Purple geometric silhouette of a humanoid figure reaching forward over a black-and-white diagonal striped background.

The Function of Art.

Verlag für moderne Kunst

Since the financial crisis, there has been an upswing in the development of (new) economic models, which should serve public interests. Parallel, urban planning is increasingly characterized by de-industrialization, de-regulation, and privatization with architects, urbanists, and more and more artists taking active parts in the process.

How can art influence the modern city? Barbara Holub and Christine Hohenbüchler investigate the roles that artistic-urban practices play in an increasingly investor-oriented (city) planning in their reader “Planning Unplanned”.

Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst.

Rosebud delivers Editorial Concept, Editorial Design and Book Design.

Book cover for 'planning unplanned' with purple background and diagonal black-and-white shapes.
Two-page spread: diagram 'A State of Agreement' with four labeled boxes (Context, Presentation of Works, Selected Texts, Contemporary Programme) connected by arrows.
Two-page design publication spread (pages 34–35) with dense text and a photo of a circular window with orange interior, captioned 'fig.2 Mobile porch'.
Open book on white page; right page shows 2 Exploring the New Role of the Urban Practitioner; purple-and-white striped tape on the left.
Wooden, glass-fronted building under construction in a lush urban garden with city buildings in the background.
Collage of demolition debris: three small photos show rubble and scrap in urban and rural settings; large photo shows a collapsed wooden shed amid dense greenery.
Open two-page magazine spread with dense German interview text in multiple columns; page numbers 58 and 59.
Two-page magazine spread about Isola urbanism, featuring newspaper-style articles and photos on gentrification.
Open book, two-page spread of an academic article; left page features the title Our Pernicious Temporality.
Two-page comic spread: left shows crowded urban street with airplane towing a banner; right shows vertical sci‑fi strip with Earth, city, and a person with glasses in snow.
Two-panel typographic poster on dark purple background with white word lists.
Two triangular-roofed huts on floating platforms on a calm lake; one person stands on a platform while another sits in a small boat; distant mountains.