Main entry:

Maas, Winy, 1959- author, editor.

Title & Author:

Absolute leisure : does leisure work? / by the Why Factory, Winy Maas and Alexander Sverdov ; concept and editors Winy Maas and Alexander Sverdlov.

Publication:

Rotterdam, Netherlands : nai010 publishers, [2016]
©2016.

Description:

292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Future cities series ; 9

Notes:
Cover title.
On cover: t?f, The Why Factory.
Leisure is everywhere / Winy Maas -- Invitation to the endless resort / Charles Baudelaire -- The territories of leisure / Alexander Sverdlov -- Leisure: a users' manual / Alexander Sverdlov -- Working out leisure / Alessandro Benacchio -- The leisure ABC / The Why Factory : The airport: entrée to your holiday ; The allotment: post-industrial pastoral ; The AutoCADer: drafting for pleasure ; The balcony: outdoor room ; The BBQ: no fun without smoke ; The beach: sea, sex and sand ; The bed: professionalized sleeping ; The bike: shifting gears ; The birdwatcher: wildlife paparazzi ; The boat: captain of your ship ; The café: a daily fix ; The car: cruising option ; The caravan: space travels ; The city centre ; I [heart] the conservatory: $unnier days ; The cruise: boredom management ; The desktop: social monitor ; The favela: informal chic ; The garage: tooling around ; The garden: backyard Elysium ; The gym: Citius, Altius Fortius ; The Havaianas: dressing down ; The hunt: game on! ; The icon: viewing machine ; The Inuits: being cool ; The kitchen: The Jamie effect ; The library: public browsing ; The living room: wire up, relax ; The observation deck: on top of the wild ; The office: spaces that work ; The Parisian plaza: Parisphernalia ; The park: urban living room ; The pet: best of friends ; The pilates class: no sweat ; The plane: in-flight entertainment ; The rooftop: raising the roof ; The shower: domestic spa ; The ski resort: swish gear ; The skydive: go pro ; The smartphone: apple of your i ; The spectacles: framing your image ; The tent: hi-trek adventure ; The train: letting off steam ; The truck: how to avoid cabin fever ; The TV tower: for your viewing pleasure ; The university: it's who you know ; The vertical farm: robo-crop ; The winery: sommelier holiday -- Summary / The Why Factory -- Absolute leisure? / Winy Maas.

Summary:

The Why Factory makes space for free time. With its flexible working hours, cheap flights to every far-off corner of the planet and the possibility of downloading all the films, TV programmes or songs ever produced, our world has become a society of leisure devotees and connoisseurs of pleasure. We can have every imaginable exotic dish delivered, we can purchase every-thing we have ever dreamed of possessing, we can organize the tailor-made holiday of our dreams - pleasure is on tap for us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. But who is paying attention to the reserves while we are amusing ourselves? Is enough being produced to meet the demands of ever-increasing consumption? In this publication The Why Factory demonstrates the size of the footprint that our leisure activities have left behind on our landscapes, cities and architecture. But that is not all: the architectural and urban projects presented here problematize the leisure activities of today and outline the possibility of a new solution. The volume includes articles by Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo and Alexander Sverdlov. It also provides a platform for minds critical of modern-day recreation as well as for the professionals in this line of business, those who keep the leisure machine running.--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9789056627669 (paperback)
905662766X (paperback)

Subject:

City and town life.
Metropolitan areas Social aspects.
Urbanization Social aspects.
Leisure.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning Effect of technological innovations on.
Vie urbaine.
Urbanisation Aspect social.
Loisir.
Écologie urbaine.
leisure.
urban environments.
City planning.
City planning Data processing.
Sustainable urban development.

Added entries:

Sverdlov, Alexander, author, editor.
Sverdlov, Alexander author, editor.
Why Factory.
Future cities series ; 9.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293806
Call No.: BIB 238987
Status: Available