Book review: Goodbye to London - Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies activism art in London book reviews vintage In London of the seventies, a dynamic counterculture blossomed against a backdrop of unemployment, racism, and IRA bombings. This volume, a collage of texts and images, provides an overview of the radical political and cultural developments of the decade continue Nuclear Is Good, What will it take to convince you? green rcashow trends The nuclear renaissance offers a clean, near limitless energy solution that could allow us to meet CO2 emission targets (without going short as consumers). What if we ask for protective barrage balloons, establish concrete emergency services and resign ourselves to the perceived 'hazards'? What if we embrace pet polar bears and pineapple ice cream along with other benefits that nuclear energy could bring? And what if not; are we prepared for blackouts instead? continue Praeter naturam - beyond nature Art in Turin and Milan bio bioart Last Saturday i finally dragged myself out of the armchair and visited the 'Park of Living Art' in Turin. Although the 'interactive' displays i saw in some of the rooms were appalling, I'll be forever grateful to the place for bringing to Turin exciting artists: Michel Blazy, Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna and now Brandon Ballengee continue Magazine review: Future Exhibitions design magazine trends This year's Future Exhibitions aims at highlighting the exhibition's spatial relationship to the visitor. How can architecture, stage design and technical innovation enhance the visitor's overall experience? In conversation with some of the leading actors in the field, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions examines innovative techniques and explores the exhibition medium of the future continue Nille Svensson design Nille Svensson, former member of Sweden Graphics, is a designer/graphic artist/illustrator i met in Stockholm a few months ago and the guy is so absurdly talented he doesn't even have a proper website. See for yourself: continue Book review: The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography book reviews locative Artists play with both the material and the content of the map. Paper plans are all over the book but so are maps made of artist's hair, drawn on the body, printed onto the sand or turned into large-scale installations. Some maps have a clear activist, political agenda, others are infused with mental visions, covered with alien-abduction sites, etc continue Family Whisky bio body rcashow Large amounts of sugar are excreted on a daily basis by type-two diabetic patients especially amongst the upper end of our aging population. Is it plausible to suggest that we start utilizing our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance? In James Gilpin's scenario, sugar heavy urine excreted by patients with diabetes would be used for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export continue Postopolis, marijuana, Olympic games and going to prison for art's sake Postopolis latin america Where we get a lecture on the perils of drugs from the curator of the Drugs museum in Mexico, revisit the wonderful design of Mexico '68 and meet an artist who voluntarily spent hundreds of hours in prison striking deals with inmates continue Postopolis DF - 2 activists from Mexico Postopolis activism green latin america Meet two activists from Mexico. The first is hackarchitect Ehécatl Cabrera who believes that since architecture is not able to answer the many issues that the city has to face, we should raise and 'make the city ourselves'. The second is Tijuana-based Raúl Cárdenas from Torolab who was in Mexico to present his Institute of Waste continue more, more and more

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