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Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human rights museums across Asia and Latin America, the book adopts a broad museological approach. It does so by including national and community museums, as well as public and private museological initiatives, within its purview. Drawing on in-depth case studies about museums in Taiwan, Japan, Paraguay(...)
Human rights museums: Critical tensions between memory and justice
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Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human rights museums across Asia and Latin America, the book adopts a broad museological approach. It does so by including national and community museums, as well as public and private museological initiatives, within its purview. Drawing on in-depth case studies about museums in Taiwan, Japan, Paraguay and Colombia – all discussed within their political and cultural contexts – the book examines the paradigmatic shift that has occurred within the museum field in the wake of the larger global transformations that have shaped contemporary geo-politics over the last 50 years. The diversity of geographical and political contexts, and the attention to lesser-known institutions within the canon of English museum studies literature, presents readers with a valuable opportunity to learn more about innovative museological models in non-English-speaking and non-Western contexts.
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Since 2020, Collecting Otherwise, initiated by the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, has explored how archives and their policies shape institutional memory, urban history, and public heritage, challenging the idea that heritage is “neutral”. It aims to change institutional culture to recognise and champion under-represented roles, practices, and perspectives in archives.(...)
Collecting Otherwise Manuals
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Since 2020, Collecting Otherwise, initiated by the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, has explored how archives and their policies shape institutional memory, urban history, and public heritage, challenging the idea that heritage is “neutral”. It aims to change institutional culture to recognise and champion under-represented roles, practices, and perspectives in archives. Besides rethinking archival practices in case studies from the National Collection, the project addresses annual themes on collecting and develops collaborative tools. The manuals invite engagement with these tools to support reparative archival work and deepen reflections on the responsibilities of memory.
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This book presents the work of artists, curators, collectives and scholars who address contemporary art as a site of learning in the 21st century. Building on earlier histories of education as civic service for the common good, it focuses on the last 25 years, as well as the question of the future of art education—as a practice that unfolds both in and beyond school. The(...)
Living to learn: Art and education for the common good
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This book presents the work of artists, curators, collectives and scholars who address contemporary art as a site of learning in the 21st century. Building on earlier histories of education as civic service for the common good, it focuses on the last 25 years, as well as the question of the future of art education—as a practice that unfolds both in and beyond school. The book constructs an impressionistic constellation of case studies to see how innovations in education have had a dynamic relationship with artistic practice, alternative arts organizations, universities and museums.
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In "Reinventing heritage," Park Associati—a Milan-based interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers—explores the transformative potential of adaptive reuse in architecture as a key strategy to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, adaptive reuse champions the repurposing of existing(...)
Reinventing heritage: A design compass on adaptive reuse
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In "Reinventing heritage," Park Associati—a Milan-based interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers—explores the transformative potential of adaptive reuse in architecture as a key strategy to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, adaptive reuse champions the repurposing of existing structures to extend their lifecycle, reduce waste, and foster sustainable urban regeneration. Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical case studies, "Reinventing heritage" highlights the diverse ways in which adaptive reuse can revitalize cities and honor cultural heritage while creating innovative spaces serving contemporary demands.
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"Window shopping with Helen Keller" recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies—the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka "The Elephant(...)
Window shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and disability in modern culture
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"Window shopping with Helen Keller" recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies—the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka "The Elephant Man") and Helen Keller, the projects of the Works Progress Administration, and the design of the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped—Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability.
Architectural Theory
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Based on a session of NEA's long running program for rural community development, Your Town, this publication describes the impact of design and heritage tourism. It documents two case studies in historically African-American communities in the Mississippi Delta, one in the town of Mound Bayou, Miss., and the other on the blues heritage corridor of Highway 61. The(...)
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September 2002, Washington, D.C.
Your town : Mississippi delta
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Based on a session of NEA's long running program for rural community development, Your Town, this publication describes the impact of design and heritage tourism. It documents two case studies in historically African-American communities in the Mississippi Delta, one in the town of Mound Bayou, Miss., and the other on the blues heritage corridor of Highway 61. The publication also includes excerpts from workshop presentations, including those by Craig Barton, University of Virginia; William Harris, professor at Jackson State University; and Shannon Criss, former director of the Small Town Center at Mississippi State.
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on(...)
Building a straw bale house : the Red Feather construction handbook
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Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's completed housing and community-based building projects, this book documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook-from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on safety, design, tools, and materials, it is an inspiring lesson for anybody interested in this technique of constructing a house and a hopeful redefinition of the fundamental ideas of architecture and the home. Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall
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The designer and the grid
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This book reveals the key to the hidden driving force behind almost all graphic design - the grid. Case studies and interviews with leading designers such as Simon Esterson, Vaughan Oliver, Ellen Lupton, and Muller & Hesse explore what the grid means today and these and other top names choose their favourite grids. The authors move on to take a step-by-step look at the(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
February 2005, Mies, Switzerland
The designer and the grid
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This book reveals the key to the hidden driving force behind almost all graphic design - the grid. Case studies and interviews with leading designers such as Simon Esterson, Vaughan Oliver, Ellen Lupton, and Muller & Hesse explore what the grid means today and these and other top names choose their favourite grids. The authors move on to take a step-by-step look at the precision of the digital grid and ask, provocatively, whether the new CAD/CAM technologies may spell the end of the grid as we know it.
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February 2005, Mies, Switzerland
Graphic Design and Typography
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"The Sustainable Urban Development Reader" brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use, and equity planning. Section introductions(...)
Urban Theory
April 2004, London / New York
The sustainable urban development reader
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"The Sustainable Urban Development Reader" brings together classic readings from a wide variety of sources to investigate how our cities and towns can become more sustainable. Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use, and equity planning. Section introductions outline the major themes, while introductions to the individual writings explain their interest and significance to wider audiences. Additional sections present twenty-four case studies of real-world sustainable urban planning examples, sustainability planning exercises, and further reading.
Urban Theory
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The future of humanity is urban. We are facing major problems such as climate change, social inequality, large-scale migration, and resource depletion. Cities (and those who 'make' the city) play an important role in addressing these problems. In this volume, the 'Future Urban Regions Lectorate' offers designers, their commissioners and (local) governments new models and(...)
Urban Theory
November 2017
Urban challenges, resilient solutions: design thinking for the future of urban regions
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The future of humanity is urban. We are facing major problems such as climate change, social inequality, large-scale migration, and resource depletion. Cities (and those who 'make' the city) play an important role in addressing these problems. In this volume, the 'Future Urban Regions Lectorate' offers designers, their commissioners and (local) governments new models and ideas to deal with healthy urban development. Illustrated by more than fifty case studies and global examples, this book offers a toolkit for those interested in implementing research by design and healthy urban regions.
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