Heaven in Clouds is a work by Peter Granser dealing with the rapid growth in chinese megacities. A limited handmade book edition designed by Jonas Beuchert / Edition Taube curates the work in four existential questions.

In a globalized world, China is closer to the West in many ways than ever before. “Heaven in Clouds” opens a window onto a society that has adopted and supersized a European-style economic system, striving for the same goals as we do. A China that acts according to the European ideology of “prosperity through growth” must be considered from a European humanist perspective with a focus on the individual – the same basis on which Adam Smith once founded his theory. The images in Granser’s four books are thus arranged according to Kant’s four questions.

The pre edition of 3 copies is all handmade and comes in a limited handmade slipcase holding four books:
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS I – What can I know? (texts and Information)
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS II – What should I do (photo essay)
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS III – What may I hope? (city smog skies)
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS IV – What is man? (embedded screen with one individual video portrait)

Heaven in Clouds is a work by Peter Granser dealing with the rapid growth in chinese megacities. A limited handmade book edition designed by Jonas Beuchert / Edition Taube curates the work in four existential questions.

In a globalized world, China is closer to the West in many ways than ever before. “Heaven in Clouds” opens a window onto a society that has adopted and supersized a European-style economic system, striving for the same goals as we do. A China that acts according to the European ideology of “prosperity through growth” must be considered from a European humanist perspective with a focus on the individual—the same basis on which Adam Smith once founded his theory. The images in Granser’s four books are thus arranged according to Kant’s four questions.

The pre edition of 3 copies is all handmade and comes in a limited handmade slipcase holding four books:
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS I – What can I know? (texts and Information)
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS II – What should I do (photo essay)
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS III – What may I hope? (city smog skies)
HEAVEN IN CLOUDS IV – What is man? (embedded screen with one individual video portrait)