Adaptive reuse is turned into useful adaptation. The intense activity of the building is wrapped by a continuous façade that resembles a translucent bookshelf – stacked cast glass blocks that literally contain the books while transmitting the pixilated activity of the interior to the outside world. Two large openings facing Chang An Avenue and Xidan Square announce the main entrances with electronic media walls that broadcast events and activities inside – announcing that information is open to the public.Giant Leap 1 - The importance of being stupid 29 August 2012 - 7.00 pm – UCCA, Le Café According to literary historian Matthijs van Boxsel, no one is intelligent enough to understand his or her own stupidity. In The encyclopedia of stupidity he shows how stupidity manifests itself in all areas, in everyone, at all times: stupidity is the foundation of our civilization. Van Boxsel takes stupidity seriously, as did Robert Musil, unlike Gustave Flaubert, who used satire and irony as weapons against stupidity.
Van Boxsel puts forward the provocative premise that stupidity is a condition for intelligence, that blunders stimulate progress, that failure is the basis for success. Van Boxsel will give a lecture and discuss the subject of stupidity with the Chinese pataphysicians Zhang Chi and A Jian. Who is Matthijs van Boxsel? Literary historian Matthijs van Boxsel (b. 1957) has been studying the topic of stupidity since 1980. In 1999 he published The Encyclopedia of Stupidity, which was nominated for the prestigious Generale Bank Prize for Literature. In 2001 the sequel Morosophy appeared, studying the 100 stupidest Dutch theories of the 20th century. This was followed in 2006 by a volume on stupidity as an art of living: Expertology or the Art of Stupidity. Van Boxsel is now working on The Topography of Stupidity, in which he gathers all the cities and regions that are proverbially known for stupidity. The Encyclopedia of Stupidity has already been translated into 17 languages, and has recently been published in China by Shanghai Literature and Arts Publishing.
Giant Leap 2 - How modern science came to the world 30 August 2012 - 7.00 pm – UCCA, Le Café Why did modern science originate in Europe, and why was there no Chinese Newton or Arab Galileo? Thinking about the natural world reached great heights in the civilizations of ancient Greece, China, and medieval Islam, but eventually decline set in. Floris Cohen argues that historians should try to explain why stagnation did not occur in seventeenth-century Europe rather than asking why it did in the earlier civilizations. A discussion on the emergence and progress of science with historian Floris Cohen and writer and critic Kang Kai. Who is Floris Cohen? Floris Cohen is professor of the comparative history of science at the University of Utrecht. He is regarded the world over as one of the foremost authorities on the emergence of modern science in seventeenth-century Europe. He is the author of How Modern Science Came Into the World, which won him the 2008 Eureka Prize for the best science book aimed at a broad readership.
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