Book Launch for World of Giving by Jeffrey Inaba and C-Lab
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
+1 212 219-1222
www.newmuseum.org
RSVP: dthiem@newmuseum.org
Music by Jamison Guest

In place of the pursuit of personal wealth, World of Giving presents a mindset revolving around generosity. It paints a picture in which giving animates all types of human interaction, acknowledging that each and every one of us gives. From helping out an acquaintance to donating to a valued cause, we all provide in acts big and small that benefit people beyond the immediate recipient. In this important exploration of the sentiments of our time, the authors describe the basic motivations for why we give with examples including local volunteering, philanthropy and the flow of aid through foundations, governments, multinationals and NGOs. The book details the process of working toward a greater good and shows that a gift transforms at numerous junctures as it circulates through the complex world in which we live. Articulating these intricate relationships, World of Giving offers an understanding of the actions that build bridges between goodwill and need, intention and realization.

World of Giving is by Jeffrey Inaba and C-Lab in collaboration with Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, New Museum and Lars Müller Publishers.

To celebrate the book’s release, join us for the party Thursday November 12th from 630-830p with Richard Flood, Mark Wigley, Lars Müller and Jeffrey Inaba.

Storytelling at the Architectural Association
Stop by to hear the roundtable discussion on Storytelling marking the 20th issue of Volume Magazine, November 20, 2009 2p.
In the past two year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: housing crisis, banking meltdown, pandemic, recession. The all-consuming effort to follow these events seldom leaves time to contemplate the explanations themselves. Volume 20 is dedicated to the art of Storytelling. It presents the storylines of current events to show that while the truth is important, so is the ability of fiction to elevate fact. Perhaps the best way to eventually understand our era and to create architecture itself is through narratives that distort, pervert and animate reality? During challenging times, when it appears impossible to chart a path out of the forest of uncertainty, maybe fantasy can help to build a precise and concrete story for architecture's future.

http://volumeproject.org/blog/2009/07/29/volume-20/ 

Participating in the discussion will be:
Tom McCarthy, Writer, General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society and Author of 'Remainder'
Dave McKean, Illustrator, Artist and Filmmaker
Mark Wigley, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Volume Magazine Founding Editor
Brett Steele, Director, Architectural Association
Jeffrey Inaba, Director, C-Lab, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Volume Magazine Features Editor

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C-Lab Announces Volume 20: Storytelling
This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, banking meltdown, bailout, stimulus, pandemic, bankruptcy. The all-consuming effort to follow the facts of these events seldom leaves a moment to contemplate the explanations themselves. For any one of these problems, what is the stated dilemma, context, motive or ensuing set of events? And most importantly, how does a problem’s formulation determine its proposed solution? Volume 20 is dedicated to the art of storytelling. It presents the storylines of current events and architecture to show that while the truth is important, so is the ability of fiction to elevate fact. Perhaps the best way to eventually understand our era is through narratives that distort, pervert and animate reality? During challenging times, when it appears impossible to chart a path out of the forest of uncertainty, C-Lab asks readers whether fantasy could serve as a means of literal escape. Stories by Mark Wigley, Neil Denari, John McMurrough, Lucia Allais; interviews with Lewis Lapham, Nicholas Lemann, Jay Rosen, Catherine Hardwicke, Tom McCarthy; illustrations by Dave McKean and Roger Dean; a report from Warren County–home to the US auto industry; plus ALIBI Fantasy Island, storybook architecture, Hansel and Gretel shop for a home and an ostrich family fairytale. Watch out for Storytelling starting in August.

May 8, 2009
Research Practice Symposium
Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, Raveevarn Choksombatchai, Jeffrey Inaba, Ed Keller, Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott. Organized by Stephen Phillips. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. 1pm

May 2, 2009
A/cute Tokyo Symposium
Hitoshi Abe, Jun Aoki, David d’Heilly, Mark Dytham, Jeffrey Inaba, Sylvia Lavin, Jesse Reiser and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. 1230pm

March 21, 2009
We Make Money Not Art reviews Bootleg Edition Urban China (C-Lab)

March 3, 2009
Imagining Recovery is an open international design ideas competition coinciding with the first 100 days of the Obama presidency. The competition calls on designers to act as mediators between policy and the public by producing an image of the lived experience of recovery, increasing the transparency and intelligibility of the charts, maps and graphics of Recovery.gov. This image is to be supported by a design strategy offering a means to get from the present to recovery. The competition brief is a living document, collectively written by the design participants and a select panel of public policy students from prestigious policy schools around the world. Submissions are due on the 100th day of the presidency, April 29, 2009, and will then be judged by a world-class panel of design and image experts, who will select prize winners and address the public in an open discussion at Studio X on May 13. The competition will be distributed to the public through a print publication, a placement in Volume Magazine, and a traveling video exhibition, all available for free online download. This competition is organized by lab\RAD, in collaboration with C-LAB, SIPA, the Global Public Policy Network and The Morningside Post.

February 10, 2009
Opening of Urban China's exhibition, Informal Cities at the New Museum. Check out C-Lab's 'bootleg' publication of Urban China

January 30, 2009
Jürgen Mayer H. Book Launch organized by Studio-X, GSAPP, and Hatje Cantz Verlag with Jürgen Mayer H., Cristina Ines Steingraber, Andres Lepik, moderated by Jeffrey Inaba. Studio-X, 180 Varick St. #1610, New York, NY 10014