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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Architect Hannes Meyer made substantial changes to the Bauhaus educational programme, reshaping it in response to the crisis created by Walter Gropius’s concept of a new unity of art and technology. From 1928 to 1930, as director at the Dessau Bauhaus …

Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli examines over 60 years of activity of one of Italy’s greatest masters and theorists of design. The exhibition consists of a historical section and a series of contributions from internat …

Highlights of our SAVAGES issue include… – RICKY POWELL… It’s probably a truism, and doubly true for those of us invested in the idea of culture, that when we finally go, we have a nagging fear that others will eulogize us with half-baked notions abo …

New and revised edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed book on seven iconic 20th-century houses, some of them actually built, others merely imagined or realized as film sets.

The Cosmos of Design is a journey through the characteristic features of design thought processes that usu-ally occur unconsciously. With the help of simple examples, designing is explored step by step: Creative experimentation and speculative thinking …

In The Death and Life of Great American Cities durchleuchtet Jane Jacobs 1961 die fragwürdigen Methoden der Stadtplanung und Stadtsanierung in Amerika, der “New Yorker” nannte es das unkonventionellste und provozierendste Buch über Städtebau seit lange …

Critique of Architecture entwirft einen neuen und radikalen Theorieansatz über die Verbindung zwischen Architektur und Kapital. Das Buch legt die theoretische Akrobatik offen, mit der die Architektur ihre Dienste für den Neoliberalismus legitimiert, un …

The establishment of a large number of small independent publishing houses fifteen years ago led to a revival of risography. Artists and designers from all over the world have installed a “Riso” in their studios to produce small print runs inexpensivel …

The establishment of a large number of small independent publishing houses fifteen years ago led to a revival of risography. Artists and designers from all over the world have installed a “Riso” in their studios to produce small print runs inexpensivel …

Lists have been used for a long time to provide orientation in the world of music. The technological triumph of streaming ser­ vices has turned the supply of music into a new consumer format that has come to dominate the way music is brought to market. …

Lists have been used for a long time to provide orientation in the world of music. The technological triumph of streaming ser­ vices has turned the supply of music into a new consumer format that has come to dominate the way music is brought to market. …

When the human gaze falls on a body, it constructs and deconstructs it. The setting for this is our daily life in all its different shapes and forms. The human body functions here as a semiotic system, an archive, a fiction, a projection screen, or an …

When the human gaze falls on a body, it constructs and deconstructs it. The setting for this is our daily life in all its different shapes and forms. The human body functions here as a semiotic system, an archive, a fiction, a projection screen, or an …

Operating in the space between a regulatory cosmos and the chaos of life, spoken language and its written notation unfold in different directions. Proceeding from the digital as a seemingly universal notational substrate, the first volume of Das Neue A …

Operating in the space between a regulatory cosmos and the chaos of life, spoken language and its written notation unfold in different directions. Proceeding from the digital as a seemingly universal notational substrate, the first volume of Das Neue A …

The three dialogues between Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard constitute a kind of parenthetical statement, an aside that opens in October 1979 continues in September or October 1980 and closes in December 1987. It is at once evidence of an in-depth …

Siri, Big Data, affective computing, interconnected bodies—the plethora of heterogeneous fragments that our present is split up into is unimaginably vast. Their composition is a question of milieu. The concept of determining how living beings relate to …

Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli examines over 60 years of activity of one of Italy’s greatest masters and theorists of design. The exhibition consists of a historical section and a series of contributions from internat …

Als in diesem Jahr, 2020, Museen weltweit wegen des neuartigen Coronavirus geschlossen werden mussten, führte der in New York lebende Kulturstratege András Szántó Interviews mit einer Reihe von international agierenden Museumsleiter*innen. In einer Zei …

Architectural training seems to be more difficult to organize than ever before. After May 1968, education was radically democratised, or at least that was the intention. However, the 1999 Bologna Declaration radically changed the structure of architect …

This ambitious book brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It holds a vivid mirror up to the ways in which graphi …

“Soll Kaufkraft erreichbar sein, muss die Produktion auf diejenigen zugeschnitten werden, die sie haben. Wertvolle Materialien, raffinierte Behandlung der Oberflächen, verblüffende Materialkombinationen und künstlerische Komposition werden hoch gehandelte Gestaltungskategorien. Das Ganze ist aber nicht experimentelle Lust, um das notwendige Repertoire zu erweitern, vielmehr wird das Design artifiziert. Der Handel mit diesen Waren verbindet sich mit der Propaganda von Designerpersönlichkeiten. Sie treten wie „Kultur”-Idole, wie „Stars” auf, nur nicht so massenhaft. Das trifft besonders im Bereich des Möbelbaus und der Raumausstattung zu. Myriaden von Stühlen, Sesseln, Regalen und Lampen füllen die internationalen Fachzeitschriften. Das Hauptinteresse gilt den sinnlichen Qualitäten der Dinge. Ihr Gebrauchszusammenhang ist primär repräsentativ. Gebrauch wird Inszenierung, Demonstration luxuriöser Verhältnisse, Darstellung von Reichtum und abstrakter Modernität, vorlaute Dekoration. Merk-würdig !” Chup Friemert Re-Print der Erstveröffentlichung in der Reihe Materialien Nr. 4 / 83, herausgegeben von der Presse und Informationsstelle der Hochschule der Künste Berlin 1983

This year’s edition is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of these objects – which rang …

The LODOWN 25 − 10 SCRAPBOOK issue offers a free-wheeling stream of consciousness, an iconoclastic bundle of joy, a possible antidote against the new Biedermeier. Please do me a big favour and inform me about the amount of copies you’d like to order, a …