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individual and community social equilibrium equality coexistence with nature utopia dystopia power of speech activism and solidarity peaceful coexistence

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to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time, or in the same place.

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individual and community Community exists whenever individuals enter into a form of interplay. Carnal, religious or simply associative drives, and purposes of life and death, play and aid—these, and many more, cause individuals to live with other individuals, to act in their name, with them, against them, and thereby affect the individual’s circumstance with that of the community’s.

In other words, the importance of these collaborations is that it is in these drives and purposes that any sort of unity can be realized at all. But these drives and purposes, which fill in the dots that a communal life can be manifested through, are not in themselves social. They become such only upon transcending into specific sorts of being with and for one another, sorts that can then be said to be incorporated under the general concept of interplay.

With such a concept, it naturally arises that different sorts of collaborations can be realized under the same purpose or interest; economic interest is realized in both capitalist competition and planned economics; educational interest can be manifested through egalitarian and despotic approaches to pedagogy; religious interest has been accomplished historically through both unregulated and concentrated organization. Yet, the general concept of interplay holds for each of these, and all other forms of unity, and thus community, regardless of the particularities of each instance. How, then, could such a concept ever begin to guide us in the direction of coexistence?

Ensuring that the content found within these moments of interplay respect the values inherent to coexistence is the only way forward. Communities enacted on principles of discordance, unfair competition and transitoriness have no place in peaceful coexistence. Perhaps, then, finding the way forward does not equate with knowing precisely what to do next, but rather, knowing what not to do. Negation, then, is meaningful; criticism alone is meaningful; saying enough is enough is meaningful.

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1—We We. Just We. A great community. One unique and simple word as a gesture collective. Ibán Ramón Rodríguez Slanted 36—COEXIST

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LORRAINE LI—USA

29—Us We are able to exist together despite our differences, with our differences and only because of our differences.

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SARA PARK—USA

30—To All Things Alive and Dead, To My Feelings, Your Feelings, Us. As a totalizer, I want to encapsulate everything I am feeling, thinking, reading, archiving, etc., into what I am creating.

I want democratization of language, validation of other forms of inquiry and knowledge. I want interspecies collaboration.

I want to convey to the deepest feelings that connect us all. Us as in you, me, the living organisms within this universe, the decaying leaf, the book collecting dust, the portals that take you to other worlds, the things you cannot explain.

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YAH-LENG YU—SIN DORA BALLA—HUN DANI RUBIO ARAUNA—ESP BÜSRA INAM—GER THANH-THAO TRAN—GER

38­—US As we sought to coexist, we need to defer and dispel all notions of judgment and sense of differences. There’s no I, YOU, HE, SHE, THEY, THEM, etc., it’s US, we are in this together. Yah-Leng Yu 39—HUMAN / Our LEMAN Dora Balla 40—We Are, They Are Dani Rubio Arauna 41—Separate & Crossed Paths Coexist—Our paths separate and cross even when they do Slanted 36—COEXIST

not meet. Nobody is alone with their problems, somewhere in the world there are people who experience and feel the same. Even if we are different. We have a lot in common. We are connected in our decisions, opinions, ways of thinking, feelings, experiences, mistakes, abilities, interests, needs, perceptions, goals, conscience, problems, illness, area, friendships, family, responsibilities …

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BRANDO CORRADINI—ITA

43—COEXIST FOR REBIRTH To overcome this calamity and this dark moment, we must all coexist and cooperate together in order to fight the monster. The used typefaces (Godiva, Macchia, and Lil Thug) have been designed by me. Brando Corradini Slanted 36—COEXIST

JORGE RUANO—USA JULIO DOLBETH—POR URS MADER—GER MARILENA FRIESE—GER

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55—Strength in Numbers As a world we can continue to create and inspire. We all need our to do part to evolve and strive. Jorge Ruano Slanted 36—COEXIST

56—TOGETHER We should stay more together.

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57—No Man Is an Island We are a community.

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58—Natural Programming Marilena Friese 59—Stay Together Nothing lasts forever, but wouldn’t it be nice to stay together ... Warut Wongsnanwut Slanted 36—COEXIST

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94—Chorus “Chorus” singing and celebration. With this piece, I wanted to visualize a strong sense of community and the solidarity that has grown between people through these difficult times.

The light at the end. Thomas Hedger 95—Structured Sara Martinez 96—My World Is Empty Without You This drawing of my studio without people took on a different meaning when the lockdown started a few weeks ago.

For the past few weeks, I still came to the studio every day while my collaborators were working from home. Instead of looking together at the screen where something was designed, we looked at each other through camera, network and liquid crystals. I was on my own in the studio but not alone; the empty tables a testimony to the mental presence of the others.

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ANDREJ PAVLOV—MKD

107—Coexist of Love Coexist of love—a lovely reminder and a representation of how we keep in our core those who we love and make us strong.

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MARTINA PAUKOVA—GER ATELIER YOUPI—FRA

119—COEXIST Coclick, colike, coexist.

Martina Paukova 120—Dis.connect Balance between the digital and the real world / Connection to our favorite people / Building virtual spaces and not obstructing them / Need for closeness. Viktoria Hörndler Slanted 36—COEXIST

121—MASCARADE The four graphic designers of atelier YOUPI found themselves sorely deprived when the confinement arrived—since their orders were mostly suspended. Locked down but not resigned, they responded graphically to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis.

During these 50 strange days, 19 ideas took shape, following

122—Thumbs Love the news: short-ages of medical equipment, security man- Make love, not war. Of course!

Sara Sanz Gallén agement of the crisis, austerity, solidarity with the most affected, lies of the State, impasse of capitalism … To keep track of that time and glimpse other possible futures. atelier YOUPI

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social equilibrium In economic terms, the world is certainly far from stable: the proliferation of zero hour contracts and casual work alongside a steady decline of permanent employment resulting from technological advancements, have left troves of individuals detached from social security and stable incomes. Meanwhile, workers have little say over their employer’s decision making processes, and trade unions are in retreat; at the larger level, as capital receives a larger piece of the pie relative to labor, dominant multinationals now possess powers comparable to fully fledged sovereign states. And new technologies allow powerful platform operators to vastly displace labor and usher in a fresh status quo in which data is considered the new oil.

In such a paradigm, and staying within the realm of economic jargon, ordinary citizens have little to no say in how their economies function at both the macro and micro level.

Carefully balanced by a political elite and class of capitalists, economies structure society by rewarding some and alien­ ating others, where even the right to life itself is largely determined by wealth.

Alongside traditional models, democratic economic forms of organization proved to create significant value throughout history. The oldest of such forms, co-operatives, and new digital organizations leveraging block chain technology, decentralize authority and distribute ownership with the discrete ambition to restructure the dominant, undeniably challenge the centralized paradigm of wealth creation currently in place.

With the right commitments in place, then, collective ownership and governance of the economy can be the first steps in a long path towards achieving social equilibrium and justice for all.

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CORINNA WURTH—AUT

131—Mind the Gap // Act Wisely In these times it is more important than ever to stick together. This is the only way we can face and overcome the challenges of our time. Corinna Wurth Slanted 36—COEXIST

CHLOE SCHEFFE—USA MILOS MITROVIC—NOR

149—Kapitalisten Aller Länder Verändert Euch! Niklaus Troxler

153—Contrast in Coexistence In our current situation we are more aware of this than ever. We reflect on the essential and find the time to reflect and care for each other.

COEXIST stands for free personal development, religious freedom, tolerance, and understanding. The design was done analogously with ink and should reflect the

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150—Dear America, Chloe Scheffe 151—We Are One The first step to make the transition to a more beautiful world is to recognize the opportunity for reinvention.

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Let’s break down boundaries and co-create a different system. Ultimately we need to change the narrative.

Elisabete Gomes 152—Perspectives Did you know that different philosophical points of view also rhyme with coexist?

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togetherness in our beautiful, contrasting and diverse environment. Nick Staebler

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FILIP NAUDTS—BEL

163—De Belijdenis. From the series La clé du boudoir It doesn’t matter what we believe. What matters is that we are all human beings aiming for love and beauty. Filip Naudts Slanted 36—COEXIST

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MEIKE KENN—GER

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Many are without a safe place to stay and sleep in the park at night. I see mothers, relaxed on the playground with their little children. I hear the enlightened, well-educated fathers talking about the security-problem for their wives and children, as they lie in the sun and inhale deeply. The guy from Guinea still has the best stuff. Meike Kenn Slanted 36—COEXIST

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ALEXANDER JENKINS—GBR

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spaces, leaving only reflections in their wake. The world over, our personal spaces (physical and mind) are being eroded by rich and powerful private interests, reshaping them into playgrounds we are granted access to, but in exchange for our civil liberties. Alexander Jenkins

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170—UK. Boston. 4th March 2016 A mass given in Polish at a Catholic Church in Boston. The town is home to many migrant agricultural workers from Eastern Europe whose lives were thrown into uncertainty by the Brexit vote. In the years since the referendum many have left the area and for the last three years UK fruit harvesters have been unable to attract enough workers, leaving fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields. The town of Boston recorded the highest Brexit vote in Britain with 75.6 % voting to leave the European Union. Andrew Testa Slanted 36—COEXIST

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192—Back to the Museum Since art and culture were severely affected during the Covid 19 crisis, this drawing represents in a humorous way a post-Covid sculpture / installation / performance (choice is open). Renaud Vigourt Slanted 36—COEXIST

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AGNIESZKA WĘGLARSKA—POL

193—Coe><ist Black><white, body><soul, man><woman, separately><together, abstraction><concrete. Agnieszka Węglarska Slanted 36—COEXIST

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BASILE FOURNIER—FRA

194—Co-Exist This is a poster with a list of all the countries in the world, with a picture of the earth and a small drop of glass in the middle representing humanity. It shows that we can coexist, at least on a poster, so there is hope. Basile Fournier Slanted 36—COEXIST

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HUGO GAMBLIN—FRA

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Last year I was invited to a wedding. The wedding couple were in their late 20s.

She from North Germany, he from North Italy. They both met in the ERASMUS exchange program in Paris. A typical Erasmus love, joked the best man in front of international guests, from France, Italy, Germany, Estonia, and Portugal, who flew in with cheap plane tickets and without border controls. Toasts were given in the respective languages. We did not toast in the same languages, but this German-Italian love affair embraced us in its own special way.

Delicious Italian and German food (yes, there is such a thing) was served. We drank, danced, and sang. The mood was exuberant—a party continent met at a lake in Brandenburg.

After the speech of the German father of the bride, it suddenly became quiet. The father of the groom grabbed the microphone. The expectant excitement of the guests was mixed with the feeling that this was an extraordinary moment for this family.

He thanked those present for the beautiful celebration, for the joy of life and hope that everyone spread on this day. Then he turned to his mother. The journey across the Alps was very arduous for the groom’s Nonna. For a long time it was not clear whether she would be able to take the path.

He said in a trembling voice: “Papa would not have allowed a German to join his family for most of his life. I am glad that he was able to get to know our daughterin-law and her family in his last years. Mama, I know that today is more than the wedding of your grandson—it is the reconciliation of our family with history.” His voice stopped; tears flowed. Addressing the couple, he said: “May Europe continue to bring you happiness as it brought reconciliation to our family.”

No guest who didn’t feel Nonno’s pain at that moment. Unspoken, unforgivable atrocities that happened at his north Italian village at that time were in the midst of us, the European festive community. Everything far back and yet passed on over decades and now present with full force. “May Europe continue to bring you happiness”— and save us from new suffering. This moment left us changed.

What pain, what fears must Nonno and Nonna have lived through again when their grandson first told them about his German girlfriend (la amica tedesca)? Nonno did not live to see the union of the two families, he died two years ago. There I was, standing on this lake close to Poland, wondering as a European: What have we done to one another over all these many centuries? Will the pain ever end?

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created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam.

The legend of Lilith developed extensively during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadah, the Zohar, and Jewish mysticism. Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she had coupled with the archangel Samael.

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coexistence with nature The world’s house is on fire. Meanwhile, we persist in our attempts to quench the flames with economic bandages and market fixtures, thus continuing to commodify the planet, yet, knowing full well that such practices is what led us to these circumstances.

That such practices are alive today comes as little sur­ prise given the proliferation of environmentally friendly brands that saturate store shelves. While thought that the con­­sump­tion of organic and biological solves the crisis, neatly bringing peace to our consciousness, greenwashing proliferates as brands systematically leverage social re­spon­sibility and sustainability as marketing points. But the commodification of conservation really amounts to propagating the same conditions that led us to the situation today, albeit with some minor alterations; that everything, even planet Earth itself, has a price, is only reified in such arrangements.

Coexistence with nature requires prior understanding of the impacts our behavior has upon it, understanding of the symbiotic relationship between planet Earth and its inhabitants. Sustainability and conservation need to be regarded as ends in themselves, then. As its youngest occu­pants, we need to take ownership of the fact that nature’s economy does not recognize money as its currency. No, its currency is life, human and non-human alike.

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226—Shelter To coexist means to change our concepts of how things should be because of how they always were. We need to stop preying on each other and find compassion, tolerance.

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ANAËLLE CLOT—SUI

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TOM HEGEN—GER

228—THE QUARRY SERIES For the construction of growing cities and infrastructure a huge amount of raw materials is needed. In order to meet the demand for raw materials, we have developed various methods for mining and processing them out of the ground.

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Letter to a Non-Human Being Our first encounter was a revelation. I never thought you and I would ever meet.

I had no idea you even existed. Actually, I don’t like slugs that much, but that’s referring to your big, fat relatives. You were tiny. So small, I almost overlooked you. So minuscule, you could have been a crumb. So little, I must be a thousand times bigger than you.

If I were a thousand times smaller than I am now, I’d be as big as you. This Pak Choi would be my home. My dwelling place. My spaceship. How did you end up in my food. My plastic-wrapped Asian vegetable. All the places you have been to. The Pak Choi, your spaceship traveled through industrial halls, trucks, different countries, different boxes, until you landed in the Rewe. Spaceship ready for landing? Were you ready? Your Pak Choi spaceship set out for one last travel, into my refrigerator.

The spaceship was grabbed by my big hands.

Pluck, pluck, plastic outer shell gone.

Snap, and there it was. Light came into the dark interior of the vegetable.

You were discovered.

What a shock, having been so well camouflaged in your vegetable spaceship, so well hidden. Your spaceship, my food, your food, our Pak Choi.

Without your Pak Choi, you looked even more naked. Your soft pink skin, so thin that I could see your innermost self. So thin and exposed.

How many layers does one have? You have your skin, your slime, every single Pak Choi layer, the plastic cover. I have my skin, my bacteria and hair, my clothes, my apartment, my house. I take you in my hand and cover you up. I become one of your surrounding layers and put you outside as gently as I can. I leave you, and say goodbye. Welcome to my spaceship Earth.

This text was written during the master seminar Observatory Design Lab in the 2020 summer semester under the supervision of Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa and Fanny Kranz in the Department of Fine Arts (Prof. Stephen Craig) of the Faculty of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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SABINE ROUX—FRA AUDREY ETRO—USA

249—Eames Fondation Quarantine During this quarantine I began to draw imaginary worlds in the quarantine. I decided to create a world where everything and everyone lives in peace, despite the events outside. A world where design (Belleville chair, Eames elephant, Jasper Morrison sofa), nature (Greenhouse inside the house) and living beings coexist. I did it under water, as we can see the fish and a shark, imagine it as if rising water had conquered the world, and that is why they are all in the same house (Eames Fondation). Everybody lives together, watches the TV news, plays chess, relaxes ... It is like the new Atlantis, mixing Noah's Ark. A hidden utopian place. Sabine Roux Slanted 36—COEXIST

250—Nature Meets Humans I took this picture whilst traveling around Auckland, New Zealand during my semester abroad in college (summer 2018) with my 55mm film camera. When I first got my rolls of film developed, I was immediately drawn to this picture. I think this may have been the first time I saw a rollercoaster in the middle of the wilderness. It looked so innocent and clean.

It was weird to think that, as, to me: rollercoasters usually went hand in hand with negative connotations (overcrowded spaces, vomit, obesity, germs), but for the first time in my life, I saw humanity holding nature’s hand.

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LÍVIA SUCHÁ—SVK

251—We Are One Animals and people, all of us are living creatures. All we have to do is never forget that we are coexisting on planet Earth together. Lívia Suchá Slanted 36—COEXIST

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282—One We have to grow together in unity, rather than isolate as separate nations. The abstract idea of flags that have been merged together. It symbolizes the one nation we should become. Daniel Ludwig Slanted 36—COEXIST

283—Burn Your Flag Dani Rubio Arauna 284—A New Order These times we are living showed how fragile, unequal and unprepared our society is, now it’s the moment to rethink the way we live and

to take on a challenge to establish a new order where words like tolerance, equality, solidarity, and sustainability will matter. Piero Di Biase 285—We Are All in This Together We live in a natural system

composed of different species. We want to create a path of sharing where each of us counts in its own diversity and can contribute and receive in the same way. We need to coexist to improve all together. Marco Belardinelli

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286—No Nation | All United Over the last years, the reinforcement of fences and borders contradicted the free and united idea of a border­ less Europe. The progressive work of decades is questioned more than ever. The new nationalism bears a medieval

castle impenetrable to outsiders who seem to threaten the survival of those within.

But all this national pride roots from nothing: If you overlap all borders of Europe from the last cen­­turies it shows that nation­al­ism, egoism and protectionism has no ground.

The free spirit of Europe that finally lead to overcome those borders should be the common ground for the future.

Coexisting was and is always one key element of a European success. Philipp Schwarzbauer

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324—328 Sebastián Liste 324—SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL, DECEMBER 17th, 2010: Young girls fighting because they have a boyfriend in common, on December 17, 2010 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This impoverished com­munity took up residence in an old abandoned chocolate factory on the coast in Salvador de Bahia. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer than the alternatives available to them.

However, they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.

325—SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL, MARCH 21st, 2011 Men fighting with knives and wood stick due to debt problems, on March 21st, 2011, in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

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326—RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, DECEMBER 11th, 2012 PacifiIcation cops in a round in a favela in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) program was launched in 2008 to reclaim territories controlled by Rio’s armed drug gangs. As the country prepares for the Olympics, clashes between drug traffickers and police are on the rise.

327—CARACAS, VENEZUELA, APRIL, 2013 Barrio in the outskirts of Caracas. Most of the 25,000 people murdered in Venezuela in 2013 came from the Barrios, the most violence neighborhoods in the world.

328—CARACAS, VENEZUELA, APRIL 2013 Demonstration against Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution in Caracas.

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339—EUROPE Moria, Corona bonds, sea rescue—the Corona crisis shows the EU’s limited ability to act. Let’s stand up for those organizations who help and support refugees, sick people and children in need.

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down and cheer me up. War is not the answer … For only love can conquer hate … HOPE is there. Some real changes are gonna come! Kiyo Matsumoto

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340—What’s Going On It has been an incredibly emotional week for me because of the tragedy, which happened in Minneapolis, where I have lived for six years. What’s going on from Marvin Gaye.

This is the album which I keep coming back to listening to whenever I feel devastated, emotional, and sad … Somehow the songs would calm me

end. Enough is Enough!

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Narratives of popular culture have long been haunted by ideas of contamination, infection and contagion. Often in these stories a sudden rupture in our biological world has catastrophic results, or something previously benign mutates or transforms into a force for terrifying change. In Tony Burgess’ novel Pontypool spoken language infects and ultimately dehumanizes its victims as they are transformed into nomadic sound poets chanting nonsensical, decontextualized sounds and phrases. Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet imagines a world where printed words poison and kill, slowly hollowing-out their adult victims until the book’s narrator realizes a potential for letters to be weaponized, reshaping them as a desperate survival strategy.

To co-exist implies something shared and not separate, of being together and around or alongside others in some way. Perhaps such co-existence most often takes place without us ever noticing, driven by a need of not wanting to notice. China Mieville’s The City and The City proposes a model for resolving an (un-named, unspecified) conflict, where two cities of two nations co-occupy the same physical space, choosing not to see—and in fear of acknowledging—the other. For citizens of Besźel and Ul Qoma, to recognize and respond would be to condemn oneself to the terror of unknown / unseen punishment, bringing forth a kind of existential crisis or schism.

Histories show us instances where language and linguistic cultures have attempted a similar co-existence, often for different reasons but regularly sharing the same intention: a utopian impulse for speaking, writing and living and a desire to find a way out of complex and frightening times. Ludwig Zamenhof’s Esperanto was one example of such an idea, a common system of naming and being named whose aim was of a good and gentle neighborliness, cultivating an intentional community of speakers as a way to live out this wish.

Language itself has famously been described as something alien to human life, arriving or invading from the reaches of outer space in order to imprint itself onto—and to program itself into us. It reproduces and sustains itself through an all-too-human need for communication at all costs, and is facilitated by the seemingly endless procession of historical shifts in technology whose purpose now seems to be both a preservation and dissemination of the language-virus. Language devours and mutates, colonizes and transforms, and is often deliberately killed as a means of control and an explicit acknowledgment of where real power might reside.

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than ever is the time when connectivity and collective effort are key elements.

Through a process of extroverted experimentation, new forms of collaboration, design and communication will evolve and develop.

New, different, unexpected and above all constructive approaches are needed. It is

about reorienting one’s own way of thinking, experiencing realizations in the here and now, being a responsible, emotionally intelligent person and trying to build consistent, lifelong processes of mindful solutions. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” Panio Ventza

418—LESS_LIKES Start with yourself, let go of habits trained onto you by a crooked society, and give the environment some space to regenerate. Lucas Graßmay

LUCAS GRASSMAY—GER BEN FAYDHERBE—NED

419—Ban Public Smoking In order to live or exist together our planet is vital. This poster responds to the too late climate change worldwide problem … In many countries around the world, it is illegal to smoke indoors in public places like cafés, pubs, galleries and restaurants. More and more countries are doing

420—Let’s Start From Scratch We are at a turning point.

For the first time in 75 years, there is once again the opportunity to start from scratch after the COVID-19 crisis and tackle the major problems: climate change, the environment, discrimination and poverty. It seems like math: what possibilities do you add,

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this, and our posters take the initiative of keeping the health of the public as good as it can be, a step further. The largest smokers are cars, aeroplanes and factories, but they are still legal everywhere. Why are they allowed to smoke (pollute) when the public cannot? User Design, Illustration and Typesetting

subtract, multiply or share with each other to achieve progress in this new society to be made? Ben Faydherbe

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peaceful coexistence Originally developed under Soviet Premier Khrushchev as foreign policy response to reduce hostility between the superpowers, particularly in light of the possibility of nuclear war, peaceful coexistence stood in stark contrast to the antagonistic contradiction that two systems, socialism and capitalism, could ever coexist in peace. The adoption of such principles, soon casted as Marxist revisionism for betraying the socialist revolution, fell short as peaceful coexistence “among nations does not encompass coexistence between the exploiters and the exploited, between the oppressors and the oppressed,” as exclaimed by Che Guevara.

Beyond political theory, the notion of peaceful coexistence encompasses ideas of mutual respect and equality to be upheld between two or more communities with the prime goal to achieve a sustainable state of peace between peoples. Such communities, though different in race, origin, or culture, are indifferent about concepts of nation states and borders that peaceful coexistence initially addressed.

In­stead, they find peace in commonality: the power of the crowd to achieve change.

The collective does not unite based on individual commonality, instead it achieves peaceful coexistence around a common goal, a shared imaginary of a better future. The story of Europe demonstrates peaceful coexistence: built on a common ideal of durable peace, not on commonality in culture or nationality between communities, it sustained over a few decades. But peace is not an atemporal concept; its meaning changes given circumstances that both propagate and antagonize its proliferation. While at once requiring individual resilience to face externalities, as part of coexisting communities we must confront shared threats and stay on course to sustain peace.

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433—Peace It may feel naive to hope for, but peace is power.

It rises from the ash of protest. Chloe Scheffe Slanted 36—COEXIST

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487–489—2 Since Covid-19 and the beginning of the half lockdown in Germany, I have spent more uninterrupted time with my children than ever before. After a difficult start I settled into the new lifestyle of domesticity and finally started taking pictures of my children. I had time to observe the ever changing feelings between them, the ups and downs of love and hate and all the feelings in between. Linked by fate, the sibling relationship can be anything from near to far, but it is certainly never insignificant to other relationships later in life.

I consider it a playful experiment to learn how to get along

with people. Brotherhood and sisterhood are the very core of any social skill. Anne Ackermann 490—ReEverything around us is in a constant exchange with each other and with us. It is about the connection between the things that make up our daily lives. We have to redefine and redesign our relationship to the world and to others. We have to reinvent the constant dialog and find a way to find a balance in it. Viola Dessin Slanted 36—COEXIST

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506—Untitled This is me and my sister together with our dog and with nature.

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507—Education As we spin our way through a global pandemic and now the long overlooked problem of systematic racism in our lives.

Whether we know it or not we have contributed in someway.

To coexist is defined as living together in a peaceful manner, but let’s not let peaceful coexistence mask indifference.

You can’t be scared of your own ignorance when it comes

to failing to understand the daily existence of someone different to yourself (sexuality, gender, race, age, the list goes on). You must use that fear to fuel your education, your actions and ultimately how you affect others around you. I would suggest that you cannot coexist and be peaceful without acknowl­edging together what makes us who we are. Alec McLeish Slanted 36—COEXIST

ALPHABETICAL INDEX Jorge Ruano, USA @gorgs1 jorgeruanodesign.com Dani Rubio Arauna, Arauna, ESP @arauna_studio arauna.studio

55 40, 283

Philipp Schwarzbauer, Pecher-Schwarzbauer, GER / NED @phisch___ philippschwarzbauer.eu

286

Julia Schygulla, GER @passportexperiment schygulla-buero.com

Raphael Stodden, GER @vie_r.s

380

Sofia Strunden, GER @sofiastrunden

478

290

Studio Jimbo, FRA @studio.jimbo jimbobarbu.com

504

Richard Seabrooke, The Tenth Man, IRL @richardseabrooke thetenthman.com

348

Lívia Suchá, SVK @liviasucha behance.net/leesucha

251

Kerstin Sebesta, GER @kerstinsebesta kerstinsebesta.xyz

292

Super Mercado, GER @suuupermercado

496

Joost Swarte, NED joostswarte.com

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Jakub Szczęsny, POL @szcz3000 szcz.com.pl

257

Daniel Szkirpan, POL @_artwave

157

Raban Ruddigkeit, GER @rabanruddigkeit ruddigkeit.de

523

Jacek Rudzki, Znajomy Grafik, POL @znajomygrafik znajomygrafik.com

492

Lukas Ruoff, GER @ruoff_ behance.net/lukasruoff

512

Boris Séméniako, FRA @boris_semeniako borissemeniako.fr

Antonio Samaniego, ESP @typosama antoniosamaniego.com

425

Kate Sheehan, IRL @katesheehandesign

Anastasia Samoylova, USA @anasamoylova anasamoylova.com

260

Kenjiro Sano, MR_DESIGN, JPN / USA mr-design.jp

462

Ricardo Santos, POR @dat.rs dat-rs.com Sara Sanz Gallén, ESP @sarasanzgallen_ behance.net/ sarasanzgallen

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Alva Skog, SWE / GBR @alva.skog alvaskog.com

442

David Smith, IRL @daithismith davidsmith-studio.com

122

Edo Smitshuijzen, NED

320, 321

Chloe Scheffe, USA @chloescheffe chloescheffe.com

150, 433

Tim Schmeer, GER @tmschmeer

132

Gerwin Schmidt, GER @gerwinschmidt01 gerwin-schmidt.de

114

Ralph Schraivogel, SUI ralphschraivogel.com

143

Linn Schröder, Ostkreuz, GER @linnschroederlinn linnschroeder.de

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Laila Schubert, GER @laila.schubert lailaschubert.com Tessa Schuiteman, NED @tessaschuiteman Melanie Schwarz, GER @schw__rz Slanted 36—COEXIST

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António Silveira Gomes, Barbara says... Design Studio, POR @barbarasays_ designstudio barbarasays.com

Meinrad Schade, SUI @meinradschade meinradschade.ch

Nico Schröder, GER @nicoschroeder_ xn--nicoschrder-yfb.com

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Hélio Teles, Rice, VIE @thisis.rice rice-creative.com Andrew Testa, GBR @andrew_testa andrewtesta.co.uk

170

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Lana Soufeh, JOR @ladylonglegs__

456 370, 411, 449

SpY, ESP @spyurbanart spy-urbanart.com

395

Nick Staebler, GER @nick.stblr

153

Konstantinos Stamatis, GRE @22dcos behance.net/22dcos

232

Claudiu Ștefan, DEN / ROU @cmstefan behance.net/ claudiustefan Helen Stelthove, Büro für Gestaltung, GER @helenstelthove_ gestaltung helenstelthove.de Sarah Stendel, GER @sarahfromyourhood sarahstendel.com

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Tassinari / Vetta, ITA @tassinarivetta tassinarivetta.it

Leonardo Sonnoli, Studio , Leonardo Sonnoli, ITA @leonardosonnoli sonnoli.com

SPIN, GBR @spin_studio spin.co.uk

Cihan Tamti, GER @cihantamti cihan-tamti.de

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Paul Theisen, GER @theisen_paul paultheisen.com Thonik, NED @studiothonik thonik.nl

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Tomasz Tobolewski, POL @tobolewskitomasz

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Aggie Toppins, USA @aggietoppins aggietoppins.com

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Constantin Tran, GER @constantintran Maria Tran, DEN @mariatrandk mariatran.dk Thanh Thao Tran, GER @thathatran tttran.com

89 467 42

Fred Trevor, GBR @fredtrevor.design

221

Nele Trompeter, GER @neletrompeter

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Annik Troxler, SUI @anniktroxler anniktroxler.ch

231, 234

Niklaus Troxler, SUI / GER @troxlerniklaus troxlerart.ch

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX Mehmet Ali Türkmen, Atelier MAT, TU @mehmetaliturkmen ateliermat.com

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Ryosuke Uehara, KIGI, JPN @kigi_uehara ki-gi.com

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Alban Wagener, NATA.ARCHVIZ, POR @nata.archviz nata-archviz.com

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Julie Wagener, LUX @j.wagener juliewagener.com

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Simon Wahlers, GER @simonwahlers wahlers.de

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Martin Woodtli, SUI @martin_woodtli woodt.li

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Corinna Wurth, und co, AUT @undco_ gestaltungsbureau undco.at

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Olaf Unverzart, GER @unverzart unverzart.de

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Tnop Wangsillapakun, TNOP DESIGN, THA @tnopdesign tnop.com

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Kristina Wedel, GER @kristinawedel kristinawedel.de

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User Design, Illustration and Typesetting, GBR userdesignillustration andtypesetting.com

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Alexander Vaccaro, GER

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Arnold van Bruggen, NED @theeuropeans.fm hiddenwounds.be thesochiproject.org theeuropeans.fm

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Agnieszka Węglarska, grafisk, POL @freelance_grafisk facebook.com/agata. grafisk Yichen Wei, CHN @Kiddosuper yichenworld.com

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Elif Varol Ergen, TUR elifergen.com

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Panio Ventza, POSITIVE PROBLEM, GRE @positiveproblem

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Emma Verhulst, BEL emmaverhulst. tumblr.com

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Klaas Verplancke, BEL @klaas_verplancke_ official klaas.be

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Vier5, FRA @vier5paris vier5.de

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Christoph Vieweg, GER @christophvieweg christophvieweg.com

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Renaud Vigourt, FRA @renaud_vigourt renaudvigourt.com

192

Marco Villari, ITA @cromoformio

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Massimiliano Vitti, ITA @massimiliano_vitti behance.net/ massimilianovitti

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Selina Vix, GER @slinaix behance.net/selinavix

424

Toan Vu Huu, baldinger•vu-huu, FRA @toan_vu_huu baldingervuhuu.com

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Kwanho Woo, KOR @kwanhowoo

Siméon Loïc Unterstarck, FRA / GER @loic_untereiner behance.net/loic_ untereiner

Kadir van Lohuizen, NOOR, NED @kadirvanlohuizen noorimages.com/ kadir-van-lohuizen

Warut Wongsnanwut, THA @pink_blue_black_ orange pinkblueblack.com

Loi Xuan Ly, Rice, VIE @thisis.rice rice-creative.com

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Tania Yakunova, UKR @anni_tett yakunova.com

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Gayane Yerkanyan, NED @gayaneyerkanyan gayane-art.com

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Fabian Weins, GER @fabianweins behance.net/f_weins

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Wei Yin, USA / CHN @becadadope weiyindesign.com

Fabian Weiss, AUT / EST / GER fabianweiss.com

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Martina Wember, wemberlines, GER @martina_wember_berlin wemberlines.de

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Frederik Wendt Moesgaard, Studio Es, AUT @studio.es studio-es.at

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Yah-Leng Yu, Foreign Policy Design Group, SGP @foreignpolicydesign @yahlengyu foreignpolicy.design Pawel Zanio, POL @slvsky solovsky.com

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Valerio Zanni Bertelli, ITA @valeriozannibertelli zannibertelli.dx.am

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Daniel Wenzel, GER / USA @wnzldnl wenzeldaniel.com

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Nikita Zdorovenin, RUS @nikita.zdorovenin nikitazdorovenin. myportfolio.com

499

Mara Weyel, GER @maraweilhalt

486

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Whirlpooldreams Kollektiv, AUT @whirlpooldreams

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Gazmend Zeneli, ITA @gatz_gaz_design behance.net/GazZeneli

Rodney White, Black On Black, USA @blackonblackbk blackonblackbk.com

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Didi Wiedmann, GER @didiwww_

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Clovis Wieske, SUI @cloviswieske nordland.ag

378

Paul Wilson, GBR @textpw pwilson.earth

381

David Wise, Forthcoming Studio, USA @david_wise forthcoming.studio

503

Weixi Zeng, USA @zengwish weixizeng.com

429

Susann Zielinski, Lilie von Grün, GER @lilievongruen lilievongruen.de

332

Verena Zirngibl, GER @ne.nae

476

Peter Zizka, GER @peterzizka egokollektiv.com Wolfgang Zurborn, GER @zurborn wolfgangzurborn.de

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We would like to express an explicit thanks to all par­tic­ipants of this issue. Since the beginning of 2020, only one topic dominates the world. That’s how the call to COEXIST—to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time or in the same place—came about.

We chose to make a global call for entries and are more than happy about all contributions that question topics such as climate change, political power, human rights, freedom of speech, wars, and many other global trends.

Unfortunately we had to reject some sub­missions.

The main reason for the rejection was that the content of the works did not fit into the edition. This does not diminish their quality. We are really very sorry about that.

Special thanks to Benedikt Luft (benediktluft.com), who followed our call and submitted the work Jeff Bezos Revealing His Final Form (p. 90). We feel that it is a symbol of coexistence and are glad to have it on the cover of this issue.

Many thanks to Peter Moore (born 1944), the oldest participant of this issue. One month after he agreed to contribute to this issue, we received a huge package. In it were two beautiful, hand-signed silkscreens (see last page). One for us, and one for Ina Heumann from adidas. Wonderful memories about great times. Many thanks for that!

A big thanks goes to Tom Barbereau and Jack Dignam, who met each other at the University of Groningen. Both wrote the intro texts for the chapters.

Brilliantly thought and written, these texts give the issue a special twist!

For this issue we teamed up with Reell, a panEuropean fashion brand on a mission to innovate and create. 250 limited t-shirts with an artwork by Australian designer Andrew Ashton are now exclusively available in the Slanted online shop.

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530—Co-Exist ... What Am I Looking At? Like most art this print is my personal interpretation of the idea / word co-exist. Before getting into my definition it might be interesting to see how the Webster Dictionary defines it: “To exist together in the same place or at the same time.

To live in peace together despite differences, esp. as a matter of diplomatic policy.” I think there is a bit more to this word than Mr. Webster has written, especially in todays CoV-19 World. For me co-exist means to take two opposites and create something different, something new. In the print we choose a circle and a square, think putting a circle in a square or a square in a circle. In doing this we created a number of things.

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Alternating the positive with the negative completes either the circle or the square. Rotating a section creates a positive sign, a + if you will. The idea here being to trade places with what is opposite see it from their side. Finally for me co-exist can only really happen if both of the opposites are equally educated.

Education gives use the knowledge to understand the opposite and it is through this understanding that the differences are over come. Thus an apple as the core of the print. An apple in the U.S. has been a symbol for education long before Mr. Jobs used it as his company’s symbol.

Screen print, size: 18 × 18 in. Peter Moore

In Spring, we wanted to travel to Stockholm, we were already planning an issue on London or Madrid, but everything changed. Since the beginning of 2020, only one topic dominates the world. That’s how the call to COEXIST—to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time or in the same place—came about. We needed to question ourselves, how we want to coexist and show consideration. Higher, faster, and further at the expense of others cannot point the way to the future. We chose to make a global call for entries and are more than happy for all contributions that question topics such as climate change, political power, human rights, freedom of speech, wars, and many other global trends.

While working on this issue, we often had to think about the novel The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andrić, published 1945. It tells about the coexistence of nations and religions in the Višegrad region, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Andrić depicts the world of people on both sides of the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, where Bosnians and Turks, Christians and Muslims, Orient and Occident meet. Through that lens, he unravels the rise of nationalism and the crises, conflicts, and wars leading up to the 20th century, ending with the destruction of the bridge by the Austrian army that retreated from the Serbs as the Drina became the frontline of World War I. The bridge was eventually rebuilt after WWI and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007.

Andrić suggests that bridges and roads are not always a gesture of friendship towards the local population as they also facilitate conquest by major powers. As such, the bridge is a symbol of both unification and division: making it easier to get from one side to the other, serving as a popular meeting place, though it also divides inhabitants of the city by acting as a constant reminder of the Ottoman conquest.

There have been controversial discussions and different interpretations about the novel of Andrić. Against the backdrop of the current crisis, it has made us realize that we live in a time where we need to rethink what we thought we knew. We need to shift perspectives more often and reconsider our values. We hope, as we can see from the numerous contributions of this issue, that design can help to build one bridge or another to come to such shift.

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