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  • The World as Project
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    The World as Project

    A Political Theory of Design

    Friedrich von Borries

    €15.00

    Awarded / Design / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-23-6

    Graphic designer

    Ingo Offermanns

    Number of pages

    48

    Book size

    210 x 303 mm

    Binding

    Softcover - Stitch binding (Singer)

    English

    Translation: Ian Pepper. Proofreading: Aaron Bogart, Eleonoor Jap Sam. Printed by Graphius, Belgium.

    This publication has been made possible with the support of HFBK Hamburg. www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/

    Date of release: May 2020. First edition in English. Previously published in German as Weltenwerfen: Eine politische Designtheorie, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016.

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  • Tju|ho
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    Tju|ho

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    Tju|ho

    Thoughtful ways of making and walking / ǂ’Ang Jansin sa o tci Du kota Nǂhaoh

    Catherine Willems, Festus Soroab, Anca Ușurelu [eds.]

    €29.95

    Art / Design / Fashion / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-42-3
    Price € 29,95
    Editors Catherine Willems, Festus Soroab, Anca Ușurelu
    Text contributions Flora Blommaert, Andreas Muronga, Fransina Ghauz, Cguni Rebecca Komtsa, Catherine Willems, Dori Tunstall, ǂOma ǀKunta, ǀKunta Boo, Festus Soroab, Megan Biesele, Nina Maritz, Bob Hitchcock, Kileni Fernando, Erasmus !Nani, |Koce Ghau
    Photography Komsta Kashe, N!haokxa Tsamkxao, |Kun Kunta, David Willems, Kristiaan D’Août, Willem Vrey, Chadia Guerti, Marcel Lennartz, 400 seats
    Drawings Phillemon Ngeni, Andreas Muronga Nina Maritz Daqm Debe, Fillipus Shikomba
    Translation |Ai!ae Fridrick |Kunta, Cwi Charlie Nqeisji
    Design Marcel Lennartz
    Printing & binding Graphius
    Numbers of pages 252
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Language English / Ju|'hoan
    Release date October 2025 (preview  in Africa April 2025)
    Publisher Jap Sam Books
    Publishing partner KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT-Howest) and Future Footwear Foundation

    Made possible with the support of KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) Affiliated with the research cluster 'the body plural'. 

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  • Tools for Collective Learning
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    Tools for Collective Learning

    The Name Change Initiative of Kunstinstituut Melly, the institution formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

    Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl [eds.]

    €19.50

    Art / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-92852-69-4
    Price € 19,50
    Editors Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl
    Texts Veronica Babayan, Teana Boston-Mammah, Tayler Calister, Boutaina Hammana, Yahaira Brito Morfe, Callum Dean, Rosa de Graaf, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Michiel Huijben, Wooseok Jung, Stijn Kemper, Alex Klein, Jessy Koeiman, Prem Krishnamurthy, Nina Schouten, Alexander Tanazefti, Emily Turner, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Aqueene Wilson, Yan Zhihan, Vivian Ziherl
    Translation Louise Schoondergang, James Hannan, Milou van Lieshout, Jet van den Toorn
    Graphic design Julie Peeters
    Number of pages 288
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Binding softcover
    Printer Vier-Türme GmbH, Benedict Press
    Language English
    Release date November 2022
    Publisher Jap Sam Books

    Kunstinstituut Melly is supported by the city of Rotterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands. Additional support is provided by the Hartwig Art Foundation.

    This publication is part of Kunstinstituut Melly's Name Change Initiative, which is in part supported by stichting Droom en Daad, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, BankGiro Loterij Fonds, DOEN Foundation, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, J.E. Jurriaanse Foundation, Volkskracht, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

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  • Tools voor collectief leren
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    Tools voor collectief leren

    Het initiatief tot naamsverandering van Kunstinstituut Melly, voorheen bekend als Witte de With Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst

    Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl [eds.]

    €19.50

    Art / Theory

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    ISBN 978-94-92852-70-0
    Price € 19,50
    Editors Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl
    Texts Veronica Babayan, Teana Boston-Mammah, Tayler Calister, Boutaina Hammana, Yahaira Brito Morfe, Callum Dean, Rosa de Graaf, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Michiel Huijben, Wooseok Jung, Stijn Kemper, Alex Klein, Jessy Koeiman, Prem Krishnamurthy, Nina Schouten, Alexander Tanazefti, Emily Turner, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Aqueene Wilson, Yan Zhihan, Vivian Ziherl
    Translation Louise Schoondergang, James Hannan, Milou van Lieshout, Jet van den Toorn
    Graphic design Julie Peeters
    Number of pages 288
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Binding softcover
    Printer Vier-Türme GmbH, Benedict Press
    Language Dutch
    Release date November 2022
    Publisher Jap Sam Books

    Kunstinstituut Melly is supported by the city of Rotterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands. Additional support is provided by the Hartwig Art Foundation.

    This publication is part of Kunstinstituut Melly's Name Change Initiative, which is in part supported by stichting Droom en Daad, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, BankGiro Loterij Fonds, DOEN Foundation, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, J.E. Jurriaanse Foundation, Volkskracht, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

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  • Tracing the Lines
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    Tracing the Lines

    Patterns from the African Diaspora

    Remy Jungerman

    €27.50

    Art / Artist books / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-26-3
    Price € 27.50
    Artist Remy Jungerman
    Texts Remy Jungerman, Allison K. Young, Tammi Lawson, Sally and Richard Price
    Editor Sara Carder
    Proofreading Aaron Bogart
    Final editor Eleonoor Jap Sam
    Graphic design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder)
    Photography Aatjan Renders, Veronica Fassbender, Jenny Gorman, Sara Carder, Pitkin Studio, Chris de Beet, Martha Cooper, Tammi Lawson
    Number of pages 128
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Binding softcover with American dust jacket
    Language English
    Printer & binding Graphius
    Lithography Alex Feenstra
    Release date September 28, 2024
    Publisher Jap Sam Books

    Made possible with the support of the Dr. A. H. Heineken Foundation for Art.

    Promotional images by The Book Photographer.

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  • UNBOUNDED  / ONBEGRENSD
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    UNBOUNDED / ONBEGRENSD

    The Life & Work of Giselle Kuster  / Het leven & werk van Giselle Kuster

    James Hannan, Rieke Righolt (museum van Bommel van Dam)

    €29.50

    Art / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-37-9
    Price € 29,50
    Editing & compilation James Hannan, Rieke Righolt
    Authors Pauline Broekema, Oscar Ekkelboom, James Hannan, Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen, Rieke Righolt, Veronica Simmelink, Renée Volkers
    Final editing Eleonoor Jap Sam
    Copy editing James Hannan, Eleonoor Jap Sam, Cleo Schatorjé
    Image research James Hannan, Veronica Simmelink
    Design Dana Dijkgraaf Design
    Translation Robert van de Walle, Kate Eaton
    Lithography Dana Dijkgraaf
    Number of pages 144
    Book size 22 x 28 cm
    Printing & binding IPP
    Binding hardcover
    Language English / Dutch
    Release date April 2025
    Publisher Jap Sam Books
    Partner museum van Bommel van Dam

    This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition Unbounded - The Life  & Work of Giselle Kuster / Onbegrensd - Het leven & werk van Giselle Kuster, at museum van Bommel van Dam (March 22 - August 17, 2025).

    Made possible with the support of Mondriaan Fund, Hendrik Mullerfonds, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, De Gijselaar-Hintzenfonds, Gifted Art, Blariacumfonds, Jaap Harten Fonds, Gemeente Venlo, Provincie Limburg


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  • UNFIXED. Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art
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    UNFIXED. Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art

    Sara Blokland, Asmara Pelupessy [eds]

    €29.50

    Art / Photography / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-29-8

    Graphic designer

    Yvonne van Versendaal

    Number of pages

    240

    Book size

    21 x 29,7 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    English

    Release date: May 24th, 2012

    This publication is copublished with Stichting Unfixed Projects.

    UNFIXED is a multiplatform project that explores photography's relationship to ideas of ethnicity, culture and identity in contemporary art.

    This publication was made possible by the Mondriaan Foundation, Fonds BKVB, Gemeente Dordrecht, CBK Dordrecht.

    Pre-orderprice: € 24,50 instead of € 29,50 when you pre-order this publication before 24.05.2012

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  • Unruly Kinships
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    Unruly Kinships

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    Unruly Kinships

    Kris Dittel, Aneta Rostkowska [Eds.]

    €30.00

    Art / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-29-4
    Price € 30.-
    Editors Kris Dittel, Aneta Rostkowska
    Contributors  Alex Bailey and Krõõt Juurak, Kris Dittel, Clem Edwards, Alva Gotby, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Pauline Curnier Jardin and the Feel Good Cooperative, Anja Khersonska and Yin Aiwen, Sophie Lewis, Khanyisile Mbongwa and Li’Tsoanelo Zwane, Paloma Nana, Lola Olufemi, Lena Anouk Philipp, Liz Rosenfeld, Aneta Rostkowska, Selma Selman, Suzanna Slack, Jay Tan, Fran Trento
    Final & managing editor Kris Dittel
    Design Roxanne Maillet i.c.w. Hannah Baklien, Garance Hebrard
    Proofreading Kris Dittel, Thea Miklowski, Eleonoor Jap Sam
    German translations Anja Hellhammer, Anja Schulte
    German copy editing Gitte Moll
    Number of pages 288
    Book size 15.5 x 22 cm
    Printer Tallinn Book Printers
    Binding softcover with flaps
    Language English / German
    Release date April 2025
    Publisher Jap Sam Books / Temporary Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cologne

    Made possible with the support of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Kunststiftung NRW, medienwerk.nrw and the Mondriaan Fund

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  • Urbanized deltas in transition
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    Urbanized deltas in transition

    Han Meyer, Steffen Nijhuis (eds.)

    €29.95

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    Architecture / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-90-8594-054-8 [techne press]

    Graphic designer

    Linda Swaap, Accu grafisch ontwerpers

    Number of pages

    104

    Book size

    24 x 33 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English 

    Release date: May 2014

    Made possible by Delft University of Technology

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  • Vistas of Modernity [Revised new edition]
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    Vistas of Modernity [Revised new edition]

    decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary

    Rolando Vázquez

    €19.50

    This product is not yet available for order. Contact us to pre-order: info@japsambooks.nl

    Art / Bookazines / Series / Theory / Upcoming

    Author Rolando Vázquez
    Editor Rosa te Velde
    Preface Gloria Wekker
    Epilogue Walter Mignolo
    Translation foreword Irene de Craen
    Final diting Carmen Muskee, Mirjam Beerman (original texts), Eleonoor Jap Sam (revised edition)
    Proofreading Irene de Craen, Angela Jerardi, Eleonoor Jap Sam
    Graphic designer Stout/Kramer (overall design), revised ed. i.c.w. Montse Hernández i Sala
    Printer T.B.A.
    ISBN 978-94-93329-30-0 
    Number of pages approx. 208
    Book size 12.4 x 18.6 cm
    Binding Hardcover
    Publisher Jap Sam Books
    Release date December  2025

    You are viewing the new revised edition of Vistas of Modernity, published by Jap Sam Books. This edition includes a new foreword (by Gloria Wekker) and epilogue (by Walter Mignolo).

    The first (2020) and second (2021) prints of Vistas of Modernity were commissioned and published by Mondriaan Fund with Jap Sam Books as publishing partner. Edited by Rosa te Velde, with a foreword by Eelco van der Lingen (Director Mondriaan Fund). Translation of the foreword by Mari Shields. Final editing by Mirjam Beerman and Carmen Muskee. Printed by Zwaan Printmedia.

    This previous edition with ISBN 978-90-76936-53-6 is not available anymore. For more information: Mondriaan Fonds

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  • Walls that teach
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    Walls that teach

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    Walls that teach

    On the Architecture of Youth Centres

    Susanne Pietsch, Andreas Mueller (eds.)

    €34.00

    Architecture / Awarded / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-42-7

    Graphic designer

    Sandra Kassenaar / David Bennewith (Colophon)

    Number of pages

    264

    Book size

    27,5 x 21 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    Published in co-operation and with the support of the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology 

    855 grms

    English

    Translators: Julienne Peeters-Huybrechts, Cornelia Durka

    Release date: Winter 2014 

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  • Wat heet lichamelijke opvoeding? Ecosociale educatie op de Brede school
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    Wat heet lichamelijke opvoeding? Ecosociale educatie op de Brede school

    Henk Oosterling, Aetzel Griffioen [eds]

    €29.90

    Philosophy / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-90-3022-36-6

    Graphic designer

    Kommerz

    Number of pages

    272

    Book size

    17 x 24 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    Release date: September 2012

    Only available in Dutch

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