Creativiteit' moet tegenwoordig. Niet alleen kunstenaars, ook bedrijfsleiders en beleidsvoerders worden tot creativiteit aangespoord. Zelfs gezinstherapeuten en conflictbemiddelaars worden aangezet om met meer creatieve oplossingen te komen. Creativiteit hoort tegenwoordig alleen maar in een positieve moraal thuis. Er wordt niets dan goeds van verwacht. Maar wat betekent het woordje nog wanneer zowat iedereen het verslijt? En waar komt deze honger naar creativiteit vandaan? Wijst die niet eer...

SOLAR FUTURES: How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun by solar designer Marjan van Aubel explores the future of solar energy.

Solar energy needs a new narrative – one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about efficiency and the payback time of blue solar panels. This publication illustrates what we need to know to transition from solar technology to solar design using everyday integrated aesthetic solutions.

This publication is divided into three parts: the first pa...

Anton Rooskens (1906–1976) made a significant contribution to modern art in the Netherlands as an artist affiliated with the Cobra group, but also afterwards. His paintings are included in leading museum collections in the Netherlands and abroad. It is time for a new, comprehensive publication on this important Dutch twentieth-century painter. Over the past years, art historians Marguerite Tuijn and Eliane Odding have delved into his oeuvre and life. Based on previously unused sources from ...

Anders dan kunstenaars opereren architecten per definitie vanuit het centrum van de samenleving. Als een van de weinige architecten toont Rem Koolhaas aan dat je vanuit dat midden toch een kritische distantie in acht kunt nemen. Is in zijn strategieën een hint gelegen voor kunstenaars om betekenisvolle kunst te scheppen in een wereld waarin betekenis geen enkele kans meer lijkt te hebben?

Schrijver Edzard Mik bezocht het door het OMA ontworpen CCTV hoofdkantoor in Beijing en schreef een lyri...

Polders can be found in coastal and alluvial lowlands all over the world. Water levels are artificially controlled so people can live and work in these reclaimed areas. This often centuries-old interaction between man and water had produced a rich variety of polder landscapes with their own cultural identity and spatial, functional, and ecological characteristics. These landscapes are under threat due to climate and economic change along with the standardization tendencies of globalization.

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Monografie van beeldend kunstenaar Lon Pennock (1945). 'Lon Pennock: Works' documenteert 15 jaar werk bestaande uit beelden en werk op papier. Met tekstbijdragen van Thomas Köllhofer en Frits Scholten.

By investigating simple forms seemingly borrowed from objective reality, Lon Pennock developed an aesthetic language related to that informing Concrete Art, which draws solely on such geometric elements as the rectangular solid, the cube, the cone or the cylinder.' - Thomas Köllhofer

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The photo-book 'Felwa' is a chronicle of transitions that explore an essential paradox of nature, in the context of the Veluwe region in the Netherlands, namely that change is the only constant. Structured like ripples in a pool, the book begins with references to the past examining our ancient emotional relationship with the world in terms of mythology and belief and ends with the scientific data based view we have today. Within these parameters we explore relationships to place ranging from...

Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.

An undertow of embodied memory meets the flow of institutional remembrance, drawing parallels between the ...