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424 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
New York, NY : Actar Publishers ; Seoul : Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, [2017], ©2017
Imminent commons : the expanded city / edited by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffrey S. Anderson ; Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017.
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223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm
Novato, California : ORO, [2022], ©2023
Emergent Tokyo : designing the spontaneous city / Jorge Almazán + Studiolab.
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Novato, California : ORO, [2022], ©2023
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Globally, Black people are among the most affected by the climate crisis, despite contributing very little to it. For a long time, the crisis was portrayed as yet another injustice for Black people to care about, on top of the day-to-day oppression they face. In ''Black Climates'', Selina Nwulu reframes the crisis to encompass our disconnection from each other and the(...)
Black climates: Notes on race, our environment, and visions for equitable futures
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Globally, Black people are among the most affected by the climate crisis, despite contributing very little to it. For a long time, the crisis was portrayed as yet another injustice for Black people to care about, on top of the day-to-day oppression they face. In ''Black Climates'', Selina Nwulu reframes the crisis to encompass our disconnection from each other and the world around us. She argues that the root of climate change lies in historical colonial violence and ongoing exploitation, making it inherently racist. Nwulu, former Young People's Laureate for London, uses her poetic and skilful voice to directly address Black British readers who have been previously ignored in mainstream environmental conversations. She includes interviews with a wide range of creatives and campaigners to explore a variety of subjects, including air pollution, prison ecology, disability justice, migration, food, nature, community care, and radical imagination.
Environment and environmental theory
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What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tomás Maldonado poses philosophical inquiries into the role design plays during a moment of crisis and analyzes what “design” might mean as an ever-enlarging compass beyond stylization of specific objects. He discusses how design is both influenced by and central to(...)
Design, nature and revolution: towards a critical ecology
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What good is design? In a world facing social unrest, political tribalism, and impending ecological doom, Tomás Maldonado poses philosophical inquiries into the role design plays during a moment of crisis and analyzes what “design” might mean as an ever-enlarging compass beyond stylization of specific objects. He discusses how design is both influenced by and central to ecological crisis. Written as a kind of obituary to the Modern movement’s wave of failed “concrete utopias,” Maldonado combines philosophy, sociology, radical countercultural thought, and the ecological sciences into a polemic that recenters design in the human environment.
Design Theory
Don't build, rebuild
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to(...)
Don't build, rebuild
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well.
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Italian journey
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Goethe’s account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.
Italian journey
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Goethe’s account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis.
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April 1992, London
Architectural Theory
Ai Weiwei: life cycle
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'Life Cycle' is a sculptural response to the global refugee crisis, and a series of figures based on mythic creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, crafted from bamboo and silk.
Ai Weiwei: life cycle
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'Life Cycle' is a sculptural response to the global refugee crisis, and a series of figures based on mythic creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, crafted from bamboo and silk.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Federica Doglio e Mirko Zardini dialogano di città, architettura, ambiente e istituzioni in una serie di conversazioni iniziate durante l’estate 2020. Un percorso che dalla crisi odierna risale fino agli anni Settanta, delineando quella che appare una lunga crisi climatico-ambientale, energetica, sanitaria, che riguarda anche le istituzioni, le professioni e lo stesso(...)
Dopo le crisi: 1973, 2001, 2008, 2020
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Federica Doglio e Mirko Zardini dialogano di città, architettura, ambiente e istituzioni in una serie di conversazioni iniziate durante l’estate 2020. Un percorso che dalla crisi odierna risale fino agli anni Settanta, delineando quella che appare una lunga crisi climatico-ambientale, energetica, sanitaria, che riguarda anche le istituzioni, le professioni e lo stesso progetto moderno. L’ambiente, lo spazio pubblico, quello del dissenso, il controllo dei dati, l’università, il ruolo dell’architetto, sono alcune tra le questioni affrontate in questo libro-intervista.
Architectural Theory
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How is the present crisis of left-wing thought to be understood? To what extent does it call into the question the idea of social totality that underpinned Marxism and many other socialist theories? Does the concept of hegemony imply a new logic that goes beyond the essentialism of classical Marxist thought? These are some of the questions that this now seminal book(...)
Critical Theory
May 2001, London, New York
Hegemony and socialist strategy : towards a radical democratic politics, second edition
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How is the present crisis of left-wing thought to be understood? To what extent does it call into the question the idea of social totality that underpinned Marxism and many other socialist theories? Does the concept of hegemony imply a new logic that goes beyond the essentialism of classical Marxist thought? These are some of the questions that this now seminal book attempts to answer. It traces the genealogy of the present crisis, from the nineteenth-century debates to the contemporary emergence of new forms of struggle, making it a classic text both for understanding hegemony and for focusing on present social struggles and their significance for democratic theory.
Critical Theory
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''Almanac for the anthropocene'' collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement’s ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The(...)
Environment and environmental theory
September 2022
Almanac for the anthropocene: A compendium of solarpunk futures
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''Almanac for the anthropocene'' collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement’s ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The result is a collection of interviews, recipes, exercises, DIY instructions, and more—all of it amounting to a call to create hope through action. Inspired by a commitment to the idea that there can be no environmental justice without decolonial and racial justice,'' Almanac for the anthropocene'' unites in a single volume both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis.
Environment and environmental theory