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Design as the practice of care and empathyThe task of designers is often to connect us with one another but also with the world around us, with other species, with the planet: in other words, to practice empathy. In this book, readers will find both utopian propositions and practical solutions for reinterpreting and reconnecting with the world around them, taking food as a key medium of encounter. Contributors include: Ekin Ozbicer, Mariana Pe...

Hannah Ellis interrogates the function and ubiquity of design exhibitions in the wake of the pandemicFor almost 200 years, design biennials, exhibitions and festivals have become more and more popular across Europe. Here, British designer and writer Hannah Ellis asks: can design be meaningful at this kind of scale? How do these events act on people and places, and on the discipline itself?

A case study on the possibilities of embedded designThis book documents the work of designers who embedded themselves in and around the former penal colony in Veenhuizen, in the Netherlands, soon to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It reveals the experience gained and lessons learned, illustrating them with design projects and events.

The De Stjil furniture designer's most iconic chairs, personalized by five contemporary creatorsThis hands-on workbook playfully explores the tension between originality, imitation and individual taste by delving into Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld's (1888-1964) design legacy through a selection of five do-it-yourself copies of his iconic chair designs. Who are the people behind these chairs? What motivated them to "improve" the ...

A collection of design analyses that denounces elitism in critiqueHow can we encourage more people to become actively aware of and critical about the design of their environments? How can we make the realm of design criticism more inclusive? These were the questions that motivated Onomatopee Projects to launch an open call for (un)professional everyday design criticism. This publication presents a series of essays that were selected from this ...

On the impact of Dutch colonialism on Indonesian architectureThis book presents new perspectives on Dutch colonial architecture in Indonesia, focusing on the village of Kaliurang (a region of Yogyakarta). What Bungalows Can Tell addresses the conflicts around growing tourism and gentrification processes, and their effects on the quality and continuity of local ways of life, aiming to critically understand the spatial effects of globalization a...

How people sit and are seated: an anthropology of chair designThe anatomy of our bodies invites sitting, but do we design seats in the same way? Has our means of sitting been colonized by modern design? And how is the culturally various act of sitting itself reflected in this functional commodity?Matteo Guarnaccia's (born 1954) Cross Cultural Chairs is a research-based design project "about the cultural context of furniture, understanding how ...

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Thoughts and hopes for a post-COVID theater worldTheater director David Weber-Krebs asks theater industry practitioners, artists, scholars, curators and spectators to imagine their first post-virus theater visit.

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Creative takes on domesticity and cooking from the constraints of lockdownAs the coronavirus forced the world to close down, nearly everyone found themselves spending a lot more time at home than they had initially anticipated. With most 2020 plans foiled and travel restrictions on the rise, many artists turned to kitchen experiments as a new creative outlet. In Recipes for the Future, 16 culture-makers share the culinary concoctions they made...

Communal cooking as political pleasure: recipes and ideas for collaborating in the kitchenIn this imaginative and incisive take on both the cookbook form and on the labor and culture attending it, food preparation is assessed as both a creative outlet and an inherently political pursuit, a means of nourishing the community and nurturing meaningful conversation. Along with tasty dinner recipes, Home Works expands upon its central ideas through ...

A chunky artist's-book homage to the Russian Constructivist style that also probes the fluidity of screen and printThis dynamic and superbly designed book is Berlin-based graphic designer Polina Joffe's investigation into Russian Suprematism and Constructivism, demonstrating the fluidity of design in the digital age.

Temporary mobile zones: how artists and designers are pursuing new provisional structures for work and playThis handsomely designed volume maps out a new architectural movement motivated by practices of place-making, occupying and squatting. All the interventions are mobile and nearly all of them are installed without permission from city planners. Presenting international projects by emerging designers, Co-Machines raises questions about arch...

The politics of a pictogram: technology, gender, race and class in the history of the heart symbolThe ubiquitous, benign and seemingly innocuous heart symbol hides a much more complex story than its appearance suggests. The heart is often described as a universal symbol for love, yet its history suggests otherwise, it is closer to a corporate and political medium, embedded with all of the familiar imbalances of class, gender and race. The symb...

Pedagogical and participatory art from the coauthor of Making and BeingIn Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard, this acclaimed New York-based artist and educator (born 1984) proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished gallery installations. Readers follow the behind-the-scenes work that is required to p...