Social Good

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report

Initial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.

James Wegener|Essays

Metabolic Dark City

In 1993, the City of Darkness, or the Walled City of Kowloon was demolished. To the 35,000 people living in this dense urban slum, the change was the end of a lawless existence.

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

DESIS

Report on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.

Hal Clifford|Video

Stone River: The Passion of Jon Piasecki

Landscape architect Jon Piasecki, talks about nature, the woods, and a recent multi-year stone works project in New York State — Stone River

Mark Dery|Essays

Dawn of the Dead Mall

Mark Dery surveys the landscape of failing malls and speculates about the future means and venues of mass consumption.

Alexis Rockman|Gallery

Hot Times in the Old Town

East 82nd Street, 2007, painting from Alexis Rockman's American Icons series depicting future landscapes ravaged by climate change

Steven Heller|Essays

Why Does John Baeder Paint Diners?

John Baeder's goal for the past three decades has been to record on canvas and paper just about every diner and roadside eatery.

Julie Lasky|Projects

88Bikes

Report on a foundation that distributes bicycles to children in the developing world.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Medellín, Colombia

Report on the city officials who turned around a notorious drugs-and-murder capital, winning the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize for Transformative Public Works.

William Drenttel|Slideshows

The Stonework of Jon Piasecki

"Stone construction is one of the most enduring traces of human activity. Any effort to quarry, cut and stack it is one that requires a powerful incentive, extensive planning and specialized skill." The Stone River project of Jon …

Adam Harrison Levy|Report

O Tannenbaum!

People are talking differently about Christmas trees this year. They’re downscaling or simplifying their annual rite.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Small Wonder: 41 Cooper Square

I never thought I would say this about a work by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, but I think 41 Cooper Square is too small.