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Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
This volume gathers together reflections on racism and nationalism, empowerment and futurity. It focuses on collective amnesia in regards to traumatic events of the European past and the ways in which memory and history are presented for the future. The essays cover and oppose the seemingly disparate genocides committed during Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and turbo-nationalism in “Republika Srpska” (Bosnia and Herzegovina), implying by no means a homogenization of the experiences. What connects these historical situations is the fact that, despite available documents, to this very day, nation-states are built on practices of oblivion regarding their past. This volume is indispensable for theoreticians, philosophers, and historians, as well as the general public. It expresses the demand to critically question our inherited knowledge and to rethink the past for a new future of conviviality.
Eat, Cook, Grow
Tools, interfaces, methods, and practices that can help bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture—blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks—in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Focusing on our urban environments provisioned with digital and network capacities, and drawing on such “bottom-up” sociotechnical trends as DIY and open source, th...
Deformations
Famous in Belgium since the 1990s for his metal furniture and the interior design of commercial and private spaces, Xavier Lust quickly entered the inner sanctum of international design. Since 'Le Banc' marketed by MDF Italia, he has worked with this manufacturer as well as with world famous brands such as De Padova, Driade, Moroso and Extremis. Given the VIZO Henry Van de Velde Award for Young Talent in 2003, his furniture is identifiable thanks to a tension in the design that is his trademark. His work of (de)formation of metallic surfaces opens new fields of applications: modern furniture, tableware, the world of bath design, lighting, the casings of electronic products... His talent is to associate creativity on paper and 3D simulation with a subtle approach in the field. 250 colour illustrations
What is Constructive Theology?
This essential introduction to contemporary constructive theology charts the most important disciplinary trends of the moment. It gives a historical overview of the field and discusses key hermeneutical and methodological concerns. The contributors apply a constructive perspective to a wide range of approaches, ranging from biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial studies to comparative, political, and black theology. What is Constructive Theology? shows how diverse and interdisciplinary constructive theology can be by exploring key themes in the field. The contributors explore the porous boundaries between Christianity and other religions, reflect on contextual, liberation and constructive theologies from Africa and from Black British perspectives, explore the connection between embodiment, epistemology and hermeneutics, and take a constructive approach to the dangerous memories and theologies of colonial histories in Belgium and Native Americans in the United States. This sampler of the field will help you rethink theologies and find constructive alternatives.
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Emerging Paradigm: Design and Change
With the current changes in production and design processes, the relationship between design and its communication is also changing . it is no longer perceived as a sender-receiver model, but can more aptly be described by the metaphor of "doing things together." Well known authors approach the topic from this starting point. With essays by Vilim Vasata, Harry Rich, Brian Switzer, Francis Smets, Tonis Kao, Thomas Elser, Knut Maierhofer, Wilfried Korfmacher and Peter Zec.
Challenging The City Scale
Since 2014, the Human Cities network has been working on Challenging the City Scale: a pan-European project led by Cité du design Saint-Étienne and supported by the Creative Europe programme to question the urban scale and investigate co-creation in cities. The Human Cities partners have carried out urban experimentations in 11 European cities empowering citizens to rethink the spaces in which they live, work and spend their leisure time. Through conversations with people involved, the book examines how bottom-up processes and their design, tools and instruments generate new ideas to reinvent the city. It offers inspiration and insights to everyone, from practitioners and politicians to designers and active citizens, eager to try out new ways to produce more human cities together.
Design and Politics
The unique position of design in the political context of postwar Belgium In the postwar era, design became important as a marker of modernity and progress at world fairs and international exhibitions and in the global markets. The Belgian state took a special interest in this vanguard phenomenon of ‘industrial design’ as a vital political and economic strategic tool in the context of the Cold War and the creation of the European community. This book describes the unique position that design occupied in the political context of postwar Belgium as it analyses the public promotion of design between 1950 and 1986. It traces this process, from the first government-backed manifestations and i...
Cathedrals of Europe
"Prache surveys the history of church building from its humble beginnings in Late Antiquity through the construction of such masterworks of the Gothic style as Reims, Strasbourg, and Wells. Throughout, she reminds us that these magnificent expressions of faith also reflected their builders' hopes and fears, technical expertise, political views, and the ever-changing economic and social realities with which they had to contend."--BOOK JACKET.
Lessen in goed wonen
"Lessen in goed wonen" werpt een licht op een bijzondere vorm van woonadvies, eigen aan de naoorlogse periode in België. Het boek introduceert de lezer in een breed debat over zogenaamd 'goed' of 'beter' wonen. Een hele reeks geëngageerde gesprekspartners waren bij dit debat betrokken: overheidsinstellingen, architecten, designers, beroepsorganisaties, socioculturele verenigingen, producenten en bouwmaatschappijen. Talrijke tentoonstellingen, boeken, artikels, lezingen en lessenreeksen waren bedoeld om de bezoeker, lezer of toeschouwer te informeren en 'op te voeden' inzake wooncultuur.
