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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...
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Beginning in the Middle
Conversations on the Post-Soviet
2022 || Paperback || Elsbeth Dekker e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Beginning in the Middle. Conversations on the Post-Soviet, edited and compiled by Elsbeth Dekker and Robbie Schweiger, explores the works, lives and travels of artists coming from a (post-) Soviet context. The conversations delve deeper into questions of art and (de)colonisation in countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia, most of which recently celebrated their 30th anniversary of independence.
Departing from Dutch collections and exhibitions, the conversations try to grapple with question...
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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