The Art of Experiment: Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design

Rolf Hughes' new book explores the central roles of experiment and artistic research to experimental architecture. Using artefacts, performances, storytelling, and rituals to devise new immersive experiences, experimental architecture connects forms of research expertise which have traditionally been kept apart by convention. Enlightenment metaphors are displaced by alternative, even radical, knowledge structures, value systems, and cultural impacts. Knowledge making becomes sensory, embodied, and experiential, using 'messy' laboratories for disruptive, innovative inquiry through spaces such as storytelling, prose poems, contemporary circus arts and magic. These methods suggest radical juxtapositions but are rooted in bodies, materials and choreography, leading to design synthesis and new theoretical insights. The Art of Experimentcelebrates curiosity, fascination and enchantment, demonstrating ways in which these help us to discover new ways in which to think, feel, and design. Featuring a wide range of experimental case studies, this innovative and unusual book is destined to inspire students and researchers in architecture, design, and art and visual culture.

Arts & Photography

Armstrong, Rachel

Hughes, Rolf

Architecture

Routledge

A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. 
In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus. The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the form of worlding experiments. 
This pioneering work will inspire architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and researchers across arts and design disciplines.

A second science fiction anthology from the British Interplanetary Society inspired by the Society's work in space exploration. It revives the link between SF and engineering established in the 1950 that included Arthur C Clarke and is in the spirit of the Society motto "from imagination to reality". Nine authors have contributes eighteen stories with a wide variety of styles and subjects related to space flight.

Visionary II: A Science Fiction Anthology

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lewis, Nick

Hempsell, Mark

Henley, Terence J.

Ashworth, Stephen Liversey

Long, Kelvin F.

Obousy, Richard K.

Piper, Dorothy

Sorell, Grant F.

Science Fiction

Independently published

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