Does our knowledge about city and urban planning have solid ground? Can historical research promote creative thinking? How can we theorise about urban design and architecture in our age of the media?

These questions have guided the creation of this multi-layered, richly documented and illustrated triptych, in which the Dutch architectural theorist Wim Nijenhuis pursues a creative goal: to stimulate new ways of thinking in architectural culture.

Each part of the triptych treats distinctive i...

I WANT A PERMANENT WAVE by GERALD VAN DER KAAP

Apart from being a metro station, Europaplein Station in Amsterdam is also an immersive experience. When you enter the station, you find yourself inside a huge dromoscopic underground work of art.

You could say there are two artworks, to paraphrase Virilio, depending on your perception. One is the artwork at the station. You stand on the platform waiting, looking at it, the images, the graphics, the colors, the mirroring effect of silver. The oth...

Le poème électronique staat bekend als de multimediavoorstelling die op de Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958 te Brussel in het Philipspaviljoen vertoond werd. Het visuele deel was bedacht door de architect en schilder Le Corbusier. Samen met Iannis Xenakis was hij ook de ontwerper van het Philipspaviljoen. Het muzikale deel van dit Poème bestond uit twee gedeelten: een elektronisch stuk gecomponeerd door Xenakis dat bij het binnengaan van de voorstelling werd afgespeeld en een acht minuten du...

Let’s stop criticising or extolling the old value systems. Instead, let’s anticipate the value systems of the future, exploring, expressing, developing and living them here and now. There’s no need for science fiction, the thought of the future is active at this moment right under your nose. Take the side of the plant and a whole new vista opens up.

VOLGENS ABORIGINAL RECHT ...

Agnes Schreiner

Agnes Schreiner beschrijft opmerkelijke Australische rechtsconflicten met begrippen van buiten de reguliere rechtsantropologie, zoals de Gestalt Switch,

de memorietechniek van de analogie, de kunst van het verschijnen en verdwijnen. Zij verrijkt haar palet van bronnen uit het recht, de rechtsantropologie, landclaims en conferenties met observaties en fragmenten uit films, documentaires, tentoonstellingen en presentiaties van Aboriginals zelf. Het...

Le poème électronique is generally known as the multimedia event presented in the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair of 1958. The visual part of the Poème was conceived by the architect and painter Le Corbusier. He was also responsible, in partnership with Iannis Xenakis, for the design of the Philips Pavilion. The musical part consisted of a short electronic piece composed by Xenakis that was played as the public entered the space and an eight-minute electronic work by Edgard V...