Globalisering heeft grote voordelen gebracht, maar tevens ook nadelen. De wereldwijde handel in consumentengoederen heeft geresulteerd in uniformiteit van het aanbod, bedreigt het voortbestaan van de lokale tradities en globalisering heeft het milieu zeker niet gespaard. De roep om een herwaardering van oude technieken en historisch gegroeide conventies kan rondom ons steeds meer gehoord worden. Dit neemt soms de vorm van nostalgische vervoering over de nationale identiteit en veronderstelde ...

Deze omvangrijke overzichtsuitgave met de titel 'Jan van Munster Licht / Light' is gewijd aan de hoogtepunten van zijn oeuvre van lichtwerken uit de periode tussen 1970–2010. Deze publicatie die zal verschijnen in een drietalige uitvoering (Nederlands, Duits, Engels) bevat een uitvoerig essay van kunsthistoricus dr. Peter Lodermeyer. Een biografie, een bibliografie en 200 afbeeldingen completeren het overzicht. De vormgeving is van Sepp Bader die ook het eerder verschenen boek van 'Jan van ...

In de zomer van 2011 gaf de Kulturstiftung des Bundes in Berlijn in samenwerking met de Haus der Kulturen der Welt onderdak aan het festival Über Lebenskunst. Dit culturele festival gaat over duurzaamheid, en heeft als doel verschillende visies ten aanzien van duurzaam wonen en leven in de 21ste eeuw te presenteren. Het eten en drinken voor de 8.000 festivalgangers werd voorzien uit de Vorratskammer / Pantry, een kunstproject van myvillages.org.In juli 2010 begon myvillages.org, de voorraadk...

| A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness.

| Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.

Are Dutch people happy people?

Does art make you happy?

What was your earliest memory of happiness?

What have you taught your children about happiness?

Notes on Happiness is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text, based on conversations that Farrar had with peop...

How do you make a book about a period that is behind you? The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one of its founders.

For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas S...

'My Mom Wants to Go Back Home' is a documentary diary by photographer Hanna Hrabarska. Together with her mother Iryna, she fled the war in Ukraine, to find a temporary home in the Netherlands.

'This book is a journey. In the beginning it runs across borders, countries and cities. Later it extends inwards, into a landscape of our thoughts, feelings and emotions.'

Hanna Hrabarska (1986) is a Ukrainian photographer, visual artist, and photojournalist. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism fr...

'The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture' examines a key experiment by The Open University to mobilize new media environments for distance and adult education.

Eight episodes written by Joaquim Moreno, conversations with Tim Benton, Nick Levinson, Adrian Forty, Joseph Rykwert and Stephen Bayley, and contributions by Nick Beech, Laura Carter, Ben Highmore, and Joseph Bedford, offer a close reading of the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, which wa...

This edited volume offers an in-depth exploration of Dutch media art from 1985 onwards from many different perspectives. Through early access to the Internet, state subsidies and dedicated institutions and festivals, a vivid counter-cultural environment and a cosmopolitan artistic and intellectual scene the Netherlands hold a unique position in regards to the development of media art.

Introduced by four chapters that retrace the main events and actors (governmental institutions, festivals an...

Gil Nader (1968) and Moti Porat (1971) are known for their socially engaged work in which they explore the notion of individuality and question forms and norms of identity.

Forget & Remember investigates the background and migration history of their Jewish-Israeli families on the basis of their parents’ collections. In Forget & Remember, Gil's father Yitzhak and Moti's mother Naomi are the protagonists. The reader is introduced to the stories of and about them and their very different coll...