Africa is changing and digitisation is playing a pivotal role in it. Throughout the whole continent, digital practices are emerging which radically transform African societies and their worldwide perception. However, digital infrastructures remain marked by local and global asymmetries despite the widespread use of mobile phones. Over the course of two years and in three African and European cities, the interdisciplinary exhibition and research project Digital Imaginaries took this contradictory diversity of digital phenomena as its starting point in order to explore possible digital futures in Africa. Texts by Bethlehem Anteneh, Younes Baba-Ali / Aude Tournaye, Tegan Bristow, Mehdi Derfoufi, Mamadou Diallo / Judith Rottenburg, Sunny Dolat / Njoki Ngumi (The Nest Collective), Oulimata Gueye, Thomas Hervé, Francois Knoetze, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou / Manuel Bürger, Bettina Korintenberg, Siri Lamoureaux / Enrico Ille / Amal Fadlalla / Timm Sureau, Achille Mbembe, Maurice Mbikayi, Julien McHardy, Christopher McMichael, Marcus Neustetter / Mwenya Kabwe, Nanjala Nyabola, DK Osseo-Asare / Yasmine Abbas, Tabita Rezaire, Richard Rottenburg, Daniel Sciboz, Joseph Tonda, Michel Wahome, Philipp Ziegler

Nearly 29 years have passed since the EC and Thrkey forged the Association Agreement on 12.3.63. After abrief period on hold, Thrkish-EC relations regained dynamism when Thrkey applied for full membership on April 14, 1987. The view of the EC Commission, as presented some two and a half years later to the Council of Ministers, was approved by EC Foreign Ministers. The response stated that the EC would not start negotiations for membership until the completion of the Single Market. The main points of the Commission's observation focused on the discrepancy in the levels of economic development between Turkey and the EC, the issue of human rights, shortcomings in social security and the question of Cyprus. This response was a source of great disappoinment in Thrkey; because it had been a consistent ally of the West until then, taken important steps towards democracy and a free-market economy, EC membership, as Thrkey saw it, was to be its reward.

In its Annual Report 2003/2004, the German Council of Economic Experts launched a dual income tax as an option for a fundamental tax reform in Germany. In February 2005, the German government appointed the Council to prepare a detailed report on economic effects of a business tax reform, with special emphasis on a dual income tax. With regard to the latter, conceptual problems of tax law and of tax administration were to be addressed as well as possible transitional problems when implementing a dual income tax. This book presents an English version of the original report completed in April 2006.

The fate of Berlin's Haus der Statistik (HdS) seemed to have been decided. Built by a collective of architects in the 1960s to house the former communist German Democratic Republic's (GDR) office of statistics at Alexanderplatz, the heart of GDR's capital, it was meant to be demolished to make way for a new commercial structure. Yet in September 2015, the Berlin Alliance of Artists' Studios Under Threat initiated an art intervention at HdS, unfolding a giant banner covering most of the building's main facade, and the opening of a new public centre for all manner of social, cultural purposes in the building was publicly announced. The happening was essentially symbolic as the demolition of HdS had long since been approved. Yet within only a few years it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Today, the HdS is a unique pioneering project collectively defined and steered by a broad coalition of actors in the interests of collaborative urban development. STATISTA, one of the art projects that has its base at HdS, explores how a cooperative urban development guided by common welfare could work on a long-term perspective. This book offers an insight into STATISTA and the events in and around HdS since 2015, aiming also to encourage artists and activists to emulate ideas and start to their own projects elsewhere. Text in English and German.

The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W) collection, opened in February 2022, is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. Now this most comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring colour images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays, also becomes available in book format. Hot Questions—Cold Storage takes a fresh look at the country’s architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, political, economic, and technical contexts. Each of the seven chapters is prefaced by one of seven questions of our present, asking for example about the impact of financial capitalism on our cities and villages, about how do we want to live, or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival on planet earth. These Hot Questions bring to life the Cold Storage, the silent repository of the collection's holdings. The book offers a multi-perspective narrative that makes visible Austria's building history with all the developments, ideologies, institutions, objects, places, personalities it comprises. The book also illustrates what the collection of a museum of architecture can achieve. It is far more than mere flotsam and jetsam of history. The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed through questioning and visualisation, in connecting research and the museum’s mission to collect.

Denise Scott Brown has shaped the course of contemporary architecture since the 1960s. She has chartered a rebellious course across three continents - from childhood in 1930s South Africa to education in 1950s England to teaching and practice in the United States. Scott Brown is both renowned and misunderstood for her designs and theories, many developed in collaboration with her companion in life and work, Robert Venturi. From her 1972 research studio on Las Vegas emerged the legendary book Learning from Las Vegas, whose visuals and social impact remain as important today as then. As a younger generation of architects and urban designers engages the complexity she defined, Scott Brown continues to raise her voice as a fierce critic of a modernism ignorant of context, history, and joint creativity. The time has come to rediscover her undogmatic formal language, careful urban interventions, and adventures in mannerism. This groundbreaking new book features previously unpublished material and offers an entirely fresh view of Scott Brown's achievements as a preeminent architectural designer, urbanist, theoretician, and teacher. A fantastic guide to her life and ideas, it also reveals her humanism, complexity, and wit.

From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world. The author has conceived this series as following in the tradition of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert. Three volumes will be published in September 2014, and the remaining three in spring 2015. Volume one deals with a broad definition of architecture in the context of new media. Volume two is devoted to media-relat­ed innovations in the area of music—from automatic methods of composition in the music of Mozart to a theory of molecular music. Volume three addresses the impact of new media on art and discusses how pictures become interactive and viewers become part of the work—how reality replaces representation. The themes of the other three volumes are literature, pol­itics, and theory in the context of new media.

The seventh edition of Best of Austria, produced by Vienna-based Architekturzentrum Wien, once again brings together some 170 projects that have won national and international architecture awards in 2018 and 2019, from public buildings and spaces to offices, educational facilities, and single-family homes. Each entry includes full-colour images and a floor plan, section, or elevation, as well as a brief description of the project. Rounding out the volume is a critical essay on contemporary Austrian architecture. All of the country's major architectural prizes are accounted for in this large and lavishly illustrated volume, making it a valuable up-to-date survey of contemporary architecture in Austria. Text in English and German.

The new sixth edition of Best of Austria again offers an impressive survey of Austria's contemporary architectural culture. It features some 170 buildings in Austria and designed by Austrian architects abroad that have been awarded national and international prizes in 2016 and 2017. Each building is documented with colour photographs and selected plans and a brief descriptive text. Individual architects and teams, as well as architecture institutions in Austria are also portrayed. An introductory topical essay provides an outside perspective and a detailed index of the various prizes rounds off the book.

What should be done about cultural property confiscated in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR? This legal appraisal commissioned by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation) enables public institutions and their funding providers to assess the legal position of collection items seized in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR, and identifies legal options for action. Thomas Finkenauer and Jan Thiessen present a compendium classifying 13 case groups along with the historical circumstances of their confiscation and the legal consequences. The report also serves provenance research through this overview, which has not been available in such a form before. First legal compendium on the confiscation of cultural property in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR Legal analysis and regulatory options for action Reference work for provenance research

From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world. The author has conceived this series as following in the tradition of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopedie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert. After two volumes covering architecture and music, volume 3 and 4 will be published in 2018 addressing the influence of the new media on art and literature. Politics and theory in the context of new media are the topics of volume 5 and 6 that are also in preparation.

Von den ausliindischen Jugendlichen im Alter zwischen 15 und 18 Jahren be fanden sieh Ende 1988 nur 73 198, also rd. 30 % in einer betrieblichen Ausbil dung. Damit lag die Ausbildungsbeteiligung der Auslander deutlich unterhalb des vergleichbaren Wertes deutscher Jugendlicher (ca. 70 %). Die Ausbil dungsbeteiligung der tiirkischen Jugendlichen war mit 29 % (32430) aber un terdurchschnittlich ausgepragt. Zwar sind die absoluten Zahlen der abgeschlossenen Ausbildungsvertrage junger Auslander 1980-1988 von 36796 auf73 198 gestiegen, die Ausbildungs quote selbst erhohte sich im Vergleiehszeitraum allerdings nur geringfiigig von 19,3 auf 30 % . Die Aussage ist sicherlich gerechtfertigt, daB sich trotz der weiter steigen den Verweildauer der jungen Auslander in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und trotz qualifizierter Schulabschliisse die berufliche Ausbildungssituation nieht automatisch der der Deutschen angleicht. Erheblich gesteigert hat sich allerdings die Inanspruchnahme der Berufsbe ratung. Die Zahl der ratsuchenden jungen Auslander stieg von etwas iiber 68000 im Jahre 1986 auf fast 140000 im Jahre 1989. 1m Gegensatz dazu ging der Trend bei den deutschen Jugendlichen aus demographisch bedingten Griinden in die entgegengesetzte Richtung. Diese Entwieklung, die jetzt schon einige Jahre mit unterschiedlich starker Auspragung anhalt, zeigt noch einmal besonders deutlich, welche gewichtige Bedeutung die jungen Auslander in der Arbeit der Berufsberatung derzeit haben und auch weiterhin einnehmen werden."

Als zu Beginn der 60'er Jahre die Vereinbarungen fiber die Anwerbung ausHmdischer Arbeitnehmer abgeschlossen wurden, etwa mit den Regie rongen Spaniens, Griechenlands und der TOrkei, ging man noch davon aus, daB der Aufenthalt der auslandischen Arbeitnehmer in der Bundesrepublik vorObergehend sein wOrde. Man unterstellte damals, daB die auslandischen Arbeitnehmer nach einiger Zeit wieder in ihre Heimatlander zuruckkehren. wOrden. Aus verschiedenen GrUnden hat diese Einschatzung getrogen. Aus dem anfanglichen Provisorium wurde ein Zustand von gr6J3erer Dauer; man be gann sich anzupassen, Anfang der 70'er Jahre setzte ein verstiirkter Nach zug der Familien ein. Es anderte sich fOr viele auslandische Arbeitnehmer die Lebensperspektive, es anderten sich das Spar- und Konsumverhalten. Inzwischen sind Auslander in vielen Bereichen als Selbstandige tiitig -ein Indiz dafOr, daB diese Menschen ihre Existenz dauerhaft in der Bundesre publik sehen m6chten. Um ein etwas genaueres Bild fiber ausHindische Selbstandige in NRW zu gewinnen, haben wir das Zentrum fOr TOrkeistudien mit einer Untersu chung fiber auslandische BetriebsgrOndungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen be auftragt. Die vorliegende Untersuchung befaBt sich mit der untemehmeri schen Selbstiindigkeit von TOrken, Italienem, Griechen und Jugoslawen. Dies sind die vier stiirksten Gruppen unter den insgesamt 1,36 Millionen Auslandem in NRW. 1m Rahmen der Untersuchung wurden 464 auslandische Untemehmen in Nordrhein-Westfalen befragt. Die Geschaftstiitigkeit dieser Selbstiindi gen erstreckt sich auf insgesamt 42 Sektoren. Die Palette reicht dabei von Lebensmittelgeschaften, Handwerksbetrieben wie Schneidereien oder Au toreparaturwerkstiitten, fiber ReisebOros, Restaurants, Buchhandlungen bis zu sogenannten innovativen Bereichen wir Datenservice-Untemehmen und computergestfitzte Betriebsberatung."

1861 begannen die offiziellen Beziehungen zwischen Japan und Preussen, deren Fokus die beiden Metropolen Tokio (damals Edo) und Berlin bildeten. Deutsche Kaufleute, Lehrer, Wissenschaftler und Kunstler wurden nach Japan eingeladen, hochrangige japanische Missionen besuchten Berlin und bedeutende japanische Wissenschaftler studierten hier nach der Jahrhundertwende. Im Mai 1994 wurde diese lange Beziehung durch die Stadtepartnerschaft Tokio/Berlin besiegelt. Aus diesem Anlass gibt das Japanisch-Deutsche Zentrum Berlin ein wissenschaftliches Werk uber die Geschichte und Perspektiven der Verbindung zwischen beiden Stadten heraus, in dem zum ersten Mal diese Beziehungen zusammenfassend dargestellt werden. Teilabschnitte werden vertiefend beschrieben und Material aus verschiedensten Quellen prasentiert."

Zehn Jahre ZfT-Mehrthemenbefragung - das sind zehn Jahre Forschung auf einem Feld, das fur die Integration besonders wichtig ist: die Lebenswirklichkeit turkeistammiger - wanderinnen und Zuwanderer, der groessten Einwanderergruppe nicht nur in Nordrhein- Westfalen, sondern in ganz Deutschland. Ich gratuliere dem Zentrum fur Turkeistudien sehr herzlich zu diesem Jubilaum. Durchgefuhrt im Auftrag des Ministeriums fur Generationen, Familie, Frauen und - tegration, liefern die Befragungen der Wissenschaft, Politik und OEffentlichkeit Jahr fur Jahr ein differenziertes Bild uber die Integration der turkeistammigen Zuwanderinnen und - wanderer. Dabei nehmen sie nicht nur das Zusammenleben der Turkeistammigen unter die Lupe, sondern untersuchen auch ihre wirtschaftliche und politische Teilhabe. So machen die Untersuchungen deutlich, auf welche Faktoren es bei der Gestaltung von Integratio- prozessen besonders ankommt. Der vorliegende UEbersichtsband fasst die wichtigsten Untersuchungsergebnisse der vergangenen zehn Jahre zusammen. Erfolge und Misserfolge der Integration werden auf diese Weise sichtbar. Es zeigt sich, dass in der Integration turkeistammiger Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer manches erreicht, viel aber auch nachgeholt werden muss. Das gilt bes- ders fur die Bildung und die Einbindung in den Arbeitsmarkt. Gerade hier gibt es nur - ringe Fortschritte. Das wiegt umso mehr, da es sich um zwei fur die Integration immens wichtige Bereiche handelt. So sank der Anteil der turkeistammigen Zugewanderten ohne Schulausbildung in diesen zehn Jahren lediglich um vier Prozent, ausserdem ist der Anteil der Menschen ohne Berufsausbildung nahezu gleich geblieben. Die Beteiligung am - beitsmarkt ist sogar rucklaufig.

From Greek antiquity to the present, from the book to the gramophone, from Gutenberg to Google, our culture is defined by changes in recording, storage, and transmission media. In a six-volume selection of his writings, Peter Weibel presents an encyclopedia that addresses all areas of the media world. The author has conceived this series as following in the tradition of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopedie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert. Three volumes will be published in September 2014, and the remaining three in spring 2015. Volume one deals with a broad definition of architecture in the context of new media. Volume two is devoted to media-relat ed innovations in the area of music-from automatic methods of composition in the music of Mozart to a theory of molecular music. Volume three addresses the impact of new media on art and discusses how pictures become interactive and viewers become part of the work-how reality replaces representation. The themes of the other three volumes are literature, pol itics, and theory in the context of new media.