI text generator, this book offers a "scroll" through the tumultuous present, from posthumanism to the anthropocene, with writings from esteemed contemporary theorists.

Conservativism in design: on the relationship between making things and making things great again Sporting two front covers (i.e. one on the back, one on the front) for its two thematic sections--Graphic Design in Conservative Times and Fashion Design in Conservative Times--this pocket-sized volume deconstructs and analyzes various forms of design against the backdrop of an increasingly conservative world. From the perspectives of feminism, race, queerness, engagement, ecology, production and preservation, Design in Conservative Times seeks to unravel the intricacies of design within conservative culture. Makers and thinkers from the fields of fashion design and graphic design contribute to the book, reflecting on conservative currents in the design landscape and exploring topics such as: What is the role of a progressive designer today? What constitutes a progressive design? We are stuck between outrageous production and excessive preservation--how do we disrupt this relationship?

Temporary mobile zones: how artists and designers are pursuing new provisional structures for work and playThis handsomely designed volume maps out a new architectural movement motivated by practices of place-making, occupying and squatting. All the interventions are mobile and nearly all of them are installed without permission from city planners. Presenting international projects by emerging designers, Co-Machines raises questions about architectural permanence, the opportunities for social and ecological dynamics otherwise absent from urban planning and the scope of architecture at large. Artists and designers include: Melissa Jin, Ahmad S. Khouja, Kaegh Allen, Edwina Portocarrero, Tyler Stevermer & Office of Urban Play, Thomas Rustemeyer, Marius Gantert & Theater Rampe, Office for Political Innovation, Fabian Busse, Leon Lai, Nico Schlapps, Eric Tan, Phillip VonHase, Andrea Bandoni + Julia Masagão + Vapor 324 + Marcos L. Rosa + Constructlab, Matadero Cornago & Sanchez, Rachel Peachey & Paul Mosig, Fanelsa, Design-team (Julia Wildeis and Gerulf Weber), Gerulf Weber (Raumkonstrukt) and more.

Digital art scholars reflect on the cultural impact of digital exhibitionsThis publication investigates the idea of digital exhibitions, gathering artistic and theoretical reflections on post-digital culture. Contributors consider the transformative potential of exhibitions experienced individually behind screens, focusing on questions of subjectivity, technical elements, circulation and cultural impact.

Creative takes on domesticity and cooking from the constraints of lockdownAs the coronavirus forced the world to close down, nearly everyone found themselves spending a lot more time at home than they had initially anticipated. With most 2020 plans foiled and travel restrictions on the rise, many artists turned to kitchen experiments as a new creative outlet. In Recipes for the Future, 16 culture-makers share the culinary concoctions they made in reaction to their newly disrupted lifestyles, revealing a vision for the future based around the ambition to change and to widen the limits of human imagination. The visions and recipes of these writers, academics, philosophers, singers, visual artists, theater-makers and designers working in the Netherlands and Germany paint a unique portrait of our current moment. Themes of sustainability, domesticity, utopian realities and the role of cultural institutions arise in between recipes for "corona ice cream" and "mushrooms at the end of the world."

The politics of a pictogram: technology, gender, race and class in the history of the heart symbolThe ubiquitous, benign and seemingly innocuous heart symbol hides a much more complex story than its appearance suggests. The heart is often described as a universal symbol for love, yet its history suggests otherwise; it is closer to a corporate and political medium, embedded with all of the familiar imbalances of class, gender and race. The symbol developed in the 15th century and became popular in Europe during the 16th century. Until then, the heart shape was not associated with love or any of its current implications: in other words, this apparently eternal image has a history. In the Name of lays bare this fascinatingly fraught and complex history, revealing the intricacies and problems surrounding the heart symbol. In text and images, the book explores how technological, political and historical dominance has impacted the development of communication and our access to (online) information today.

Thoughts and hopes for a post-COVID theater worldTheater director David Weber-Krebs asks theater industry practitioners, artists, scholars, curators and spectators to imagine their first post-virus theater visit.

Texts and documents on a cinematic exploration of Europe's precarious plightBased on Giulio Squillacciotti's titular film fictionalizing contemporary Europe's problems, this book collects text responses, stills and a timeline of Europe from World War II to Brexit, compiled by Enrico De Gasperis.

A pioneering appraisal of female typographers, with historical research and interviews with contemporary practitionersThis important new book surveys the past and present of women working in typography. The first section looks at the statistics, data and an overview of the field apropos of gender, supplemented with biographies of female type designers that worked in the 19th and early 20th centuries. These women contributed to the industry significantly, but are rarely mentioned in histories of the subject. The second portion of the volume comprises a series of interviews with 14 women that are either currently working as type designers or are in other ways involved in the field of type design: Gayaneh Bagdasaryan, Veronika Burian, Maria Doreuli, Louise Fili, Martina Flor, Loraine Furter, Jenna Gesse, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Indra Kupferschmid, Briar Levit, Zuzana Licko, Ana Regidor, Fiona Ross and Carol Wahler. The final part of the book presents a showcase of typefaces designed by women.

Theoretical reflections on the symbolic and economic value of art and its institutionsThis compilation of theoretical texts, essays and artistic contributions explores the symbolic and economic value that a work of art holds as a product of its maker's labor. This volume provides insight into current notions of value systems and considers the role of language in arts institutions.

Four Dutch collaborators on performance as a way of producing versions of the selfApproaching performance as a method of producing different versions of the self, in Another Version four Dutch collaborators--performance artist, author and critic, dramaturge and sociopolitical designer--explore technologies and processes of so-called "versioning" and how to understand the self within this multiplicity.

Exploring the radical potential of fiction as a tool for social change through design, afro-surrealism, and alternative pedagogiesThis book chronicles the workshops for the first edition of the Porto Design Biennale, called the Young Curators Lab. The project explored fiction as a curatorial tool for social change through speculative design, afro-surrealism and alternative pedagogies.

On the constraints of systems in designIn graphic design, the concept of systems is profoundly rooted in form. Starting from a series of design research residencies in the context of the Porto Design Biennale, this volume proposes a variety of social and political perspectives to challenge this deeply engrained tradition.