SAFTzine
SAFTzine
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SAFT is a concentrate of architecture, art and culture, a huge sheet of paper of 1 square meter of size. It multiplies in your hands growing in an exponential manner.
SAFT is light 40 gram, but it is dense in contents, feedback and feedforward, in juxtapositions, casual encounters.
SAFT is low cost but high value. Published randomly in limited edition it investigates the encounter between Architecture and other related creative practices, between applied arts and sciences experimentally. Carefully selected unpublished materials from different fields are combined in such a way as to incite the maximum number of questions.
SAFT is a fast medium whose richness is not a question of size but of the dimensions and scales of its contents. Some parts or whole issues might be Low-Fi, while others might be very hot and full of details: Hi-Fi! Its vastness and complexity might require time, while small doses of it can already have immediate effects continuously.
Each issue of SAFT is dedicated to a specific topic or phenomenon. Beyond its title a number, which declares its part of a series, identifies every issue but beyond the arithmetic logic of one number after another, of one issue after another, there exists neither predetermined sequence nor logical order inside the series — only the possibility of continuous combinations.
In SAFT there are no models to be followed, no methodology to rely on, just invitations to encounter the richness of the world, to go beyond the lulling tranquility of the already known in order to relish on the luxury, which resides even in the simplest things. Since every invention produces new connections, SAFT is some sort of travel device, where each connection made, potentially leads to a new world.
Good travelling!
SAFT is inflammable, concrete, factual, fresh, energizing. It may contain traces of punk, forbidden fruits, may be politically incorrect, be very expensive or very cheap, sometimes be nonsense, of exotic flavors, non-useful, weird, luxurious, loud, snob, erratic, capricious.
Curated by Stephan Jung
with Sabrina Colombo and Sara Galli
SAFT is an editorial project by SOARC and ALADlabs
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