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The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse
calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we
work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to
nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are
attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and
activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative
futures by embodying radically different ways of living in the
present. Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The
Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a
comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction
to the thriving field of prefigurative politics.
Contents: List of figures Acknowledgements Glossary 1. INTRODUCTION Travelling and representation, travelling as representation Mobility and the Tôkaidô as Scholarly Subjects Structure of the Book 2. INFRASTRUCTURE AND CARTOGRAPHY OF THE TOKAIDO IN MACRO THE TOKAIDO AS A GEOPOLITICAL TERRITORY INFRASTRUCTURE UPON THE TOKAIDO ROUTE Inland Infrastructure in the Edo Period The Tôkaidô as a Highway The Introduction of the Railroad THE TOKAIDO'S CARTOGRAPHY Roadmaps in the Eido Period Popular and Official Roadmaps From Scriptual to Visual Cartography Roadmaps in the Meiji Era Railway Maps of the Maiji Era Representational Character in Meiji Era's Road-Cartography From Absolute Space to Abstract Space 3. TRAVELLING PRACTICES AND LITERARY TOKAIDO ROAD COSMOLOGY - THE ROAD AS A MICROCOSM TRAVELLING PRACTICES OF THE EDO PERIOD Reasons for Travelling Travellers-Positions Meiji Era's Travelling LITERARY TOKAIDO Travel Literature in the Edo Period Travel Literature in the Meiji Era A Geographical Treatise: Nihon fûkeiron (Theory of the Japanese Landscape) Literary Nostalgia 4. PERFORMANCE, VISUALITY AND IMAGINATION AT THE TOKAIDO'S MICRO-SCALE TRANSPORTATION-STATIONS: SPACES OF PERFORMANCE, SPACES OF REPRESENTATION Physical and Anthropological Characteristics of Post-Stations Railway Stations as Border-sites: Between Performance and Spectacle TOKAIDO AND VISUALITY Pictorial Tôkaidô in the Edo Period The Tôkaidô in the Official Arts of the Edo Period The Tôkaidô in the Popular Arts of the Edo Period Recurring Characteristics in Edo Period's Travel Representations Pictorial Tôkaidô in the Meiji Era Recording Reality through the Lens of Ukiyo-e The Tôkaidô in Nihonga The Tôkaidô through Western Eyes The Tôkaidô Subject through a Prism of Modern Attitudes Influences and Anachronisms: From the West to Japan, From Japan to the West 5. CONCLUSIONS AND OPENINGS: THE TOKAIDO AS MEDIUM OF NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EPISTEMOLOGY Japan as History/Japan as Nature Technology as Expansion of Nature Geography as National Ideology Recasting History as Progress HISTORY AS NOSTALGIA, HISTORY AS PLAY Tôkaidô Renaissance BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories
gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning
design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation;
poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the
intersections of design and displacement. The contributors
foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and
consider design’s role in the empire, the state, and various
colonizing regimes in controlling the mass movement of people,
things, and ideas across borders, as well as in resisting forced
mobility and immobility, or enacting new possibilities. By
consciously surfacing echoes, rhymes, and dissonances among varied
histories, this volume highlights local specificity while also
accounting for the vectors of displacement and design across
borders and histories. Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and
Material Histories shows displacement to be a lens for
understanding space and materiality and vice versa, particularly
within the context of modernity and colonialism. The book will be
of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies,
architectural history, art history, urban studies, and migration
studies.
The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse
calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we
work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to
nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives are
attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and
activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative
futures by embodying radically different ways of living in the
present. Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The
Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a
comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction
to the thriving field of prefigurative politics.
This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the
relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.
In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted
a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking place
in protest, while the fields of design, broadly defined, have been
characterized by a growing interest in activism. The book's premise
stems from the recognition that material engagement and artifacts
have the capacity to articulate political arguments or establish
positions of disagreement. Its contributors look at a wide array of
material practices generated by both professional and
nonprofessional design actors around the globe, exploring case
studies that vary from street protests and encampments to design
pedagogy and community-empowerment projects. For students and
scholars of design studies, urbanism, visual culture, politics, and
social movements, this book opens up new perspectives on design and
its place in contemporary politics.
The Tokaido Road offers a comparative study of the Tokaido road's
representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912)
eras. Throughout the Edo era, the Tokaido highway was the most
important route of Japan and transportation was confined to foot
travel. In 1889, the Tokaido Railway was established, at first
paralleling and eventually almost eliminating the use of the
highway. During both periods, the Tokaido was a popular topic of
representation and was depicted in a variety of visual and literary
media. After the installation of the railway in the Meiji era, the
Tokaido was presented as a landscape of progress, modernity and
westernisation. Such representations were fundamental in shaping
the Tokaido and the realm of travelling in the collective
consciousness of the Japanese people.
Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide
opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design,
national identity, and citizenship. The "Olympic design milieu"
fans out from the construction of the Olympic city and the creation
of emblems, mascots, and ceremonies, to the consumption,
interpretation, and appropriation of Olympic artifacts from their
conception to their afterlife. Besides products that try to achieve
consensus and induce civic pride, the "Olympic design milieu" also
includes processes that oppose the Olympics and their enforcement.
The book examines the graphic design program for Tokyo 1964,
architecture and urban plans for Athens 2004, brand design for
London 2012, and practices of subversive appropriation and
sociotechnical action in counter-Olympic movements since the 1960s.
It explores how the Olympics shape the physical, legal and
emotional contours of a host nation and its position in the world;
how the Games are contested by a broader social spectrum within and
beyond the nation; and how, throughout these encounters, design
plays a crucial role. Recognizing the presence of multiple actors,
the book investigates the potential of design in promoting
equitable political participation in the Olympic context.
Travel, Space, Architecture defines a new theoretical territory in
architectural and urban scholarship that frames the processes of
spatial production through the notion of travel. By aligning
architectural thinking with current critical theory debates, this
book explores whether dissociating culture from place and identity,
and detaching the idea of architecture from both, can reframe our
understanding of spatial and architectural practices. The book
presents seventeen key case studies from a diverse range of
perspectives including historical, theoretical, and praxis-based,
and range from interrogations of architectural travel and notions
of belonging and nationhood to challenging established geopolitical
hierarchies.
This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the
relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.
In the past twenty years, theorists of social movements have noted
a diversity of visual and performative manifestations taking place
in protest, while the fields of design, broadly defined, have been
characterized by a growing interest in activism. The book’s
premise stems from the recognition that material engagement and
artifacts have the capacity to articulate political arguments or
establish positions of disagreement. Its contributors look at a
wide array of material practices generated by both professional and
nonprofessional design actors around the globe, exploring case
studies that vary from street protests and encampments to design
pedagogy and community-empowerment projects. For students and
scholars of design studies, urbanism, visual culture, politics, and
social movements, this book opens up new perspectives on design and
its place in contemporary politics.
Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide
opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design,
national identity, and citizenship. The "Olympic design milieu"
fans out from the construction of the Olympic city and the creation
of emblems, mascots, and ceremonies, to the consumption,
interpretation, and appropriation of Olympic artifacts from their
conception to their afterlife. Besides products that try to achieve
consensus and induce civic pride, the "Olympic design milieu" also
includes processes that oppose the Olympics and their enforcement.
The book examines the graphic design program for Tokyo 1964,
architecture and urban plans for Athens 2004, brand design for
London 2012, and practices of subversive appropriation and
sociotechnical action in counter-Olympic movements since the 1960s.
It explores how the Olympics shape the physical, legal and
emotional contours of a host nation and its position in the world;
how the Games are contested by a broader social spectrum within and
beyond the nation; and how, throughout these encounters, design
plays a crucial role. Recognizing the presence of multiple actors,
the book investigates the potential of design in promoting
equitable political participation in the Olympic context.
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