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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
Concussion Buster
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