De publicatie Doodgewoon gaat over de laatste levensfase in het leven van een mens. Aspecten als ouderdom, vereenzaming, ziekte en dood komen in deze publicatie aanbod en worden op een integere, maar tevens intrigerende wijze in beeld gebracht.Wim van Ophem (1964) is naast fotograaf en beeldend kunstenaar werkzaam als verpleegkundige in de thuiszorg. Door middel van zijn fotografische beeldtaal wil hij de kwetsbaarheid en de vergankelijkheid van het leven laten zien. Van Ophem heeft een bijzo...

Met de publicatie van 'Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-Identification' willen de initiatiefnemers een lans breken voor activistische kunstuitingen die durven te provoceren. In het huidige neoliberale politieke klimaat is weinig ruimte voor maatschappijkritische culturele uitingen tenzij ze zich aanpassen aan de wetten van de vrije markt of de afgesproken normen en waarden. Dit boek wil aantonen dat dit doorbroken kan worden met over-identificatie: compromisloos je idealen naleven. In...

'This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk' brings together archives and reflections from a music scene that flourished in small-town South Dakota from the early 90's through 2010. Merging the tradition of DIY punk publications and regional travel guides, the book sings an unsung hymn of American underground culture. This Road Leads to Nowhere includes writings and images from Pierre community members, musicians who traveled through and played in the town, and kindred spirits from similar scene...

With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

The book deals with the politics of urban space by treating the unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through the...

Footprint #28 examines the relation between cybernetics and architecture by focusing on a problem they both share: the production, consumption and flow of information, or, in other terms, of meaning. Therefore, cyberneticisation can set the foundations for a relational account that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original scope of living organisms and their environments in order to ...

RAABJERG by Danish artist Rune Peitersen (1971) explores the changing landscape of northern Jutland (DK) from the last Ice Age until today.

During the 16th-19th centuries, climate change and human extraction of natural resources led to violent sand drift, which transformed the once fertile landscape into a barren wasteland. Different governments – from kings to elected parliaments – enacted laws to try to reverse it. After 200 years, they ‘succeeded’ and started reintroducing plants i...

"Stitch Your Brain" is a long-term study into the intelligence of the hand by artist and former medical doctor Monika Auch. The book reflects the results of the empirical study Auch worked on for the past decade about the importance of creating with your hands in our digital age and the effects of slow creation on neuro cognitive learning, health, and well-being.

The detailed images of a collection of 100+ stitched brains created by participants and their personal comments illustrate the infl...

Visual artist Diana Scherer is one of the pioneers in biotech art. At the core of her botanical installations and textiles lies a great curiosity about what neurobiologists call ‘the brain of plants’. Scherer studies plants and root systems and applies the intelligence of plants in her work. She employs a unique technique with which, using natural growth processes, she creates mesmerising and seemingly fragile tissues of plant roots with various structures. Scherer’s work is thought-pro...

Source 04TIPPELZONE REVISED presenteert onderzoeksgegevens en designvoorstellen voor het probleem van drugsgerelateerde straatprostitutie in Eindhoven. Op verzoek van de gemeente Eindhoven onderzochten studenten van de IM Masters afdeling van Design Academy Eindhoven de tippelzone in Woensel-West en formuleerden alternatieven voor de huidige situatie. Om de overlast van straatprostitutie door verslaafden in Woensel-West te bestrijden, werd in 2003 door de gemeente een tippelzone aangelegd. He...