Hunch Mediators

by Penelope Dean (Editor)

hunch 10 presents Mediators, an edition that addresses the workings of ‘mediation’ on and through the disciplines of architecture and urbanism. Bringing together significant figures - directors, advisors, critics, curators, decision-makers, editors, and academics - operating between the various realms of public, architecture, urbanism, culture and business through influence and facilitation, hunch 10 exposes mediation by way of authorship, historiography, anecdotes, statistics, profiles, and photography. The material in this issue consists largely of lecture transcriptions and interviews accumulated during Spring 2004/2005 at The Berlage Institute, along with some newly commissioned material. The format of this issue is a cast. hunch 10 compiles a troupe of figures that maintains a professional/ academic role in public life. It recognizes these characters as a group and provides the opportunity to describe what they do and how they do it without ideological interference. The issue does not enforce a particular editorial point of view, but rather assumes the genre of it offers a collection of personalized accounts or a series of windows - inside stories - into professional/academic worlds. The issue stands as a record of achievements and a mode of exposure. Its resultant content is not about architecture and urbanism per se, but rather the ways in which the disciplines are understood, managed, bargained and sold through third parties and points of view.

Paperback

Published October 30, 2006

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[Numberbox · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have three editions of hunch mag: hunch 4 (2001/2002), hunch 5 (2092) and hunch 10 (2006).