Social Good

Photo by Pieter Hugo|Gallery

Permanent Error

Photo by Pieter Hugo of Ghana's Agbogbloshie slum.

William Underhill|Projects

Map Kibera

Report on the Map Kibera project to provide navigation and information on Nairobi's massive informal settlement.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Archpaper Review: Our Cities Ourselves

Does one size fit all, even when it is oh-so-hot bikes and buses?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Culture Shed: Where’s the Neighborhood?

CultureGrrl offers a critique of the NEA grant for Culture Shed, the Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group design for a Kunsthalle with retractable roofs over at Hudson Yards.

Ernest Beck|Report

The World as Our Studio

Report on Worldstudio's hybrid business model for collaborating with for-profit and not-for-profit clients (while supporting a foundation).

Michael Erard|Projects

The Dream Job Project Part II

How do you conceive of the future work to shoot for, and how you'll do it? The results of these questions, part II.

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Humanitarian Design vs. Design Imperialism: Debate Summary

Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm with the question "Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?" — and the conversation has spread through the blogosphere. Here, a digest of essays and related posts on this subject.

Robert Fabricant|Essays

In Defense of Design Imperialism

Weighing in on a controversy, frog design's Robert Fabricant supports global design interventions.

Phil Patton|Projects

Murray T.25 City Car

Report on Gordon Murray's conversion from revolutionary race car designer to creator of one of the greenest city cars ever.

Vera Sacchetti|Interviews

"But Teacher! That’s Not Design!"

Interview with Portuguese communication designer Barbara Alves about teaching in Mozambique.

William Underhill|Projects

Boatanic

In the Netherlands, designer Damian O'Sullivan conceives of floating greenhouses converted from tourist boats.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Personality of Parks

Until Pier 6 at Brooklyn Bridge Park opened, my only experience of parks as a parent had been of neighborhood parks