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botopress

botopress is a publishing entity highlighting architectures, cities, theories, and fictions. botopress interessiert sich nicht für bücher voller einsichten, sondern für publikationen voller ausblicke. botopress doesn’t care about directions and aims, doing books with more than one beginning, more than one ending. we are looking for a multeity of writers, let it be hundreds. botopress ist unentschieden. be the pink boto, or the grey one.

botopress is a publishing movement building on a well developed infrastructure which consists of intellectuals and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban planning, contemporary art, political ecology and social sciences. Its unique ability is to spread fast and accessible publications that are able to create a discourse around pressing topics.

botopress is hybrid. in a time of ubiquitous computing and adaptive (social) architectures we need to blur the rigid distinctions between idea and material, project and documentation. the fabric of space is not just made of walls and ceilings; it is also made of communications, feelings, ideas and social dynamics. things like this require trans-mediation. they need to be translated into tangible formats.
Buchreihe
various, Buchreihe "Everyday Urban Design", botopress, 2024 © various

"Everyday Urban Design" is an ongoing book series about architectures, cities, technologies and fictions. Those are discussed and shown in a diagrammatic way that helps making the invisible visible. The serious as a whole was awarded "Best German Book Design 2024" in the category science books.

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Der Berliner Schlüssel
Bruno Latour, Der Berliner Schlüssel, botopress, 2014 © Bruno Latour

Latours Berliner Schlüssel ist ein zeitloser Text und quasihistorisches Unikum für Berlin. Allgemeinverständlich und von leichter Hand bringt er hier seine Soziologie der Assoziationen zum Ausdruck.

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Welcome to AirSpace
Christian Berkes (Ed.), Welcome to AirSpace, botopress, 2016 © Christian Berkes (Ed.)

Welcome to AirSpace. On Airbnb, Uber, Facebook,.. How New Economies of Living and Sharing Reshape Dwelling, Architecture, Labor, and the Self.

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