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Invent the Future with Elements of the Past

12 Zürcher Künstler auf einem Spaziergang mit Lucius Burckhardt

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


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Edited by Adrian Notz, Hans Ulrich Obrist
2015
Paperback
256 pages, 110 color and 66 b/w illustrations
19 x 26 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-487-6

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.

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