OPEN LIBRARY

Here you can consult and download for free the publications we select for its relation with our editorial focus. These books are published on line and can be downloaded for free. Most of them are published under a Creative Commons license.

Aquí podrás consultar y descargar gratuitamente las publicaciones que hemos seleccionado por su relación con nuestra línea editorial. Estos libros están publicados on line y se pueden descargar gratuitamente. La mayoría de ellos están publicados bajo licencia Creative Commons. 

Nothing New | download ebook

Edited by Jens Haaning + Secession | 2007

Nothing New is a book published in the ocassion of Jens Haaning exhibition at the Secession, Vienna, 2007.

Jens Haaning's work questions borders in everyday social life in Europe as well as the way that “foreigners” are treated under the current economic conditions and changed geopolitical ones – often with reference to work situations. In his system-critical works, the artist is especially inter­ested in the transfer between exhibi­tion context and urban public space.

For his exhibition Haaning condensed these complex themes definitively shaping our present social state to one single im­age: the average annual income in Austria (27,502 euros), which he ar­ranged precisely, in the form of bank-notes, in a picture frame. The concentration on – surprisingly few – bank notes, posed essential questions in advance: how exactly is this so-called annual income in Austria calculated? How does this national income compare internationally? The beholder is inevi­tably confronted with the question of how his or her income relates to the average income. Reducing the ques­tion of social status to a statistical quantity without any consideration of the multiple hidden and often difficult to identify soft facts, hauntingly makes our value system quite plain to see. +info

Vibok would like to thank Jens Haaning for sharing this book

There's goes the neighborhood | download ebook

Edited by Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg - You Are Here | 2009

There Goes the Neighborhood is the ironic chorus to the 1992 Body Count song which lamented the invasion of the once poor (and Black) into the neighbourhood of the rich (and white). But an alternative destruction of “The Neighbourhood” can happen when the poor get pushed out of their local community as part of the process of gentrification. This issue is particularly relevant for the suburb of Redfern, an inner city suburb of Sydney which has been home for a large working class and Indigenous community, and which is undergoing a process of rapid development and change.While urban change itself is not always a bad thing, gentrification often happens at an accelerated rate, out pricing the lower income and marginalized communities from the neighbourhood and dislocating them from their existing connections to urban space.

There Goes the Neighborhood book is part of an exhibition, discussion and publishing project which explores politics of urban space, with a focus on Redfern, Sydney. The project examines the complex life of cities and how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world. +info

Designed by Tom Sevil (Breakdown Press) | Printed by Break Out 

Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: Visionary Designs for the Heart of Brooklyn | download ebook

Edited by megan Canning | 2009

In the fall of 2008, the Design Trust and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition mounted a free, large-scale exhibition in the center of Grand Army Plaza that showed 30 visionary plans for the reinvention of this magnificent civic space. This unprecedented exhibit laid the groundwork for a Plaza that will be more beautiful, support a range of public events, and provide safer and easier access for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists alike. The resulting publication, Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: Visionary Designs for the Heart of Brooklyn, not only showcases these 30 design schemes, but also provides a historical, physical and cultural context for the Plaza, and recommends steps the community can take to achieve the goal of a new master plan and a comprehensive renovation.+ info

This publication was generously supported by the Brooklyn Community Foundation, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and Transportation Alternatives. 

Published by the Design Trust for Public Space | Design: Jena Sher Design

REU:08 | download ebook

REU:08 | 2009 | Creative Commomns Reconocimiento 3.0 España 

Tenemos el placer de compartir con vosotros el primer volumen de la publicación de REU:08.

REU:08 es una plataforma que pretende: estimular la creación de proyectos colectivos que trabajen por lo común; amortiguar la polarización que, en estos momentos y en diversos ámbitos, se produce entre prácticas políticas y prácticas estéticas; desarrollar una coinvestigación sobre las condiciones (tanto reflexivas y propositivas como de sustento de la vida) en las que se mueven lxs creadorxs y sobre las políticas institucionales que les afectan. Crear, en definitiva, una estancia o espacio de transacción que ayude a revisar conceptos, promover puntos de acercamiento, equilibrar capacidades enunciativas, establecer cierta referencialidad, activar aquellas prácticas que generan imágenes, alegorías y textos que resaltan las dimensiones pedagógicas y cognitivas de la cultura.

REU08 está integrado por: BNV Producciones, c a l c, Casa Invisible Málaga, Creadores Invisibles Córdoba, FAAQ, Intervenciones en Jueves, Oopart, Berta Orellana, pOLLO, Manuel Prados Sánchez, s-puma y ZEMOS98.

Reclaim the Spectrum | download ebook

José Luís de Vicente | Zemos 98 | 2006 | Creative Commomns 2.5

Reclaim the Spectrum es un proyecto de José Luis de Vicente para la octava edición de Zemos 98. En él plantea que "el espacio radioeléctrico —la sección del espectro electromagnético por el que circulan emisiones de radio y TV, señales de telefonía móvil y GPS, redes Wifi— es el suelo urbanizable de la sociedad de la información", y bajo esta premisa, reune diversas experiencias creativas que inciden en su apropiación social.

Dos de los trabajos recogidos nos llevan a incluirlo en esta biblioteca especializada en arquitectura abierta: Wifi Bedouin de Julian Bleecker y, sobre todo, Yellow Chair Stories de Anab Jain. La razón es que, dando una vuelta de tuerca al planteamiento de partida, estos proyectos  no sólo reconocen, visualizan y "habitan" este nuevo dominio público, sino que lo conectan a la calle de toda la vida para devolver al espacio urbano el carácter compartido, espontáneo, libre y vivido, que está progresivamente desapareciendo bajo procesos de privatización y control. Con ello revelan una sugerente ampliación del campo de acción de la arquitectura y el urbanismo, desvelando formas de introducir las TICs en el instrumental de proyecto en relación con procesos abiertos que vinculan a los habitantes en la producción del 'espacio común' y el derecho a la ciudad.

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Hello, my name is Jen Haaning | download ebook

Edited by Vincent Pécoil, Dijon and Jens Hanning | 2003 

"Borders are a recurring issue in Jens Haaning’s art, and it is precisely on a border, the legislative border between what can be represented and what cannot, that he usually chooses to work. In his work, the confrontation of difference, the making present (and not the representation) of the other, are thus opposed to the mechanisms of recognition, of identification". (V. Pecoil) "These confrontations do not lead to consensus but introduce differences that remain radically incommensurable. Instead of realising a universal community, each person is left with a limited community and a particular sense of belonging that simply cannot be shared beyond the community’s immediate members. The universality of aesthetic judgements and pleasure — which partly depends upon the absence of a concept for beauty — proves to be an illusion that is suddenly broken by the real specificity of ethnicity, nationality, language and cultural practises". (J. Allen).

This catalog contains documentation on selected works by Jens Haaning, 1993-2002, as well as texts by Jennifer Allen (Berlin), Nicolas Bourriaud (Paris), Nina Folkersma (Amsterdam), Harald Fricke (Berlin), Hou Hanru (Paris), Lars Bang Larsen (Glasgow) and Vincent Pécoil (Dijon). + info

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