Resources
A reading list has been compiled in relation to the Futurology series.
Many of which are available to read in Arnolfini’s Reading Room
(open Fri-Sun 12-6pm)
Available for download
* Available to read in Arnolfini’s Reading Room.
Books/Texts
Coley, Nathan. Show Home. North Tyneside Arts. 2003.
Cook, Peter. Archigram. Princeton Architectural Press. 1999.
Curry, Andrew. Anthony Hodgson. 3 Horizons. From Journal of Future Studies. August, 2008.
Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class: and how it is transforming work, leisure, community& every day life. New York: Basic Books. 2002.*
Fukuyama, Francis. The end of history and the last man. Penguin. 1993.*
Guasch, Anna Maria, Joseba Zulaika. Learning from the Bilbao Guggenheim. University of Nevada Press. 2004.
Jameson, Frederick. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. Verso Books. 2007.
Jameson, Frederick. Future City. New Left Review 21. May-June, 2003.
Hicks, David. Lessons for the future: the missing dimension in education. Routledge Falmer. 2002.
Holder, Will. Middle of Nowhere. Dot Dot Dot Magazine. New York: The Hague. 2006.
Marinetti, Fillipo Tommaso. Futurist Manifesto. Le Figaro. 1909.
Morris, William. News from Nowhere. Penguin Classics. 1890.*
Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Futures, Cities. Journal of Visual Culture. 2007
Onfrey, Michel et al. Shine: Wishful fantasies and visions of the future in contemporary art. NAi Publishers/ MuseumBoijmans Van Bueningen. 2003.
Penley, Constance. NASA/TREK: Popular science and sex in America. Verso Books. 1997.
Sadler, Simon. Archigram: architecture without architecture. MIT Press. 2005.
Sieder, Lloyd Steven. Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work. Perseus Books Group. 1988.
Shine: Wishful Fantasies and Visions of the future in Contemporary Art. NAi Publishers. 2003.*
Slaughter, Richard. A. The Foresight Principle: Cultural recovery in the 21st century. Praeger Paperback Publishing. 1995.
Sterling, Bruce. Shaping Things. MIT Press. 2005.*
Szreder, Kuba. Ed. Majewska, Ewa, Martin Kaltwasser. Industrial Town Futurism. Krakow: Ha!Art Publishers. 2007.
Szreder, Kuba. Industrial Town Futurism. Exhibition catalogue. Frankfurt: Revolver Verlag. 2007.
The Guide to Creative Bristol. Bristol Media
The Independant Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1949-59. Manchester University Press. 1995.
Turney, Jon. A rough guide to the future. Due for release 2010.
Wagar, W. Warren. A short history of the future. University of Chicago Press. 1999.
Waller, Mark Aerial et al. Philip. USA Project Press, Project Arts Centre. 2006.
Zulaika, Joseba. Guggenheim Bilbao Museo: Museums, architecture and city renewal. Centre for Basque Studies. 2003.
Film/Video/Documentary
Curtis, Adam. The Power of Nightmares. BBC Two. October-November, 2004
Websites
Department of Reading
An online-based project exploring new forms of reading
Hieroglyphs of the Future by Brian Holmess
Journal of Futures Studies
A globally-oriented, trans-disciplinary referred journal
Lost Formats by Experimental Jet Set
Resources on ‘The future of the book’
Investigations into the evolution of intellectual discourse
Future Archive
A project issuing a series of responses about divergent futures
RMB City
An online art community in the virtual world of Second Life
Dieter Roelstraete
The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art
After the Historiographic Turn: Current Findings
Jonathan Griffin
Future Conditional
Frieze Talks
Nostalgia: What’s the Role of the Past in Fashioning the Future?
Exhibitions
The Future Will Last Longer Than The Past at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2009)
Weak Signals and Wildcards at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2008)
The Uncertainty Principle at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona (2009)
Time as Matter. MACBA Collection. New Acquisitions at MACBA, Barcelona (2009)
Memories of the Future at Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague (2009)
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzales-Foerster TH.2058 at Tate Modern, London (2008-9)
Unpredictable Encounters at General Public, Berlin (2008)
Industrial Town Futurism, 100 years of Wolfsburg and Nowa Huta at Büro Kopernikus (2005-2006)
Shine at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2003)
Green Architecture for the Future at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2009)
