Dixit 05: About Conditions

Dixit 05: About ConditionsThe fifth issue of Dixit, the architectural criticism journal, explores conditions through a dialogue between architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet and Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku. What defines architectural practice today? Are conditions of use and society self imposed or externally dictated? If challenges like global warming seem universal, are they truly so? This issue questions whether conditions are absolute or shaped by social,

Pin-Up Grrrls tells the history of the pin-up from its birth

Embracing a resolutely distant and surface-level approach - where one might detect influences from Pop Art

the lovely phenomenology of `things’

research of context

where 3D animations of a tiger and a human morph into various instances of the ruler and the subjugated

Eva Engelbert de- und rekonstruiert historische Erzählungen durch Abstraktion

wall hangings

we had the chance to come into contact with what's going on around us inside us

leading Russian literary thinker Valery Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectations of fiction and poetry

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Secrets that relate to her mother

perhaps more surprising is that the pin-up has been appropriated by women for their own empowerment since its inception more than a century ago