Edited by WSU faculty Vahid Vahdat, the book, Animate(d) Architecture, brings together an interdisciplinary group of internationally-recognized thinkers, designers, and artists, such as Refik Anadol, Greg Lynn, and Graham Harman, to examine animation from a spatial lens.
The chapters investigate the role of space in animation, including in creating humorous moments in early cartoon shorts, generating action and suspense in Japanese anime, and even stimulating erotic pleasure in pornographic Hentai.
Animation, in this collection, is approached as a medium that can equip the designers of the built environment with a utopian scope to address our socio-political and ecological crises.
