Comfort

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Comfort

2021. 21 × 28 cm, softcover
156 pages, 51 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-426-5
CHF 20.00 / EUR 20.00
Contributions in German or English

Contributions by Willi Andrick, Aristide Antonas, Virginia Ariu, Juan Barcia Mas, Benedikt Bock, Kai Bührer, Barbara Buser, Shriya Chaudhry, Claire Contamine, Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Hélène Frichot, Moritz Gleich, He Shen, Herman Hertzberger, Sven Högger, Martina Hügli, Severin Jann,
Natalie Klak, Samira Lenzin, Hamish Lonergan, Victor Lortie, Blanka Dominika Major, Jacqueline Maurer, Luisa Overath, Valentin Ribi, Helene Romakin, Helen Runting, Artai Sánchez Keller, Jan Schweizer, Xenia Strohmeyer, Cristiano Aires Teixeira, Verein Beispiele sozialistischer Architektur
Designed by Pierre Benoit

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Comfort is elusive and ambivalent; it can simultaneously create possibilities for emancipation and supression. As an experience, comfort is positional and can only be defined individually, but shared discomfort can be a unifying experience. The notion of comfort changes over time, describing and reflecting personal and societal values and concepts.

trans 39 challenges architecture’s complicity in marginalisation strategies and in greenwashing a building industry that contributes to the climate crisis. Comfort is used as a lens to examine public, domestic and future space from feminist, queer and materialist perspectives – both laying out the current situation and proposing new understandings to scratch comfort’s shiny facade and reveal the absurd infrastructures required to sustain our addiction to it.