Ying Ang: Fruiting bodies
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Visual artist Ying Ang reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative force that challenges dominant narratives of fertility and the female body. She examines how the fetishisation of fertility shapes cultural perceptions of women, nature, and reproduction, questioning whether growth and abundance must always serve a(...)
Ying Ang: Fruiting bodies
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Visual artist Ying Ang reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative force that challenges dominant narratives of fertility and the female body. She examines how the fetishisation of fertility shapes cultural perceptions of women, nature, and reproduction, questioning whether growth and abundance must always serve a reproductive imperative. The fungal model is a form of fertility that is rhizomatic rather than hierarchical, collective rather than possessive, disruptive rather than obedient. Just as mycelium persists unseen beneath the forest floor, connecting and shaping ecosystems, women continue to shape society in profound ways.
Photography monographs
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Exploring art publishing practices today, this book focuses in particular on small-scale publishing in Asia. It attempts to contextualise and compare the region’s increasingly important publishing practices in contemporary art within both historical and regional contexts. The book features a range of interviews and essays contributed by various actors and entities in the(...)
Publishing as method, 2nd edition
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Exploring art publishing practices today, this book focuses in particular on small-scale publishing in Asia. It attempts to contextualise and compare the region’s increasingly important publishing practices in contemporary art within both historical and regional contexts. The book features a range of interviews and essays contributed by various actors and entities in the field, including publishers, artists, designers, curators, collectives, and distribution spaces. Interviews conducted since 2020 also shed light on the complexities and possibilities of artistic practices in the post-pandemic era. ‘Publishing as a Method’ is researched by the Seoul-based publishing collective mediabus.
Book Design
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Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a computer simulation. People argue about culturally collective false memories popularly known as "Mandela Effects." And various factions engaged in a magic meme war leading up to the 2016 election. In "The unseen internet,"(...)
The unseen internet: Conjuring the occult in digital discourse
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Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a computer simulation. People argue about culturally collective false memories popularly known as "Mandela Effects." And various factions engaged in a magic meme war leading up to the 2016 election. In "The unseen internet," Shira Chess explores the tensions between the occult and digital spaces in the twenty-first century. These practices have resulted in distinct kinds of otherworldly discourse that affects the broader popular perceptions of reality in the twenty-first century, within and beyond the internet.
Archive, library and the digital
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"Vivienda industrializada" focuses on housing and industrialization, opening with an article by Eduardo Prieto on the possibilities and boundaries of this practice, still today caught between the promise of technology and the logistical inertia of conventional construction. In this context, a selection of six projects completed in Spain explores different ways of(...)
AV proyectos 133: Vivienda industrializada
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"Vivienda industrializada" focuses on housing and industrialization, opening with an article by Eduardo Prieto on the possibilities and boundaries of this practice, still today caught between the promise of technology and the logistical inertia of conventional construction. In this context, a selection of six projects completed in Spain explores different ways of integrating design, manufacture, and assembly within the residential sector, in a progression ranging from the domestic to the collective. That same pragmatism is evident in the work of British architects Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, whose practice is explored here through their recent projects.
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The Paris-based architecture firm Experience is headed by Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, and Éric Lapierre. They describe their approach towards architecture as cultural and typological, where they venture in search of the “marvellous”. Experience’s meditations on architectural form are so rational that they sometimes loop into the surreal, a paradox apparent in the(...)
a+u 663 : Experience - Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, Éric Lapierre
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The Paris-based architecture firm Experience is headed by Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, and Éric Lapierre. They describe their approach towards architecture as cultural and typological, where they venture in search of the “marvellous”. Experience’s meditations on architectural form are so rational that they sometimes loop into the surreal, a paradox apparent in the nineteen works presented in this issue: Palaiseau Student Housing, Chris Marker Residence, Berthelot Collective Housing, Verdeaux School Complex, and more. Notably, the firm imagines housing not as a mechanical repetition of units but as a system of heterogenous parts akin to a living organism.
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Conceived as an emotional compendium of small, function-specific enclosures and temporary structures, ‘'Typology of Intimacy'’ proposes the booth as the embodiment of intimacy through the voices of an eclectic group of people. Through a series of in-depth interviews and contributions from researchers, artists, architects, and writers, it formulates the core of an ongoing(...)
Typology of intimacy. An emotional catalog of booths
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Conceived as an emotional compendium of small, function-specific enclosures and temporary structures, ‘'Typology of Intimacy'’ proposes the booth as the embodiment of intimacy through the voices of an eclectic group of people. Through a series of in-depth interviews and contributions from researchers, artists, architects, and writers, it formulates the core of an ongoing artistic and architectural investigation into the entanglement of space and emotion. With contributions by David Bergé, Carla Ferrando, Balts Projects, Mirko Zardini, Cynthia Davidson, Nikos Magouliotis, Girão Lima Arquitectos, Dawn Nilo, Lev Bratishenko, Mariana Siracusa, TAB Collective, Manuel Henriques, and more.
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Réenchanter le monde
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Silvia Federici examine dans « Réenchanter le monde » la politique des communs à travers une perspective puisant dans les luttes des femmes actuelles et passées autour de l'accès à la santé et aux soins reproductifs. Les mouvements de femmes actuels ainsi que les initiatives de groupes, communautés et peuples opprimés dans le monde proposent des alternatives collectives(...)
Réenchanter le monde
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Silvia Federici examine dans « Réenchanter le monde » la politique des communs à travers une perspective puisant dans les luttes des femmes actuelles et passées autour de l'accès à la santé et aux soins reproductifs. Les mouvements de femmes actuels ainsi que les initiatives de groupes, communautés et peuples opprimés dans le monde proposent des alternatives collectives et conviviales au mode d'organisation capitaliste. Agricultrices vivrières du monde et « tisseuses de mémoire », les femmes construisent partout de nouvelles économies politiques fondées sur l'action collective et des formes coopératives de reproduction sociale. Au cœur de leur stratégie se trouvent les communs.
Social
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Typography is the single most important design element, and, therefore, the most consequential course that an undergraduate student can take. Then why do so many student portfolios reflect poor typographic skill? In a singular effort to raise the bar on type education, designer and teacher Steven Heller reached out to type-devoted educators across the United States.(...)
The education of a typographer
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Typography is the single most important design element, and, therefore, the most consequential course that an undergraduate student can take. Then why do so many student portfolios reflect poor typographic skill? In a singular effort to raise the bar on type education, designer and teacher Steven Heller reached out to type-devoted educators across the United States. Drawing from hundreds of hours of collective teaching experience, they distilled proposals and working concepts that make for challenging courses without inflating the students’ schedules. In "The Education of a Typographer", editor Heller presents forty-one approaches to laying the foundation for typographic fluency.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Based in Luanda, Angola, the office of COSTALOPES is headed by Alexandre and António Falcão Costa Lopes. One of the most distinguished offices in Angolan architecture today, its portfolio includes numerous projects reflecting both the architects’ heritage and the strong Portuguese and Brazilian influence that marks the region. This monographic issue details works of all(...)
A.mag 10: Costalopes Architects
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Based in Luanda, Angola, the office of COSTALOPES is headed by Alexandre and António Falcão Costa Lopes. One of the most distinguished offices in Angolan architecture today, its portfolio includes numerous projects reflecting both the architects’ heritage and the strong Portuguese and Brazilian influence that marks the region. This monographic issue details works of all scales and materials, from an urban waterfront revitalisation to city centre high-rises, each realised in the dense and sprawling capital. The architects’ belief in open projects, anchored in local cultures and rooted in collective life and public space, leads to a globally connected, critical practice.
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The Fundamental Acts propose a collective reformulation of five great themes of the human existence – Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death. They were conceived by Superstudio as a series of films centered on the relationship between architecture and the acts of human life. The films were sketched in storyboard format and later published as a series of documents on(...)
Fundamental acts. Superstudio: Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death
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The Fundamental Acts propose a collective reformulation of five great themes of the human existence – Life, Education, Ceremony, Love and Death. They were conceived by Superstudio as a series of films centered on the relationship between architecture and the acts of human life. The films were sketched in storyboard format and later published as a series of documents on the pages of Casabella magazine. The Fundamental Acts contain the possibility of reintroducing a discourse on the relationship between architecture and ritual. They have been (re)produced by a group of international contributors and the documents submitted have been collected in this book.
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