Originally introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe a coordination mechanism used by insects, the term “stigmergy” describes the principle that the work of a single agent-whether natural, animal or human-always leaves a tra …

Artificial neuronal networks open up radical new pathways for image creation. On the basis of textual prompts, machine-learning algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion generate imagery that is simultaneously familiar and alien. Graphic designer …

Ondine Pannets Enzyklopädie der Insel Formosabeschäftigt sich mit Motiven des Fremden, Ausformungen des Exotismus und der kritischen Frage nach dem Wahrheitsgehalt von Geschichtsschreibung. Ihr Künstlerbuch ist ein Kommentar zu George Psalmanaazaars fi …

A comprehensive survey of American artist Mark Dion, examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature. The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume …

With the world’s population growing by 2.6 people per second, by 2050 we will need twice as many homes, highways, streets, and schools–all kinds of built infrastructure—if we are to maintain our standard of living. That will require vast quantities of …

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, one of the Apollo 11 crew, placed his left foot on the surface of the moon for the first time in human history, our fascination with Earth’s satellite has lost none of its power. NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon tracks …

Even though his expertise in the field was self-taught, the teacher Dr Wilhelm Ganss is regarded as a pioneer of botany in Liechtenstein. In 1954 he published the essay “The Orchids of Liechtenstein”, in which he described the native orchids of his ado …

50 Innovative Fashion Projects + 8 Short Articles by Daniëlle Bruggeman, Jan Mahy, Rens Tap, Ben Wubs, Loe Feijs, Koen van Os, Gail Kenning, Lianne Toussaint, Stephan Wensveen, Anke Jongejan, Pauline van Dongen and Oscar Tomico. Despite technological a …

Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world’s most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a …

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response is a publication that aims to illuminate the architecture of informality and its mechanism, focused on the neighborhood of Ard-el-Liwa. It challenges the usual negative perception attached to informal areas. Instead …

Design: Irma Boom. Bernard Arnault, Suzanne Page. Ausst’publikation. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. Flammarion 2015. Beiträge von Laurence Bosse. Englisch. 200 Seiten, 27,8 x 36,1 cm. 1,6 kg. Broschur. This striking catalog, designed by Irma Boom, sho …

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to …

As we hurtle into the twenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or active uploaders of meaning? The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of prod …

Möglichkeiten einer Welt handelt von Reisen in Kanonenkugeln, Inseln der Demokratie und Gehirnen in Frostschutzmittel. Dieses Buch vereint ausgewählte Begebenheiten, Erfindungen, Prophezeiungen und Träumereien der Menschheitsgeschichte und möchte mitne …

– PANOS COSMATOS… the visionary director’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to Beyond The Black Rainbow, is once again filled with clever pop cultural cross-references and more hallucinogenic imagery than people should be allowed. It’s probably this year’s …

Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The …