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Alexander Obenauer

Design criteria: Disregard for conventional views of beauty An aesthetic pleasure that lies beyond conventional beauty Beauty in the smallest most imperceptible details

Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

Architecture is not an economic commodity that can be corrected by market forces, nor an engineering problem that can be honed towards an optimal solution. Architecture is a spiritual ethic, one that both shapes and is shaped by the ambient zeitgeist of the society it stands in.

Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis

A Convening for Virgil Abloh: Architecture and Placemaking

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"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."

Agalia • how are you talking about yourself today?

As value accrues to the interfaces, the ultimate winner in the age of abstraction (where everything is summoned and summarized for us) will be the designer (and companies that empower design).

scott belsky

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The framework of “design justice” further insists that design must occur through rigorous accountability to the people whose lives it will shape;

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

American Architect Keller Easterling is well known for her book Extrastatecraft (2014), which looked at the power of infrastructural space and how this defines the operating system of the modern world. Her most recent text, Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World (2021) looks at the spaces between things, syste

Jesse McKee • From Polycrisis to the Smart Commons

When we innovate only in terms of a solutionist framework, Easterling argues in her book Medium Design , we optimize for static outcomes wedded to the status quo of product-market fit. Solutions are one-time fixes, usually implemented by someone else, which break as soon as the context they’re responding to changes (which it does, constantly)