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Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis : is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe ? This book examines the three principle value systems which influence landscape architectural practice,(...)
Ecology community and delight : sources of values in landscape architecture
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Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis : is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe ? This book examines the three principle value systems which influence landscape architectural practice, the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future.
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Théorie du paysage
A Grammar Built with Rocks
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Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, "A Grammar Built with Rocks" explores artists’ engagement with sites of physical dispossession and socio-ecological crisis, highlighting how creative research methodologies can serve as radically new place-making practices. The publication brings together(...)
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Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, "A Grammar Built with Rocks" explores artists’ engagement with sites of physical dispossession and socio-ecological crisis, highlighting how creative research methodologies can serve as radically new place-making practices. The publication brings together a range of feminist-decolonial texts and visual contributions that explore how movement, transience, and improvisation offer alternative ways of being-together while being-in-place.
Théorie de l’art
The Extreme self
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If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Over 14 timely chapters, 'The Extreme Self' tours through(...)
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If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Over 14 timely chapters, 'The Extreme Self' tours through fame and intimacy, post-work and new crowds, identity crisis and eternity.
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Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, this book highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. This publication reveals the(...)
Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, this book highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. This publication reveals the way art, music, fashion, and performance can help us envision a more just future.
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Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, ''Climates. Habitats. Environments.'' weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for(...)
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, ''Climates. Habitats. Environments.'' weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking.
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In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better(...)
Burning questions: Essays and occasional pieces 2004-2021
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In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Canadian painters in a modern world, 1925-1955 : writings and reconsiderations / Lora Senechal Carney.
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
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It is highly unlikely that the big challenges posed by the current enviromental crisis may be overcome without reconciling increasingly effective technologies with the development of new ways of social life. In the face of this challenge, architecture can contribute the many valuable experiences built throughout the twentieth century. Based on this hypothesis, the(...)
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novembre 2015
The construction of climate in modern architectural culture, 1920-1980
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It is highly unlikely that the big challenges posed by the current enviromental crisis may be overcome without reconciling increasingly effective technologies with the development of new ways of social life. In the face of this challenge, architecture can contribute the many valuable experiences built throughout the twentieth century. Based on this hypothesis, the articles included in this book set out to go through some of the cultural constructions regarding the relationship between architecture and climate in the context of modernity.
Théorie de l’architecture
Trees: a rooted history
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Part botany, part history, part cultural anthropology—''Trees: A Rooted History'' goes beyond the basics to tell readers everything they might want to know about this particular branch of the plant kingdom. ''Trees'' explores the important roles trees play in our ecosystem, takes an up-close-and-personal look at the parts of trees (from roots to leaves), and unpacks the(...)
Trees: a rooted history
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Part botany, part history, part cultural anthropology—''Trees: A Rooted History'' goes beyond the basics to tell readers everything they might want to know about this particular branch of the plant kingdom. ''Trees'' explores the important roles trees play in our ecosystem, takes an up-close-and-personal look at the parts of trees (from roots to leaves), and unpacks the cultural impact of trees from classification systems (like family trees) to art forms (like bonsai trees). Looking forward, ''Trees'' also addresses the deforestation crisis.
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''Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency'' is not a typical guidebook, but a rich collection of conversations and reflections exploring life amid global crisis. It brings together voices from science, art, activism, ecopsychology, and systems thinking. Rather than offering solutions, ''Imagine'' encourages readers to pause, reflect, and engage(...)
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Imagine: Embracing chaos and possibility in a planetary emergency
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''Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency'' is not a typical guidebook, but a rich collection of conversations and reflections exploring life amid global crisis. It brings together voices from science, art, activism, ecopsychology, and systems thinking. Rather than offering solutions, ''Imagine'' encourages readers to pause, reflect, and engage with the complexity of our ecological and social realities. It’s a thoughtful companion for uncertain times – opening space for deeper inquiry and new ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet.