Forum Nemo Studio
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ADATO is a magazine - available in print and digital form worldwide. Point Nemo Publishing is its publishing house. Together, they form the Forum Nemo Studio - an international and Interdisciplinary network by and for young architects, art and culture professionals. All authors of ADATO become automatically members of the forum, which in analogue (print medium ADATO) and digital (ADATO digital & Nemo Studio) offers its members a platform for the presentation and discussion of their work.
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The print and digital medium ADATO is a platform for the presentation and discussion of young works and positions. In ADATO architecture is discussed against the background of its neighboring disciplines: art, film, theatre and always in the socio-political context of Europe and the challenges that it is facing.
Read about all the issues here: https://www.adato.lu/issues
& here:
https://issuu.com/pointnemo_adato/docs
Our authors are students or PHD candidates. In addition, we have been able to meet numerous established figures in the domain of architecture, arts and culture for conversation, who have subsequently been published on an equal footing with their young colleagues. Differently than mainstream architecture and art publications, we give a forum to young, upcoming authors. This way, Nemo Studio dismantles hierarchy, the canon of the established institutions is broken up, and new & young voices are heard and read.
Point Nemo Publishing was founded in March 2020 by Anna Valentiny. Its core product is the magazine ADATO. Thus, ADATO very much reflects the values and motivations of the publishing house: True innovation in words and in images is created when the boundaries of disciplines are pushed to the extremes.
The forum Nemo Studio in interaction with the publication ADATO and the spatial potential offered by the partner institutions offers young art & culture professionals highly interesting networking opportunities, which are strengthened by targeted events throughout Europe (exhibitions, round tables, film evenings and lectures). So far a few of these events could take shape. Nemo Studio aims to become a living community, its members and its events scattered around the world.
Key objectives for sustainability
Our analogue version of the magazine ADATO is printed climate neutral on FSC Mix 70 % paper.
We took first steps into the digitalization of our content:
Since December 2021, it is possible to purchase the digital version of ADATO on ISSUU.com. The buyer is sent an access code which he can use online. He can then view the magazine on ISSUE.com.
A part of our content, as for instance the two issues, ADATO 2_18 Projection and ADATO 1_2020 Medicine, or the blog Nemo Studio (https://point-nemo.lu/blogs/infos) is open source:
ADATO 2_18 Projection >>
https://issuu.com/pointnemo_adato/docs/architecture_2bprojection_digital
ADATO 1_2020 Medicine>>
https://issuu.com/pointnemo_adato/docs/architecture_2bmedicine_digital
The homepages www.adato.lu & www.point-nemo.lu were redesigned in 2020 in order to optimize our online performance and to open the access to the content generated by the Forum Nemo Studio to a wide and international public.
Above the ecological concept of sustainability described above, we believe in cultural sustainability:
Up to three issues of ADATO are realized every year in an edition of 2 000. The authors of ADATO live and work around the globe and in different cultural contexts. This opens a huge potential to Nemo Studio in its emancipation from local trends and the research for truly new and innovative content.
Nemo Studio speaks English, German and French and encourages a debating culture beyond disciplines, while allowing young thinkers to test ideas and thereby connecting diverse critical voices across the globe.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
In the year 2017, Studio Polenta and Anna Valentiny have adapted not only the magazine’s skin but also its content.
The layout of the magazine was redesigned in order to create an aesthetic product, with white spaces and big images structured in a clean layout.
Nemo Studio believes in digitalization and in the fact that pure information will in the future be consumed via digital formats – this way daily newspaper will certainly only be available digitally a decade from now. This is sustainable and right.
Although we further more believe in the cultural product of the beautiful print magazine and book where an added value to the purely digital consumed information is created in the image, the touch of the linen covers and the smell of printed paper. At this point, we would like to point out Louis Sullivans “Form follows function” that is often quoted and actually even often misinterpreted: The function of an architecture as well as an art piece or book can of course be to evoke pleasure and excitement in the eye of the beholder who sees or touches an architecture or book.
The key objective of Nemo Studio is to create a place for speculation, research and exploration that fosters a post-disciplinary discourse, and thrives through the global scale of its editorial network. This objective, we are convinced, could be reach in a digital as well as in an analogue format. However after the last years and the experience of reduced human contact, we are looking forward to see these events take shape live, in person, again. An as the human touch, the sensual qualities of the analogue culture products magazine and book will be something to keep alive. For the future we see the aesthetic potential of the analogue and the digital Nemo Studio as complementary.
Key objectives for inclusion
Forum Nemo Studio was developed to be a network oscillating between publication (ADATO) and space (Events). Nemo Studio produces content in form of the analogue and digital magazine ADATO and Point Nemo Publishing in the process of developing various book publications.
We work together with young people of our age and give them a platform to develop and show their ideas that are reflected and discussed in the context of the Forum’s events. The members have free access to all events, where they get in touch, connect and exchange.
Our authors are students or PHD candidates for whom the publication in the magazine ADATO is often their first one. Complementary to this, we have already been able to meet numerous established figures from the arts and culture for discussion and interviews, who have subsequently been published on an equal footing with their young colleagues.
This way Nemo Studio creates a discussion platform between the established and the new.
All authors of the magazine ADATO are automatically members of the Nemo Studio’s network, and all universities, colleges and cultural institutes in Europe receive the magazine free of charge. This way, we disseminate the content generated by our authors and establish contacts with important protagonists of the European cultural scene, renowned universities and important personalities of public life. This way a fruitful and equal discourse between the generations can take shape.
ADATO’s language and style is ambitious without being elitist.
The accessible writing style, the trilingual (English, German, French) articles and interviews, and the interdisciplinary topics (art, architecture, technology or even natural sciences) make it accessible and interesting for an international and broad audience. A majority of the trilingual formulated content is available open source online.
Innovative character
ADATO is published by Point Nemo Publishing, Luxembourg’s youngest publishing house founded in spring 2020 by Anna Valentiny.
Anna Valentiny (*1991) earned a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2018. Her thesis project, “Hortus Alienum – Scenographies of Nobody's Voyage”, can be read as the culmination of her overlapping interests in writing, design and the curation of thoughts through narration. While always contextualizing architecture in conjunction with its neighboring disciplines, Anna studied scenography under Prof. Anna Viebrock in Vienna (2013) and participated in Prof. Peter Niedertscheider's sculpture class in the Kieffer quarry, Fürstenbrunn, Salzburg (2014). Before her appointment to the editorial board of ADATO in 2017, Anna worked for the Zürich-based architecture magazine archithese. Anna lives and works in Luxembourg, Brussels and Vienna.
Anna’s CV very much reflects here approach to culture & life in general:
The famous Austrian architect Hans Hollein wrote in 1967 Alles ist Architektur – this might be the case if we understand architecture as a lens, as a tool we use in order to understand the world we live in.
The Forum Nemo Studio was created in the intention to blur the division of the disciplines and of the generations. We firmly believe in the fact that new beautiful creation takes shape when the a priori distant becomes conglomerate and starts to interact.
