Author: Volume [1] Here Comes The Sun (documentary/VPRO) [2] Food as A National Security Issue (radio show/NPR) [3] The Future of Food (magazine/Wired) [4] Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough (article/Fast Company) [1] Here Comes The Sun – Backlight (45min) (watch on youtube) – documentary broadcasted by VPRO on the 20th of October 2008 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHBFyfvK8A&hl=nl&fs=1] [...]
Author: Volume A statement* VOLUME has decided not to bring a positive contribution to the Sustainability debate. VOLUME believes that too many matters, and essential ones, are not voiced in this debate, as regards the social and political status of Design, as regards the ideological functions and the mythology of environment. In these circumstances, any [...]
Author: Volume VOLUME’s research on sustainability for VOLUME 18, perspectives beyond issues of CO2 emission and carbon fossil fuel consumption, inspired collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum. On October 4 its ‘Heartland’ exhibition opened. Ideologically there are clear links between these projects. The institutes share an interdisciplinary research approach and both teams attempt to understand social, [...]
Author: Volume Volume interviews Alberto Iacovoni from Ma0 At the occasion of Ma0’s presentation in Venice in the Italian pavilion, Volume had an interview on what proved to be the hidden theme of this year’s Biennale: sustainability. The Italian office Ma0 (emmeazero, acronym for Media Architecture Office) has for more than 11 years been engaged [...]
Author: Volume Interview with Pablo Georgieff from Coloco @ Venice Biennale We live in an epoque in which the end of the resources and the rise of global population force us to choose between war or conviviality. As declared partisans of the latter option, we need to learn how to economize all that it is [...]
