Böcker utgivna av Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing

Water is needed to grow food and keep ecosystems thriving, not to flush down toilets. We also need to realise that our waste is not waste but a valuable resource.  The current sanitation infrastructure needs to be critically reassessed in the context of global freshwater shortages and broken nutrient flows, which cause serious ecosystem damage globally. By questioning the so far indisputable position of the water-based sanitation system, this book aims to inspire architects and professionals to start looking for alternative solutions to better serve the world we inhabit today.   The topics of sustainable sanitation are explored through expert articles, which provide in-depth knowledge such as on the history of sanitation, nutrient flows and circular waste economies. This book accompanies The Dry Collective s exhibition Huussi Imagining the Future History of Sanitation , curated by Arja Renell and presented by Archinfo in the Pavilion of Finland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.   Adjusting our ways of living in the face of climate change is taking place now, not in the future. In the future, the flushing toilet as we know it will be history.

This book presents the practice of artist Tove Kjellmark and her extensive artistic research project 'The Horse, the Robot and the Immeasurable: A Practice-Based Exploration of Matter as a Movement That Constantly Takes on New Shapes'. With the relationship horse-human-robot in focus, the aim is to challenge the limits of measurability, investigate liminal states and sedimentary expressions sprung from translations between materiality and immateriality through digital, analogue and performative techniques. Fragments of the horse's spirit, traces of movement shaped as physical echoes, imprints that remain after many digital translations from the encounter with a horse's physicality. The term 'translation' is used in its double meaning: as the transformation of a language or medium into another, and as the movement of a body from one point in space to another.

Nathalia Edenmont touches subjects that are often taboo in western society. Her artworks can be viewed as modern expressions of traditional iconography. With poignant texts by authors Barbara Pollack, Ingela Lind and Jean Wainwright, this beautifully illustrated book provides a retrospective of Nathalia Edenmont's artworks throughout her career as an artist, from 2002 until today.

Anton Alvarez has developed a machine that spins thousands of metres of brightly coloured thread around pieces of wood and metal to join them, producing solid benches, stools and lamps without traditional joints of any kind.In photos, interviews and essays, this book presents the evolution of the thread wrapping technique, with an essay by Andreas Nobel and a foreword by Richard Wentworth.

The nuclear waste we produce today has to be stored for 100,000 years before it becomes safe for people, animals and nature. Artist Lennart Grebelius brings the question of our moral responsibility to future generations to the fore in a letter to a child of a future generation where the time span is made physically visible.