Theo Deutinger

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Theo Deutinger
Born1971
Austrian
Occupation(s)Architect, illustrator, academic, author
OrganizationTD Architects
Notable work Handbook of Tyranny (2018 book)

Theo Deutinger (born 1971) is an Austrian [1] architect, illustrator, academic, and author. He is the a co-founder of the Minus20degree art and architecture exhibition, and the author of the 2018 non-fiction book Handbook of Tyranny.

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Career

Deutinger the owner-operator of Dutch company TD Architects [1] In 2017, he proposed the creation of the island city state Europe in Africa. [2] [1] The European Union-funded Europe in Africa island nation concept would be located between the continents of Africa and Europe and would allow visa-free travel for anyone seeking refuge, with similar characteristics of a refugee camp, but city-sized and within the protectorate of the EU. [2] [3]

In 2018, Deutinger made a series of graphics to illustrate the small number of countries that permit visa-free travel. [4]

Along with Stefanos Filippas, Ana Rita Marques, Eliza Mante, and Heinz Riegler, Deutinger founded the Minus20degree biennale contemporary art and architecture exhibition. [5] [6]

Works

Handbook of Tyranny (book)

Deutinger's Handbook of Tyranny (Lars Müller Publishers, 2018) [7] documents how the architecture of refugee camps, prisons, slaughter houses and migration control systems are used to control animals and people. [8] [7] It details how architectural features used to prevent human migration, suicide, terrorism, and illicit drug injection. [7]

Aaron Betsky described the "deeply ironic beauty" of the book, which he also calls terrifying and notes how "ingenious we have become at harming others through both architecture". [7] The book won the Festival international du livre d'art et du film book award for architecture in 2018. [9]

Ultimate Atlas (book)

Ultimate Atlas: Logbook of Spaceship Earth is a 2019 [10] book that contains data visualisations of global politics. [11] Wojciech Czaja and Maik Novotny called it "radically abstract" and "beautiful" in their review published in Der Standard. [11]

Walled World (map)

Deutinger's 2009 [12] map Walled World illustrates how walls, fences, borders and security forces divide the earth into a lower populated wealthy area and a densely populated poorer zone.

Walled World details how the Korean demilitarized zone, activities of the Australian Defence Force, the United States-Mexico border, Spain's Melilia border fence, Europe's Schengen border and the Israeli West Bank barrier form a global anti-migration loop. [13] Inside the loop are 14% of the world's population who generate 73% of the world's income, outside the loop are 86% of the earth's population, who generate 27% of the world's income. [13]

Deutinger has stated that his map was inspired by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. [14] Professor Sabine Niederer of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences described the map as "poignant". [14]

Independence Day (map)

With architects Filip Cieloch and Lucia de Usera, in 2015, Deutinger produced the Independence Day map that projected what Europe would look like if every successionist movement succeeded in its goals. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Taylor, Adam (1 June 2016). "A Dutch architect's plan to put Europe's refugees on a man-made island near Tunisia". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  2. 1 2 Nicholls-Lee, Deborah (2017-12-04). "Europe in Africa: Could a new city state on a man-made island save refugee lives?". City Monitor. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. ↑ Cohen, Robin (7 August 2017). "Refugia: a Utopian solution to the crisis of mass displacement". The Conversation. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  4. ↑ Baird, Vanessa (2018-10-16). "What if ... people could migrate freely?". New Internationalist. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  5. ↑ Nachrichten, Salzburger (2022-01-23). "Intendant amüsiert: Kunstaktion löst in Flachau Proteste aus". www.sn.at (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  6. ↑ "about - minus20degree". minus20degree. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 4 The Pond as a Deadly Device and Other Architectural Terrors , Aaron Betsky, Architect Magazine, 28 March 2018
  8. ↑ Bell, Jonathan (2018-02-13). "The infographics of tyranny exposed in a new handbook". wallpaper.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  9. ↑ "FILAF 2018". filaf (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  10. ↑ Philipp, 11 12 2019 um 08:10 von Norbert (2019-12-11). "Theo Deutinger: Meister des Maßstabssprungs". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  11. 1 2 "Der ultimative Atlas für Architekten". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  12. ↑ Byrne, Matthew (2021-03-09). "Trouble in Paradise". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  13. 1 2 Jacons, Frank (12 Oct 2019). "'The West' is, in fact, the world's biggest gated community". Big Think . Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  14. 1 2 Report of ‘The Map is not the Territory?! Mapping as critical artistic investigation’, 16 April 2008 at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam , Sabine Niederer, Institute of Network Cultures, 19 April 2008
  15. ↑ Ferrari, Lorenzo (22 March 2017). "A map of Europe's separatist movements - VoxEurop". Voxeurop. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
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