Raue Reihe / Raw Studies Available in Open Access

We are thrilled to announce the third volume of the Cluster’s Raw Studies series, Gestaltungsmetrik: Parallel transport in arts and culture for topological and holonomical activity, co-authored by Horst Bredekamp and Carlos-Andres Palma, with a commentary by Christian Kassung. This treatise introduces Gestaltungsmetrik as a conceptual framework for studying and designing informal space, from image and Gestaltung to anatomy and materials.

The notion of metric spaces for activity design, particularly in the context of cultural and materials science, remains largely unexplored. This prompts a rethinking of broadly defined parallel transport along non-trivial metric spaces, with the goal of clarifying and enhancing the design of geometrical activity. Gestaltungsmetrik emerges as a hands-on and visualization-driven study of informal spaces, focusing on the intended anholonomy of parallel transport on an underlying latent Riemannian metric. As a result of Gestaltungsmetrik, agents are virtually imbued with holonomic and corresponding geometric activities within physical, artistic, societal, and cultural spaces — a practice argued to be instrumental in shaping the design process of activity based on formal metric spaces.

The authors will be giving a short book presentation for next Cluster Day on March 25th, 12 o’clock, in the Central Laboratory.

The academic series »Raue Reihe« is a publication organ of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« edited by Horst Bredekamp. Modeled on so-called »grey literature« formats, such as the preprints of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin or the seminal Merve volumes, its issues appear at irregular intervals and aim to support the publishing of Cluster literature in terms of rapidity, spontaneity, and process character. Its title, »Raue Reihe / Raw Studies« emphasizes the resistance of matter that continues to be the decisive determination for existence in all its varieties in our digital age.

Issues of the »Raue Reihe« are now available as Open Access E-Books through De Gruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/serial/rro-b/html

For printed copies, please contact Elisabeth Obermeier (moa.publishing [​at​] hu-berlin.de).