{"product_id":"aladin-borioli-hives","title":"Aladin Borioli: Hives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA gorgeously and ingeniously developed black-and-white picture-book that serves as a semi-exhaustive international history of apiaries over the past 4,400 some years. With bilingual text in both English and French. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Since the birth of the modern beehive in 1852, structural innovation in hive construction has entered a dormant period. By favoring the standardized box hive, beekeeping turns its back on the 4,400 years of architectural diversity that came before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an attempt to rectify this stagnation and to recover a fascinating fragment of design history, Aladin Borioli has maintained an open-ended and ongoing research project, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eApian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which uses theoretical, iconographic and ethnographic methods to dissect the relationship between bees and humans. Originally published by RVB Books in 2020, this pocket-size, bilingual (English\/French) artist’s book traces archival evidence of the beehive from as far back as 2400 BCE. Borioli rejects a fixed narrative and makes way for polymorphism: introducing graphic design, photography and writing to retell the story of beehives. The 375 images offer a glimpse into this prolific history of architecture for nonhumans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAladin Borioli\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (born 1988) lives and works between Bevaix, Switzerland, and London. He holds a BA in photography from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne and an MA in visual and media anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. He is currently pursuing a certificate program in critical philosophy at the New Centre for Research and Practice.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Quoted from D.A.P Artbook \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAladin Borioli, RVB Books, 2026, Paperback, 448 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum of Jurassic Technology Gift Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48558030127275,"sku":"2630","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0099\/2822\/files\/hives-500.jpg?v=1794172428","url":"https:\/\/www.mjtgiftshop.org\/products\/aladin-borioli-hives","provider":"Museum of Jurassic Technology Gift Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}