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urn:uuid:aa19d8aa-6b5e-41b1-9cc1-023b93e4b41a 03 01 01 urn:uuid:aa19d8aa-6b5e-41b1-9cc1-023b93e4b41a 15 9783943253726 06 10.53198/9783943253726 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:aa19d8aa-6b5e-41b1-9cc1-023b93e4b41a 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/en/buecher/design-theorie-praxis-open-accessebooks/attending-futures-matters-politics-design-education-research-practice 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253726.pdf 1 B01 Johanna Mehl 2 B01 Carolin Höfler 3 B06 Jacob Watson 4 A32 Jost Goldschmitt 5 A32 Philipp Pätzold 6 A32 Charlotte Rohde 01 eng 00 294 03 93 ABA 10 DES000000 93 AKX 10 DES004000 93 AKP 10 DES011000 10 ART027000 93 QDTN 93 JBC 93 1D 93 3MR 93 4CTB 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ 03 03 <p>If “design” is the lens through which we glimpse into possible futures, this volume asks: What are the futures we are capable of imagining? As a subject of study, design is enabled and constrained by educational institutions and academic traditions. As a profession it is conditioned by systems of labor. As a creative activity it is shaped by what tools are programmed to do. Authors in this book challenge common ways of knowing, being, and doing in design with regard to the futures they facilitate and interrogate the role, responsibility, and potential of a plurality of design practices in confrontation with social and environmental crises. In this way, this volume does not only ask about designed futures, but also the futures of design: What are the consequences drawn from a critical examination of the histories and politics underlying normative renderings of design? How can we disrupt the perpetuation of biases and reification of social injustices? Self-reflexively engaging their own experiences and work, authors in this volume interrogate design in all its convoluted modalities: as activism, practice, discipline, way of knowing, field of study and set of objects.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253726_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg, Germany 04 20231001 2023 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253627 06 15 9783943253726 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:def0c160-f483-4358-b982-d86444f7db36 03 01 01 urn:uuid:def0c160-f483-4358-b982-d86444f7db36 15 9783691130003 06 10.53198/9783691130003 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:def0c160-f483-4358-b982-d86444f7db36 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/de/buecher/raum/buildings-standby 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783691130003.pdf 1 A01 Hendrikje Alpermann 01 ORCID 0009-0006-7673-5339 01 eng 00 272 03 10 ARC010000 93 JHBC 93 AMVD 10 SOC026030 10 POL024000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 03 03 <p>Buildings on Standby describes the vacant high-rise buildings A–E in Halle-Neustadt as places of uncertain future, where the possibilities/impossibilities of urban planning after socialism are being negotiated. For more than 20 years, four of the five tower blocks have been vacant and remain on standby – in a state of future-oriented avail­ability and a contested space between shutdown and reactivation. At the interface of actor-network theory and ethnographic urban research, the study examines this state in its temporal, material and political dimensions. It shows that buildings on standby cost a lot of energy, harbour risks and become a bargaining chip for trust and responsibility. The book opens up new perspectives on shrinking cities, interstitial spaces and urban transformation – in and beyond the post-socialist space.</p><p>The text is accompanied by numerous architectural illustrations and a photo essay by Eiko Grimberg.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783691130003_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg 04 20260318 2026 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253962 06 15 9783691130003 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:10b23de4-4f4e-4bf4-a8cd-0331363bac96 03 01 01 urn:uuid:10b23de4-4f4e-4bf4-a8cd-0331363bac96 15 9783691130072 06 10.53198/9783691130072 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:10b23de4-4f4e-4bf4-a8cd-0331363bac96 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783691130072.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/de/buecher/raum-theorie/nonsolution-en 1 A01 Gabu Heindl 2 A01 Drehli Robnik 01 eng 02 ger 00 108 03 93 AMV 20 architectural theory 04 NA2542.4 10 SOC026000 10 ARC020000 20 critical urbanism 93 JPQB 10 POL044000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 03 03 <p>Problems require solutions. But what is defined as a problem, and how are answers and solutions found? In view of the climate catastrophe, the unjust distribution of wealth, and the demand for liveable housing and urban spaces for all, purely technical solutions are often promoted, while existing power relations are ignored.</p><p>In contrast, we propose nonsolution as a politicised approach to the problem of finding solutions. We adopt the term nonsolution, and the conceptual outlook it represents, from the writings of sociologist, historian, and urban theorist Siegfried Kracauer in order to open up spaces for critical thinking along the lines of radical democracy: solutions are not avoided; rather, an active nonsolution is pursued. The “non” signifies the rejection of closed identities, the affirmation of conflict and opposition, and the integration of architecture into political alliances.</p><p>With regard to housing and urban development under the pressure of capitalisation and exclusion, we combine planning practice with political theory to develop a critique of architectural practice.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783691130072_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg 04 20260423 2026 02 WORLD 06 15 9783691130010 06 15 9783691130072 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:c511f2fb-55d4-4685-b5b9-08df3b92166a 03 01 01 urn:uuid:c511f2fb-55d4-4685-b5b9-08df3b92166a 15 9783943253948 06 10.53198/9783943253948 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:c511f2fb-55d4-4685-b5b9-08df3b92166a 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/de/node/537 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253948.pdf 1 A01 Florian Conradi 2 A01 Michelle Christensen 3 A01 Cornelia Sollfrank 4 A01 Felix Stalder 01 eng 00 220 03 93 JBCT1 20 Media studies 10 Tech066000 20 Computer graphics 10 SOC055000 93 UBJ 20 Digital media 10 SOC068000 10 COM012000 20 Society 10 ART015000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p>We live in times of comprehensive datafication. Digital technologies allow ever more aspects of our lives and the planet to be measured and analyzed. This creates new ways of knowing and doing. All too often however, this development leads to a systematic devaluation of forms of knowing that cannot be quantified and processed digitally. Digital data and lived worlds, technical measurements and embodied experiences are based on fundamentally different ways of perceiving the world. This publication addresses the relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge and uses three transdisciplinary dialogues between the arts and sciences to ask how these differences can be articulated and made productive.</p><p>This book documents and elaborates upon a one-day conference held under the same title at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts in June 2024. As a practical attempt to make productive the ambiguities of knowing based on dis/embodied experience, three pairs of researchers/artists, who collaborated over an extended period of time in order to share different perspectives on their common subject and expand on the resulting ambiguities in an open discussion were brought together. The texts assembled here are the introductory statements of each of the contributors, as well as condensed, edited versions of discussions that were triggered by them.</p><p>With contributions from: Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, Johannes Fritz, Ulrich Ott, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Felix Stalder, Michelle Christensen, Cornelia Sollfrank and Florian Conradi. Moderations: i.a. Ines Weigand, Shusha Niederberger.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253948_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg, Germany 04 20260202 2026 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253887 06 15 9783943253948 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:bbbf48d2-6e4d-4032-8243-6c8d26e4a264 03 01 01 urn:uuid:bbbf48d2-6e4d-4032-8243-6c8d26e4a264 15 9783943253641 06 10.53198/9783943253641 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:bbbf48d2-6e4d-4032-8243-6c8d26e4a264 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253641.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/en/buecher/sound-open-accessebooks/sawt-bodies-species-sonic-pluralism-morocco 1 A01 Gilles Aubry 01 ORCID 0000-0002-9019-6603 2 B01 Anna Richter 3 A32 Katharina Hetzeneder 4 A32 Xavier Tulleuda Nieto 5 A32 Raphaël Bastide 6 A32 Wei Huang 7 A32 Lucas Le Bihan 8 A32 Walid Bouchouchi 9 A32 Jérémy Landes 01 eng 00 300 03 93 AVA 10 MUS015000 93 AVSD 10 MUS032000 93 AVX 10 SOC019000 93 GTM 10 SOC053000 93 JBCC7 93 1HBM 93 3MP 93 3MR 93 4CTM 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/deed.en 03 03 <p>How do the Moroccan sound archives of the writer Paul Bowles from the 1970s sound today with the musicians of that time? What does an earthquake in Agadir have to do with a Japanese science fiction film? What sound do stones have? And what do we learn about environmental pollution by listening to the agar agar algae?</p><p>Drawing on critical sound studies, ethnographic research, and artistic practice, this book offers multivoiced narratives about acoustic practices in Morocco. Gilles Aubry‘s research on the sonic dimensions of our environment, ranges from animal, plant, and mineral voices to ritual practices and technological infrastructures. The Arabic word for these voices in the physical but also in the technological sense is sawt. In collaborations with local musicians, artists and scientists, Aubry explores in experimental settings listening as the basis of „sonic pluralism“.</p><p>The dense descriptions of the multidisciplinary research are complemented by series of photographies. Via QR codes, the text is linked to audiovisual essays and compositions by the artist. The layout of the book takes up this close linking of digital and analog materials.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253641_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg, Germany 04 20230201 2023 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253597 06 15 9783943253641 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:cf1475f1-f2be-42e9-a1b7-694ce47c87a5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:cf1475f1-f2be-42e9-a1b7-694ce47c87a5 15 9783943253931 06 10.53198/9783943253931 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:cf1475f1-f2be-42e9-a1b7-694ce47c87a5 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/de/buecher/theorie/solidaritaten-transformieren 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253931.pdf 01 eng 01 ger 00 374 03 93 1D 20 Europe 10 POL003000 93 JBFH 20 Migration 10 SOC066000 93 JBFG 10 SOC024000 93 5PBC 10 SOC026030 20 Refugees 20 Political asylum 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de 03 03 <p>Unsere Gegenwart ist geprägt von Umbrüchen, Krisen und Herausforderungen. Pandemie und Kriege fordern unsere Gesellschaften heraus. Klimawandel und Digitalisierung greifen auf fundamentale Weise in unser Zusammenleben ein. Die Realität weltumspannender Mobilität und der Migrationsgesellschaft verlangen von uns, Demokratie und Zugehörigkeit neu zu denken. Die globale Welle der Entsolidarisierung fordert alle auf, die Beziehungen zueinander neu zu gestalten. Aber welche Praktiken und Infrastrukturen sind dafür in der Migrationsgesellschaft notwendig? Das Forschungsprojekt Transforming Solidarities hat seit 2021 in den Feldern Arbeit, Gesundheit und Wohnen zu dieser Frage geforscht. Im Labor der Migrationsgesellschaft in Berlin wurde untersucht, wie Solidaritäten die notwendigen Antworten auf diese Herausforderungen liefern können. Und: wie diese ausgehandelt, ermöglicht oder verhindert werden. Dieser Band präsentiert Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts, theoretische Überlegungen zu Solidarität, Formen der Entsolidarisierung, Reflexionen methodischer und solidarischer Praktiken, Untersuchungen von Infrastrukturen der Solidarität sowie Anregungen, neue solidarische Praktiken zu entwickeln. 35 prägnante Aufsätze werfen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven einen Blick auf Solidarität als transformative Kraft.</p><p>Mit Beiträgen von Moritz Ahlert, Moritz Altenried, Konstantin Atanassow, Céline Barry, Alexander Behr, Asita Behzadi, Manuela Bojadžijev, Wendy Brown, Robin Celikates, İlker Eğilmez, Anujah Fernando, Stefan Gosepath, Sabine Hark, Janno Himpel, Judith Holz, Rahel Jaeggi, Jennifer Kamau, Bernd Kasparek, Ulrike Kluge, Stephan Lessenich, Catherine Lu, Sowmya Maheswaran, Paul Mecheril, Hanna Meißner, Sandro Mezzadra, Mihaela Mihai, Brett Neilson, Llanquiray Painemal, Simone Penka, David Permantier, Patrice G. Poutrus, Christian Schmidt, Kirsten Schubert, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Susanne Schultz, Antonia Sieler, Anna Steigemann, Andrea Steinke, Ronja Wagner, Antonia Welch Guerra, Veronika Zablotsky.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253931_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg, Germany 04 20250610 2025 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253863 06 15 9783943253931 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:41c011c4-b12e-4f51-8f48-8ffba4f32697 03 01 01 urn:uuid:41c011c4-b12e-4f51-8f48-8ffba4f32697 15 9783943253955 06 10.53198/9783943253955 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:41c011c4-b12e-4f51-8f48-8ffba4f32697 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/de/buecher/raum-theorie-praxis-open-accessebooks/stretching-materialities 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253955.pdf 1 B01 Clemens Winkler 01 eng 00 384 03 10 ART006000 20 Germany 93 NKX 93 1DFG 20 Art 10 ART009000 10 ART026000 20 Criticism & theory 20 Sculpture & installation 10 SOC026000 20 Sociology 20 Exhibitions 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 03 03 <p>Stretching Materialities is an experimental approach to rethinking exhibitions in terms of »active matter:« not as a presentation of material knowledge and practices per se, but as an interactive and participatory research approach to new forms of activity emerging from the poiesis of the material. The interdisciplinary exhibition by the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« at Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T) Berlin experimented with curatorial processes, the existing environment and its material-energetic resources, sound performances, the interweaving of physical and virtual matter, and a constantly changing exhibit.</p><p>With highlights such as a physical cloud in the middle of the exhibition space, virtual tours through six unique VR floors,</p><p>experiencing decaying rocks, inhabitable woven fabrics, or haptically enhanced hanboks as a special wardrobe, visitors were entangled as active contributors and recipients in an ongoing process. This publication documents the exhibition’s theoretical foundations, the process itself, and valuable insights gained.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253955_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg, Germany 04 20251218 2025 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253870 06 15 9783943253955 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01 urn:uuid:7ab08906-f8de-4816-a3c2-2cbcf9c5b45e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:7ab08906-f8de-4816-a3c2-2cbcf9c5b45e 15 9783943253818 06 10.53198/9783943253818 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:7ab08906-f8de-4816-a3c2-2cbcf9c5b45e 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253818.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://adocs.de/en/buecher/praxis-open-accessebooks/zaudern 1 A01 Rebecca Wall 2 A01 Felix Marlow 3 A01 Ignacio Farias 01 ORCID 0000-0002-6611-2975 01 ger 00 224 03 10 ARC01000 93 RPC 93 AMG 10 ARC00900 93 GT 10 SCI075000 93 JHMC 93 JBSD 93 JBSD 93 1DD 93 4CX 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 03 03 <p>Kooperative Stadtentwicklung ist ein Schlagwort der Stunde. Es steht für das Streben nach einer gerechteren, einer gemeinwohlorientierten Stadt. In neuen Partnerschaften – Public-Civic-Partnerships – arbeiten Akteur*innen aus Politik und Verwaltung mit Akteur*innen aus der Zivilgesellschaft zusammen. Gegensätzliche Praktiken der Stadtgestaltung führen in diesen Kooperationen zu Missverständnissen, Kontroversen und Unsicherheiten.</p><p>In diesem Buch erforschen die Autor*innen die Prozesse zweier außergewöhnlicher Experimente der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung in Berlin: Das Haus der Statistik und der Rathausblock Kreuzberg. Dafür laden sie die beteiligten Akteur*innen zum Zaudern ein. Wenn Zaudern zur Methode wird, stützen Ambivalenzen die Zusammenarbeit, ersetzen Unsicherheiten die Konflikte, werden Kontroversen zwischen den Partner*innen sichtbar. Das Buch präsentiert zugespitzte Thesen zur kooperativen Stadtentwicklung, ein Glossar der Missverständnisse sowie methodologische Reflexionen zur künstlerisch-ethnographischen Forschungsmethode und ihrer Einbettung in stadtanthropologische Diskurse. Für alle, die sich in der kooperativen Stadtentwicklung engagieren oder diese forschend begleiten wollen. Für eine gerechte Stadt der Vielen.</p> 04 01 https://books.adocs.de/10.53198/9783943253818_frontcover.jpg adocs 01 adocs publishing https://adocs.de/ Hamburg, Germany 04 20241030 2024 02 WORLD 06 15 9783943253801 06 15 9783943253818 adocs publishing 09 99 R Open access 01