When Words Fail: On Practice-Based Art, Design and Education

When Words Fail: On Practice-Based Art, Design and EducationOrientations towards and tools for visual and textual meaningthrough art and designin the contemporary blur. The visual and textual contributions in this volume take shape from a series of questions that place at the center of reflection the role of artistic and design practices in the production of knowledge. What tools can we adopt when words are no longer sufficient to describe what surrounds us? How can we construct new languages and new

Much in our life at this moment is often marked by an absence of clarity

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in a playful way both harmonious and strange

promoting a universal lifestyle which results in an alienation between architecture and its context and inhabitant

and inhabit a place

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steering clear of attachment is as dangerous as anything else she does and means sidestepping a certain alluring figure from her father’s past

Design is generated by a set of specifications whose effects can be explored

paradoxically

which mainly focused on the history of the local shipyards during the Japanese Occupation

Artworks exploring human relationships with nature

more emotional experiments than traditional documentation