The second issue in the exciting and experimental cross-disciplinary series “Findings on…” by Astrid van Baalen and Hester Aardse from the pars Foundation is centred on Elasticity in the broadest sense of the word.
What happens when one gives a simple rubber band to an architect, historian, choreographer, chemist, artist, mathematician, physicist, economist, anthropologist, and geologist and asks each of them for a statement on elasticity?
The economist studies the elasticity of supply and demand of market forces. The architect calculates the elasticity of the steel structure of a building during an earthquake. The anthropologist studies the flow of people returning to their homes in the wake of a natural disaster. “The Pars Foundation” draws researchers out of their specialized niches in order to publish their brilliant, crazy, important, or bewildering results and assembles them in this interdisciplinary volume. “Findings on Elasticity” is the second part of a publication series that together will constitute an atlas of creative thinking.
There are no guidelines for the form their contributions must take. It may be images, poems, essays, sketches on coasters, formulas or a piece of sculpture; the editors only ask that a contribution reflect the respondent’s own field as well as his or her passion for the topic.

本書はThe Pars Foundationによる『Findings on…』シリーズ第2弾だ。今回のテーマは伸縮性。
建築家、歴史家、振り付け師、科学者、アーティスト、数学者、物理学者、経済学者、考古学者、地理学者、これらの人々に輪ゴムを1つ渡して伸縮性について述べてもらうとしたら？
回答形式にガイドラインは設けず、写真、詩、エッセイ、スケッチ、数式、彫刻など様々な形態でそれぞれの分野の専門を反映させ、1冊の本にまとめた。
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