Labattoir's Library // Reading corner
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Στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs του Goethe Institut, το Labattoir φιλοξενεί μια μικρή βιβλιοθήκη μέσα στα Παλιά Δημοτικά Σφαγεία που φιλοδοξεί να αποτελέσει ένα σημείο συνάντησησης για όλους όσοι ενδιαφέρονται να διαβάσουν και να εξερευνήσουν τα υπάρχοντα βιβλία με θεματικές όπως η δημιουργικότητα, η τέχνη, η πολιτισμική επιχειρηματικότητα και οι δημιουργικές βιομηχανίες.
Η βιβλιοθήκη είναι ανοιχτή στο κοινό στις ώρες λειτουργίας του προγράμματος Labattoir (Δευτέρα - Παρασκευή 10.00-18.00 και συγκεκριμένα Σαββατοκύριακα). Ο χώρος διαθέτει τραπέζια και καρέκλες, τα οποία μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν ως γραφεία αλλά και γωνιές ανάγνωσης, όπου οι επισκέπτες μπορούν να χαλαρώσουν, να διαβάσουν τα σχετικά βιβλία και να πάρουν ιδέες για την πραγματοποίηση των δικών τους project. Μπορείτε να δείτε ηλεκτρονικά στην ιστοσελίδα του Labattoir τους διαθέσιμους τίτλους και φυσικά είστε ευπρόσδεκτοι να έρθετε και να τα διαβάσετε στον χώρο της βιβλοθήκης. Σύντομα θα ανακοινωθεί το πρόγραμμα μιας σειράς από reading groups αναφορικά με τη βιβλιοθήκη και το περιεχόμενο της. |
Within the framework of Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs program by Goethe Institut, Labattoir is hosting a physical space, a small library inside the Old Municipal Slaughterhouse which aspires to be a meeting point for everyone interested in reading and exploring selected titles on creativity, art, cultural entrepreneurship and the creative industries.
The Library is open to the public during the operational hours of LABattoir project (Mon - Fri 10:00-18:00 and on selected weekends). The space consists of tables and chairs that can be used as offices and a reading corner where visitors can relax, brainstorm, read relevant titles and thematics, and hopefully find inspiration for their own projects. You can check online the books that are available at the moment, and of course you are more than welcomed to come and read them here in the space of LABattoir. Stay tuned for a series of reading groups that will be organised around the library and its content. The program Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs in Thessaloniki is a strategic partnership between LABattoir and Goethe-Institut:
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Booklist
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Tania Bruguera - Talking to Power / Hablandole al PoderAuthor: Jose Luis Falconi Lucia Sanroman
Publisher: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Pages: 200 Description: The work of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) researches and performs the ways in which art can be applied to collective everyday life, focusing on the transformation of emotion into political action. Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder surveys Bruguera’s artworks for the public sphere created between 1985 and 2017, all of which position art as a resource for social change. This collection of works offers the reader a deep understanding of the artist’s strategies for intervening in power. Richly illustrated and including rarely seen documentation of Bruguera’s actions, this volume features texts by José Luis Falconi, Grant Kester, Suzanne Lacy, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Peggy Phelan. |
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Models: 306090 Books, Vol. 11Author: Emily Abruzzo, Jonathan D. Solomon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pages: 246 Description: Models are an essential component of the architect's design process. As tools of translation, models assist the exploration of the possible and illustrate the actual. While models have traditionally served as representational and structural studies, they are increasingly being used to suggest and solve new spatial and structural configurations. Models, the eleventh volume of the highly regarded journal 306090, explores the role of the architectural model today in relation to the idea, the diagram, the technique, and the material. Models includes contributions from engineers, scientists, poets, painters, photographers, historians, urbanists, and architects both young and experienced. |
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Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of ThinkingAuthor: Richard Buckminster Fuller
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pages: 592 Description: Synergetics 2 contains a ninety-page index to both volumes. They comprise a single work with the sequence of paragraphs numbered to dovetail in a single integrated narrative. They should eventually be published as a single work eliminating the artificial division into two volumes resulting from the chronology of their composition. |
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Systems: Jeanne van HeeswijkAuthor:Carlos Basualdo
Publisher: Veenman Publishers Pages: 424 Description: 'Systems' gives the first comprehensive overview of Jeanne van Heeswijks socially engaged artistic practice from the past decade. The book presents models for the design of social spaces as well as directions for the analysis of social structures. With texts by Carlos Basualdo, Marjolein Schaap and Axel Lapp. |
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Studios & Workshops: Spaces for Creatives (Architecture in Focus)Author: Veenman Publishers
Publisher: Braun Pages: 272 Description: A creatively designed environment is conducive to crea - tive activities. An occupation performed in a studio or a workshop usually includes both intellectual and practical aspects. The corresponding workspace must therefore have the characteristics of an office, while functioning as a place for production at the same time. Depending on the field of work, either one of these aspects can be more prominent, yet the aim is always to put constructive potentials into practice to achieve the best possible results. The projects presented in this volume include advertising agencies and product design work - shops, fashion and photographic studios, and – of course – architecture and interior design firms. The spaces for creative labor can be opulent, ascetic, bright, fancy, struc - tured, colorful, elegant – or even something completely different. |
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The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the Twentieth CenturyAuthor: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Verso Pages: 240 Description: Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls the disintegrating spectacle. The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer. At once an extraordinary counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit from the twenty first. The dustjacket unfolds to reveal a fold-out poster of the collaborative graphic essay combining text selected by McKenzie Wark with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle. |
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Work: The Last 1,000 YearsAuthor: Andrea Komlosy
Publisher: Verso Pages: 265 Description: Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historySay the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumptions and reality grows even more pronounced in the case of women and other groups excluded from the labour market. In this important intervention, Andrea Komlosy demonstrates that popular understandings of work have varied radically in different ages and countries. Looking at labour history around the globe from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Komlosy sheds light on both discursive concepts as well as the concrete coexistence of multiple forms of labour—paid and unpaid, free and unfree. From the economic structures and ideological mystifications surrounding work in the Middle Ages, all the way to European colonialism and the industrial revolution, Komlosy’s narrative adopts a distinctly global and feminist approach, revealing the hidden forms of unpaid and hyper-exploited labour which often go ignored, yet are key to the functioning of the capitalist world-system. Work: The Last 1,000 Years will open readers’ eyes to an issue much thornier and more complex than most people imagine, one which will be around as long as basic human needs and desires exist. |
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Anti-Systemic Movements (Radical Thinkers)Author: Andrea Komlosy
Publisher: Verso Pages: 265 Description: Building on an analysis of the dissenting movements to have emerged since the rise of modern capitalism, Anti-Systemic Movements uncovers an international groundswell of resistance still vitally active at the end of the twentieth century. The authors suggest that the new assertiveness of the South, the development of class struggle in the East and the emergence of rainbow coalitions in various regions hold fresh promise for emancipatory politics. Taking the year 1968 as a symbolic turning point, the authors argue that new anti-systemic movements have arisen which challenge the logic of the capitalist world-system. |
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Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary ArtAuthor: Brian Kuan Wood & Anton Vidokle (editors)
Publisher: Verso Pages: 480 Description: Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.” |
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Support StructuresAuthor: Celine Cordonelli, Mark Cousins, Bart de Baere, Wouter Davidts, Jaime Stapleton, Andrea Phillips, Egal Weizman & Rony Brauman, Jean - Claude Lebensztein, Jan Verwoert
Publisher: Sternberg Press Pages: 438 Description: Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.” |
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Formulas for NowAuthor: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pages: 160 Description: Imaginative formulas for negotiating contemporary life from an eminent group of artistic and scientific minds. For centuries the formula has been one of the building blocks of human knowledge. In mathematics and science, formulas express information symbolically—to solve a problem, to describe an observable phenomenon, or to postulate a theory. More generally, a formula can be a plan of action; a statement or declaration; a definition or rule; or a list of ingredients or recipe to achieve a desired outcome. For all the contributors to this unique volume—including eminent minds from the fields of art, science, mathematics, performance, architecture, design, literature, and sociology—the formula is a fruitful way of investigating the nature of human existence. Selected especially for the book, more than one hundred invited participants have produced or chosen their own personal formulas to express the realities of contemporary life and to offer a means of negotiating a path through it. At times quirky and idiosyncratic, witty and playful, some of the formulas here register an indisputable fact or propose a speculative idea; others provide a method of bringing order to a complex universe—or point to the impossibility of doing so; still others suggest propositions for a better future. Together they help us understand who we are and the world in which we live. Contributors include Marina Abramovic; David Adjaye; John Baldessari; Matthew Barney; Louise Bourgeois; Thomas Demand; Elizabeth Diller; Olafur Eliasson; Brian Eno; Damien Hirst; Rem Koolhaas; Jeff Koons; Harry Mathews; Yoko Ono; Gerhard Richter; Nancy Spero; Rosemarie Trockel; Wang Jian Wei; James Watson. 105 illustrations, 48 in color. |
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Crowds and PartyAuthor: Jodi Dean
Publisher: Vesro Pages: 288 Description: How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the state—such as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the world—they create a gap of possibility. But too many on the Left remain stuck in this beautiful moment of promise—they argue for more of the same, further fragmenting issues and identities, rehearsing the last thirty years of left-wing defeat. In Crowds and Party, Dean argues that previous discussions of the party have missed its affective dimensions, the way it operates as a knot of unconscious processes and binds people together. Dean shows how we can see the party as an organization that can reinvigorate political practice. |
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Practice (Documents of Contemporary Art)Author: Marcus Boon & Gabrielle Levine
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery Pages: 240 Description: The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads. Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art. Once used to denote “doing,” as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline, or rehearsal, and signal a shift away from the self-enclosed artwork or medium to open-ended actions, series, processes, and projects. Although the turn to practice might promise freedom from finality or eventfulness, it also reflects the neoliberal pressures to train oneself, to perform, and to rehearse a marketable set of skills. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice. |
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World of MatterAuthor: Inke Arns
Publisher: Sternberg Press Pages: 192 Description: In light of the acute problems caused by human-induced transformation of the earth and its ecosystems we must reconsider at a fundamental level, and in slow, subtle and matter-of-fact ways how we understand and interact with the world of things. World of Matter, first a museum exhibition, developed into an international project investigating raw materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. The wide range of aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of resources in many world regions and post-national spaces that are presented in this book challenge the capitalistic assumption that the planet s materials are primarily for human consumption. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism and other realms of research, World of Matter provides a place for ecological imaginaries. Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Inke Arns, Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann, Gavin Bridge, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan and T. J. Demos, among others. |
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the FutureAuthor: James Bridle
Publisher: Verso Books Pages: 304 Description: “New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – New Yorker As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new Dark Age. From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation. In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime. |
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Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective JoyAuthor: Lynne Segal
Publisher: Verso Pages: 352 Description: A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant. Segal believes we have lost the art of “radical happiness”—the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others. Examining her own experience in the women’s movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a means to a better future. She also shows how the gaps in care that come from the diminishing role of the welfare state must be replaced by alternative ways of living together and looking after one another. In this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively. |
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Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques HandbookAuthor: Pablo Helguera
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books Pages: 108 Description: "For too long Social Practice has been the notoriously flimsy flipside of market-based contemporary art: a world of hand-wringing practitioners easily satisfied with the feeling of 'doing good' in a community, and unaware that their quasi-activist, anti-formalist positions in fact have a long artistic heritage and can be critically dissected using the tools of art and theatre history. Helguera's spunky primer promises to offer a much-needed critical compass for those adrift in the expanded social field." -Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art and Exhibition History, CUNY, and author of Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship "This is an extremely timely and thoughtful reference book. Drawn from empirical and extensive experience and research, it provides a curriculum and framework for thinking about the complexity of socially engaged practices. Locating the methodologies of this work in between disciplines, Helguera draws on histories of performance, pedagogy, sociology, ethnography, linguistics, community and public practices. Rather than propose a system he exposes the temporalities necessary to make these situations possible and resonant. This is a tool that will allow us to consider the difficulties of making socially engaged art and move closer to finding a language through which we can represent and discuss its impact." -Sally Tallant, Artistic Director, Liverpool Biennial "Helguera has produced a highly readable book that absolutely needs to be in the back pocket of anyone interested in teaching or learning about socially engaged art" -Tom Finkelpearl, Director of the Queens Museum, New York, and author of Dialogues in Public Art. |
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Craft (Documents of Contemporary Art)Author: Tanya Harrod
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery Pages: 240 Description: A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.“Craft” is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labor and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry, fiction, anthropology, and sociology. It maps a secret history of craft through lost and overlooked texts that consider pedagogy, design, folk art, the factory, and new media in ways that illuminate our understanding of current art practice. Recently, the idea of craft has been employed strategically: to confront issues of gender or global development, to make a stand against artistic academicism, or to engage with making processes―some distinctly archaic―employed to suggest the abject and the everyday. Craft activism, or craftivism, suggests a new political purpose for the handmade. Deep anxieties drive today's technophilia, and artists, designers, and makers turn such anxieties into a variety of dynamic engagements. The contributors' reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork, and the politics of work all throw light on craft as process, product, and ideology. Craft will serve as a vital resource for understanding technologies, materials, techniques, and tools through the lens of craft in contemporary art. |
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Mobile PhenomenaAuthor: Temporary Services
Publisher: Half Letter Press Pages: 64 Description: In this book you will find a selection of photos of Mobile Phenomena that includes bookmobiles, mobile forms of commerce, inventive mobile art projects, mobile structures create for use during protest, and some strange applications of mobility that defy easy description, categorization, or whose function could not be readily discerned. Mobile Phenomena can unhinge the expected roles we take in shared city spaces. Mobile structures can become a new norm when they work. It is our hope that this book can be an inspiration to other citizens, artists, activists, nomads, and anyone who is interested in escaping the constraints of their location, culture, or other factors that make realizing one's desires difficult. |
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Deployable Structures (Small Architecture)Author: Esther Rivas-Adrover
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Pages: 160 Description: Deployable structures are structures that can undergo major changes to their configuration through expansion, unfolding, and other means. In architecture, they can be used to create more flexible spaces or building elements that can adapt to changing functions or requirements. This book looks at the cutting edge of the subject, examining the different types of deployable structure, their materials and their properties. It also examines a variety of ways that such structures can be designed, drawing on natural processes and paper folding techniques. Filled with photographs, models, drawings and diagrams, the book is packed with inspirational ideas for architecture students and practitioners. |
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EVENTS: Situating the TemporaryAuthor: EventArchitectuur & Herman Verkerk
Publisher: Birkhäuser Pages: 704 Description: The Amsterdam-based design office of EventArchitectuur has been active in the fields of exhibition and interior design and temporary architecture for more than 20 years, with their projects and interventions present in Berlin, Paris, New York and many other locations world-wide. In this substantial book, designed by the Dutch design studio Experimental Jetset, Herman Verkerk and his team dedicate their knowledge and experience to the design community. With contributions by Bernard Tschumi, Beatriz Colomina, Dirk van den Heuvel, Ellen Blumenstein and many others, topics comprise time-based narrative architecture, the architecture of events, display in public context, building-related landscape and many others. This approach makes the book a content-driven tool of communication and knowledge. |
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The Theory of Need in MarxAuthor: Agnes Heller
Publisher: Verso Books Pages:144 Description: The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of need What are needs? While the edifices of economic theory are built upon various mechanisms designed to satisfy “human needs,” not many economists have addressed the idea of need itself. Heller’s highly original work identifies this lacuna, recognizing the concept of needs as playing a “hidden but principal role in Marx’s economic categories.” Her writing lucidly exposes radical needs as bearing the seeds of revolutionary agency in alienated capitalist society, and reasserts our existence as sentient beings beyond the realm of the material, productive spheres. |
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The Object (Documents of Contemporary Art)Author: Antony Hudek
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery Pages: 240 Description: Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art.Artists increasingly refer to “post-object-based” work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on “object-based” learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the “objectness” of production, with art as its focus. Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object's transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past. |
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Situation (Documents of Contemporary Art)Author: Claire Doherty
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery Pages: 240 Description: Key texts on the notion of “situation” in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space.Situation―a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations―has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific, the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in recent situation specific art. In North America and Europe, the site-specific is often viewed in terms of resistance to art's commoditization, while elsewhere situation-specific practices have defied institutions of authority. The contributors discuss these recent tendencies in the context of proliferating international biennial exhibitions, curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which artists increasingly unsettle the definition and legitimation of situation-based art. |
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Materiality (Documents of Contemporary Art)Author: Petra Lange - Berndt
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery Pages: 240 Description: Essays consider recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality, focusing on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes.Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter―considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity―and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning, for example, of hair in David Hammons's installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth, or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, we need a very different set of methodological tools. This anthology focuses on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes, entangling their audience in a web of connections. It investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with social norms, emerging as impure formations and messy, unstable substances. It reexamines the notion of “dematerialization”; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; explores the vitality of substances; and addresses the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation. |
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Relational Aesthetics [English Language Version]Author: Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher:Les Presse Du Reel Pages: 125 Description: Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting. The aim of his essay is to produce the tools to enable us to understand the evolution of today's art. We meet Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Louis Althusser, Rirkrit Tiravanija or Félix Guattari, along with most of today's practising creative artists. |
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Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to FormAuthor:Paul Jackson
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Pages: 224 Description: Many designers use folding techniques in their work to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal, and many other materials. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling. An elegant, practical handbook, it covers over 70 techniques explained by clear step-by-step drawings, crease-pattern drawings, and specially commissioned photography. |
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Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 (The MIT Press)Author: Nato Thomson
Publisher: MIT Press Pages: 264 Description: A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production―one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice. Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a thirty-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of color images. The artists include the Danish collective Superflex, who empower communities to challenge corporate interest; Turner Prize nominee Jeremy Deller, creator of socially and politically charged performance works; Women on Waves, who provide abortion services and information to women in regions where the procedure is illegal; and Santiágo Cirugeda, an architect who builds temporary structures to solve housing problems. Living as Form contains commissioned essays from noted critics and theorists who look at this phenomenon from a global perspective and broaden the range of what constitutes this form. |
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Fabricate: Rethinking Design and ConstructionAuthor: Achim Menges
Publisher: UCL Press Pages: 260 Description: This entirely new essay collection brings together pioneers in design within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation to explore the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities from component to building scales, the difficult gap that exists between digital modelling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts. |
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday LifeAuthor: Adam Greenfield
Publisher: Verso Books Pages: 340 Description: Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future. We already depend on the smartphone to navigate every aspect of our existence. We’re told that innovations—from augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make life easier, more convenient and more productive. 3D printing promises unprecedented control over the form and distribution of matter, while the blockchain stands to revolutionize everything from the recording and exchange of value to the way we organize the mundane realities of the day to day. And, all the while, fiendishly complex algorithms are operating quietly in the background, reshaping the economy, transforming the fundamental terms of our politics and even redefining what it means to be human. Having successfully colonized everyday life, these radical technologies are now conditioning the choices available to us in the years to come. How do they work? What challenges do they present to us, as individuals and societies? Who benefits from their adoption? In answering these questions, Greenfield’s timely guide clarifies the scale and nature of the crisis we now confront —and offers ways to reclaim our stake in the future. |
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Oscar Tuazon: Volumes 1 & 2: LiveAuthor: Achim Menges
Publisher: UCL Press Pages: 260 Description: Oscar Tuazon's work comprises large scale installations and sculptures, usually combines natural and industrial materials. Tinted by do-it-yourself etho, minimalist aesthetic, and vernacular architecture, his art maintains a precarious quality that questions the limits of objects and architecture, to redefine the physical experience of a building or a space. 'Live', volume 1, concentrates on a major exhibition of new sculptural works at Museum Ludwig called 'Alone in an empty room'. A full-scale reproduction of fragments of the artist's house in Los Angeles grafted onto the architecture of the Ludwig museum, the exhibition collapses two spaces together, producing a strange third space. 'Live', volume 2, comprises a photographic monograph of selected works covering the artist's unconventional production over the past five years. Combining documentation of significant individual works, exhibitions, and large-scale installations with the artist's own production documentation of works in the studio, the book is a unique look at works in progress. |
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Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough BrandsAuthor: Douglas Holt & Douglas Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 387 Description: How do we explain the breakthrough market success of businesses like Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, and Jack Daniel's? Conventional models of strategy and innovation simply don't work. The most influential ideas on innovation are shaped by the worldview of engineers and economists - build a better mousetrap and the world will take notice. Holt and Cameron challenge this conventional wisdom and take an entirely different approach: champion a better ideology and the world will take notice as well. Holt and Cameron build a powerful new theory of cultural innovation. Brands in mature categories get locked into a form of cultural mimicry, what the authors call a cultural orthodoxy. Historical changes in society create demand for new culture - ideological opportunities that upend this orthodoxy. Cultural innovations repurpose cultural content lurking in subcultures to respond to this emerging demand, leapfrogging entrenched incumbents. Cultural Strategy guides managers and entrepreneurs on how to leverage ideological opportunities: - How managers can use culture to out-innovate their competitors - How entrepreneurs can identify new market opportunities that big companies miss - How underfunded challengers can win against category Goliaths - How technology businesses can avoid commoditization - How social entrepreneurs can develop businesses that appeal to more than just fellow activists - How subcultural brands can break out of the 'cultural chasm' to mass market success - How global brands can pursue cross-cultural strategies to succeed in local markets - How organizations can maximize their innovation capabilities by avoiding the brand bureaucracy trap Written by leading authorities on branding in the world today, along with one of the advertising industry's leading visionaries, Cultural Strategy transforms what has always been treated as the "intuitive" side of market innovation into a systematic strategic discipline. |
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Management and the ArtsAuthor: William Byrnes
Publisher: Focal Press Pages: 575 Description: The fifth edition of Management and the Arts provides you with theory and practical applications from all arts management perspectives including planning, marketing, finance, economics, organization, staffing, and group dynamics. Regardless of whether you are a manager in a theatre, museum, dance company, or opera, you will gain useful insights into strategic planning, organization, and integrated management theories. Case studies, statistics, and real-world examples will allow you get a handle on all aspects of arts managements, from budgeting and fundraising, to e-marketing and social networking, to working effectively with boards and staff members. Revised to reflect the latest thinking and trends in managing organizations and people, this fifth edition features class-tested questions in each chapter, which help you to integrate the material and develop ideas about how the situations and problems could have been handled. Case studies focus on the challenges facing managers and organizations every day, and "In the News" quotes give you real-world examples of principles and theories. |
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The International Handbook on Social Innovation: Collective Action, Social Learning and Transdisciplinary Research (Elgar Original ReferenceAuthor: Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum, Abid Mehmood & Abdelillah Hamdouch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pages: 481 Description: This enriching Handbook covers many aspects of the scientific and socio-political debates on social innovation today.The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key to human development. The Handbook defines social innovation as innovation in social relations within both micro and macro spheres, with the purpose of satisfying unmet or new human needs across different layers of society. It connects social innovation to empowerment dynamics, thus giving a political character to social movements and bottom-up governance initiatives. Together these should lay the foundations for a fairer, more democratic society for all.This interdisciplinary work, written by scholars collaborating to develop a joint methodological perspective toward social innovation agency and processes, will be invaluable for students and researchers in social science and humanities. It will also appeal to policy makers, policy analysts, lobbyists and activists seeking to give inspiration and leadership from a social innovation perspective. |
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Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)Author: David A Owens
Publisher: JOSSEY-BASS Pages: 294 Description: A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killersEverybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to this self-defeating behavior is to identify which of the six major types of constraints are hindering innovation: individual, group, organizational, industry-wide, societal, or technological. Once innovators and other leaders understand exactly which constraints are working against them and how to overcome them, they can create conditions that foster innovation instead of stopping it in its tracks. The author's model of constraints on innovation integrates insights from the vast literature on innovation with his own observations of hundreds of organizations. The book is filled with assessments, tools, and real-world examples.
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The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and ExpandedAuthor: Richard Florida
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS Pages: 483 Description: World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of people--engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmers--whose work turns on the creation of new forms. Increasingly, Florida observes, this Creative Class determines how workplaces are organized, what companies prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive. In this updated edition, Florida further refines his occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class. Incorporating additional research and new chapters covering the global impact of the Creative Class and exploring the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs, The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited is the definitive edition of this foundational book on our contemporary economy. |
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The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for GoodAuthor: Stephen Goldsmith, Gigi Georges & Tim Glynn Burke
Publisher: JOSSEY-BASS Pages: 274 Description: Praise for The Power of Social Innovation"Goldsmith guided us in Florida on our successful faith-based initiatives. His bold approaches continue to inspire public officials and community groups alike with keys to activating citizens and expanding opportunity for all." --Jeb Bush, former Governor, Florida "It has been a great pleasure to work with Steve Goldsmith. His work with us at America's Promise and all of his other diligent efforts are so well reflected in this book. The Power of Social Innovation reminds each of us in government, philanthropy, the nonprofit community, and as private citizens that we can and must work together to ensure the full fulfillment of the American Dream and to ensure the success of our most precious resource, our children." --Alma J. Powell, chair, America's Promise Alliance "The Power of Social Innovation is a must read for social innovators who want to make a powerful impact. Stephen Goldsmith surveys the field and provides indispensible tools to help civic entrepreneurs scale up their ideas and produce the best possible results." --Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone "Goldsmith provides a useful toolkit for entrepreneurial public executives and innovative nonprofits and foundations. His research encourages transformative social change by advocating a shift in focus from direct services to citizens to building new, higher performance networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations." --Mark R. Warner, United States Senator, Virginia "When it comes to doing good, Stephen Goldsmith is as disruptive an innovator as we've seen. Read and study The Power of Social Innovation if you don't just want to do good, but want to make the greatest impact possible." --Clayton M. Christensen, professor, Harvard Business School and author, Disrupting Class |
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Post Industrial DesignAuthor: Max Spielmann & Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Publisher:Hyperwerk Pages: 92 Description: |
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ΖΗΤΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΙΣΗΣAuthor: Γ.Π. Λάββας
Publisher: Μέλισσα Pages: 262 Description: Το βιβλίο "Ζητήματα πολιτιστικής διαχείρισης" του ακαδημαϊκού Γ.Π. Λάββα αποτελεί ένα από τα οράματά του που δεν πρόλαβε ο ίδιος να ολοκληρώσει. Αποσκοπεί με τρόπο εύληπτο και επιστημονικά τεκμηριωμένο να παραδώσει στους νεότερους τα διδάγματα των δύο νέων επιστημονικών κλάδων, της Διαχείρισης των Μνημείων και της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς. Η διάρθρωση των κεφαλαίων ακολουθεί σε γενικές γραμμές τους βασικούς άξονες των μαθημάτων του, από την αποσαφήνιση όρων, εννοιολογικών και ιδεολογικών προσδιορισμών, στην αναλυτική επισκόπηση επιμέρους θεμάτων και περιπτωσιολογικών μελετών. Αναλυτικότερα, τα κεφάλαια περιέχουν: λέξεις κλειδιά, ανάπτυξη υποκεφαλαίων από δημοσιευμένα ή αδημοσίευτα κείμενα του Γ.Π. Λάββα, μελέτες περίπτωσης, προτάσεις από τους επιμελητές της έκδοσης για περαιτέρω μελέτη και έρευνα από τον αναγνώστη και εργογραφία του Γ.Π. Λάββα. Η αποβιομηχάνιση των περιοχών στη σύγχρονη μετά-πολη, η εξέλιξη ιστορικών κέντρων σε πολιτιστικά αξιοθέατα και η εμφάνιση νέων τουριστικών αξιοθέατων (θεματικά πάρκα) και μουσείων (μνημείων/τοπόσημων) για την πόλη δημιουργούν προοπτικές, αλλά και προκλήσεις, τις οποίες η επιστήμη της Διαχείρισης της Κληρονομιάς καλείται να αντιμετωπίσει με τεκμηριωμένο τρόπο θεώρησης και δράσης. |
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ΜΕΤΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΕΙΣ του θεατρικού χώρουAuthor: Πέτρος Μαρτινίδης
Publisher: ΝΕΦΕΛΗ Pages: 261 Description: Τρεις χιλιάδες χρόνια ιστορίας της δραματουργίας, άλλοτε άμμεσα και άλλοτε έμμεσα? Ανεξάντλητες οι μορφές των χώρων που τη στέγασαν ή εξακολουθούν να τη στεγάζουν? Απειρες οι αντιδράσεις του κοινού απέναντι στα δρώμενα, την κάθε φορά, μέσα σε διαφορετικά αρχιτεκτονικά κελύφη? Ωστόσο, η ανά χείρας μελέτη αποπειράται να διακρίνει κάτι σαν απλό μοτίβο πίσω από τη χαοτική ποικιλία και να χαρτογραφήσει ένα σύστημα διαδοχής. Συνοψίζοντας δραματουργικούς στόχους, σχηματοποιώντας αρχιτεκτονικές διατάξεις κι αποτιμώντας συνολικές αντιδράσεις "υποδοχής", κατανέμει το πολυσχιδές υλικό της σε οκτώ, όλο, όλο φάσεις. Οκτώ φάσεις, με τις τέσσερις τελευταίες να επαναλαμβάνουν τις τέσσερις πρώτες: από το αλώνι στο ημικύκλιο, από εκεί στο μετωπικό αντίκρυσμα κι από εκεί σε μια πολυμορφία διατάξεων, στη διάρκεια των οποίων επανεμφανίζεται το αλώνι για να ακολουθήσουν, ξανά, οι ίδιες αλλαγές. Την πρώτη φορά, από την αρχαιότητα ως τους πρώτους χριστιανικούς αιώνες και τον Μεσαίωνα: τη δεύτερη φορά, από τους πρώτους χριστιανικούς αιώνες μέχρι τις μέρες μας. Κατά τον πρώτο "κύκλο" των τεσσάρων φάσεων δοκιμάζονται οι συνθήκες των ενθεουμένων ανθρώπων: κατά το δεύτερο, οι συνθήκες του εκκοινωνιζόμενου ατόμου. Με οδηγό τις μεταμορφώσεις του θεατρικού χώρου, λοιπόν, αυτή η μελέτη προτείνει μιαν ευρύτερη θεατρολογική ταξινόμηση. Ισως ιερόσυλα απλουστευτική. Αλλά έτσι ή αλλιώς το θέατρο ήταν πάντα, και παραμένει, μια τέχνη στο μεταίχμιο του ιερού και του ανίερου. Π.Μ. |
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Deutsche Standards. Marken des Jahrhunderts. Die Königsklasse deutscher Produkte und Dienstleistungen in Wort und BildAuthor: Aspirin bis Zeiss
Publisher: Gabler Verlag Pages: 600 Language: German |
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Rising: Young Artists to Keep an Eye on!Author: Olaf Salie
Publisher: DAAB Media Pages: 419 Language: German |
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Street Art – Legenden zur StraßeAuthor: Katrin Klitzke, Christian Schmidt
Publisher: Archive der Jugendkulturen Verlag Pages: 225 Language: German Description: Es kann nicht viele Begriffe geben, die in den letzten Jahren so durch die Decke gehypt wurden, die so sehr zu Symbol und Synonym für Authentizität, Urbanismus und Rebellion verklärt wurden. |
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Fünfzig TheatertreffenPublisher: Theater der Zeit Verlag
Pages: 256 Language: German Description: Im Mai 2013 findet das Theatertreffen Berlin zum 50. Mal statt. Kein anderes Forum hat so kontinuierlich einen Überblick der künstlerischen Entwicklungen an deutschsprachigen Bühnen geboten und sich zugleich so erfolgreich als Festival beim Publikum etabliert, obwohl die Auswahl der eingeladenen Inszenierungen selten unumstritten war. Quer zu allen politischen Veränderungen hat das Theatertreffen überlebt. Es hat mit neuen Konzepten, Programmen und Veran- staltungsreihen der Erweiterung des Theaterbegriffs und der Internationalisierung der Theaterkunst Rechnung getragen und dabei an der Kernidee festgehalten, die bemerkenswertesten Aufführungen eines Jahrgangs - ausgewählt von einer Kritikerjury - zu Gastspielen einzuladen. In der Rückschau auf ein halbes Jahrhundert ist in ihnen nichts weniger als die Veränderung des Theaters in seinem Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft lesbar geworden. Neben Essays von Theatermachern, Kritikern und Dramaturgen sowie Bildstrecken, die von Bühnenbildnern kuratiert werden, versammelt der von den Berliner Festspielen herausgegebene Band Originalbeiträge namhafter Theaterautoren und fünfzig Zwischenrufe von Beobachtern und Persönlichkeiten, die das Theatertreffen geprägt haben. Dokumente, Reden und Aufsätze, die für das Theatertreffen wichtig waren, vervollständigen den Überblick. Im Zusammenspiel entsteht weit mehr als eine Chronik der letzten fünfzig Jahre: ein anspielungsreiches Lesebuch für die Zukunft. |
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UPDATING GERMANYAuthor: Sophie Lovell, Jochen Diekmann
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Pages: 291 Language: German Description: Wie wollen wir in Zukunft leben? Mit welchen gestalterischen Strategien und technischen Konzepten können wir die sozialen und ökologischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart bewältigen? Für eine bessere Zukunft gibt es keine einfache Anleitung, keine eindeutige Lösung. UPDATING GERMANY zeigt deshalb 100 Projekte aus Architektur, Kunst und Design, die Lust auf mehr machen: Architekturentwürfe, Forschungsprojekte und Gedankenmodelle, die derzeit in Deutschland entwickelt oder realisiert werden. Die in UPDATING GERMANY zusammengestellten Konzepte eröffnen neue Perspektiven zwischen Hightech und Lowtech, zwischen postfossiler Landschaft und innovativer Gebäudetechnik, zwischen ökologischem Lifestyle und gesellschaftlicher Utopie. Eine Ideensammlung für alle, die sich für die Gestaltung von Architektur, Stadt und eine nachhaltige Zukunft verantwortlich fühlen. |
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Technology in a Changing World: The Collections of the Deutsches MuseumAuthor: Winfried Nerdinger, Kristiana Hartmann, Matthias Schirren, Manfred Speidel
Publisher: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA Pages: 440 Language: German Description: "Technology in a Changing World: The Collections of the Deutsches Museum" contains over 400 pages, well-illustrated with over 800 photographs and other illustrations, forming a series of excursions into the many realms of knowledge at the Deutsches Museum. Accompanying the reader through the various sections of the museum, its branch museums, archives, storage depots, and other facilities are texts by 35 authors, all specialists in their fields. The book is arranged according to the museum's layout, from the basement to the sixth floor, with a chapter for each of the 50 specialist fields, including astronomy, aviation, chronometry, mining, shipping, and numerous others. Each chapter opens with a short introduction to help the reader understand the subject matter and its history, followed by a richly illustrated tour of each exhibition. In addition to providing a closer look at the three branch museums, Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum, Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, and Deutsches Museum Bonn; the bok also introduces readers to the museum's research institute, library, and educational programs. Readers will especially enjoy the behind-the-scenes look at the museum's workshops and storage depots. |
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Bruno Taut 1880 - 1938. Architekt zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde.Author: Winfried Nerdinger, Kristiana Hartmann, Matthias Schirren, Manfred Speidel
Publisher: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA Pages: 440 Language: German |
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Gebr. - Wood- Holz - Bois (Architecture Compact)Author: Barbara Linz
Publisher: H.f.ullmann publishing Pages: 288 Language: German Description: This book showcases the most beautiful and interesting instances of the use of wood in international architecture and interior design in the 21st century. The 40 projects presented in this volume exemplify the specific character of the material, constructions details, new technology as well as the diversity of the theme. Diese Buch zeigt die schonsten und interessantesten Beispiele der Verwendung von Holz in der internationalen Architektur und Innenarchitektur des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die spezifische Materialsprache, Fragen der Konstruktion, neue Techniken sowie die Vielfalt des Themas werden in diesen Band anhand von 40 Objekten prasentiert. Cet ouvrage presente les meilleurs exemples d`utilisation du bois dans l`architecture et l`architecture d`interieur internationales au XXI siecle. Le langage specifique de ce materiau, les questions relatives a la construction, les nouvelles techniques et de nombreux autres apects y sont explores a travers 40 projets. |
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Building with Straw: Design and Technology of a Sustainable ArchitectureAuthor: Friedemann Mahlke, Genot Minke
Publisher: Birkhäuser Pages: 143 Language: German Description: Building with straw bales is a technique pioneered a century ago in the state of Nebraska. In recent years there has been a renaissance in the use of straw as a building material largely in the American Southwest, but also in Canada, Australia, France, Holland, Germany, Austria and China. Straw is a renewable resource with excellent insulating properties. It is a cheap and easy-to-use option for self-builders, and even large-scale structures can be erected using timber framework filled with straw. This book is a practical, hands-on guide to building with straw. Fire safety, protection against moisture, damp, pests and parasites are treated in detail. Numerous on-site photos document the process of assembly and construction step by step. 30 exemplary international projects illustrate the wide spectrum of design possibilities with straw. |
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Building with EarthAuthor: Gernot Minke
Publisher: Birkhäuser Pages: 207 Language: German Description: For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail. The author’s presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture. Der ressourcenschonende und gesunde Baustoff Lehm, seit Jahrtausenden gebräuchlich, erfreut sich seit vielen Jahren auch in den Industrienationen wachsender Beliebtheit. In gemäßigten und trocken-heißen Klimazonen bietet der Lehm zahlreiche Vorteile gegenüber anderen Materialien. Seine spezifische Beschaffenheit und Textur ist außerdem von hohem ästhetischem Reiz. Die neue und erweiterte 2. Auflage dieses Handbuchs bietet einen praxisorientierten systematischen Überblick über die zahlreichen Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Verarbeitungstechniken von Lehm; seine Eigenschaften und physikalischen Gegebenheiten werden detailliert und kenntnisreich erläutert. Die reichhaltigen Erfahrungen, die der Autor bei der Ausführung von Lehmbauten im In- und Ausland über 30 Jahre gewinnen konnte, spiegeln sich in seiner Darstellung wieder. Zahlreiche Baustellenfotos und Zeichnungen zeigen die konkrete Umsetzung von Lehm-Architektur. |
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Mehrgenerationenhäuser: Planen und Bauen: Wohlfühlen unter einem DachAuthor: Astrid Barsuhn
Publisher: Blottner Verlag Pages: 125 Language: German Description: Ein Haus für mehrere Nutzer; welche Vorteile und Möglichkeiten hat das? Das “Mehrge-nerationenhaus” liegt voll im Trend. Es werden nicht nur die Grundstücks- und Baukosten aufgeteilt, es wird auch dafür gesorgt, dass man wieder füreinander da ist, ohne sich dabei auf der “Pelle zu sitzen”. Denn ein Mehrgenerationenhaus bedeutet nicht, ein Zimmer für die “Alten” herzurichten. Nein, es werden getrennte Wohneinheiten, z.T. sogar Doppelhaushälften, gebaut, die jede Generation eigenständig bewohnt. Dieses Buch zeigt gelungene Lösungen für das unabhängige Wohnen mehrerer Generationen unter einem Dach. |
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Syntax Der Landschaft: Die Landschaftsarchitektur Von Peter Latz Und PartnerAuthor: Udo Weilacher
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG Pages: 199 Language: German Description: Peter Latz und Partner sind Spezialisten fur einen zeitgemaen, intelligenten Umgang mit alternativen Technologien und die Regenerierung von Industriebrachen. Markenzeichen der Arbeiten des 1968 gegrundeten Buros ist seine Fahigkeit, okologisch-soziale Anspruche in einer starken asthetischen Sprache auszudrucken. |
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Berlin Urban Design (Basics)Author: Harald Bodenschatz
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag Pages: 139 Language: German Description: This book presents a history of Berlin’s urban design from a European perspective. It is aimed at professionals and students interested in urban design, urban planning and urban design history, but is also a good primer for any visitor to the city. Numerous plans, drawings and photos, including exceptional aerial photography, illustrate Berlin’s key urban developments, which have shaped one of Europe’s most attractive, liveable and yet contested cities. Berlin has become a model for European urban design. The reasons lie in the nature of its compact pre-First World War urban districts; in the development of suburban housing estates during the 1920s; in the refurbishment and careful renewal from the 1970s onwards of its compact 19th century districts; and in the critical reconstruction of its urban form since the 1980s. But Berlin was not always seen as a model. The unflattering title of “the world’s largest tenement city” – a rather undeserved epithet – served for decades as a bogeyman, as did the large scale social housing estates in both East and West that have been much criticised since the 1970s. Despite this, the city has largely avoided the suburban sprawl that plagues cities worldwide. Harald Bodenschatz, born in Munich in 1946, a sociologist and urban planner, is a full Professor of Sociology of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technical University of Berlin. He has published numerous books dealing with urban redevelopment, suburban development, history of town planning and urban design in Berlin and elsewhere. |
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Stadtgärten: Planen - Gestalten - LebenAuthor: Martina Löber
Publisher: Callwey Georg D.W. Gmbh Pages: 144 Language: German |
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Stadtgrün / Urban GreenAuthor: Peter Cachola Schmal
Publisher: Birkhäuser GmbH Pages: 245 Language: German Description:. Die in jüngerer Zeit zu konstatierende Wiederentdeckung der Stadt hat die Sehnsucht der Menschen nach der Natur keineswegs verdrängt. Im Gegenteil: Es gilt, innerstädtische Lösungen zu finden, die diesen neu gewachsenen Bedürfnissen gerecht werden, und zwar Lösungen, die gleichzeitig den Anforderungen von Gestaltung, Ökologie, Soziologie und Ökonomie entsprechen. Die Publikation widmet sich dem Thema der innerstädtischen Freiraumgestaltung. Sie dokumentiert 20 aktuell realisierte Beispiele innerhalb Europas, zum überwiegenden Teil mit Grünpflanzungen, entworfen von international renommierten Landschaftsarchitekten, wie etwa Gustafson Porter, Field Operations, Michel Desvigne, Gross.Max, Latz + Partner und West 8. Die Projekte, realisiert zwischen 2004 und 2010, reichen vom innerstädtischen Privatgarten über Plätze, Straßen und Promenaden bis hin zu Großprojekten wie der Revitalisierung von Flussuferbereichen oder Grün-Masterplanungen für ganze Städte. Das städtische Grün leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum ökologischen Stadtumbau. Die dokumentierten Projekte zeigen in beispielhafter Form, wie dies mit modernsten Materialien und Technologien gelingen kann. |
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Schlösser und Gärten DeutschlandsAuthor: Christa Hasselhorst, Ernst Wrba, Michael Pasdzior
Publisher: Stürtz Verlag Pages: 128 Language: German Description:. Deutschlands prächtige Schlösser und ihre pittoresken Gärten und reizvollen Parks bilden beeindruckende Ensembles und gehören zu den kulturellen Höhepunkten einer Reise durch Deutschland. Das Spiel von Architektur und Natur begeistert Gartenfreunde und Kulturinteres. |
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Pinakothek der Moderne. Kunst, Grafik, Architektur und Design.Author: Peter-Klaus Schuster - Cristina Ines Steingräber
Publisher: Dumont Literatur U. Kunst Pages: 511 Language: German Description: |
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Museumsinsel BerlinAuthor: Peter-Klaus Schuster - Cristina Ines Steingräber
Publisher: Dumont Literatur U. Kunst Pages: 511 Language: German |
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Das Berlin-Paket: Das neue Berlin: Architektur, Kultur und Geschichte der Stadt mit dreidimensionalen Bildern und überraschenden Effekten. Mit vielen interaktiven Pop-up-ElementenAuthor: Michael Lewitscharoff
Publisher: Ars Edition Gmbh Language: German Description: Das Berlin-Paket präsentiert auf sieben Doppelseiten die prominentesten Bauten und Sehenswürdigkeiten, zum Beispiel: den Pariser Platz rund um das Brandenburger Tor - das neue Herz der Stadt, den Potsdamer Platz - die Friedrichstraße, einst legendäre Flanier- und Amüsiermeile - den umgebauten Reichstag mit seiner gläsernen Kuppel. Berlin ist wesentlich mehr als seine Bauten. Das Berlin-Paket informiert über: Meilensteine der Stadtgeschichte - das große Kulturangebot in der Hauptstadt - prominente Persönlichkeiten - Plätze, die Legende wurden und an denen heute der Bär steppt. Die Architektur erscheint ganz authentisch, das heißt dreidimensional. Detailgetreue Nachbildungen einzelner Gebäude entfalten sich mit überraschender Mechanik. |
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Berlin Die neue Mitte: Texte zur Stadtentwicklung seit 1990Author: Bruno Flierl - Thomas Flierl
Publisher: Theater der Zeit Pages: 247 Language: German Description: Nach den Zerstörungen des Zweiten Weltkriegs musste Berlin – vor allem seine Stadtmitte – für eine neue Zukunft angeeignet und gestaltet werden. Und das unter den erschwerten Bedingungen in einer von den Siegermächten besetzten und geteilten Stadt in einem in vier Besatzungszonen geteilten Deutschland. Die alte Stadtmitte war 1945 dem sowjetischen Sektor in Ost-Berlin und ab 1949 der in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone gegründeten DDR zugefallen. Bis 1990 war Ost-Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR. Erst durch die Wiedervereinigung der geteilten Stadt Berlin in einem vereinten deutschen Staat 1990 wurde Berlin tatsächlich Hauptstadt und Sitz von Parlament und Regierung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Wieder stellt sich die Frage nach der Mitte der Stadt neu. Bruno Flierl begleitet seit Jahrzehnten mit seinen kritischen Analysen und Kommentaren die Entwicklung und Gestaltung der Berliner Innenstadt. Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Texte von 1990 bis heute und ermöglicht, die aktuelle politische Debatte im größeren historischen Zusammenhang zu verstehen. |
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Images of the New BerlinAuthor: V. Hassemer
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag Pages: 136 Language: German Description: Metropole Berlin. Aus dem Inhalt: Die Köpfe der Stadt. Keine Buletten für das neue Berlin. Eilig, unverblümt und „Nüscht Besonderet". Einmal Weltstadt und zurück. „Wissen Sie, wo die Reichskanzlei war?" Ende einer Warteschleife. Auferstanden aus Ruinen Wanderer auf der Wall Street. Abschied von einem gestörten Verhältnis. Ein Sechs-Millionen-Mißverständnis. Der schrecken unter der Stadt. Berlin, menschenleer. Wie wär’s denn mit Kassel? |
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The Germans: Stil und Ikonen einer NationAuthor: Silke Sichert - Nina Zywietz
Pages: 211 Language: German Description: Von Wohnen über Essen bis zu Bekleidung, Musik und Sport was ist typisch deutsch? Mit vielen unvergesslichen Bildern, anschaulichen Grafiken und interessanten Details. Für alle, die very German sind oder wissen wollen, was das eigentlich bedeutet. Die meisten wissen, was in Stilfragen mit very British gemeint ist, und haben eine ungefähre Idee von diesem Chic, der den Franzosen immer nachgesagt wird. Aber was ist eigentlich deutscher Stil ? Wie sieht er aus, wer hat ihn geprägt, früher und heute? Warum kleiden sich die Deutschen, wie sie sich kleiden? Warum lieben sie praktische Dinge mit Funktion? Warum konnten das Bauhaus, Techno oder die Raufasertapete nur hier entstehen? Essays und Experten-Interviews u. a. mit der Modehistorikerin Barbara Vinken geben darüber Aufschluss. Typisch German Stil und Ikonen einer Nation nimmt uns mit auf eine Bilderreise durch die neuere deutsche Stilgeschichte. Wir treffen Personen wie Boris Becker und Steffi Graf, Hans-Dietrich Genscher und seinen gelben Pullunder, Claudia Schiffer, Marlene Dietrich, Nena und Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. Mit Kurzporträts, Rückblenden und Interviews wird an deutsche Ikonen, die für einen bestimmten Stil stehen oder standen, erinnert. Am Ende werden wir sehen, dass die Deutschen häufig viel besser sind als ihr Ruf und ihr präzises Bestreben um Natürlichkeit durchaus eine sehr eigene Ästhetik geprägt hat. - Von Wohnen über Essen bis zu Bekleidung, Musik und Sport was ist typisch deutsch? |
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Das Deutsche in der deutschen KunstAuthor: Volker-gebhardt
Publisher: Dumont Literatur U. Kunst Pages: 511 Language: German |
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Universitäten in Deutschland / Universities in GermanyPublisher: Prestel; Billingual Edition German/English edition
Pages: 367 Language: German Description: Die von Grund auf überarbeitete Neuauflage dieser zweisprachigen Publikation bietet einen ausführlichen und vollständigen Überblick über das deutsche Universitätswesen. Nach Städten alphabetisch geordnet, werden die 117 Hochschulen in Wort und Bild vorgestellt und durch die wichtigsten formalen Angaben sowie ein ausführliches Hochschulprofil ergänzt. 14 neue, wieder reich bebilderte Beiträge beleuchten spezielle Aspekte des universitären Lebens und von Forschungseinrichtungen. Ein essenzielles Orientierungs- und Dokumentationswerk für Studierende und Hochschulangehörige. Nachschlagewerk, Lesebuch und Bildband in einem - dieses umfassende Kompendium bietet einen vollständigen Überblick über das deutsche Universitätswesen. Nach Städten alphabetisch geordnet, werden die Hochschulen in Wort und Bild vorgestellt und durch die wichtigsten formalen Angaben sowie ein ausführliches Hochschulprofil ergänzt. Insgesamt sind es 110 Einrichtungen, an denen außer einem Studium auch die Promotion möglich ist: 83 staatliche Universitäten von Aachen bis Würzburg, zwölf private und neun kirchliche Hochschuleinrichtungen sowie die sechs Pädagogischen Hochschulen Baden-Württembergs. Reich bebilderte Beiträge beleuchten verschiedenste Aspekte des universitären Lebens und der Forschungseinrichtungen und bieten über die reine Information hinaus ein fotografisches Stimmungsbild. Ein essenzielles Orientierungs- und Dokumentationswerk für Abiturienten, Studierende und Hochschulangehörige. |
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Portale zu Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Bibliotheken in Deutschland: Im Auftrag von Bibliothek und Information DeutschlandAuthor:Jürgen Seefeld,Ludger Syré
Publisher: Olms Georg AG Pages: 172 Language: German Description: Libraries, whether public or academic, can only provide their users with the services presented above if their existence is assured and their fund- ing bodies provide them with sufficient resources and staff. Thus the future of the library is not only a question of form and technology; it also has a political dimension. It is essential to make it clear not only to the political decision-makers but also to the media and to the nation in gen- eral that libraries are destined to play a key role in the information society. But they will only be able to do this role and its underlying expecta- tions justice if they recognize and accept the challenges presented by the information society, if they make sure they use every opportunity for technological innovation and organizational improvement and if they counteract the politi- cal, financial and structural weaknesses of the German library system with efficiency and effec- tiveness. Then they will remain what they have always been: Portals to the many new paths and visions of the future. |
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Das Kulturhandbuch Berlin: Geschichte & Gegenwart von A-Z
Author: Klaus Siebenhaar
Publisher: B & S Siebenhaar Verlag Pages: 600 Language: German |
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Neue interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf eine User-generated Culture im KulturbetriebAuthor: Simon A. Frank
Publisher: Transcript Verlag Pages: 283 Language: German Description: Für den Umgang mit Online-Medien, insbesondere Social Media, im deutschsprachigen Kulturbetrieb finden sich bislang nur zurückhaltende, fragmentarische Begründungsversuche, die bei näherer Betrachtung theoretische Inkonsequenzen aufweisen. Diese interdisziplinäre Studie von Simon A. Frank bewegt sich zwischen Kulturmanagement, -wissenschaft und Wirtschaftsinformatik. Sie entwickelt ein neues theoretisch fundiertes Konzept für Social Media im Kulturmanagement und zeigt, dass zwischen den tragenden Kunst- und Kulturtheorien, die derzeit das theoretische Fundament der Kultureinrichtungen bilden, sowie den aktuellen Internetpraktiken kein unversöhnlicher Gegensatz besteht. |
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Internet der Dinge: Über smarte Objekte, intelligente Umgebungen und die technische Durchdringung der WeltAuthor: Florian Sprenger, Christoph Engemann
Publisher: Pantheon - Bertelsmann C., Verlag GmbH Pages: 271 Language: German Description: In ihrem Buch untersucht Allmendinger, wo unser Land heute steht und was wir für die nächsten Generationen bewahren wollen. Aus den überraschenden Erkenntnissen leitet sich eine Agenda ab, wie wir angesichts der großen Herausforderungen, die auf uns zukommen, gemeinsam eine lebenswerte Zukunft nach unseren Vorstellungen gestalten können. Wie wollen Menschen in Deutschland leben? Was wünschen sie sich für die Zukunft, für das Leben ihrer Kinder? Wo suchen sie Veränderung, wo halten sie an Traditionen fest, wo gibt es gesellschaftliche Blockaden? In ihrer einmaligen, groß angelegten »Vermächtnisstudie« schaut die Soziologin Jutta Allmendinger den Deutschen in die Seele und fragt nach ihren Werten und Wünschen, Hoffnungen und Sorgen im Hier und Jetzt und für die Zukunft. Das Land, in dem wir leben wollen zeigt, dass wir in Fragen von Familie, Karriere, Gesundheit und Technik oft anders denken, wünschen und fühlen, als wir annehmen. |
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Das Land, in dem wir leben wollen: wie die Deutschen sich ihre Zukunft vorstellenAuthor: Jutta Allmendinger
Publisher: Pantheon - Bertelsmann C., Verlag GmbH Pages: 271 Language: German Description: In ihrem Buch untersucht Allmendinger, wo unser Land heute steht und was wir für die nächsten Generationen bewahren wollen. Aus den überraschenden Erkenntnissen leitet sich eine Agenda ab, wie wir angesichts der großen Herausforderungen, die auf uns zukommen, gemeinsam eine lebenswerte Zukunft nach unseren Vorstellungen gestalten können. Wie wollen Menschen in Deutschland leben? Was wünschen sie sich für die Zukunft, für das Leben ihrer Kinder? Wo suchen sie Veränderung, wo halten sie an Traditionen fest, wo gibt es gesellschaftliche Blockaden? In ihrer einmaligen, groß angelegten »Vermächtnisstudie« schaut die Soziologin Jutta Allmendinger den Deutschen in die Seele und fragt nach ihren Werten und Wünschen, Hoffnungen und Sorgen im Hier und Jetzt und für die Zukunft. Das Land, in dem wir leben wollen zeigt, dass wir in Fragen von Familie, Karriere, Gesundheit und Technik oft anders denken, wünschen und fühlen, als wir annehmen. |
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Die deutsche SeeleAuthor: Thea Dorn; Richard Wagner
Publisher: Knaus Pages: 560 Language: German Description: Von Gemütlichkeit und Grundgesetz, von Abendbrot bis Zerrissenheit. Alles was deutsch ist. So ein Buch hat es noch nicht gegeben. Zwei Autoren, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, erkunden liebevoll und kritisch, kenntnisreich und ohne Berührungsängste, was das eigentlich ist, die deutsche Seele. Sie spüren sie auf in so unterschiedlichen Begriffen wie »Abendbrot« und »Wanderlust«, »Männerchor« und »Fahrvergnügen«, »Abgrund« und »Zerrissenheit«. In sechzig Kapiteln entsteht auf diese Weise eine tiefgründige und facettenreiche Kulturgeschichte des Deutschen.Alle Debatten über Deutschland landen am selben Punkt im Abseits: Darf man das überhaupt öffentlich sagen, etwas sei »deutsch« oder »typisch deutsch«? Kann man sich mit dem Deutschsein heute endlich versöhnen? Man muss es sogar, meinen Thea Dorn und Richard Wagner. Sie verspüren eine große Sehnsucht danach, das eigene Land wirklich kennen zu lernen, und machen Inventur in den Beständen der deutschen Seele. Ihr Buch ist eine erkenntnisreiche und unterhaltsame Reise an die Wurzeln unseres nationalen Erbes und geht durchaus ans Eingemachte. Obwohl es sich auch als Enzyklopädie lesen lässt, sind die Texte nicht aus nüchterner Distanz geschrieben. Auf diese Weise entstehen leidenschaftliche Plädoyers für bestimmte Merkmale des Deutschen, für ein damit verbundenes Lebensgefühl. Diese »Liebeserklärung« der Autoren ist ein sinnliches, reich bebildertes Buch, das die deutsche Seele einmal nicht seziert, sondern sie anspricht. |
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Unterwegs in Deutschland - Das große Reisebuch
Publisher: Kunth Wolfgang Verlag
Pages: 543 Language: German Description: Unterwegs in. Eine neuartige Kombination aus Bildband, Reiseführer und Atlas! Eine opulente Reiseenzyklopädie, die umfassende Orientierung und kompaktes Wissen bietet. Der bilderreiche und informative Hauptteil ist nach Regionen bzw. nach Reiserouten gegliedert und beschreibt so die schönsten Plätze, die man gesehen haben muss. Ergänzt wird jeder Band durch informative Tourenkarten, Stadtpläne sowie einen detaillierten Straßenatlas zur Orientierung. |
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Mein Ort in Deutschland - Was macht einen Ort zu einem besonderen Ort in unserem LebenAuthor: Lehmann, Klaus-Dieter
Publisher: Hueber Verlag Pages: 144 Language: German Description: Für alle, die Deutschland von einer ganz anderen Seite kennenlernen möchten. Das Geschenkbuch Mein Ort in Deutschland - Was macht einen Ort zu einem besonderen Ort in unserem Leben versammelt die ca. 80 schönsten und interessantesten Einsendungen zum gleichnamigen internationalen Wettbewerb "Mein Ort in Deutschland", bei dem Menschen aus aller Welt berichten, wie Parkbänke, Wegkreuzungen, Stadtviertel, ganze Städte, Landschaften oder völlig andere kleine und große Orte in Deutschland durch Atmosphäre, Architektur oder Begegnungen zu "ihrem" Ort geworden sind. Der Geschenkband enthält darüber hinaus zahlreiche Beiträge prominenter Persönlichkeiten. Das Vorwort stammt aus der Feder von Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, dem Präsidenten des Goethe-Instituts. Qualitativ hochwertige Illustrationen in ansprechender Bildsprache runden die optische Ästhetik ab. |
