The New Normal

27/07/2021

12/07/2021

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley return to the Strelka Institute for a virtual launch of their new book, "Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine." Since their visit to Moscow in August 2019 to discuss the spatial politics of quarantine, the world has been plunged into a pandemic with, at one point, more than half the world's human population in some state of quarantine or lockdown. Now, with the publication of their book, Manaugh and Twilley will join us again to look at some of the implications of COVID-19, from ethics to architecture, as well as to explore the future of quarantine—on the Earth and beyond. Save the link: Watch live: https://youtu.be/W-fpEnVYuI8

The event is free and will be followed by a discussion with Benjamin Bratton, Program Director of The Terraforming at the Strelka Institute.

19/12/2020

"You could call us book architects. We work with spatial layouts, relationships, and sequences, play with emptiness and fullness, condense and expand content. As book designers, we are interested in creating a graphic architecture that can deal with heterogeneous material."

Meet Swiss collective PIN—the designers behind The New Normal book, published by Strelka Press and Park Books. In their interview with Strelka Mag, Larissa Kasper, Rosario Florio, and Samuel Bänziger talk about their creative process and method, and the entangled relationship between the aesthetics of the digital and the medium of the book.

Meet the designers behind the Swiss collective PIN.

25/11/2020

Strelka Institute is excited to present its first expanded publication in English — "The New Normal". Co-published by Strelka Press and Park Books, the book is a result of a three-year collaborative program and think-tank at Strelka investigating the impact of planetary-scale computation on the future of cities in Russia, and globally.

To find out more and buy the book online visit https://thenewnormal.strelka.com

30/10/2020

The Terraforming is an interdisciplinary postgraduate design research program that explores the geotechnical, geourban, and geopolitical conditions by which a viable planetarity can be conceived, modeled, and articulated.

The second year of the program will emphasize remaking ourselves (and remaking the planet thereby) and focus on the themes of Populations, Zoning Earth, Anthropoforming, and Planetarity. In 2021 the think-tank will host contributions from many new visiting faculty, including Nandita Sharma, Thomas Moynihan, Anya Bernstein, Nicholas DeMonchaux, Chen Qiufan, Reza Negarestani, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, and many others.

Find out more and apply by November 10:

05/06/2020

Designer and strategist Ben Cerveny elaborates on the changes in architecture when everything becomes a platform and software migrates from the mutual devices into space around us.