"This volume accompanies 'Disorientation/Orientation'--from the context of an international series of colloquiums and a postgraduate program in 2007-8, organized by Design2context, Institut für Designforschung der Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Departement Design, as part of the institutional research focus 'Orientation'"--Colophon.

Text in German, English, and French.

Volume 1 title from spine.

Title on volume 2: Orient-ierung/ation, des-/dés-/dis-/orient-ierung/ation 2.

v. 1 accompanied by 22 sheets of various sizes.

v. 2 accompanied by 60 loose-leaf pictures.

Includes bibliographical references.

V. 2. On the utility of disorientation and its study / Ruedi Baur -- The orient of occidental discorientation / Clemens Bellut -- Improvisation as (dis-)orientation / Christopher Dell -- The philosophy of disorientation / Suzanne Leblanc -- Farewell to the east : the genealogy of the shape of the globe / Sébastien Thiery -- Social disorientation and the new spirit of capitalism / Franz Schultheis -- Localization or imagination? : (dis-)orientation in global modernity / Annette Hornbacher -- Orientation and fear / André Richter -- The freedom of orientation : on torture, individual and collective mind control, propoganda, and the danger of legitimate forms of forced disorientation / Stefanie-Vera Kockot -- Uncanny effects : boundary displacements between orientation and disorientation : Cindy Sherman's studies / Elisabeth Blum -- Media-based (dis-)orientation as cultural catastrophe (emergency) and emergency design as cultural technique of transformation : an excursus on the sociology of design / Yana Milev -- What is there where I can't see, but know it must be there? : surveillance as answer to the dilemma of human existence / Nils Zurawski -- A political reading of design : the case of orientation / Philippe Gauthier, Sébastien Prouix -- Orienttion, disorientation, and context : the cognitive perspective / Bernard Cadet -- Indoor wayfinding : cognitive principles and spatial factors / Christoph Hölscher -- The train station as a point of orienttion, or the simultaneous orchestration of interface, meeting point, and parket place / Trond Maag -- The situation of orientating ourselves / Guillaume Jacques -- A methodological parkour or towards orientation as implacement / Ella Chmielewska -- Scenic orientation : on the significance of scenes for wayfinding / Urs-Jakob Rüetschi -- Orienting map : two historical case studies / Steffen Bogen -- Maps and concepts / Hendrik Ziezold -- Geometrein : measuring the environment as a means of orientation / Toni Kotnik -- Fluid spaces and the "glassy ghost" : diffuse remarks on disorientation and disconcertion in architectural concepts from modernity onwards / Andrea Gleiniger -- Just a moment! : the gaze and the scenographic interval / Frank den Oudsten -- Trapped in the labyrinth : strategies of exhibiting between orientation and disorientation / Philipp Teufel -- Scenes from virtual space / David Skopec -- The city in film / Georg Bringolf -- City as stage, city on stage / Imanuel Schipper -- Orientation and narrative, an experiential approach : from the signaletic journey to the journey of the appropriative experience / Denis Rioux -- An entry without inscription, a letter, and a map / Claudia Westermann -- The honey winds of Bandladonga, or how the Santals in West Bengal orient themselves by sound / Andres Bosshard.