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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Let’s Talk About Women in Architecture

A panel on Women in Design, and questions about whether such panels should exist.

John Thackara|Essays

Old Growth

The tale of a furniture giant and the possible ecological happy ending.

Rick Poynor|Photos

Demonstrations, Democracy and Design

After demonstrations in 2011, Barcelona’s Plaça de Catalunya became a carnivalesque village of protest.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Why the Activist Poster is Here to Stay

Digital communication has given posters produced to contest an outrage or support a cause a new lease of life.

Scott Boylston|Essays

Designing Design into Society

A report on the Design Ethos 2012 DO-ference.

Rick Poynor|Essays

It’s Smart to Use a Crash Test Dummy

The image of the crash test dummy has traveled from the subcultural fringes to the pop culture mainstream.

John Thackara|Essays

Top Down Nature

An overview of Bordeaux 55,000: a project to explore ‘how best to transform 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres) into natural areas’.

Rob Walker|Essays

The City In Your Dreams

A blog collecting stories for mapping the "collective unconscious" of NYC.

John Thackara|Essays

What Is, Or Is Not, a ‘Green Job’?

Discordant information amplifies confusion about what is, or is not, a ‘green job’.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hiking the Museum

Ennead Architects’ new Natural History Museum of Utah works to make natural history seem like the ongoing process of discovery that it is, layering geology and topography, paleontology and interactivity.

John Thackara|Essays

The Other Green Economy

People the world over are divided between radically different conceptions of their future: resource-intensive production on the one side, versus regenerative land-based enterprises, and mosaics of micro-enterprises, on the other.

Alexandra Lange|Essays