PLATES #2 Body Issue designing programmes full colour

full colour

As small­-scale agricultural villages appear stuck in time or close to extinction

A landmark publication

Hardcover / 320 pages / 8 x 11 in

stories and statements from an international group of over 50 Bauhaus experts

PLATES #2 Body Issue designing programmes full colourThe physicality of a human body denotes our essential relationship to forms and being. Yet, if placed in different contexts, the notion of body could collapse into a synonym to a surface, a machine, a system, or an automated assemblage in capitalism, media technology, politics, and the Internet. A body could lack transparency, concreteness and authenticity while still claiming its very identity and functionality. In its second iteration, PLATES