From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling. Considering changes in the medical body model and the architectural model, from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Wharton demonstrates the ways in which all models are historical and political. Examining how cadavers have been described, exhibited, and visually rendered, she highlights the historical dimension of the modified body and its depictions. Analyzing the varied reworkings of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem-including by monumental commanderies of the Knights Templar, Alberti's Rucellai Tomb in Florence, Franciscans' olive wood replicas, and video game renderings-she foregrounds the political force of architectural representations. And considering black boxes-instruments whose inputs we control and whose outputs we interpret, but whose inner workings are beyond our comprehension-she surveys the threats posed by such opaque computational models, warning of the dangers that models pose when humans lose control of the means by which they are generated and understood. Engaging and wide-ranging, Models and World Making conjures new ways of seeing and critically evaluating how we make and remake the world in which we live.

This book can be viewed as a series of investigations into the ongoing imbrications of the practices of art, ethics and education as conducted within each author's specific context of practice as artist, educator, researcher. It constitutes an international anthology of explorations that are by no means exclusive but conscious of the ongoing iterations, mutations and individuations of relations between art, ethics and education, which, in turn, seek to expand how we might conceive these terms as practices. This ongoing evolution reminds us that as practices art, ethics and education are always incomplete processes affected by and affecting their specific milieus and environments. Chapters within the book cover a wide range of ethical questions and educational contexts, broaching subjects as varied as higher education, artificial intelligence, animal ethics, transcultural encounters, collaborative art, the education of senior citizens and experiences of conflict. Art, ethics and education are not conceived in terms of established orders, representations, ideals, criteria or bodies of knowledge and practice, but rather in terms of dynamic, relational processes and their potentialities, that arise within specific locations, cartographies and ecologies of practice. The notions of art, ethics and education are viewed in terms of assemblages that have the capacity to generate new modes of practice that may question established values and advance new overlappings of aesthetic, ethical and political relations. Contributors are: Dennis Atkinson, Hashim Al Azzam, John Baldacchino, Bazon Brock, Carl-Peter Buschkuhle, Sahin Celikten, Ana Dimke, Brian Grassom, Leena Hannula, Brian Hughes, jan jagodzinski, Timo Jokela, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Joachim Kettel, Guillermo Marini, Catarina Martins, Joe Sacco, Francisco Schwember, Juuso Tervo, Raphael Vella and Branka Vujanovic.

This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schoenberg, Ysaye, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and cafe culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clement Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.

This lavish, hand-painted artist volume comes to light for the first time since it was created by Deborah Passmore Gillingham (b. ? - 1877) in the mid 1870s. A celebration of the lilies and magnolias of the American south, it will be a treasure for all who love antique botanical art. Carefully reproduced here, this volume includes 49 exquisite renderings of lilies and 5 lovely magnolias, along with illuminated Latin titles. You're likely to find your favorite member of the lily family, whether it is lotus, amaryllis, calla, or daylily variety. Each print is on perforated paper, sized at 9 x 12 inches, and ready to fit standard frames to adorn your wall. Whether you choose to separate the pictures to display, or simply enjoy the collection on your table, this faithful reproduction is sure to be treasured, as was the original by a small handful of stewards during its first 200 years of existence.

As you proceed on your path to personal growth and want to gain insight into what prevents you from being the husband, wife, parent, or creative person you were born to be, benefit from this inspiring and easy-to-use workbook by T.D. Jakes, author of the "New York Times "bestseller "Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven. "
More than a companion piece to "Let It Go, "this is a guide through an "exhilarating journey that will enable you to finally reach the potential you know is inside you and take you to a level of personal success you may have only dreamed of until now," says Bishop Jakes. This workbook outlines the fundamentals of forgiveness and provides the spiritual and psychological tools to acknowledge and process feelings that may have held you back from fulfilling your greatest potential.
With this workbook learn how to:
- Sever the chains with which your past has held you captive, and launch yourself into a brighter future than you may have imagined.
- Break the powerful-but-invisible negative bonds that connect you in damaging ways to people who have hurt or offended you.
- Be set free to dream again and to pursue the vision you have for your life.
- Move beyond depression and bitterness and experience the freedom of forgiveness.

Launched in 1994 by Laurence Ng, and morphing quickly from a "how-to" magazine tutoring its readership in the intricacies of new design technologym, into a "what to" magazine aiming to inspire and reflect the booming community around it, "IdN" is at the forefront of contemporary design. Today it is well established as a global meeting place for designers. The "IdN 15th Anniversary Edition: What Do You Love?" is a massive 452-page hardcover featuring specially commissioned work from over 250 of the highly talented creators who have collaborated with the magazine over the last decade and a half, sharing their thoughts on the past; and their visions of the future. These include Aiden Kelly, Baku Maeda, Creative Time, Exopolis, Head Gear Animation, Jon Burgerman, Live Evil Empire, Lost in Space, Mark Jenkins, Musa Collective, Neubau, Nikosono, Onesize, Paris Hair, Pomme Chan, Shilo, Tomato, Slingshot London, Sweden Graphics, The Designers Republic, Via Grafik, Wonksite, YOK, Linda Zacks, Zetka and Zip Design. A DVD supplies more than 100 minutes of motion graphics with over 80 animations, short films, TV commercials, interviews, studio tours and music videos.

They were named the "throwaways." Children with learning differences engaged in artmaking as sensemaking to promote issues of social justice in K-12 schools. For the first time, children with learning differences, teachers, staff, and school leaders come together and share how they understand the role artmaking as sensemaking plays in empowering disenfranchised populations.