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LOT-EK is a design practice that believes in being unoriginal, ugly, and cheap. Also in being revolutionary, gorgeous, and completely luxurious. LOT-EKs work reveals extraordinary transformations of ordinary thingsfrom their famous shipping container projects onwardcombining maker culture and hacker culture into beautiful and radical visions for sustainable and meaningful living. LOT-EK: Objects + Operations surveys dozens of projectsbuilt, unbuilt and in-progress; polemical, practical, and in-betweencomplemented by photographs from LOT-EKs multi-year URBAN SCAN project, a vast photographic document of infrastructure and incident, as well as essays by Thomas de Monchaux and interviews with founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.