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Cherté des loyers, insalubrité, déclin du logement social, spéculation immobilière, location temporaire à des fins touristiques par l'entremise de plateformes numériques... Les enjeux liés à l'habitation sont encore nombreux. Même si le droit au logement fait partie intégrante des droits humains que nos États se sont engagés à respecter, la situation au Québec serait bien(...)
October 2018
Lutter pour un toit : douze batailles pour le logement auy Québec
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Cherté des loyers, insalubrité, déclin du logement social, spéculation immobilière, location temporaire à des fins touristiques par l'entremise de plateformes numériques... Les enjeux liés à l'habitation sont encore nombreux. Même si le droit au logement fait partie intégrante des droits humains que nos États se sont engagés à respecter, la situation au Québec serait bien pire sans la vigilance et la détermination des groupes militants qui ont mené des batailles sur ce front au cours des dernières décennies.
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex(...)
Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America.
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In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life. Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer”(...)
Soviet salvage: Imperial debris, revolutionary reuse, and Russian Constructivism
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In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life. Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude Lévi-Strauss, Walworth shows that his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”—illustrate, respectively, the canonical Constructivists and artists on the movement’s margins who deployed a wide range of clever make-do tactics. Walworth explores the relationships of Nadezhda Lamanova, Esfir Shub, and others with Constructivists such as Aleksei Gan, Varvara Stepanova, and Aleksandr Rodchenko. Together, the work of these artists reflected the chaotic and often contradictory zeitgeist of the decade from 1918 to 1929 and redefined the concept of mass production. Reappropriated fragments of a former enemy era provided a wide range of play and possibility for these artists, and the resulting propaganda porcelain, film, fashion, and architecture tell a broader story of the unique political and economic pressures felt by their makers. An engaging multidisciplinary study of objects and their makers during the Soviet Union’s early years, this volume highlights a group of artists who hover like free radicals at the border of existing art-historical discussions of Constructivism and deepens our knowledge of Soviet art and material culture.
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September 2018
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« Tshakapesh, le plus petit des grands chasseurs / Anu uet apishissishit kanataut » est un livre jeunesse illustré, de Camille Campeau et Marie Kirouac. Récit traditionnel innu, réinterprétation par Marie Kirouac, illustrations en couleur par Camille Campeau. En français et innu-aimun.
November 2018
Tshakapesh : le plus petit des grands chasseurs / anu uet apishissishit kanataut
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« Tshakapesh, le plus petit des grands chasseurs / Anu uet apishissishit kanataut » est un livre jeunesse illustré, de Camille Campeau et Marie Kirouac. Récit traditionnel innu, réinterprétation par Marie Kirouac, illustrations en couleur par Camille Campeau. En français et innu-aimun.
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Made in URSS : Design et Graphisme 1950-1989'' révèle une vision fascinante, pleine de charme et peu connue de la vie quotidienne en Union soviétique à travers la reproduction de 350 objets et documents. Tous sont issus de la collection unique du Musée du design de Moscou qui oeuvre pour la préservation de l'héritage du design russe. Des jouets aux articles de maison et(...)
Made in URSS : design et graphisme 1950 - 1989
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Made in URSS : Design et Graphisme 1950-1989'' révèle une vision fascinante, pleine de charme et peu connue de la vie quotidienne en Union soviétique à travers la reproduction de 350 objets et documents. Tous sont issus de la collection unique du Musée du design de Moscou qui oeuvre pour la préservation de l'héritage du design russe. Des jouets aux articles de maison et de mode aux affiches de films en passant par l'électronique et les produits vantant la course à l'espace, chaque objet témoigne du quotidien sous le régime communiste.
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Yan Wang Preston: Forest
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In China, where new cities are constantly springing up, transplanting nature is big business. In her new photo series Forest, Preston tracks down uprooted trees that have been transferred to concrete deserts, questioning our sense of the meaning of homeland.
June 2018
Yan Wang Preston: Forest
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In China, where new cities are constantly springing up, transplanting nature is big business. In her new photo series Forest, Preston tracks down uprooted trees that have been transferred to concrete deserts, questioning our sense of the meaning of homeland.
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Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this "Very Short Introduction", Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we can (and should) pursue it, he considers the current thinking on(...)
Happiness: a very short introduction
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Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this "Very Short Introduction", Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we can (and should) pursue it, he considers the current thinking on happiness, from psychology to philosophy. Illustrating the diverse routes to happiness, Haybron reflects on the growing influence of secular Western ideas in the contemporary pursuit of a good life, and considers the influence of social context on our satisfaction and well-being.
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Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound(...)
Wish I were here: boredom and the interface
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Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the ''Interface,'' ''Wish I Were Here'' draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues of screen addiction and the lure of online outrage. Without moralizing, Mark Kingwell takes seriously the possibility that current conditions of life and connection are creating hollowed-out human selves, divorced from their own external world.
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The “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from the home altogether, the(...)
April 2019
Home futures: living in yesterday's tomorrow
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The “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from the home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today and patterns of use in the sharing economy the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has the “home” proved resistant to radical change? "Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow" explores different approaches to reinventing domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home.
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This publication examines the participatory elements of the interactive exhibition ''Phenotypes,'' in which individual viewers rearranged and named sequences of photographs from the archive of Berlin-based photographer Armin Linke (born 1966).
August 2018
Armin Linke: Phenotypes/ limited forms
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This publication examines the participatory elements of the interactive exhibition ''Phenotypes,'' in which individual viewers rearranged and named sequences of photographs from the archive of Berlin-based photographer Armin Linke (born 1966).