Today, the Kunsthaus Graz is integral to the urban identity of Austria's second-largest city. The "friendly alien" designed by architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier has become a familiar object in the city since landing in 2003. But views on the building have changed with the times. Looking back at nearly twenty years of history since the building's creation, the book opens up a kaleidoscopic perspective with a primary focus on how the Kunsthaus is used. It contextualizes the Kunsthaus Graz both locally and globally while exploring its relation to those who use it. With written contributions by Barbara Steiner, Sophia Walk, Pablo von Frankenberg, Anselm Wagner, Katia Huemer, Niels Jonkhans, Elisabeth Schloegl, Peter Cook, and Colin Fournier, and photographic contributions by Arthur Zalewski and Martin Grabner

Journals offer young people a safe place to reflect, reminisce, dream, explore feelings and relationships, set goals, solve problems, celebrate themselves, and yes, even practice writing. In this book the authors detail myriad fascinating possibilities for journal keeping as a tool for transformation and for building skills. Techniques range from writing about a first memory to designing a dream house to creating a main character for a novel. Guidelines, tips, and lists of additional resources abound. Chapters cover reasons to keep a journal, techniques and definitions, recording the present, remembering the past, exploring the future, the celebration journal, reflection, problem solving and decision making, catharsis, fantasy, people, practicing fiction, reviewing the journal, and sharing the journal. Grades 4-9 (adaptable to any age).

"Europe (to the power of) n" is a transregional art project taking place in various cities, including Brussels, Istanbul, London, San Sebastian and Beijing. The goal is to portraya heterogeneous Europe and consider its colonial past, current migrant imprints and increasing global interdependencies.

'Study of a significant new arts facility and exhibition space'. Insights from the architects and planners regarding this innovative building Designed by AS-IF, GfZK-2 was completed in 2005, the second building for the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Leipzig. It was deliberately conceived as a stark contrast to the first (a converted villa), in order to raise a debate about the role and function of architecture and its relation to art. A single-storey structure based on a polygonal configuration of spatial segments, the parts form a changeable infrastructure for the contemporary practice of exhibiting and curating and they allow a simultaneous and side-by-side presence of different programmes, visual and thematic relationships, which can be re-configured by means of sliding walls and curtains for each specific exhibition. The book focuses on the uses of the building and the dialogues between the architecture and the processes that occur within and around it. To this end artistic and curatorial exhibition concepts realised in the GfZK-2 are presented alongside essays examining the performative and processual concepts of the architectural space. There are also technical data and texts providing an insight into the building process.

Ages 12 years & over. Alexa Kane, seventeen, is a senior at Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City. Her father, Tony is a Private Investigator confined to a wheelchair after taking a bullet to the spine when he was a detective for the NYPD. Still a consultant for the NYPD, he has been asked to head up TIF (Teen Investigative Force). Alexa, who helps her father in his PI work, has become TIF's number one investigator. In Deadly Dreams, Alexa and her best friend Sadi, investigate a drug ring. Although intense and filled with suspense and mystery, 23 Shadow Street also captures and explores the importance of teenage friendship and the angst of first love.