"Addresses two innovative areas of contemporary architecture and design: repressive urban architecture and design (i.e. surface studs, crowd control barriers etc) and the vernacular architecture of protest culture (i.e. makeshift, low impact ..."
"Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing academic models while examining possibilities for strategic intervention and ..."
"Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflec ..."
"Artwork by Paul Ramirez Jonas, Laura Stein, Olav Westphalen, Lisa Young, Rachel Harrison, Alan Sonfist. Photographs by Justine Kurkland. Text by Paul Collins, Nils Norman, Mierle Ukeles, Jesse Lerner, Frances Richard."
"How and why do artists customize, sort, organize, and scrutinize archival information? Potential considers the role of the archive in current artistic practice through the work of 11 international artists who engage with archival and documentation processes. Using the archive as a starting point, each artist regards archiving as an ongoing research process in their work, one that may result in a variety of outcomes rather than one fixed ..."
"In a public park in the Hague, British artist Nils Norman (born 1966) has devised an unusual work of art: one that grows and blossoms and produces delicious fruit and vegetables. Norman's "Edible Park" was developed using the principles of permaculture, a form of vegetable gardening in which different plants are combined in such a way that they complement one another's needs as they grow. More than just a gardening model, permaculture i ..."
"The city of Hamburg provided the Galerie für Landschaftskunst and the Kunstverein in Hamburg with an ideal example of an urban metropolis for a joint project entitled Mapping a City: Hamburg Cartography. In a series of works devoted to the exploration of urban space, international artists investigated ideas about nature and landscape. In addition to serving as a basic reader on the subject of mapping, this book presents the diverse resu ..."
"... Catherine and Franck Petitgas Eva Rausing Yvonne Rieber Spas and Diliana
Roussev Robin Saunders and Matthew ... Serpentine Gallery lvor Braka Nicholas
Candy Johan Eliasch Michael and Ali Hue-Williams Jolana Leinson and Petri
Vainio ... Ulfane Dr Vera Vucelic Peter Wheeler and Pascale Revert Benedict
Wilkinson and Mia Spence Mr Samer Younis and ... and Julie Delylle Dahlia
Dana Anna Dickie Marie Estienne Sophie Eynon Flora Fairb ..."