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Mark Lamster|Essays

The Ugliest Object I Have Ever Owned

What's the ugliest object you've ever owned (and loved)?

John Thackara|Essays

Jellyfish Farm

Scientists warn that most natural seafood could disappear by 2048.

John Thackara|Essays

In the Air of Madrid

Our world is awash in eco information, but starved of meaning.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

New City Reader: Sidewalk Sale

How Atlantic Yards became Barclays Center and disappeared from Brooklyn in the process.

Edward Morris|Books

Destroy This Book

The Green Patriot Posters project looked to the graphic design and artistic communities for ways to invigorate and mobilize people to remake our economy for a more sustainable future.

Maria Popova|Report

CEOs for Cities Community Challenge: Robust Public Life

A CEOs for Cities conference held in Detroit in November 2010 sought to define and quantify the magnetic force of a metropolis.

Alexandra Lange|Interviews

Dan Wood

A conversation with WORKac architect Dan Wood about design, food and cities.

John Thackara|Essays

Is an Environmentally Neutral Car Possible?

The future of the car has been electric for what? Five years now? Ten? The answer is 110 years. The new Riversimple, makes us look again at the feasibility of the electric car.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

You Have to Pay for the Public Design

Does a preference for design for private consumption threaten our public space?

Renna Al-Yassini|Projects

Roudha Center

Report on Roudha Center, a proposal for a one-stop hub for Qatari women to learn the nuts and bolts of launching a business

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Final Report

The final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, October 17–19, 2010, where 13 educators from a variety of design and business programs discussed the challenges and objectives of social-change initiatives within their …