At the close of this era of expansion and surplus Volume speculates on one of the period’s emblematic inventions: Content Management, or the collecting, organizing and sharing of digital information. Our retrospective appraisal of recent developments in the managing of information offers inside into the ability of Content Management to serve the current realities of digital abundance and material shortage, and to protect both vast and extremely limited quantities.
The Politics of the Envelope – A Political Critique of Materialism
Zaera Polo, Alejandro
106
Art as Urbanism
Govan, Michael
110
Architecture is Merciless
Herzog, Jacques
114
Talk of the Town
AOC
118
Life Support
Abalos, Inaki
122
Transplants
Vogt Landscape Architects
128
Seeds of Paranoia
C-Lab
142
Still Metropolitan After All These Years
Montebello, Philippe de
146
Content Management
Marcopoulos, Ari
152
Faculties for Architecture
Oosterman, Arjen
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Guilt has been effectively used to control and manipulate the masses. But it can also be the start of a change for the better: awareness, concern, action. Engagement and guilt are never far apart. Engagement is sublimated guilt. We can build on guilt, but can we build with guilt? Is guilt a material to design with?
This unique Volume bag was conceptualized by Daniel van der Velden and Maureen Mooren. Though originally conceived as T-shirts, we couldn't resist re-publishing this text now that it is again so actual.
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