3 / Work
Fall 2009
WORK is the third issue of MAS Context. This issue explores how WORK is changing the landscape of our environment and determining the decisions that are affecting our cities. WORK diagrams economy, analyzes workplaces, studies appropriation of public space, interviews entrepreneurs, and portraits isolation. Discuss, Enjoy, Share, Participate.
Contributions by Jacob Chartoff, Andrew Clark, Kathryn Clarke Albright, Iker Gil, Maria Moreno-Carranco, Liz Potokar, David Schalliol and Andreas E.G. Larsson who is also the cover designer.
Work Review
Designer Andrew Clark visualizes the complex system of Work
Publics Works
Architect Maria Moreno-Carranco explores how urban spaces have been renegotiated and reframed in Mexico City
Isolated Buildings
Photographer and sociologist David Schalliol engages the discourse about the recession through his Isolated Building Studies
Wayfinding
Dean Storm documents his summer internship at Spirit of Space
Layoff Moveon
Iker Gil interviews Jessica Lybeck,owner of Till Creative and co-founder of the online network
Mondragon
Diagrams by architect Jacob Chartoff
Workplace
Designer Liz Potokar gives us an overview of the office organizations and the current work trends
A City at Work
Spirit of Space films Chicago at WORK
Empty
Photographer Andreas E.G. Larsson documents empty working spaces
Farmer’s Work
Architect Kathryn Clarke Albright studies farmers markets and reveals the pleasures and demands of the farmer’s work
