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Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region traces the city's development from a British colonial outpost established in 1793 to the multicultural, polycentric metropolitan region of today. Though the original grid survey and much of the streetcar city created a century ago have endured, they have been supplemented by remarkable changes over the past fifty years in(...)
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Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region traces the city's development from a British colonial outpost established in 1793 to the multicultural, polycentric metropolitan region of today. Though the original grid survey and much of the streetcar city created a century ago have endured, they have been supplemented by remarkable changes over the past fifty years in(...)
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Toronto: transformations in a city and its region
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Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region traces the city's development from a British colonial outpost established in 1793 to the multicultural, polycentric metropolitan region of today. Though the original grid survey and much of the streetcar city created a century ago have endured, they have been supplemented by remarkable changes over the past fifty years in the context of economic and social globalization. Geographer Edward Relph's broad-stroke portrait of the urban region draws on the ideas of two renowned Torontonians—Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan—to provide an interpretation of how its current forms and landscapes came to be as they are, the values they embody, and how they may change once again.
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Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Region traces the city's development from a British colonial outpost established in 1793 to the multicultural, polycentric metropolitan region of today. Though the original grid survey and much of the streetcar city created a century ago have endured, they have been supplemented by remarkable changes over the past fifty years in the context of economic and social globalization. Geographer Edward Relph's broad-stroke portrait of the urban region draws on the ideas of two renowned Torontonians—Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan—to provide an interpretation of how its current forms and landscapes came to be as they are, the values they embody, and how they may change once again.
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February 2014
February 2014
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the early 14th century in a broad European context and also within the aesthetic discourses of the medieval period. The author, stressing the continuum between art and architecture, challenges(...)
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By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the early 14th century in a broad European context and also within the aesthetic discourses of the medieval period. The author, stressing the continuum between art and architecture, challenges(...)
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Gothic wonder: art, artifice, and the decorated style, 1290–1350
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By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the early 14th century in a broad European context and also within the aesthetic discourses of the medieval period. The author, stressing the continuum between art and architecture, challenges understandings about agency, modernity, hierarchy, and marginality. His book makes a powerful case for the restoration of the category of the aesthetic to the understanding of medieval art. Gothic Wonder traces the impact of English art in Continental Europe, ending with the Black Death and the literary uses of the architectural in works by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers.
Gothic wonder: art, artifice, and the decorated style, 1290–1350
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By examining notions of what was extraordinary, re-evaluating medieval ideas of authorship, and restoring economic considerations to the debate, Binski sets English visual art of the early 14th century in a broad European context and also within the aesthetic discourses of the medieval period. The author, stressing the continuum between art and architecture, challenges understandings about agency, modernity, hierarchy, and marginality. His book makes a powerful case for the restoration of the category of the aesthetic to the understanding of medieval art. Gothic Wonder traces the impact of English art in Continental Europe, ending with the Black Death and the literary uses of the architectural in works by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers.
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December 2014
December 2014
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History until 1900, Middle Ages
History until 1900, Middle Ages
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Greater Vancouver greenguide
Greater Vancouver greenguide
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Compiled by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC, the"GreenGuide" brings together in one place the green buildings, green neighbourhoods, green infrastructure, open spaces, and social, economic, and environmental programs that embody built examples of urban sustainability in Greater Vancouver. The goal of the GreenGuide is to help Greater Vancouver celebrate the(...)
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Compiled by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC, the"GreenGuide" brings together in one place the green buildings, green neighbourhoods, green infrastructure, open spaces, and social, economic, and environmental programs that embody built examples of urban sustainability in Greater Vancouver. The goal of the GreenGuide is to help Greater Vancouver celebrate the(...)
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Greater Vancouver greenguide
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Compiled by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC, the"GreenGuide" brings together in one place the green buildings, green neighbourhoods, green infrastructure, open spaces, and social, economic, and environmental programs that embody built examples of urban sustainability in Greater Vancouver. The goal of the GreenGuide is to help Greater Vancouver celebrate the initiatives that are underway, and share these lessons as we continue to turn ideas into action. The GreenGuide consist of a highly graphical, pocket-sized guidebook, accompanied by a large-scale foldable map that allows users to locate projects easily. It documents and highlights key sustainability features of 111 projects, provides suggested tours, and tells our region’s sustainability story.
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Compiled by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC, the"GreenGuide" brings together in one place the green buildings, green neighbourhoods, green infrastructure, open spaces, and social, economic, and environmental programs that embody built examples of urban sustainability in Greater Vancouver. The goal of the GreenGuide is to help Greater Vancouver celebrate the initiatives that are underway, and share these lessons as we continue to turn ideas into action. The GreenGuide consist of a highly graphical, pocket-sized guidebook, accompanied by a large-scale foldable map that allows users to locate projects easily. It documents and highlights key sustainability features of 111 projects, provides suggested tours, and tells our region’s sustainability story.
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April 2007, Vancouver
April 2007, Vancouver
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Architecture in Canada
Architecture in Canada
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How can we unlock society’s potential to shift the course of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate-fuelled environmental destruction. However, Practicing Social Ecology shows that there is an amazing well of untapped power in our communities—we just need to know how to use it. Drawing from her experience of working in democratic ecology(...)
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How can we unlock society’s potential to shift the course of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate-fuelled environmental destruction. However, Practicing Social Ecology shows that there is an amazing well of untapped power in our communities—we just need to know how to use it. Drawing from her experience of working in democratic ecology(...)
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Practicing social ecology: from Bookchin to Rojava and beyond
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How can we unlock society’s potential to shift the course of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate-fuelled environmental destruction. However, Practicing Social Ecology shows that there is an amazing well of untapped power in our communities—we just need to know how to use it. Drawing from her experience of working in democratic ecology movements from the revolution in Rojava to Barcelona’s municipalist movement, Finley shows how to develop assemblies, confederations, study groups, and permaculture projects. Looking to history, she maps out how social ecologists, such as Murray Bookchin, have led inspirational struggles around climate and energy, agriculture and biotechnology, globalization, and economic inequality.
Practicing social ecology: from Bookchin to Rojava and beyond
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How can we unlock society’s potential to shift the course of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless in the face of corporate-fuelled environmental destruction. However, Practicing Social Ecology shows that there is an amazing well of untapped power in our communities—we just need to know how to use it. Drawing from her experience of working in democratic ecology movements from the revolution in Rojava to Barcelona’s municipalist movement, Finley shows how to develop assemblies, confederations, study groups, and permaculture projects. Looking to history, she maps out how social ecologists, such as Murray Bookchin, have led inspirational struggles around climate and energy, agriculture and biotechnology, globalization, and economic inequality.
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February 2025
February 2025
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their(...)
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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their(...)
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Collective Housing
Collective Housing
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December 2024
December 2024
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A history of collective living: Forms of shared housing
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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe. Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form.
A history of collective living: Forms of shared housing
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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe. Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form.
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December 2024
December 2024
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Collective Housing
Collective Housing
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast(...)
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast(...)
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast assortment of small ramps has emerged. These ramps possess a sculptural and expressive quality, and constitute a kind of folk brutalism. ''Rampitas'' is a small study of and appreciation for these forms that tell so much about the conditions – social, economic, and topographical – that defined the struggles and lives of the people who built them.
Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast assortment of small ramps has emerged. These ramps possess a sculptural and expressive quality, and constitute a kind of folk brutalism. ''Rampitas'' is a small study of and appreciation for these forms that tell so much about the conditions – social, economic, and topographical – that defined the struggles and lives of the people who built them.
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June 2024
June 2024
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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It has been 30 years since the release of the first ‘AV Monographs’ yearbook, a publication that gathers the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, a new phase begins in which more pages are devoted to the selection of 24(...)
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It has been 30 years since the release of the first ‘AV Monographs’ yearbook, a publication that gathers the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, a new phase begins in which more pages are devoted to the selection of 24(...)
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AV Monographs 261-262 : Espana 2024
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It has been 30 years since the release of the first ‘AV Monographs’ yearbook, a publication that gathers the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, a new phase begins in which more pages are devoted to the selection of 24 buildings. Featured are the Royal Collections Gallery by Mansilla + Tuñón in Madrid, the Pallars Building by BAAS in Barcelona, social housing by Harquitectes in Gavà, and the Hortensia Herrero Art Center by ERRE arquitectura in Valencia. For the first time, space is also devoted to work by Spanish studios abroad.
AV Monographs 261-262 : Espana 2024
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It has been 30 years since the release of the first ‘AV Monographs’ yearbook, a publication that gathers the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, a new phase begins in which more pages are devoted to the selection of 24 buildings. Featured are the Royal Collections Gallery by Mansilla + Tuñón in Madrid, the Pallars Building by BAAS in Barcelona, social housing by Harquitectes in Gavà, and the Hortensia Herrero Art Center by ERRE arquitectura in Valencia. For the first time, space is also devoted to work by Spanish studios abroad.
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June 2024
June 2024
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Magazines
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This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial(...)
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This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial(...)
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August 2024
August 2024
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Architecture for housing: Understanding the value of design through 14 case studies
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This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. It follows a series of talks curated by the Melbourne School of Design to extend the debate on the missing links between architectural practice and housing research.
Architecture for housing: Understanding the value of design through 14 case studies
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This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. It follows a series of talks curated by the Melbourne School of Design to extend the debate on the missing links between architectural practice and housing research.
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August 2024
August 2024
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The social (re)production of architecture: politics, values and actions in contemporary practice
The social (re)production of architecture: politics, values and actions in contemporary practice
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''The Social (Re)Production of Architecture'' brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the 'production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of(...)
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''The Social (Re)Production of Architecture'' brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the 'production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of(...)
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The social (re)production of architecture: politics, values and actions in contemporary practice
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''The Social (Re)Production of Architecture'' brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the 'production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architecture's engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of 'social' can architecture (re)produce, and what kinds of politics, values and actions are needed.
The social (re)production of architecture: politics, values and actions in contemporary practice
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''The Social (Re)Production of Architecture'' brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the 'production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architecture's engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of 'social' can architecture (re)produce, and what kinds of politics, values and actions are needed.
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August 2017
August 2017
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The museum of capitalism
The museum of capitalism
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This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Sketches and renderings of exhibits and artifacts, combined with relevant quotations from historical sources, are interspersed with speculative essays on the(...)
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This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Sketches and renderings of exhibits and artifacts, combined with relevant quotations from historical sources, are interspersed with speculative essays on the(...)
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September 2017
September 2017
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The museum of capitalism
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This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Sketches and renderings of exhibits and artifacts, combined with relevant quotations from historical sources, are interspersed with speculative essays on the intersections of ecology, race, museology, historiography, economics and politics. Included are representations of artworks and museum exhibits created by artists Oliver Ressler, Sayler/Morris, Dread Scott, Temporary Services, and others, original Isotype graphics drawn from the museum’s lexicon of “capitalisms,” and texts from Lucy Lippard, Lester K. Spence, T.J. Demos, Chantal Mouffe, McKenzie Wark and Kim Stanley Robinson, among others.
The museum of capitalism
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This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Sketches and renderings of exhibits and artifacts, combined with relevant quotations from historical sources, are interspersed with speculative essays on the intersections of ecology, race, museology, historiography, economics and politics. Included are representations of artworks and museum exhibits created by artists Oliver Ressler, Sayler/Morris, Dread Scott, Temporary Services, and others, original Isotype graphics drawn from the museum’s lexicon of “capitalisms,” and texts from Lucy Lippard, Lester K. Spence, T.J. Demos, Chantal Mouffe, McKenzie Wark and Kim Stanley Robinson, among others.
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September 2017
September 2017
