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Out the window (LAX)
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Contemporary artist Zoe Crosher takes the viewer on an exploratory journey inside the impersonal and transient travel world surrounding the mega international airport, LAX. She finds a landscape packed with identical hotel chains pushed up against giant billboards, where the words “hotel” and “taxi” are understood by nearly everyone. Crosher methodically settled into a(...)
Out the window (LAX)
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Contemporary artist Zoe Crosher takes the viewer on an exploratory journey inside the impersonal and transient travel world surrounding the mega international airport, LAX. She finds a landscape packed with identical hotel chains pushed up against giant billboards, where the words “hotel” and “taxi” are understood by nearly everyone. Crosher methodically settled into a different hotel room each day and photographed out the window. The only requirement was that the view from each room must duplicate the one she inhabited before. The pattern of the drapes change, the color of the stucco exterior changes and the airplanes caught in mid flight move through the atmosphere, but the basic view stays the same. There is a haunting familiarity that one has never really left the first room, a feeling of complete déjà-vu. Time and identity almost cease to exist. For Crosher, her very quiet, minimal images create huge questions about place, identity, the homogenization of global cultures.
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Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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Au service de la consommation du monde, le tourisme suppose, non seulement une sensibilité particulière, mais aussi une réalité organisée autour de lieux modélisés selon des principes gestionnaires. Désinvesti de son territoire d’origine, le touriste nourrit l’espoir confus de trouver ailleurs ce qui lui manque chez lui: le goût de vivre une existence conviviale sur un(...)
L'usure du monde: critique de la déraison touristique
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Au service de la consommation du monde, le tourisme suppose, non seulement une sensibilité particulière, mais aussi une réalité organisée autour de lieux modélisés selon des principes gestionnaires. Désinvesti de son territoire d’origine, le touriste nourrit l’espoir confus de trouver ailleurs ce qui lui manque chez lui: le goût de vivre une existence conviviale sur un territoire encore chargé de sens et de vie. Mais par sa présence même, il détruit ce qu’il est venu chercher.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Reclaiming travel
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Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel and what has come to be missing from our contemporary understanding of travel. Engaging with canonical and(...)
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
December 2014
Reclaiming travel
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Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel and what has come to be missing from our contemporary understanding of travel. Engaging with canonical and contemporary texts, they explore the differences between travel and tourism, the relationship between travel and memory, the genre of travel writing, and the power of mapmaking, Stavans and Ellison call for a rethinking of the art of travel, which they define as a transformative quest that gives us deeper access to ourselves.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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UNCHARTED: The New Landscape of Tourism has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism. Published with Architecture at IE University
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December 2014
Uncharted: the new landscapes of tourism
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UNCHARTED: The New Landscape of Tourism has a two-fold objective: to explore new avenues of thought in design teaching, and to do so through research that deals with new architectural landscapes that are linked to tourism. Published with Architecture at IE University
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Bienvenue à bord !
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Bienvenue à bord !est un hommage visuel à l’âge d’or du transport aérien du début des années 60 : une époque de nouvelles perspectives et de liberté. Bienvenue à bord ! puise dans une iconographie pour la plupart inédite issue de l’archive historique Boeing, du Museum of Flight de Seattle et de collections de multiples compagnies aériennes. "Bienvenue à bord !" renvoie le(...)
Bienvenue à bord !
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Bienvenue à bord !est un hommage visuel à l’âge d’or du transport aérien du début des années 60 : une époque de nouvelles perspectives et de liberté. Bienvenue à bord ! puise dans une iconographie pour la plupart inédite issue de l’archive historique Boeing, du Museum of Flight de Seattle et de collections de multiples compagnies aériennes. "Bienvenue à bord !" renvoie le lecteur à l’ère au cours de laquelle prendre l’avion était nouveau, glamour, alors que la "jet set" venait d’apparaître. Aviez-vous oublié les célébrités embarquant dans des appareils révolutionnaires, le brouhaha dans les aéroports "modernes", les cabines spacieuses, les repas de gourmets, le charme et l’allure d’une nouvelle génération de jeunes et élégantes hôtesses de l’air ? Revivez ce commencement, cette promesse d’un monde dans lequel chacun allait pouvoir voler plus vite dans ces avions pressurisés et confortables, et vibrer plus haut, permettant de quitter New York le soir et arriver à Londres pour le déjeuner !
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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A container ship, sailing under the flag of one country but owned by a corporation headquartered in another, carrying auto parts from Japan, frozen fish from Vietnam, and rubber ducks from China, offers a vivid representation of the increasing, world-is-flat globalization of the international economy. In The Container Principle, Alexander Klose investigates the principle(...)
The container principle : how a box changes the way we think
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A container ship, sailing under the flag of one country but owned by a corporation headquartered in another, carrying auto parts from Japan, frozen fish from Vietnam, and rubber ducks from China, offers a vivid representation of the increasing, world-is-flat globalization of the international economy. In The Container Principle, Alexander Klose investigates the principle of the container and its effect on the way we live and think.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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There are an estimated 600,000,000 passenger cars in the world, and that number is increasing every day. So too is Earth’s supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint. It’s official: we have paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In ReThinking a Lot, Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for(...)
Rethinking a lot : the design and culture of parking
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There are an estimated 600,000,000 passenger cars in the world, and that number is increasing every day. So too is Earth’s supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint. It’s official: we have paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In ReThinking a Lot, Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for parking’s future. Parking lots, he writes, are ripe for transformation. After all, their design and function has not been rethought since the 1950s. With this book, Ben-Joseph pushes the parking lot into the twenty-first century.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in(...)
Dispatches from dystopia: histories of places not yet forgotten
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“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
Tokyo in transit
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Tokyo in Transit offers look through modern Japanese literature and culture, and includes the first English translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning author. Freedman argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations, transport workers, and passengers,(...)
Tokyo in transit
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Tokyo in Transit offers look through modern Japanese literature and culture, and includes the first English translation of Kawabata Yasunari's The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning author. Freedman argues that, through descriptions of trains and buses, stations, transport workers, and passengers, Japanese authors responded to contradictions in Tokyo's urban modernity and exposed the effects of rapid change on the individual.
Transportation, Tourism, Migration
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An early version of the slide projector and an immediate predecessor of narrative cinema, the magic lantern provided the lens through which late-nineteenth century Europe and America viewed and imagined the world. Magic lantern slide shows were a popular, entertaining and educational way for people to learn about the world beyond their own horizons, and from Cairo to(...)
Memories of a lost world : travels through the magic lantern
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An early version of the slide projector and an immediate predecessor of narrative cinema, the magic lantern provided the lens through which late-nineteenth century Europe and America viewed and imagined the world. Magic lantern slide shows were a popular, entertaining and educational way for people to learn about the world beyond their own horizons, and from Cairo to Delhi to Adelaide and Cape Town, intrepid European and American photographers traveled to all corners of the world to document its peoples and customs. Now, for the first time, images of original magic lantern slides have been brought together in a single publication. Memories of a Lost World: Travels through the Magic Latern takes the reader back to a pre-globalised world in which regional customs and national cultures were as distinctive as they were diverse. From the bustling streets of Victorian London and the ruins of ancient Egypt to the temples of Japan and the tribesmen of New Guinea, Memories of a Lost World explores the world through a captivating collection of over 800 magic lantern slide images. This volume is not only an important source of primary historical information, but also conveys something of what the world was like before the advent of television and mass travel.
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