The Adhocracy READER, an e-Book that unfolds the issues that widens up and deepen the theoretical, historical and empirical theme of the exhibition. The publication also tries to get rid from the assumption of what a catalog should be. It does not collect or list exhibited projects; but the ideas and texts which have inspired both the curators and practitioners of the selected projects.

Adhocracy is a philosophy of action characterized by creative, flexible, purposeful attitude. Unlike bureaucracy and its fixed schemes, Adhocracy is adjustable to different challenges and situations. Adhocracy uses available systems in unimagined ways to face existing problems quickly and efficiently.

The Adhocracy exhibition and symposium at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens [curated by dpr-barcelona and Pelin Tan, with associate curator, Panos Dragonas], is focused on the relation of design, culture, and society within a global approach, but based on the dynamics of the local art, architecture and design. Adhocracy highlights achievements by makers who are guided by the will to change the system by changing the way they make things themselves. It includes examples of makers whose work embraces open source design, and particularly emphasizes the idea of the commons in relation to production. Adhocracy Athens is the continuation of the research started for the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012, curated by Joseph Grima and associate curators Ethel Baraona Pohl, Elian Stefa, and Pelin Tan. TheAdhocracy exhibition has also been presented in New York (New Museum, 2013) and London (LimeWharf, 2013).

The Adhocracy READER includes contributions by: Nikos Anastasopoulos, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Hans-Christoph Binswanger, Arindam Dutta, Jesko Fezer, Joseph Grima, Wietske Maas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Matteo Pasquinelli, Alessandro Petti, César Reyes Nájera, Tino Sehgal, Stavros Stavrides, and Pelin Tan.

Adhocracy Athens. From making things to making the commons.
Ethel Baraona Pohl, César Reyes Nájera, Pelin Tan (eds.)
Format: kindle .mobi
ISBN: 978-84-942414-9-9
Date: July 2015
Publisher: dpr-barcelona, Onassis Cultural Center

The Adhocracy READER has been recently released and you can download it now in both formats, ePub for tablets and smart phones and .mobi for kindle.

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adhocracy.athens.sgt.gr/publications