In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of CrisisNew edition of classic text on the nature of the housing crisis In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. Today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of

and being—found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s

Now that Mieke Bal is getting older —being very active and involved in many art and research projects—she has been ruminating on how to reflect on a full life with different roles and experiences

Manon Michèle (FR)

the daughter becomes increasingly fascinated with her family’s history

Clarifying Bataille’s links with the surrealist movement

Through the mythology of Annah

” – Christian Kosmas Mayer

and girlhood

and how we can use or appropriate care methodologies in capitalism and create little oases of comfort and exchange

The graphic design is by Sebastien Millot and the art direction is by Nino Cadeau

Design Fiction is as much a mindset as it is a methodology whereby foresight

As Sanmao settles in to married life alongside the indigenous people of the Western Sahara