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The Guardian: Art & Design

Baftas 2026 red carpet: a kiss for Paul Mescal, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor and bear fashion – in pictures - From star nominees to winners in the fashion stakes, photographs that capture the flavour of this year’s awards ceremony - Baftas 2025: the re...
3 hours ago
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

San Diego Wants to Lower Speed Limits in School Zones, High-risk Corridors - San Diego Wants to Lower Speed Limits in School Zones, High-risk Corridors Diana Ionescu Sun, 02/22/2026 - 10:00 Primary Image [image: Elemtary school in S...
3 hours ago
ArchDaily

House in Santiago / S-AR - La Villa de Santiago is a colonial town located 37 kilometers from the city of Monterrey. Every week a large number of visitors come to enjoy the differe...
6 hours ago
Brain Pickings

Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother - "All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched."
1 day ago
McSweeney's

Upon Review, It Looks Like President Nyarlathotep’s Small Business Soul Harvest Is Technically Against the Rules - *“The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to President Trump’s economic policy on Friday, ruling that he had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs ...
2 days ago
Tumblr Staff Picks

tumblr tuesday: year of the horse - tumblr: happy lunar new year to all who celebrate! here is some good horse art to mark the year of the horse. here’s hoping it’s a good one <3 @phlavou...
5 days ago
Information Is Beautiful

New ‘Create Impactful Infographics’ seminars for 2026 - Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives NEXT DATES » 🇬🇧 Wed 25th & Thu 26th Mar UK/EU/AUS timezone 2 half day online intensive London 9:00 –...
3 weeks ago
Ian Bogost

The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed - Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can.
3 weeks ago
thinkwhere

Back to a FOSS4G Conference, this time in Leeds - FOSS4G:UK was on last week, here in Leeds and I really enjoyed the two days. Here are some highlights and thoughts. I think the highlight talk for me was W...
4 months ago
Jean-Etienne's blog

Notes en passant: how AI could unlearn in HEOR Modelling - In a recent paper, Tinglong Dai, Risa Wolf, and Haiyang Yang wrote about unlearning in Medical AI. With more and more CPU and storage thrown at Large Langu...
5 months ago
A Daily Dose of Architecture

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack - I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things: 1. Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title *A...
1 year ago
Chris Blattman: Development, Policy, Conflict

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...
3 years ago
The Archaeology News Network

North 'plaza' in Cahokia was likely inundated year-round, study finds - The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, ...
3 years ago
Death by Architecture

Competition / IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 // Applications Open! / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is glad to launch another edition of the Global Summer School (GSS21), the 14th edition of the ...
4 years ago
The Urbanophile

For New Urbanism Posts, Follow Me at Heartland Intelligence - Moving forward, new posts on urbanism and public policy will appear on my Substack site Heartland Intelligence. So please click over and subscribe if you...
5 years ago
Aid Thoughts

The Importance of Being Earnest - There are a couple of things to be excited about. The first is that Ranil has made his Youtube debut. Above you can watch him present on of his PhD papers ...
5 years ago
Henri Fanthome Office for Architecture

Of Informality and Opportunity, and cities in Post-Colonial Hangovers. - Vendors at the Mehrauli Archeological Park, on a weekend I moved to Mehrauli in 2010, this was back when i think the metro had maybe 3 lines and an Air...
6 years ago
Urban Planning Blog

What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - Why have people stopped moving? The reason, economists believe, is that while there are good wages in economically vibrant cities like New York and San Fra...
8 years ago
Charneira

In E - Back in late 2014, Datarock (a norwegian electro rock band) were invited by their friends at Bergen based computer game company Turbo Tape Games to writ...
8 years ago
Sustainable Cities Collective

Starting Young: 4 Tips For Reducing Waste In Schools - In order to reduce the amount of waste produced by our schools, we need to emphasize sustainability from a young age. This can be accomplished through stud...
8 years ago
Time Tells

The Future of Heritage Conservation - Well, it finally started to happen, and in Houston of all places. PastForward, the National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Pre...
9 years ago
visualcomplexity.com

Digital City Portrait Boston - [image: Digital City Portrait Boston] For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, EE commissioned Brendan Dawes to create a digital portrait for e...
9 years ago
Datavisualization.ch

A Note From Your Editor - We will no longer actively publish on Datavisualization.ch, as our focus has shifted from collecting visualizations to building them. I'd like to share the...
9 years ago
anArchitecture

Alt Erlaa - content by anArchitecture
10 years ago
Travelling Tonito's Adventures

Tonito Returns… Albeit briefly! - It has been a very long time since I last blogged. Too long in fact, but over the last year changing circumstances in my life has made blogging very, very ...
10 years ago
Six Word Story Every Day

499 - 05.14.11 Don't forget which is the brake. Writer: Katelyn Regenscheid Designer: Mary Arneson
10 years ago
airoots/eirut

Determine frequency of checking - Determine frequency of checking for e mail messages. Some people choose to check it throughout the day and even use such devices as the Blackberry when on ...
11 years ago
Code & form

Work: Absolut Cracking - New work for the ongoing Absolut Art Exchange project, by way of invitation from Filip Visnjic of the famous Creative Applications blog. You can find my co...
11 years ago
information aesthetics

Visualizing Publicly Available US Government Data Online - [image: political_us.jpg] Brightpoint Consulting recently released a small collection of interactive visualizations based on open, publicly available data...
11 years ago
polis

A Space That Is Not the Battlefield - *by Patrick Sykes* The dust is settling on Shura City, yet not a single brick has been laid. Since this proposal for a drone-proof city emerged, its creato...
11 years ago
Places from Design Observer: Forum of Design for the Public Realm

Timothy M. Rohan: Scenographic Urbanism: Paul Rudolph and the Public Realm - On Places, Timothy Rohan offers a detailed look at Paul Rudolph's masterful — and dramatic — public projects of the early 1960s.
11 years ago
(New) Babylon Reloaded

Just a house - Hiroshi Sugimoto's reconstructed Chashitsu teahouse. Japan seems to be a place where housing, the very notion of "the house", is being constantly questione...
12 years ago
Javierest - Architecture, Geography, Cartography

The Rise of the Darists - At long last, Rice University School of Architecture’s Plat 2.5 is out. Actually, it’s been out for the last few months. I have an essay called “The Rise o...
12 years ago
Generator.x: Generative strategies in art & design

Generator.x 3.0: Documentation and aftermath - Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms (slideshow of “gx30″ tag on Flickr) Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms Feb 18-26, 2012 at iMal, Brussels http://www.im...
13 years ago
GisellaVecchiB.Log | environment, politics&India

Is the Jasmine Revolution stepping back - It seems just yesterday when Tunisians took the streets in protests for the transition government mainly formed by members of the old and obsolete establis...
14 years ago
Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine

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