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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all milestones of the three-year project, contextualizing and expanding its discourse through expert voices and emerging creative visions. At its(...)
Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes For Eco-Social Renewal
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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all milestones of the three-year project, contextualizing and expanding its discourse through expert voices and emerging creative visions. At its heart are seven prototypes for eco-social renewal, each proposing new ways to engage with one another and with what surrounds us, at the surface of the planet and beyond. They explore ways in which AI could mitigate climate change; immerse us in new forms of community through ancestral agricultural knowledge; employ fiction as a tool for new modes of multispecies conviviality; or create embodied connections to understand human impact in endangered territories.
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In our image-saturated contemporary society, sight often eclipses other senses that are vital to understanding the unseen dynamics of our sensory relationship with environments. As a counter-project to the hegemony of images, the act of listening opens up new possibilities for exploring both built and natural environments and moving our attention to granting a voice to(...)
Ecotones: investigating sounds and territories
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In our image-saturated contemporary society, sight often eclipses other senses that are vital to understanding the unseen dynamics of our sensory relationship with environments. As a counter-project to the hegemony of images, the act of listening opens up new possibilities for exploring both built and natural environments and moving our attention to granting a voice to more-than-human agencies. "Ecotones" showcases investigations on the relevance of sound in territorial studies. It is developed as a curated collection of texts from various disciplines and practitioners exploring spaces, territories, and ecologies through sonic endeavors. With a variety of formats, from essays and fiction pieces to situated case studies, Ecotones narrates sound as a medium, the act of listening as a political tool, and sonic experiments.
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Le goût des jardins
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Métaphysiques, à la française, anglais, artificiels, de curés, de paradis, d'éternité, de fiction ou d'images...Les jardins sont multiples. D'Homère à Marguerite Duras, de Virgile à Marcel Proust, de Gustave Flaubert à Amélie Nothomb, de Mme de Sévigné à Renaud Camus, ils sont omniprésents dans la littérature, toutes époques et genres confondus. Imaginaires pour les uns(...)
Le goût des jardins
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Métaphysiques, à la française, anglais, artificiels, de curés, de paradis, d'éternité, de fiction ou d'images...Les jardins sont multiples. D'Homère à Marguerite Duras, de Virgile à Marcel Proust, de Gustave Flaubert à Amélie Nothomb, de Mme de Sévigné à Renaud Camus, ils sont omniprésents dans la littérature, toutes époques et genres confondus. Imaginaires pour les uns (la Génèse, Esope, La Fontaine), objets de traités savants pour d'autres (Walopole), mais aussi lieux affectifs (Chateaubriand, George Sand, Colette), moyens d'expression et de pouvoir (Louis XIV), de connaissance (Jardin des Plantes), de loisir (parc des Buttes-Chaumont), ils suscitent l'engouement et parfois la passion. Structurés ou fous, ils ont tous un même goût de liberté qui nous accroche plus ou moins consciemment à notre enfance, et à celle de l'humanité...
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Islands of decolonial love
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In her debut collection of short stories, ''Islands of decolonial love,'' renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup(...)
Islands of decolonial love
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In her debut collection of short stories, ''Islands of decolonial love,'' renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's ''Islands of decolonial love'' is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.
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The concept of unheimlich, translated into english with the term uncanny, contains in its semantic complexity the same sense of impotence and disorientation that we feel when, visiting a place for the first time, we find ourselves in front of elements that seem familiar to us. This feeling triggers in us contrasting reactions like calm and fear. Recalling dreamlike(...)
Das unheimliche: Giaime Meloni
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The concept of unheimlich, translated into english with the term uncanny, contains in its semantic complexity the same sense of impotence and disorientation that we feel when, visiting a place for the first time, we find ourselves in front of elements that seem familiar to us. This feeling triggers in us contrasting reactions like calm and fear. Recalling dreamlike situations in which reality and fiction are intertwined, the project is inspired by the aesthetic concept, that Sigmund Freud explored in the 1919 essay 'Das unheimliche'. When the labyrinthine space of the children’s Colony in the former Eni village at Corte di Cadore is investigated through the lens of this concept, we question the restless familiarity of this place: 'Have I been here before?'.
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Nature of enclosure
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Overlapped by cultural consumption and politics, planetary imagination stimulates a useful framework for interrogating the human impact on environmental limitations over a technological foreground. The blurry lines between the engineered logic and cultural imagination are continually embedded and influenced by intuition in the cultural practices of capital enclosure.(...)
Nature of enclosure
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Overlapped by cultural consumption and politics, planetary imagination stimulates a useful framework for interrogating the human impact on environmental limitations over a technological foreground. The blurry lines between the engineered logic and cultural imagination are continually embedded and influenced by intuition in the cultural practices of capital enclosure. Theories, design practices, and the forms of imagination, including science fiction, open up critical questions on the status of our environment here on Earth. This book comprises a series of conversations to gather experts from a range of disciplines at the intersection of architecture and the environment. It continues the conversation with a collection of essays as both reflections from the provocative discussions and expanding the discourse of enclosed environments in architecture and design fields.
Architectural Theory
Hunter with harpoon
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Published fifty years ago under the title "Harpoon of the hunter", Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal(...)
Hunter with harpoon
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Published fifty years ago under the title "Harpoon of the hunter", Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance. Whether revisiting this classic or discovering it for the first time, readers will find in this book a sophisticated coming-of-age tale illustrating a way of life not as it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of the Inuit themselves.
The material kinship reader: material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family
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What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, enmeshment in or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures – the way they organise, coerce and make deviant certain lifeforms – and dwell in other possibilities of kin-making? Not just a jolly rethinking of objects or a polyamorous romp through relationships, this book(...)
The material kinship reader: material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family
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What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, enmeshment in or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures – the way they organise, coerce and make deviant certain lifeforms – and dwell in other possibilities of kin-making? Not just a jolly rethinking of objects or a polyamorous romp through relationships, this book reckons with the extractavist histories of materials and the social relations that frame much of contemporary life. Spanning fiction and theory, the collection of texts expands the idea of an artist’s book by bringing words into conversation with an aesthetic proposition. From colonial conquest to climate collapse, it tells toxic and tender stories of interdependence among all things sentient and insentient.
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Doug Patt : how to architect
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The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb - coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In "How to Architect," Patt - an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture -presents(...)
Doug Patt : how to architect
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The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb - coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In "How to Architect," Patt - an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture -presents the basics of architecture in A-Z form, starting with "A is for Asymmetry" (as seen in Chartres Cathedral and Frank Gehry), detouring through "N is for Narrative," and ending with "Z is for Zeal" (a quality that successful architects tend to have, even in fiction - see T "The Fountainhead's" architect-hero Howard Roark.)
Architectural Theory
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Berlin est une ville entrée en apesanteur. Elle n'est plus aujourd'hui que le pôle sentimental d'un pèlerinage culturel alimenté par un folklore de la révolte et de la création. Jadis au cœur même de la guerre civile européenne qui a traversé la première partie du XXe siècle et qui y a laissé ses plus profondes blessures, Berlin est devenue l'avant-poste d'une(...)
Francesco Masci : l'ordre règne à Berlin
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Berlin est une ville entrée en apesanteur. Elle n'est plus aujourd'hui que le pôle sentimental d'un pèlerinage culturel alimenté par un folklore de la révolte et de la création. Jadis au cœur même de la guerre civile européenne qui a traversé la première partie du XXe siècle et qui y a laissé ses plus profondes blessures, Berlin est devenue l'avant-poste d'une capitulation généralisée à la fiction de l'individu autonome comme "forme abstraite toute prête", structure qui pourrait endosser tous les contenus. Francesco Masci s'est embarqué sur cette "île", non pas pour explorer les mœurs et usages d’une nouvelle urbanité, mais pour entamer le deuil des promesses de liberté et d'émancipation de la tyrannie sociale faite à l'individu par la culture absolue.
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