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In the Bubble
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by th...
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Landscape into Eco Art
Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting. Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and broader art-historical context. He considers a wide range of media—from painting, sculpture, and photography to ...
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Restoring Layered Landscapes
Restoring Layered Landscapes explores ecological restoration in complex landscapes, where ecosystems intertwine with important sociopolitical meanings. This volume considers restoration and interpretation of complex landscapes such as former industrial sites, asking how restoration can remain faithful to the past while anticipating the future in an era of unprecedented environmental change.
Andrea Blum
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East art
Het Werkverband Kunst IJ-As (KIJAS), door de gemeente Amsterdam ingesteld om de betekenis en de mogelijkheden van kunst in de openbare ruimte te onderzoeken en projecten te realiseren, heeft met het oog op de stedelijke ontwikkeling van het havengebied in Amsterdam de Werkgroep Kunst Oostelijk Havengebied opgericht. De Werkgroep had als taak kunst in een vroeg stadium te betrekken bij de stedelijke ontwikkeling van het havengebied. Vanaf 1989 tot en met 2001 heeft de Werkgroep zich als mede-opdrachtgever bezig gehouden met beleid, financiering, organisatie en uitvoering. Deze publicatie toont het resultaat.
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