Translated roughly as "school of things", the work of Uematsu and his contemporaries was characterised by a formal interest in materials in their natural state – such as rocks, wood and glass – exhibited or photographed with very little in terms of intervention by the individual artists.
Contemporary society is characterised by an increasingly selfish and privatised culture of individualism in which we are all very good at "minding our own business".
According to Amis, the author of Lionel Asbo, State of England, a satirical novel in which a debt collector from inner London wins the lottery, much of contemporary England is characterised by "great tolerance".
Contemporary economies are characterised by a regulatory capitalism in which both markets and regulation extend their sway.
Contemporary architecture is characterised by immense diversity of technical and technological solutions, in particular as regards aesthetics and composition.
The contemporary consultation is characterised by a multiplicity of voices.
In many ways this is the question that underpins the vigorous and disparate debates that characterise contemporary higher education.
What characterises contemporary wars above all – in Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic – is that the main victims are civilians, many of them utterly innocent children.
The economic and political changes characterising contemporary urbanisation have generated unjust conceptions and configurations of urban space that, in turn, have sparked off unusual forms of activism.
Only by observing the phenomena characterising contemporary urbanism can we highlight the existence of the strong interconnection between the two spheres.
