Visualization as Assemblage: A Framework to apply modesty, ethics and attachment to art practice
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Visualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture is the network of processes which it assembles and the nonvisual effects it produces. Building upon the arguments of Latour, Deleuze and Guattari, author Patricio Dávila applies an assemblage framework to(...)
Visualization as Assemblage: A Framework to apply modesty, ethics and attachment to art practice
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Visualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture is the network of processes which it assembles and the nonvisual effects it produces. Building upon the arguments of Latour, Deleuze and Guattari, author Patricio Dávila applies an assemblage framework to three case studies offering distinct instances of critical visualization practices: "Liquid Traces" (2014), from Forensic Architecture; "Anti-Eviction Mapping Project" (2013–), from the San Francisco Tenants Union; and "In the Air, Tonight" (2013–16), from the Public Visualization Lab/Studio. Dávila underscores an ethics of visualization that refocuses criticality on the potential of design to act modestly by revealing its own construction.
Art Theory
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What if every vista, every island—indeed, every geographical feature on Earth—could be viewed as an art object? In ''Living Surfaces'', Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. ''Living Surfaces'' features a range of case studies from(...)
Environment and environmental theory
June 2024
Living surfaces: Images, plants and environments of media
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What if every vista, every island—indeed, every geographical feature on Earth—could be viewed as an art object? In ''Living Surfaces'', Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. ''Living Surfaces'' features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene.
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Materials for design
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As architecture programs throughout the country break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of design/build programs, the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between construction materials and design sensibility is sorely needed. Students must be taught how a choice of material affects the form and look of a structure; they must also learn how(...)
Materials and Lighting
January 2006, New York
Materials for design
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As architecture programs throughout the country break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of design/build programs, the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between construction materials and design sensibility is sorely needed. Students must be taught how a choice of material affects the form and look of a structure; they must also learn how inspired design can inject any material with true personality and zeal. Broken into five sections — glass, wood, metals, plastics, and concrete — "Materials for design" makes a thorough study of each material's properties, followed by a series of 10–12 case studies of that material put to imaginative use by today's architects from around the world.
Materials and Lighting
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Rewind charts the history of design and advertising over the last forty years. Drawing on the extensive archives of the London-based organization, Design and Art Direction (D), one of the world’s leading bodies representing the creative industries of design and advertising, it covers a broad range of design disciplines including graphic design, TV, press and poster(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
September 2004, London / New York
Rewind : forty years of design & advertising
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Rewind charts the history of design and advertising over the last forty years. Drawing on the extensive archives of the London-based organization, Design and Art Direction (D), one of the world’s leading bodies representing the creative industries of design and advertising, it covers a broad range of design disciplines including graphic design, TV, press and poster advertising, product design, new media and retail packaging. A wide-ranging essay sets out the historical framework and describes the main developments in design and advertising since the 1960s. A number of case studies illustrate key moments in design history. Leading practitioners have each contributed texts on the different decades, providing unique personal insights into the design and advertising of that era.
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September 2004, London / New York
Graphic Design and Typography
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"Tall wood buildings" have been at the foreground of innovative building practice in urban contexts for a number of years. From London to Stockholm, from Vancouver to Melbourne timber buildings of up to 20 storeys have been built, are under construction or being considered. This dynamic trend was enabled by developments in the material itself, prefabrication and more(...)
Tall wood buildings: design, construction and performance
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"Tall wood buildings" have been at the foreground of innovative building practice in urban contexts for a number of years. From London to Stockholm, from Vancouver to Melbourne timber buildings of up to 20 storeys have been built, are under construction or being considered. This dynamic trend was enabled by developments in the material itself, prefabrication and more flexibility in fire regulations. The low CO2 footprint of wood - often regionally sourced - is another strong argument in its favour. This publication explains the typical construction types such as panel systems, frame and hybrid systems. An international selection of 13 case studies is documented in detail with many specially prepared construction drawings, demonstrating the range of the technology.
Timber Construction
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This book verifies the need for the arts and the sciences to work together in order to develop more creative and conceptual approaches to innovation and presentation. By blending ethnographical case studies, scientific viewpoints and critical essays, the focus of this research inquiry is the lab context. For scientists, the lab context is one of the most important(...)
artists in labs : processes of inquiry
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This book verifies the need for the arts and the sciences to work together in order to develop more creative and conceptual approaches to innovation and presentation. By blending ethnographical case studies, scientific viewpoints and critical essays, the focus of this research inquiry is the lab context. For scientists, the lab context is one of the most important educational experiences. For contemporary artists, laboratories are inspiring spaces to investigate, share know-how transfer and search for new collaboration potentials. The nine labs represented in this book are from the natural, computing and engineering sciences. An enclosed comprehensive DVD documents the results, the problems and serves as a guideline for the future of true Art/Sci experiments.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with nature. Today, Canada's environmental record is among the poorest when compared to other wealthy nations, a fact that suggests ambivalence, and the actions of competing interests, which are most often exposed in(...)
It's all happening so fast: a counter-history of the modern Canadian environment
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In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with nature. Today, Canada's environmental record is among the poorest when compared to other wealthy nations, a fact that suggests ambivalence, and the actions of competing interests, which are most often exposed in moments of disorder and disregard for the unexpected consequences of managing the country's seemingly endless bounty. The 15 case studies presented here reframe Canada since 1945, and these surprising events are grounded in conversations about cultural myths and the legal environment, changing ideas of natural resources and environmental risk, indigenous engagement with environmentalism and development, and the impacts of the environmentalist movement.
CCA Publications
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes(...)
Sustainability at the cutting edge: emerging technologies for low energy building
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer.
Green Architecture
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Part of Valiz’s Art and Ecology series, "Queer flora, fauna, and funga" is an eclectic, transdisciplinary and versatile anthology, highlighting sexual and gender diversity in nature. Contributors across a litany of disciplines—from creative writers to beekeepers and speculative theorists—present dozens of case studies which inspire us to reimagine the world and our place(...)
Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga: A radical forage through art and writing
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Part of Valiz’s Art and Ecology series, "Queer flora, fauna, and funga" is an eclectic, transdisciplinary and versatile anthology, highlighting sexual and gender diversity in nature. Contributors across a litany of disciplines—from creative writers to beekeepers and speculative theorists—present dozens of case studies which inspire us to reimagine the world and our place in it. Each example centers around guiding questions such as: How does acknowledging the queerness of nature inspire us to compose the world otherwise? And what is the role of an individual in a symbiotic community? "Queer flora, fauna, and funga" asks us to reconsider our relationships with each other and our more-than-human companions in the natural world.
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Reviving America's forgotten neighborhoods : an investigation of inner city revitalization efforts
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"Reviving America's forgotten neighborhoods" brings a new angle to the urban redevelopment discussion by expanding the definition of successful revitalization beyond higher property values and income levels. In this important work, Elise Bright argues for a more holistic approach to measuring community development. In-depth case studies on a range of American(...)
Reviving America's forgotten neighborhoods : an investigation of inner city revitalization efforts
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"Reviving America's forgotten neighborhoods" brings a new angle to the urban redevelopment discussion by expanding the definition of successful revitalization beyond higher property values and income levels. In this important work, Elise Bright argues for a more holistic approach to measuring community development. In-depth case studies on a range of American cities--including Seattle, Milwaukee, the Twin Cities, Boston, and Pittsburgh--examine both successes and failures of inner city revitalization efforts. Drawing on field research and interviews with a variety of subject-city officials, planners, community activists and residents, Bright shows how factors such as communication between residents, shelter, and a feeling of safety can help save even the most devastated neighbourhoods.
Urban Theory