George Kafka
    


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I edit and co-edit books and other print publications, with a focus on the built environment, spatial practices, design research, ecology and the future. 



Design Researchers in Residence catalogues




Annual publication building upon the work of the Design Researchers in Residence programme. Each book featured original work by the residents, as well as archival and commissioned pieces complementing their research, across formats including essays, interviews, photo essays, graphic stories, short fiction and illustrations.

Published by Future Observatory, the Design Museum, 2021-24
Free to download here

Assistant editor: Lila Boschet
Graphic design: Amandine Forest (Solar), Plan B (Islands), Rose Nordin (Restore)




Making Futures


Spector Books, 2022
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Making Futures is a practice-based research project initiated in 2018 as a collaboration between raumlabor and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Making Futures is: Markus Bader, Juan Chacón, George Kafka, Anna Kokalanova, Christof Mayer, Tatjana Schneider, Rosario Talevi

Graphic design by Studio Yukiko


Sonic Urbanism series




Published by Theatrum Mundi, 2018-22
Co-edited with &beyond collective (Sophie Lovell, Fiona Shipwright, Diana Portela, Rob Wilson)
More at sonic.city

Attention is turning more and more to the way cities sound, from experimental music and acoustic engineering to urban anthropology. But can urbanism really be done sonically? Who decides what is wanted and unwanted noise? What can the crafts of music and sonic art teach us about how acoustics structure social life?

The Sonic Urbanism publication series laid out new thinking around sound and the built environment. The books and parallel digital editions (www.sonic.city) now stand as a significant body of work for others to pick up and move, listen, research, design and otherwise think with. 

Initiated by Theatrum Mundi in collaboration with &beyond collective in 2018.

Design by Diana Portela.




Archifutures series
Six volumes published by dpr-barcelona for the Future Architecture platform, 2016–20 
Co-edited with &beyond collective (Sophie Lovell, Fiona Shipwright, Diana Portela, Rob Wilson)

Archifutures is an edited collection of essays from the Future Architecture Platform, the first pan-European platform of architecture museums, festivals and producers, bringing ideas on the future of cities and architecture closer to the wider public. The platform connected multi-disciplinary emerging talents to high profile institutions like museums, galleries, publishing houses, biennials, and festivals. It provided talented conceptual thinkers and practitioners in architecture with opportunities to speak up – and be seen and heard.

The Future Architecture platform ran from 2015–21 and I wrote about it for Domus in 2019. 


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