Invent the Future with Elements of the Past - 12 Zürcher Künstler auf einem Spaziergang mit Lucius Burckhardt

Swiss sociologist and pioneering urban planner Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) developed the concept of "strollology," or the science of the walk. The only way to truly experience an environment is to move within it on foot. As an approach to urban planning, the stroll redefines the relationship between planned urban development and patterns of movement through time and space.
Invent the Future with Elements of the Past looks at a recent artistic interpretation of Burckhardt's theories: the contribution of twelve contemporary artists to the Swiss Pavilion at the fourteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2014. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the project offers new narratives about the urban space. The resulting objects and events are reproduced here with more than one hundred illustrations and interviews with the participating artists.

About the author

Hans Ulrich Obrist ist Kurator und Co-Direktor der Serpentine Gallery in London. Das Fachmagazin Art Review hat ihn 2010 und 2011 auf Platz 2 der 100 einflussreichsten Menschen in der Kunstbranche gewählt, 2009 auf Platz 1. Obrist ist Gründungsmitglied der Akademie der Künste der Welt in Köln.

Summary

An artistic research based on theories and ideas of Lucius Burckhardt, renowned sociologist and urbanist and inventor of the Science of Strollology.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Albert, Muriel Baumgartner, Brauncelli
• Assisted by: Adrian Notz (Editor), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Editor), Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Editor)
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9783858814876
• ISBN: 978-3-85881-487-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 260 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 870 g
• Illustrations: 110 farbige und 66 s/w-Abbildungen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Kunst, Zürich (Stadt) : Kunst, Swissness, Moderne Kunst : Berichte, Erinnerungen, Zürich / Zurich / Zurigo / Turitg, Nicht-grafische Kunst, bildende Kunst, Zürich, Kunstprojekt, Kunst, zeitgenössische, auseinandersetzen, Architekturbiennale, Nicht grafische und elektronische Kunstformen, Forschung, künstlerische, Architecture biennale