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Design

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Interior of a Testbeds garden greenhouse
Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.

Testbeds

A new life for the byproducts of architectural design
Janet Echleman smiles at the camera wearing a statement white glasses
Janet Echleman. Photo credit: Roser Brothers.

Janet Echelman

View of the Totem House installation in a forest.
Installation view of Totem House, by studioSUMO, Crystal Bridges Museum. Image credit: Ironside Photography.

Histories of Negation | BLACK city: The Arkansas Edition

Giving presence to absent histories
Photograph of Kazuko Ishii sits on a desk behind a black rotary telephone.
Kazuko Ishii and a black telephone, TeleAbsence. Image courtesy of Hiroshi Ishii.

TeleAbsence

Addressing the vast emotional distance caused by the loss of a loved one
Exhibition opening reception, credit Heidi Erickson.

Machine Learning and the Arts

Exploring the creative potential of emerging digital technologies
Installation view of Two Mobility Futures.
Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all
Game pieces of gem and colorful map of the Promesa Board Game.
Promesa Board Game: Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play. Image credit: HErickson/MIT.

Promesa: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation

Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play

Rania Ghosn’s The Planet After Geoengineering

Speculative futures for planet Earth
A self-portrait, line drawing of Rosa Colón Guerra, by the artist.
Rosa Colón Guerra. Courtesy of the artist.

Rosa Colón Guerra

Challenging colonialist narratives through board games
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Website, 2015, designed and engineered by NODE/Bengler. Photo: NODE/Bengler.

On the Record

Creating new shared territories for discursive and collaborative practices
Photo credit: Cem Talu.
Hussein Chalayan.

Hussein Chalayan

Transformable fashion
Thomas Heatherwick. Credit: Elena Heatherwick.
Thomas Heatherwick. Credit: Elena Heatherwick.

Thomas Heatherwick

Prolific and varied work over two decades is characterized by its ingenuity, inventiveness, and originality.

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