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Newspaper on degrowth and the city
The Degrowth Daily is a research project that explores the usefulness of degrowth in the context of urban development, specifically in a situation of urban demographic decline.
Degrowth thinking offers an alternative to the dominant economic growth paradigm, by linking a better quality of life to a reduction in production and consumption. Does degrowth offer a perspective for the (shrinking) city?
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As an outcome of the research project Degrowth Daily, a scientific article has been published in the Urban Planning Scientific Journal. The article that was written by myself, Christian Scholl and Joop de Kraker, analyses two cases in the Parkstad Limburg region, exploring the suitability of shrinking cities as a testing ground for urban degrowth practices.
Published 22 May 2024
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© 2024
Order below, released summer 2024
‘The grey-haired should not bury those with black hair’, the saying goes. When there is unacceptable loss, in the case of a young child's death or suicide, those left behind are left with big questions.
Hermans' debut as a photographer presents a poetic-photographic account of unacceptable loss. It’s the result of a three-year long proces that leads via Paris in 1973 to an off-the-grid cottage in the Sud-Eifel to seclusion during both corona lockdowns in 2021 and 2022.
The book contains three visual stories. and two additional texts layers with a contributen of Dutch writer Anton Dautzenberg and Dutch graphic designer -SYB-.
PRESS RELEASE (in Dutch)
BOOKLAUNCH
Tuesday 3 September 2024
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ISBN 978-90-9038979-0
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Internationale Bauaustellung Parkstad
For the first time in history, the Internationale Bauausstellung or IBA isbeing held outside Germany, in Parkstad- Limburg, the Netherlands. What started as an exhibition for modern construction in 1901, has developed into an urban planning instrument that often provides a powerful impulse to the local economy, public space and society.
Read the authors’ statement, spoken on 1st September 2022.
Pionier van kleiner groeien
The Antistad shows the development history of the Netherlands' most aging, most transitional and, according to some, most failed city: Heerlen.
Decades of growth pushed the phenomenon of urban shrinkage to the background and raises the question: how do we grow smaller? How do we built cities smaller? Shrinkage as the accelerator of change.
Read: column Maurice Hermans ‘De Antistad’
Video: Homes for All #9
Review: Rooilijn
Review: Platform31
ISBN 978-94-6208-285-4 | May 2016 | Maurice Hermans | design: Piet Gerards Ontwerpers | Dutch | paperback | 17 x 24 cm | 224 pag. | geillustreerd (120 kleur en zw/w) | with the support of: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Parkstad Limburg en kenniscentrum NEIMED
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The video is part of the art project
O O OO AA, in which the author explores his relationship with grief and loss.
Video: Maurice Hermans
Camera: Marijn Vanderheijden
Music by AUW
Gert-Jan van Stiphout
Serge Kreso
Lars Ickenroth
Maurice Hermans
Filmed in the woods of the German Sud-Eifel, July 2020
(one year before the floods)
© 2024
The Dutch musician Puttylolian released his first track 'Touwtjespringen' in the summer of 2019, at the age of eleven. He passed away six months after.
The track was produced by Subp Yao and is featured on the album Be iDVW (2020).
The question of balance is something
that’s very delicate.
By AUW (Altered_Undefined_Waveforms)
Gert-Jan van Stiphout
Serge Kreso
Lars Ickenroth
Maurice Hermans
Recorded in 2022 in basement Ølmo1
Mixed in 2023 in Carbon 6
Video: Sergej Kreso
Vocals: Maurice Hermans
© 2023
AUW (Altered Undefined Wavefoms) is an interdisciplinary music project consisting of producer Subp Yao, film director Sergej Kreso, artist Lars Ickenroth and Maurice Hermans. Featuring Goya van der Heyden and Merlijn Huntjens.
Their first EP Flur 13 recorded in the German woods of the Sud-Eifel, before the floodings.
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Tape & Zine
The Armijska Ratna Komanda D-0, or the formerly secret Atomic Bunker in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the most notorious failed Cold War artefacts in former Eastern Europe, and it serves as the inspiration for the ARK D-0 project.
The ARK D-0 cassette and zine showcase AUW's interest in the derivé, which is employed in psycho-geography—the study of how a person's physical surroundings affects their emotions and behaviour.
This may be heard on the ARK D-0 cassette: on the A-side, an impressionist mix of songs, beats, and sounds. The tape's other side, the B-side, offers a more literal approach to the derivé, an aural representation of the AUW's trip from the Dutch city of Heerlen to the Bosnian city of Konjic, which is home to the Atomic Bunker ARK D-0.
AUW (Altered Undefined Wavefoms) is a sound and art collective, consisting of producer Subp Yao, film director Sergej Kreso, artist Lars Ickenroth and Maurice Hermans.
www.a-u-w.com
Recorded in Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina 43.548143, 18.032451
May & August 2023
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