Published in 1/2024 - The Heart of the City

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From Industrial Romanticism to Office Romanticism

Santeri Paronen, Cecilia Aintila

Paola Jalili: Cut Copy Paste (2024)
Paola Jalili is an artist-publisher and cultural worker currently based in Helsinki. In the project Office Aesthetics, she reflects on the intersections between labor, gender, and the contemporary workplace.

Could emptying office buildings be saved by an upward trend similar to that which industrial buildings saw during the last century?

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