ECAL Magazine

We are living in times of drastic change. The transition of energy and ressource allocation from fossil fuels to sustainable sources has just begun. A socio-ecological transformation comparable to the industrial revolution is imminent.

Fount is a trade magazine which examines the aesthetic quality of this change. It looks from different perspectives at the time before, the transition and the time after our so called petroculture.

There are already some magazines about climate change and climate crisis, but still no magazine focusing on the design and aesthetic apsects.

Fount tries a path hardly taken so far: the magazine brings together scientific articles from the fields of image science, aesthetics, semiotics, as well as from cultural research, climate science and product design with image series as artistic approaches to experimental visualization, and archive material.

Texts will feature Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Charles William Morris, Birgit Schneider, Bernd Meurer, Maja Goepel and many more.

I post-oil

II resilience

III disobedience

Fount is published every three month, four times per annum. The different issues deal with sub-topics of the energy and ressource transition. Next issues will be on the topics of post-oil, resilience, disobedience, growth, obsolescence and solar age. Each time from the perspective of aesthetic qualities.

Issue one will be divided into three chapters:
I What are the aesthetic categories of the fossil fuel age? e.g. Speed, Growth, Masses, exploitation
II Can they be extrapolated, and what do they mean for the post fossil era?

III Examples and experimental approaches

scientific and technologically
light and immaterial in fine art
natural structures and morphologies
bio and product design
bio-engineering
climate protest and fashion

Fount has a specialised but broad target group. It is primarily read by scientists and students from the visual and cultural sciences, as well as design. In addition, the magazine is aimed at all those interested in the climate crisis or aesthetics in general.

Fount is produced in a sustainable as possible way. The CO2 footprint will be transparently communicated. The issues are except from the image series printed with algae and solvent-free colours.

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