Les Grands Ensembles
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Symbole de modernité et enjeu aussi politique que sécuritaire dès les années 1980, les Grands Ensembles ont, dans le champ de la création contemporaine, nourri un certain nombre de recherches alliant architecture, habitat social et représentations visuelles. À partir d’œuvres produites depuis une vingtaine d’années environ (de Valérie Jouve, Mohamed Bourouissa, Martha(...)
Les Grands Ensembles
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Symbole de modernité et enjeu aussi politique que sécuritaire dès les années 1980, les Grands Ensembles ont, dans le champ de la création contemporaine, nourri un certain nombre de recherches alliant architecture, habitat social et représentations visuelles. À partir d’œuvres produites depuis une vingtaine d’années environ (de Valérie Jouve, Mohamed Bourouissa, Martha Rosler, David Hammons, Nathanaël Abeille, Stefan Eichhorn, etc.), cet ouvrage propose une lecture des rapports entretenus entre art et logement social, plus spécifiquement autour des Grands Ensembles. Entre idéalisation et rejet, ces derniers condensent en effet depuis les années 1950 l’essentiel des questionnements sur la ville, sur l’habitat populaire et sur la banlieue en tant qu’espace périphérique.
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''Sustainability is not enough'' reflects on the many organisations and initiatives that sit beyond conventional definition – organisations who play important roles in supporting the work of artists, and who often form the underpinnings of our artistic ecology. Taking its cue from the LODGERS programme organised collaboratively by M HKA and AIR ANTWERPEN from 2015 to(...)
Sustainability is not enough: non-conventional organisations and initiatives
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''Sustainability is not enough'' reflects on the many organisations and initiatives that sit beyond conventional definition – organisations who play important roles in supporting the work of artists, and who often form the underpinnings of our artistic ecology. Taking its cue from the LODGERS programme organised collaboratively by M HKA and AIR ANTWERPEN from 2015 to 2018, the book provides the case studies of sixteen initiatives from the Eurocore region, considering the reasons they exist, their ways of working with artists and their means of survival. ''Sustainability is not enough'' offers itself as a resource for thinking about the possibilities of a broader spectrum of organisational models for providing artists with valuable spaces of opportunity, exchange and freedom.
Art Theory
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In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant. Segal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”—the liberation that comes with(...)
Radical happiness: moments of collective joy
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In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant. Segal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”—the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others. Examining her own experience in the women’s movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a means to a better future. She also shows how the gaps in care that come from the diminishing role of the welfare state must be replaced by alternative ways of living together and looking after one another.
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L’exposition « Un monde en commun » sous le commissariat Julie Belisle et Josianne, aura lieu du 2 mai au 26 juillet 2026 à la Fondation Grantham du 5 septembre 2026 au 2 mai 2027 à la Biosphère |'Espace pour la vie. L’exposition rassemble les œuvres des artistes Maude Arès, Geneviève Chevalier, Hannah Claus, Jim Holyoak, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fre´de´ric(...)
Les Cahiers de la Fondation no. 13 : Un monde en commun/A world in Common
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L’exposition « Un monde en commun » sous le commissariat Julie Belisle et Josianne, aura lieu du 2 mai au 26 juillet 2026 à la Fondation Grantham du 5 septembre 2026 au 2 mai 2027 à la Biosphère |'Espace pour la vie. L’exposition rassemble les œuvres des artistes Maude Arès, Geneviève Chevalier, Hannah Claus, Jim Holyoak, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fre´de´ric Lavoie, Angela Marsh, Kimberly Orjuela, Taqralik Partridge & Miranda Smitheram. En tentant d’adopter la perspective de l’hirondelle, du mulot ou encore du pissenlit, les œuvres réunies dans cette exposition décentrent notre regard. Elles nous enjoignent à considérer comment le territoire nous accueille et comment nous le partageons avec d’autres espèces, nous invitant à nous engager envers un monde pluriel, solidaire et profondément relationnel. Par des gestes de soin, des approches collaboratives de la création et une attention à l’éthique interspécifique, elles offrent une compréhension étendue de la notion d’hospitalité et nous encouragent à repenser nos manières « d’habiter ». Ensemble, elles explorent la possibilité d’« un monde en commun » où tous les vivants pourraient s’épanouir.
Art Theory
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This publication is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects, and social theorists, who, in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession, explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study.
Spaces of commoning: artistic research and the utopia of the everyday
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This publication is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects, and social theorists, who, in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession, explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study.
Art Theory
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Georges Perec was a French novelist, film-maker, documentalist, and essayist, and also a member of the Oulipo group. Perec’s ‘Species of Space’ is a constellation of texts published in 1974 that investigates different spaces. Its primary focus is the order and system in which the texts are organised. This inventory is the theme of this book, which consists of essay(...)
Species of Spaces 1974- an imagined accommodation of retained and forgotten locations
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Georges Perec was a French novelist, film-maker, documentalist, and essayist, and also a member of the Oulipo group. Perec’s ‘Species of Space’ is a constellation of texts published in 1974 that investigates different spaces. Its primary focus is the order and system in which the texts are organised. This inventory is the theme of this book, which consists of essay contributions by nine artists, including Mohamed Camara and Kristina Jansson. Initiated by artists Cecilia Darle and Kristina Bength, the project also manifests in an exhibition. Their point of departure is Perec’s writings, in which limitations and rules become a working method that hints at an autobiographical latency.
Art Theory
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The model industrial village of Port Sunlight was founded by the soap manufacturer W. H. Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1888 for the factory workers of his firm of Lever Brothers. The village was acclaimed from the first as exemplifying the best in English town planning and house design, and greatly influenced subsequent industrial villages such as Bournville, and the(...)
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July 2006, Liverpool
A guide to Port Sunlight Village, revised edition
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The model industrial village of Port Sunlight was founded by the soap manufacturer W. H. Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1888 for the factory workers of his firm of Lever Brothers. The village was acclaimed from the first as exemplifying the best in English town planning and house design, and greatly influenced subsequent industrial villages such as Bournville, and the garden city movement more generally. This guide considers the village in its historical context, with particular emphasis on the planning and architectural aspects. It explains the social and visual significance of Port Sunlight and the reasons for its being unique in the history of town planning, as well as looking at the way its development was influenced by changing fashions in civic design. The relevance of Lever’s own character and interests – his social conscience, his love of art and beauty and his architectural enthusiasms – is also examined. Two tours, one for pedestrians and one for car drivers, which include and describe the most significant buildings of the village, are an additional feature of the guide.
Collective Housing
Vie des arts 279
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Un édito à quatre têtes, à quatre cœurs et à huit mains?! Rien de moins pour célébrer d’une écriture commune notre thème Anniversaires (ou comment célébrer). Car, selon le contexte, dans ce cas-ci festif, célébrer et/ou commémorer est un acte collectif – comme la production de chacun de nos numéros que nous fêtons trois fois par année. Via ce numéro, nous soulignons une(...)
Vie des arts 279
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Un édito à quatre têtes, à quatre cœurs et à huit mains?! Rien de moins pour célébrer d’une écriture commune notre thème Anniversaires (ou comment célébrer). Car, selon le contexte, dans ce cas-ci festif, célébrer et/ou commémorer est un acte collectif – comme la production de chacun de nos numéros que nous fêtons trois fois par année. Via ce numéro, nous soulignons une balise marquante de Vie des arts en 2026?: son 70e anniversaire.
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Le 11 novembre 2022, nous, cinq chercheurs, artistes, architecte, philosophe, professeurs à l’Université Laval, nous sommes rencontrés pour discuter des formes de langages servant à exprimer au mieux les concepts et les propositions que nous développons dans le champ de nos « micro-disciplines ». Comment chacune des personnes présentes à cette journée entrevoyait-elle les(...)
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August 2024
Nous sommes tous des astronautes : scénarios et prototypes pour des temps extrêmes
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Le 11 novembre 2022, nous, cinq chercheurs, artistes, architecte, philosophe, professeurs à l’Université Laval, nous sommes rencontrés pour discuter des formes de langages servant à exprimer au mieux les concepts et les propositions que nous développons dans le champ de nos « micro-disciplines ». Comment chacune des personnes présentes à cette journée entrevoyait-elle les particularités et la complexité des idées dans l’élaboration d’un lexique spécifique propre à sa pratique et quelle forme adoptait-elle pour exprimer et théoriser sa recherche dans le contexte universitaire? Complément 1 présente les cinq textes produits à la suite de cette rencontre. Chaque forme d’écriture est singulière, elle est propre à chacune des pratiques.
Art Theory
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Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the(...)
The HOME House Project : the future of affordable housing
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Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this project challenged designers and architects to imagine a world in which sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, technologies, and techniques were considered important elements of housing for low- and moderate-income families. A SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the United States and six other countries, all using Habitat for Humanity's three- and four-bedroom house plans as a point of departure for the design of affordable and environmentally friendly housing. This book, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition, documents the 25 prize-winning designs as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 colour illustrations. The accompanying text includes Michael Sorkin's essay connecting democratic values to quality of housing, Ben Nicholson's satiric critique of American excess, Steve Badanes's insights on the social responsibilities of architects, and HOME House Project Director David Brown's overview of the project and its continuing evolution.
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January 1900, Cambridge, Mass.
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