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Independence Day 2019
June 19, 2019Independence Day 2019 is an update from our 2014 version of Independence Day which shows the political landscape of Europe if all its current separatist movements succeed. As stated with the original map, all currently existing movements that have a flag and express their wish for independence in any way, are shown.
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State of Tyranny
April 15, 2019How do we understand tyranny? Its global presence is felt and heard daily. It permeates news cycles, it defines the plots of television shows, and it has to be explained to our children. Tyranny defines contemporary culture, and though it is often talked about conceptually, its more subtle spatial manifestations...
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Handbook of Tyranny - Exhibition II
March 12, 2019The exhibition is designed around the idea of a tyrant’s office. Therefore, the shop-windows of the exhibition space have been closed with plywood boards to guarantee security and enclosure. The designs from the Handbook of Tyranny are pinned casually to the plywood walls.
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Handbook of Tyranny - Exhibition I
January 10, 2018In April 2018 the “Initiative Architektur” hosted the “Handbook of Tyranny” exhibition. The design concept by Brendan McGetrick presented fragments of the book chapters Slaughterhouse, Walls and Fences and Prison Cells in the scale 1:1. Visitors blend with the technical illustrations and inhabited them for the time of the exhibition.
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Handbook of Tyranny - the book
January 08, 2018Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.
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The Colours of Terror
August 25, 2017Currently, there are over 180 terrorist organizations worldwide. Unlike secret criminal societies like the Mafia, whose main objective is economic profit, terrorist organizations are threatening the power monopoly of existing nation states. To be recognized as a genuine opponent of a sovereign state and to distinguish itself from comparable movements,...
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Green Fortress
July 25, 2017Nothing is more deceptive than human preconceptions, one of the more persistent being that beauty is good and ugly is evil. Today there is hardly anything that can compete with our image of nature as something good and beautiful.
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Bunker Busters
February 23, 2017Contemporary warriors are retreating more and more from the battle field and exchange guns for computers like the one this article is written with. But unlike me, these warriors are sitting in maximum security installations like bunkers.
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Slaughter House
October 03, 20161,3 Billion Chicken Wings are munched away by Americans just for the event of Super Bowl. Thus it should come to no surprise that in order to satisfy our appetite for meet, worldwide 6.000.000 chicken have to be slaughtered every hour, as well as several million cows, pigs and sheep.