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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, "Curated decay" presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate(...)
Curated decay: heritage beyond saving
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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, "Curated decay" presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes.
Couleur et soin
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Depuis une dizaine d'années, quelques hôpitaux, des formations en art et en design, des chercheurs en sciences sociales et des agences de design se mobilisent autour de la notion de care, concept issu de la philosophie féministe américaine, que l'on peut traduire par 'prendre soin'. Cette publication se propose d'explorer la place qu'occupe plus précisément la couleur(...)
Couleur et soin
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Depuis une dizaine d'années, quelques hôpitaux, des formations en art et en design, des chercheurs en sciences sociales et des agences de design se mobilisent autour de la notion de care, concept issu de la philosophie féministe américaine, que l'on peut traduire par 'prendre soin'. Cette publication se propose d'explorer la place qu'occupe plus précisément la couleur dans ce prendre soin.
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Safety orange
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Safety Orange emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations. Anna Watkins Fisher uses Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public life and for pondering what the color reveals about neoliberalism’s intensifying impact often hiding in(...)
Safety orange
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Safety Orange emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations. Anna Watkins Fisher uses Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public life and for pondering what the color reveals about neoliberalism’s intensifying impact often hiding in plain sight in commonplace phenomena.
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320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Paris : CNRS éditions, [2017]
Séparer et punir : une géographie des prisons françaises / Olivier Milhaud.
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Paris : CNRS éditions, [2017]
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203 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2004.
Paul Andreu, architect / Philip Jodidio ; with a preface by Adrian Frutiger.
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Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2004.
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109 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2012.
A path for kindred spirits : the friendship of Clarence Stein and Benton MacKaye / Robert L. McCullough.
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Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2012.
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175 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
[Caen] : In Situ-Biennale d'architecture et d'urbanisme de Caen ; Paris : Carré : Éditions La Découverte, [2018]
Faire battre le cœur des villes / sous la direction de Frédéric Lenne.
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[Caen] : In Situ-Biennale d'architecture et d'urbanisme de Caen ; Paris : Carré : Éditions La Découverte, [2018]
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On Brick Lane
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A mesmerizing return to the memory-nest of Rachel Lichtenstein's heartland. By listening with such care and sympathetic attention, she teases out the voices of the living and the dead. Here is a mapping to set beside mayhew and Jack London, a valid attempt to identify eternal verities in a place that is vanishing, reinventing itself, even as she walks across it' Ian Sinclair
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 2007, London, New York
On Brick Lane
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A mesmerizing return to the memory-nest of Rachel Lichtenstein's heartland. By listening with such care and sympathetic attention, she teases out the voices of the living and the dead. Here is a mapping to set beside mayhew and Jack London, a valid attempt to identify eternal verities in a place that is vanishing, reinventing itself, even as she walks across it' Ian Sinclair
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The Gonzagas, like many other ruling families at the time, were suffering from the ‘brick disease’, from a systematic willingness to build, which resulted in a grand historical and architectural heritage to which we are heirs and custodians. These assets need care and work, and Le Regge dei Gonzaga Cultural District has taken this task on board, with the support of the(...)
Gonzaga: studies, projects and sites
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The Gonzagas, like many other ruling families at the time, were suffering from the ‘brick disease’, from a systematic willingness to build, which resulted in a grand historical and architectural heritage to which we are heirs and custodians. These assets need care and work, and Le Regge dei Gonzaga Cultural District has taken this task on board, with the support of the Fondazione Cariplo.
History until 1900, Italy
Volume 30: privatize!
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What used to be collective care is rapidly becoming private responsibility. Is privatization the one-size-fits-all solution to every (financial) problem? Can addressing collective needs be thought of as the sum total of numerous private initiatives? And will the 'retreat' of government and state be compensated by other ways to organize the complex organism called society?(...)
Volume 30: privatize!
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What used to be collective care is rapidly becoming private responsibility. Is privatization the one-size-fits-all solution to every (financial) problem? Can addressing collective needs be thought of as the sum total of numerous private initiatives? And will the 'retreat' of government and state be compensated by other ways to organize the complex organism called society? Volume maps realities, enlists challenges and presents some options.
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