• “I will name him George

   

  
  and I will hug him, and pet him, and squeeze him”

  We design our homes, our tools, our cities and our food – and we also design the animals we like to share our houses with. Elegant, daft, smart, huge, tiny, childlike, passive or aggressive, there is a pet bred for every requirement – even a breed of cat called a Ragdoll designed to go limp and floppy when you pick them up.

   

  For her graduation project in 2014, the young Dutch designer Michelle Bours took a critical look at the odd propensity human beings have for keeping pets. “While we love our dogs and believe there is a mutual understanding between us and our four-legged friends, we also control their actions, demanding obedience, and even manipulate their appearance through breeding programmes”, she says. Bours created a photo series to reflect this rather dubious relationship we share with our pets called Overwhelming Love, stating: “With these photographs I want to confront people with the awkward position in which we place our pets.” Cute and disturbing in one. I (sl)

  Benjamin, from the “Overwhelming Love” series by Michelle Bours. (Image courtesy Michelle Bours)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Animal House
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Animal House
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Jumbo Dome

  The new Kaeng Krachan Elephant Park, Zurich

  Text: Roderick Hönig
• FOUND

  FOUND

  "I will name him George..."

  Michelle Bours' pet portraits

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Logical Path

  Interview with the extraordinary Temple Grandin by Sophie Lovell

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Empty Cage

  Artist Wesley Meuris' melancholic zoo

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  Social Housing

  Bird communes in the Kalahari photographed by Dillon Marsh

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Crabby Chic

  Artist Aki Inomata's real estate for hermit crabs

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Tanks For All The Fish

  Shopping mall-as-aquarium in Bangkok

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Beastly Designs

  Ned Dodington's barrier-free survey of zoo architecture and design

  Text: Ned Dodington
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Fly Inn

  B&B's for bugs

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Homes Without Hands

  Instinct or intelligent design? The nineteenth century debate on animal architecture

  Text: Irene Cheng
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Kitty Kawaii

  Cat Island in Japan

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Pigeon Pylon

  Oscar Niemeyer's dovecot

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Down On The Farm

  Good design for livestock

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Final Indignity

  Animal furniture

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
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