Forming the second installment of Volume magazine's Learning Network project, this issue is dedicated to mapping the contemporary fields of knowledge production in architecture, art and the social sciences and the research practices pushing them forward. Volume wanted to learn from those who have been instrumental in shifting disciplinary boundaries and shaping today’s landscape of creative activity.
The extent to which economic value is placed on knowledge today forces us to reconsider its social role and our relation to it. Research, the general category for processes of knowledge production, has become omnipresent in both education and practice. Today it’s not so important what you know but rather how you think. Progress, in this sense, is predicated by critical reflection on ways of knowing and disciplinary traditions of thought.
What follows is an issue comprised entirely of interviews and conversations, featuring: Anthony Acciavatti & Vere van Gool, Dag Boutsen, Lex ter Braak, Beatriz Colomina, Reinier de Graaf, DUS Architects, Tim Ingold & Judith Winter, Adrian Lahoud, Chus Martínez & Sofia Lemos, John Palmesino, Stephan Petermann, Sarah Rifky & May al- Ibrashy, Irit Rogoff & Füsun Türetken, ruangrupa, Rural Urban Framework & Land+Civilization Compositions, Supersudaca & Francisco Díaz, Henk Slager, Territorial Agency, UNStudio, Eyal Weizman, Jan Peter Wingender.
The issue also includes the exhibition catalogue for BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions by Malkit Shoshan, the Dutch contribution to the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Forming the second installment of Volume magazine's Learning Network project, this issue is dedicated to mapping the contemporary fields of knowledge production in architecture, art and the social sciences and the research practices pushing them forward. Volume wanted to learn from those who have been instrumental in shifting disciplinary boundaries and shaping today’s landscape of creative activity.
The extent to which economic value is placed on knowledge today forces us to reconsider its social role and our relation to it. Research, the general category for processes of knowledge production, has become omnipresent in both education and practice. Today it’s not so important what you know but rather how you think. Progress, in this sense, is predicated by critical reflection on ways of knowing and disciplinary traditions of thought.
What follows is an issue comprised entirely of interviews and conversations, featuring: Anthony Acciavatti & Vere van Gool, Dag Boutsen, Lex ter Braak, Beatriz Colomina, Reinier de Graaf, DUS Architects, Tim Ingold & Judith Winter, Adrian Lahoud, Chus Martínez & Sofia Lemos, John Palmesino, Stephan Petermann, Sarah Rifky & May al- Ibrashy, Irit Rogoff & Füsun Türetken, ruangrupa, Rural Urban Framework & Land+Civilization Compositions, Supersudaca & Francisco Díaz, Henk Slager, Territorial Agency, UNStudio, Eyal Weizman, Jan Peter Wingender.
The issue also includes the exhibition catalogue for BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions by Malkit Shoshan, the Dutch contribution to the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.
