Unterstrich, Binnen-I, Sternchen oder Doppelpunkt? Welche gendersensiblen Zeichen werden wann genutzt? Und was gibt es für Möglichkeiten, gestalterisch mit ihnen umzugehen? Typohacks ist ein Handbuch und Ratgeber für beides: gendersensible Sprache und …

MIKE MILLS… His latest movie tells a story about the ties and strong interrelationship between kids and adults – and he does so in the most generous and truthful way. While “Beginners“ reflected on the life of his dad, and “20th Century Women“ put his …

Museums rarely present objects as migrants. Yet they often arrive there by way of a migratory process, a historical echo of the flows of migration that have dominated the news over the past decade. As individuals migrate, so do cultures, skills, religi …

On 9 October 2019, during Yom Kippur, the most important holiday in the Jewish calendar, a right-wing extremist carried out a deadly attack on the synagogue in Halle. When he was unable to break into the synagogue, he attacked a kebab stand, murdering …

Das Thema Textil gewinnt stetig an Bedeutung in allen Fachbereichen, nicht nur in gestalterischen Disziplinen und Design, sondern auch im Ingenieurswesen und in der Architektur. Textilien besitzen enorme Potentiale wie kein anderer Werkstoff. »FUTURE V …

This book is a play. An assembly of three documents placed within a stage of 16 by 22 cm. Each is embodied by its costume and its distinguished gestures, speaking in its own tone of voice. Nothing happens by chance. Images are carried by transparent gl …

Photographers reproduce mechanically and chemically what is in front of them. By means of a negative and digital techniques, photographs can be reproduced to infinity. Captivated by the idea and processes of reproduction, some artists have placed this …

Ein einflussreicher Grundlagentext der Architekturtheorie in einer überarbeiteten und erweiterten Neuausgabe.

The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model inste …

‘On the Necessity of Gardening’ tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries artists, writers, poets, and thinkers have each described, depicted, and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garde …

Bart van der Heide plädiert mit dieser Publikation dafür, dass Techno-Musik nicht nur als ekstatisches sowie kollektives Erlebnis fungieren, sondern auch als Plattform für gesellschaftskritische Diskurse dienen kann. Welche kulturellen Phänomene und so …

MODERN ANIMAL knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people–bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class–encountered on a multiyear journey through Ukraine. The result is a revolutionary appro …

Vom Druckknopf bis zur Weltraumsonde: So weit erstreckt sich der Horizont von Produktdesign. Weil Design viel mehr ist als „Linienführung”, geht diese Designgeschichte der Frage nach, wie sich die Ansprüche an die Gestaltung von Gebrauchsobjekten im La …

What is the connection between art and a new eco-politics? What changes lie ahead for our cultural institutions? How does Gaia make it onto the theatre stages? How can art come into being without resources being consumed? What can we learn from indigen …

‘Design in Conservative Times’ tackles conservatism in and around design, challenging both designer and user to actively engage with, and reflect upon their positions within our current, politically charged landscape. The focal point of this reflection …

What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, then this book is for you. Research Fo …

This hands-on workbook playfully explores the tension between originality, imitation and individual taste by delving into Gerrit Rietveld’s design legacy through a selection of five do-it-yourself-copies of his iconic chair designs. Who are the people …

Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s program. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, Generous Structures, is a playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of world­making through gathering and holding.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887–1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rol …

Five decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic sty …

Vehiculo. What was supposed to be a triptych on artistic views on mobility now gets a fourth chapter due to the overall positive responses we’ve received. This issue once again is filled with the output of forward-thinking individuals that much more pr …

As a literary theorist, Sergei Tretyakov is one of the leading lights in the left-wing art avant-garde. Few people know that he was also one of the most active literary cartographers of the early Soviet Union and its Asian and European neighbours. On t …

Not only was Moisei Ginzburg (1892 – 1946) one of the most important architects of the Soviet avant-garde but his theoretical work was also the pioneering force in constructivism. Rhythm in Architecture (1923) provides an insight into Ginzburg’s early …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

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 …

1957 brachte die Sowjetunion einen Satelliten in die Erdumlaufbahn und gewann so die erste Etappe im „Wettlauf ins All“. Der Westen reagierte auf den „Sputnik-Schock“ mit einer nie dagewesenen Bildungsoffensive, die bald die gesellschaftliche Debatte b …

Laura Bielau’s photo book Arbeit (Work) is about the actual space of her work as a photographer and artist: the studio in which she operates. One aspect of the work centres on what she finds in this space, the resources she has at her disposal there, a …

Who produces what, and how? What tools and technologies, what values and intentions are fed into the process? What part do power and control play in the context of semiautonomous technologies that will shape our future world? The book’s conversations, …

Who produces what, and how? What tools and technologies, what values and intentions are fed into the process? What part do power and control play in the context of semiautonomous technologies that will shape our future world? The book’s conversations, …

Notes on discourse in deconstructed/intellectual contemporary fashion

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the …

Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and William Menking that consists of interviews with each of the living directors of the Venice Biennale for Architecture. Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and …

What is photography? Can the question be explored using literary means? When the photographic image is reflected in the literary afterimage, can one speak of reflection? In this anthology, compiled from the master’s degree in Cultural Publishing at the …

Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and …

Die Reihe «Visuelle Archive» ist das Ergebnis von Forschungsprojekten, die von der ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne initiiert und durchgeführt wurden. Sie nimmt unerforschte Hinterlassen­schaften von Designerinnen, Autoren und Marken in Augensche …

Wenn Sie sich fragen, warum sich das Innere Ihres Kopfes in diesen Tagen so seltsam anfühlt, hat dieses Buch die Antworten! The Extreme Self ist eine neue Art von Graphic Novel, die zeigt, wie Sie sich in etwas anderes verwandelt haben. Es geht um die …

”To my astonishment, there are but few charismatic idols in the 400-year tradition of the bourgeois industrial revolution: Washington, Jefferson, the women in the Paris marketplace in 1789—those female freedom fighters marching on Versailles and bringi …

D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, of dogmatic rules, discriminatory structures …

During the Cold War, modernist art became a flagship of freedom and democracy in the West, and took on the role of a symbolic overcoming of fascism. Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War examines the cultural diplomacy of this period, particu …

Contributions by DELE ADEYEMO, BENJAMIN BRATTON, STEPHANIE CARLISLE, EMANUELE COCCIA, KELLER EASTERLING, SWARNABH GHOSH, MACARENA GÓMEZ-BARRIS, JOSEPH GRIMA, PHINEAS HARPER, ELSA HOOVER, JANE HUTTON, INTERIORS AGENCY, ELISA ITURBE… more As the true u …

“If sound is birth and silence death, the echo trailing into infinity can only be the experience of life, the source of narrative and a pattern for history.” Drawing on Louis Chude­ Sokei’s metaphorical, political, and technopoetic investigations, this …

Just as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces via algorithms—in the form of biases turned into pixels, as discrimi­nation implanted in memes in secret chat groups. The coding and decoding of body …

The curatorial denotes a sphere of activity involved with making art and culture available to the public. Although this area has become increasingly important in recent decades, the structural conditions that account for its special social status have …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …