1. Findings on Elasticity
    Findings on Elasticity

    Edited by the Pars Foundation

    The second issue in the exciting and experimental cross-disciplinary series “Findings on…” by Astrid van Baalen and Hester Aardse from the pars Foundation is centred on Elasticity in the broadest sense of the word. What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity? The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. The architect calculates the elasticity of the steel structure of a building during an earthquake. The anthropologist studies the flow of people returning to their homes in the wake of a natural disaster. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized niches in order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, or bewildering results and assembles them in this interdisciplinary volume. “Findings on Elasticity” is the second part of a publication series that together will constitute an atlas of creative thinking. There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches on coasters, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution reflect the respondent’s own field as well as his or her passion for the topic.

    20 x 27 cm, 7¾ x 10¾ in, 190 pages, 130 illustrations, softcover (2010)

    ISBN 978-3-03778-148-7, e

    EUR 35.00 / USD 55.00 / GBP 35.00
    Foreword

    ADAPT
    Lana Slezic
    Minusk Cho
    Margriet Sitskoorn

    DEFORM
    Ernesto Neto
    Didier Fiuza-Faustino
    Marjorie Schick
    Andoni Luis Aduriz
    Sozyone Gonzalez
    Oron Catts/Ionat Zurr
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    ECONOMICS
    Eric Maskin

    MATERIAL
    Lars Spuybroek
    Mark Peletier
    Theodore Eliades
    Hester Bijl

    MOVE
    Roger Kram
    Medhi Walerski
    Sonia Cillari
    Shfaqat Abbas Khan

    PLAY
    Catherine Malabou
    Kwon Won Tae
    Erik Demaine
    Scarlet
    Andrew Chapman

    POLITICS
    Fady Joudah
    Algirdas Budrevicius
    George Ayittey

    REACT
    Kristin Hentatd
    Kevin Carlsmith
    Jim Gimzewski
    Felix the Cat
    Gijs Wuite

    RUBBER
    Elastic Ball
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    Nick White
    Chris Elvin
    Odmaa Bayartsogt

    RESONATE
    Min Xiao-Fen
    Rajesh Mehta
    Ioana Ieronim
    Chiharu Shiota
    Hèctor Parra
    Thomas Hesselberg

    STRETCH
    Brenda Ann Kenneally
    Pernille Fischer Christensen
    Sophie Seité
    Rafal Milach
    Karl Niklas

    UNIVERSE
    Robbert Dijkgraaf
    Michele Vallisneri
    Sean Carroll
    Pipilotti Rist
    "A shimmering book collage on the theme of elasticity.” Art