Akiko Busch crea saggi che esplorano l'intricato rapporto tra design, cultura e le nostre esperienze vissute. Possiede un occhio attento per il quotidiano, addentrandosi nell'essenza degli oggetti comuni per rivelare come il design plasmi i nostri ambienti e le nostre percezioni. La sua scrittura invita i lettori a contemplare l'estetica e la funzionalità che permeano i nostri spazi personali e collettivi. Attraverso la sua prosa acuta, Busch promuove una comprensione più profonda del mondo che abitiamo e degli artefatti al suo interno.
A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York's Hudson Valley led the author to assorted other encounters with the natural world. In this book, she highlights factors that distinguish twenty-first-century citizen scientists from traditional amateur naturalists.
Shows how to use wood, paint, stain, stenciling, trompe l'oeil, faux finishes, tiles, rugs, and floor cloths to decorate floors
A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights on family, domestic space, and a changing environment. Beautifully illustrated with 20 pieces of watercolor art, this collection makes an inspirational gift. In Everything Else Is Bric-a-Brac, Akiko Busch explores place, memory, and the ambiguities of domestic life. At once thought-provoking, humorous, and meditative, these essays illuminate the emotional resonance of inanimate things; ideas of placement and displacement; the simultaneous frailty and tenacity of human recollection; the beauty of usefulness and uselessness alike; and how we do—and don't—find our place in things.
In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more enchanting and yet fanciful. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but vast and pervasive technology companies, which want to profit from patterns in our behaviour. Busch sets out to explore her own uneasiness with this arrangement, and what she senses is a widespread desire for a less scrutinised way of life in this shimmering collage of poetry, cinema, memoir, myth, and much more.