Diana Scherer - Interwoven - Exercises in Root System Domestication

Jap Sam 2024 ISBN 9789493329034 Acqn 34264

Pb 23x32cm 208pp col ills £34.50

Visual artist Diana Scherer is one of the pioneers in bio tech art. Her work comprises botany,
installations, textile and biotechnology. Scherer explores the relationship of people versus their
natural environment. Through her installations she examines the boundaries between plant
culture and nature. At the core of her botanical installations and textiles lies a great curiosity
about what neurobiologists call 'the brain of plants'. Scherer studies plants and root systems and
applies the intelligence of plants in her work.

This book summarized the project Interwoven and its results over the past eight years. The book
with a conceptual design addresses biotechnology and research, in addition to the final results
and artworks.

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Ingrid De Coster - Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Jap Sam 2024 ISBN 9789493329058 Acqn 34265
Pb 17x23cm 296pp ills £39

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 Schevers. Their point
of departure, the motley collection of images from in and around Verzameld Werk, spread out on
a table. Bruno De Wachter was invited to respond to the newly formed configurations and he did
so with a prose poem. Along these lines, Verzameld Werk rewrote and continues to rewrite itself
through the gaze of the other. Leaf by leaf.

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Ansuya Blom - Below the Underground
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Pb 21x33cm 288pp col ills £31

Below the Underground, the title Blom gave to this publication, is characteristic. It is an invitation
to dig deeper than the skin, than the surface. - Laurie Cluitmans

Over the past forty years, Ansuya Blom (Groningen, 1956) has built up a body of work in which
she explores the boundaries of the inner world of experience. In drawings, collages, films and
installations, she unravels these complex relationships of humanity with himself, the other and the
outside world.

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Taiwan Strait - Conscious City Incubator
Jap Sam 2024 ISBN 9789493329089 Acqn 34422
Hb 23x29cm 480pp col ills £48

The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a
unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.

The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It
is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts
of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for
a new pact with nature, as well as navigating the peaceful transformations in the way we live
which shape our future.This book serves as a manual for creating the Taiwan Strait Conscious
City Incubator, introducing a gamification method that encourages actors and agents from various
communities, institutions, and disciplines to collaborate in planning a new kind of city.

Taiwan Strait Conscious City Incubator is of interest to those both within and beyond the fields of
architecture and urbanism; to architects, researchers, architectural historians, urban planners,
students, as well as those engaged in politics, the economy, and culture. Most importantly, it is for
citizens anywhere in the world who wish to play and shape the future.

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Hanna Hrabarska - My Mom Wants to Go Back Home
Jap Sam 2024 ISBN 9789493329072 Acqn 34423
Hb 21x27cm 216pp col ills £44

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'.

Through the lens Hrabarska, Hanna captures the story of her mother forced to leave their country
in the face of war. Beautifully designed by Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder)

After being showcased in numerous galleries and museums around the world, this quiet and
intimate personal story of becoming a war refugee now will reach even a bigger audience in a
shape of a photo book.

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