architect researching technological innovation, politics, and urban design
Joined March 2016
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Minnie Bruce Pratt, excerpt from The Tornado (in Magnified):
Beauty into nothingness. You say, 'Let’s step back
from the window.' You clasp my hand. What will be
left of us? Bits of sound and matter, exhorting
Digging this recent monograph from AR, Towards Abundance: The Delightful Paradoxes of Gender digital.emap.com/38997/89687…
John Jennifer Marx ends with the provocation: “Is there a core gender within ourselves, or are we only ever made in relation to the world that surrounds us? What, then, are our responsibilities to one another?”
Living in a SRO in my 20s kept me from being unhoused but having a window kept me alive.
.@NYCMayor talks about a modern- single room occupancy (SRO) concept. He describes his son who has a stove that he doesn’t think he knows how to turn on. He suggests you don’t need a window in a bedroom. “You don’t need a window when you are sleeping.”
Join us next Sunday 10.17 in FOUNDATIONS: TOKEN, a free event for the Venice Biennale’s Virtual Italian Pavilion, where we will be talking futures of (crypto)currency, exchange, and what it means for geographies, space, design. More info & registration:
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Playing #Cyberpunk2077 on #PS4Pro and not even 20mins in, first crash in Lizzie’s Bar. Reboot all auto-saves but now dialogue text is blank... guess I’ll try to restart from the beginning, but this does not bode well.
I’d been staying away from reviews but reading pieces by Carolyn Petit @ Polygon, Lianna Ruppert @ Game Informer, I’m not about the ableism and subtle transphobia, or glorification of trans folks as window dressing. It’s not excusable,
And architecture exists somewhere outside entirely in its own sphere.
