Author’s corner

8th September, 2022 in Author’s corner

“To address ‘wicked problems’ such as climate change, research by design and collaborative urbanism prove to be effective in showing us alternative futures.” Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architect…

14th June, 2022 in Author’s corner

The Requiem repertory is actually very extensive. With the series we hope to deepen knowledge about well-known pieces, and introduce some less well-known ones to specialists, music performers, and a musically interested broad public. Few western musi…

25th May, 2022 in Author’s corner

We need to pay attention to sound. We need to tune our body in the sound vibrations of place, be attentive to them, and try to understand how they influence us. In The Sound of Architecture editors Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou e…

13th May, 2022 in Author’s corner

  “I hope this book will give readers unique and novel insights into the south-north movement in the context of the economic crisis, and how it evolved over the course of the past decade.”  ‘Leaving Spain’ is based on 58 autobiographical na…

1st March, 2022 in Author’s corner

“Be careful with formulating large stories and generalisations about evolution in material culture and consumption culture. Each (urban) community has its own story to tell.” Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, At Home in Ren…

1st March, 2022 in Author’s corner

“The ‘arms race’ between the forger and the scientist is quite interesting.” The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. When Art Isn’t Real deals with o…

10th February, 2022 in Author’s corner

“By exploring a number of books that bring to the fore painful memories of the dictatorial regime in Portugal, or explore the price of the austerity policies in response to the economic crisis of 2008, or the ongoing capitalist assault on cultural di…

21st January, 2022 in Author’s corner

“Many policy makers and scholars strive for more participatory or co-creative methods, but these methods are not always evaluated, and certainly not when applied to specific groups, such as migrants.” How do co-creative methods contribute to efforts…

21st January, 2022 in Author’s corner

  “This book gives a sense of how much attitudes to translation can vary over time and space and what impact legal and institutional translation have on the relationship between citizens and governments.” Using case studies of past and present t…

6th December, 2021 in Author’s corner

“Art history has been undergoing a process of reckoning, from calls to address the legacies of slavery and colonialism to concomitant surveys of decolonsiation published in some of the discipline’s foremost journals.” In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella…

2nd December, 2021 in Author’s corner

“Fiction co-shapes our understanding of social groups in myriad ways and we need to move beyond the traditional methods of close reading (but not abandon them!) if we want to make generalisable, empirical claims about cultural representation.” Fictio…

23rd November, 2021 in Author’s corner

“The most significant change that academic publishing underwent is the increasing importance of academic publications as a basis for funding and career opportunities.” Lore Van Praag, Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the Univ…