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Mismatch: How inclusion shapes design
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods—designing objects with rather than for excluded users—can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all.
Urban SanctuaryUrban Sanctuary showcases outstanding contemporary houses from Australia and New Zealand situated in urban contexts that explore and demonstrate new inventive ways of living with the outdoors. Taking the form of vertical gardens, micro-green spaces, rooftop gardens, courtyards, borrowed landscapes and reworked traditional gardens, these projects reveal how a home can interact with garden spaces - in whatever form they might take. From the authors of Living In the Landscape
Adapting cities to sea level rise: Green and gray strategies
Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise, by infrastructure expert Stefan Al, introduces design responses to sea-level rise, drawing from examples around the globe. Going against standard engineering solutions, Al argues for approaches that are integrated with the public realm, nature-based, and sensitive to local conditions and the community. He features design responses to building resilience that creates new civic assets for cities. For the first time, the possible infrastructure solutions are brought together in a clear and easy-to-read format.
Exhibiting matters
The dissolution of the 'traditional' artwork as well as the division of labour within the specified and increasingly intersecting fields of art and architecture make a re-evaluation of the spatial, curatorial, temporal, and institutional aspects of exhibiting necessary. In particular, the act of exhibiting is currently being shaped more and more by the embrace of a deliberate refusal of temporal and spatial closure, thus also bringing forth new sites for investigative (dis)play, media manifestations, and crossover collaborations.
The senses: design beyond visionA powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that explores how space, materials, sound, and light affect the mind and body. Learn how contemporary designers, including Petra Blaisse, Bruce Mau, Malin+Goetz and many others, engage sensory experience. Multisensory design can solve problems and enhance life for everyone, including those with sensory disabilities. Featuring thematic essays on topics ranging from design for the table to tactile graphics, tactile sound, and visualizing the senses, this book is a call to action for multisensory design practice.
BC architects & studies. The act of buildingThis book is the result of the work that Pauline Lefebvre, researcher and theoretician of architecture, conducted at, with and about BC architects & studies. She researched their practice as part of her broader inquiry about architects’ increased involvement in construction and materials as a renewed form of political engagement in architecture. For four months, she was a full-time participant in the activities of the office. Together with BC, she designed this book as both an independent proposition and a complement to the participation of BC architects & studies in the 16th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.
Freeing architecture - Junya IshigamiLightness, transparency, simplicity, and communion with nature are Japanese architect Junya Ishigami’s watchwords. In his architectural masterworks, which he compares to landscapes, he eliminates the boundaries between exterior and interior space. For the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Junya Ishigami designed an exhibition that reveals, on an unprecedented scale, his latest research into freedom, fluidity, and the future of architecture. On the occasion of this exhibition, presented from March 30 to September 9, 2018, the Fondation Cartier will publish a book retracing the genesis of the project, including mixed photographs, drawings, models, and all the poetry inherent to Ishigami’s work.
Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape
In Waste Land, photographer David T. Hanson presents a picture of our environment that is unfamiliar and deeply disturbing. It is, however, a picture that must be looked at and contended with if our environment is to survive. In the words of the writer Wendell Berry, Hanson has "given us the topography of our open wounds." Waste Land is a powerful book that will not permit us to turn our backs on the declining state of our environment.
Serious play: Design in midcentury america
This spirited volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War II, Americans began accumulating more and more goods, spurring a transformation in the field of interior decoration. Storage walls became ubiquitous, often serving as a home’s centerpiece. Designers such as Alexander Girard encouraged homeowners to populate their new shelving units with folk art, as well as unconventional and modern objects, to produce innovative and unexpected juxtapositions within modern architectural settings. Playfulness can be seen in the colorful, child-sized furniture by Charles and Ray Eames, who also produced toys. And in the postwar corporate world, the concept of play is manifested in the influential advertising work of Paul Rand. Set against the backdrop of a society that was experiencing rapid change and high anxiety, Serious Playtakes a revelatory look at how many of the country’s leading designers connected with their audience through wit and imagination.
The French Pavilion at the 2018 Architecture Biennale in Venice addresses the shift towards seeking out alternative places, exploring and paving the way to new uses, and extending the premise of third places. “Infinite” because they are open to possibilities, possess potential, and are unfinished. This book sheds light not only on the processes, the different ways they are managed and run, and the commitment of the participants, but also on the underlying philosophical and political issues relating to their emergence. Architect-curators Encore Heureux present ten remarkable and different initiatives, places which cultivate and believe in mixing genres, activities, and audiences.
Too often, cultural leaders and policy makers want to chase the perfect
metric for activities whose real worth lies in our own personal experience. The
major problem facing Australian culture today is demonstrating its value – to
governments, the business sector, and the public in general. When did
culture become a number? When did the books, paintings, poems, plays, songs,
films, games, art installations, clothes, and the objects that fill our daily
lives become a matter of statistical measurement? When did experience become
data? This book intervenes in an important debate about the public value of
culture that has become stranded between the hard heads (where the arts are
just another industry) and the soft hearts (for whom they are too precious to
bear dispassionate analysis).
In response to climate change and limited fossil fuels, renewable energy is being heavily promoted throughout Europe. Despite general support for green energy, perceived landscape change and loss of landscape quality have featured heavily in opposition campaigns. The COST Action "Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality" (RELY) systematically investigated the nexus between renewable energy production and landscape quality. Its aim was to analyze how landscape protection and renewable energy deployment can be reconciled to contribute to the sustainable transformation of energy systems.
This book compiles guidelines for assessing landscape suitability for, and vulnerability to, renewable energy projects together with a toolbox for landscape-aware public participation in planning. It furthermore elaborates a multilingual glossary of terms related to landscape and energy.
This modern compendium of packaging design showcases a selection of the
best work from around the world carried out in this field.
Compiled by Counter-Print, the casebound book also contains interviews and case studies from some of the world’s most renowned agencies, with their work gathered into groupings such as food, drink, cosmetics, confectionery, fashion and home.
Compiled by Counter-Print, the casebound book also contains interviews and case studies from some of the world’s most renowned agencies, with their work gathered into groupings such as food, drink, cosmetics, confectionery, fashion and home.
How does theory relate to practice? How should practice inform theory?
Scholars all over the world struggle with these questions, particularly
in urban research which offers simultaneously a field of deep theory
and a very practical place of work. For the study of contemporary urban development
in all its complexity, these questions are of utmost importance. The
experiences of urban crisis require action that is informed,
guided and grounded to improve living conditions. But the most
important challenges of 21st century urbanisation are exacerbated by a growing
gulf between theoretical understandings and practical considerations.
The contributions to this book, from a range of internationally renowned and younger
scholars, explore the dynamics that shape urban theories and professional practices today.
Drawing on rich experiences in research, policy and practice in
various global contexts, the authors give reflective and personal
accounts that provide insights into the ways in which urban researchers
make use and sense of theory.
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and
concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method,
Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of
reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography
and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a
critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is
operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information
Systems (GIS).
Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be
applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological
urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth to twenty-first century Winchester (UK)
and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the
functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical
dispersed cities can be explored.
We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting
themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of
polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and
politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. But
how, exactly, can this be done?
In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, churches, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather and linger, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the “social infrastructure”: When it is strong, neighborhoods flourish; when it is neglected, as it has been in recent years, families and individuals must fend for themselves.
Klinenberg takes us around the globe—from a floating school in Bangladesh to an arts incubator in Chicago, from a soccer pitch in Queens to an evangelical church in Houston—to show how social infrastructure is helping to solve some of our most pressing challenges: isolation, crime, education, addiction, political polarization, and even climate change.
In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, churches, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather and linger, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the “social infrastructure”: When it is strong, neighborhoods flourish; when it is neglected, as it has been in recent years, families and individuals must fend for themselves.
Klinenberg takes us around the globe—from a floating school in Bangladesh to an arts incubator in Chicago, from a soccer pitch in Queens to an evangelical church in Houston—to show how social infrastructure is helping to solve some of our most pressing challenges: isolation, crime, education, addiction, political polarization, and even climate change.
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