INNOVATION
Fall 2019
#05
With 1.2 billion Google results, innovation is now the omnipresent buzzword used in the domain of advanced capitalism to encapsulate the processes by which environments and societies recombine, evolve, dispute with, and reproduce themselves. Innovation creates a fiction in which problems are resolved, material inflation makes things better, and linear progress is possible. But this doesn’t work: innovation has been reduced and weaponized to become the tool to consolidate the promotion of consumerism. This issue of Ardeth gathers architectural thinkers to examine specific cases of architectural innovation in detail, with the mission of situating the term innovation in the terrain of realism and to help rethink how architectural innovation is discussed, imagined, and practiced.
Curators
Andrés Jaque
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The Production of Project. A Subversive Guide to the Subject of Innovation
Camilo Vladimir de Lima Amaral
Daniel Torrego Gómez, Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel
Marco Biraghi, L’Architetto come intellettuale | Thomas Yarrow, Architects. Portraits of a Practice
Reviewer: Gregorio Astengo
André Corrêa d’Almeida (ed.), Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate
Reviewer: Chiara Lucchini