ROAM is an unconventional academic reader, looking at 'The Aesthetics of Mobility'. Under five themes - narrative, representation, glocalisation, telematics, velocity - ideas around what it is to 'roam' are explored, from critical texts to magazine style snippets of information. Against an architectural understanding of urban spaces and mobility, ROAM also engages with discourses from art, cultural studies, design and politics. In line with its unconventional approach, the texts in ROAM are designed to be read at different speeds, so that design projects are inter-spliced amongst essays and soundbites, provoking the reader with new views about our increasingly mobilised society.
Contributors to ROAM include: Andrew Cross, Zaha Hadid, Monolab, NL Architects, Paul Virilio, et al