Co-founder, @studiofolder / Teaching @ColumbiaGSAPP / Design, technology, cartography. Book: bit.ly/2RVlUY7
Joined June 2009
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26 Jun 2021
“Prologue to the Sky River” presents nearly three years of research on the materiality and spatial implications of a new theory and vast weather engineering project on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Co-written w/ brilliant @elisehunchuck & Jingru (Cyan) Cheng. averyreview.com/issues/53/pr…
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9 Jul 2023
"Solutions are probably mistakes because they don't have enough information."
—Keller Easterling
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22 Jun 2023
There you go
22 Jun 2023
honestly wonder if the U.S. had picked up the sound of the implosion days ago, but weren't keen on revealing any hints about their underwater monitoring capabilities
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6 Jun 2023
A multi-hundred foot chunk of the Nova Kakhovka dam is gone, the Kakhovka Reservoir is quickly emptying out into the Dnipro.
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"the idea that you could balance water supplies like that had always been a 'legal fiction," [...] This is the hydrologic disconnect coming home to roost, Ms. Campbell said."
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"This unstable relation [the shifting relation between land and sea] forces us to confront the consequences of climate change, as fixed certainties — soil, resources, infrastructure – that have for so long governed our imagination of land fall apart."
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25 May 2023
UK design school instructors:
Are you or are you not entitled to the portfolios of work your students produce under your studio briefs?
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20 May 2023
#BiennaleArchitettura2023 #TheLaboratoryOfTheFuture Golden Lion for the Best Participant to #DAAR (#AlessandroPetti, #SandiHilal) “for their long-standing commitment to deep political engagement with architectural and learning practices of decolonization in Palestine and Europe”.
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10 May 2023
Sickening to hear this from the curator of this year's Venice Biennale, Lesley Lokko – large numbers of participants from Africa have been denied visas to attend:
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30 Apr 2023
Virginia Norwood, the inventor of @NASA_Landsat's Multispectral Scanner System, dies at 96. Since 1972, Landsat's "images have provided powerful visual evidence of climate change, deforestation and other shifts affecting the planet."
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30 Apr 2023
"With a price tag of more than $380 million — costlier than a Boeing 787 Dreamliner — [ASML's next machine] will be capable of etching delicate patterns on silicon wafers smaller than a virus."
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30 Apr 2023
"A lot of ASML’s technology is not on blueprints,” he said. “It’s in the heads of people."
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27 Mar 2023
Clenching the fist has now become a form of 'design activism' . We really need new, less opportunistic critics...
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27 Mar 2023
"For 13,000 years, the lake has existed with no outlet to the sea, her large deposits of salt left behind through evaporation. [...] if we do not take emergency measures immediately, Great Salt Lake will disappear in five years.".
Five years.
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21 Mar 2023
NEW: We worked with the artificial intelligence company Synthetaic to detect and analyze the Chinese balloon in satellite imagery. This allowed us to track the movement of the balloon itself, not just its expected path based on weather projections
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19 Mar 2023
Very interesting report on Wikipedia's redesign by Alex Hollender
alexhollender.com/wikipedia-…
(via @azeem)
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16 Mar 2023
What makes life feel important to you?
I'm exploring how we make meaning in life, and have a quick survey for you.
I'm interested in hearing from 16-24 year olds, so please share widely if you can! 🙏🏻 @caspertk @drkathrynmannix @thomaswhartley @DBetzH
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17 Mar 2023
"Without access to Russia airspace, Delta’s Detroit-to-Shanghai flights are now being forced to fly near obscure Pacific landmasses like Shemya Island southwest of Alaska—or Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific."
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9 Mar 2023
Please, if you watch anything from this year’s @transmediale, let it be this:
Svitlana Matviyenko @svitlanax on the speeds and vectors of energy terrorism in her Marshall McLuhan lecture, NUCLEAR CYBERWAR, featuring a response by @interprt’s Nabil Ahmed.
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2 Mar 2023
I repeatedly tried to coax coordinates out of ChatGPT to draw a decent map of Maine.
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