Book-ish Territory: A Manual of Alternative Library Tactics (2011)

“This project aims to challenge the model of the institutionalized library, calling for a new decentralized system. The fundamental characteristics of a library and a city are the same: they both serve as spaces of exchange and encounter. Dispersing library content throughout the city would be of mutual benefit to the library and city: opportunities for informational exchange and casual encounter would dramatically increase.” (from introduction)

Published in May 2011
208 pages
via publicpraxis.com

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Otto von Busch: Fashion-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design (2008)

The thesis Fashion-able consists of a series of extensive projects which aims to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiment with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. It is an engaged and collective process of enablement, creative resistance and DIY practice, where a community share methods and experiences on how to expand action spaces and develop new forms of craftsmanship. In this practice, the designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make them become fashion-able.

Keywords: Fashion Design, Hacktivism, Hacking, Heresy, Small Change, Professional-Amateurs, Do-it-yourself, Action Spaces, Artistic Research, Practice-based research

Doctor of Philosophy in Design thesis
Publisher School of Design and Crafts, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, 2008
Art monitor series
ISBN 919777572X, 9789197775724
271 pages

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Song hojun: D.I.Y. Satellite (2009) [Korean, English]

A zine by Song hojun, the leader of Open Source Satellite Initiative for developing a D.I.Y. satellite. Based on the artist’s sketch and manual of D.I.Y. Satellite, the publication contains thoughts on private space program, its execution plan, and things are going to happen afterward.

Proceeds from the sales will be used for building a satellite and renting a rocket.

Publisher Mediabus, Seoul, October 2009
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Korea
ISBN 9788994027043
40 pages

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