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As Above, So Below. Ruchama Noorda
2022 || Hardcover || Ruchama Noorda || Jap Sam Books
'As Above, So Below' documents the work made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period and explores the esoteric system of belief that links her practice to the early 20th century Lebensreformers, the European avant-garde, and today's no growth environmentalist movement.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's installations, drawings, video's, sculptures, and performances with written commentary by the artist and by California-based art and cultural...
Stations
Listening to the Deep Earth
2022 || Hardcover || Stuart Hyatt e.a. || Jap Sam Books
What does the Earth sound like? In 'Stations: Listening to the Deep Earth', musician Stuart Hyatt teams up with PRINTtEXT to invite poets, composers, and scientists to answer this question. What begins as a grand science experiment quickly transforms into a lyrical duet with the enchanted ground beneath us.
Hyatt and Enrique Ramirez begin the text with examinations of a whole-Earth sensorium. The text then branches out in three directions—Invocation, Reverie, and Rhapsody—before reconverg...
Solar Futures
How to Design a Post-Fossil World With the Sun
2022 || Hardcover || Marjan van Aubel || Jap Sam Books
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...
Polder Landscapes of the World
2022 || Hardcover || Steffen Nijhuis e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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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