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The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, incl
Creative Ecologies
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Authors: Hélène Frichot
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Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally d
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Authors: Penny Sparke
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The story of how plants and flowers have shaped interior design for over 200 years From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in
Variations of a Building
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Variations of a Building tells the story of the making of a building. Based on a multi-sited ethnography of the building project for Aviva Studios (formerly, Fa
Critical by Design?
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In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevita