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“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/prol…

@ivorinfo @alexevansuk @lzsl @EmRoseBaz 👀

I’ve been working on something that has been (in many ways years in the making, but also) practically chipped away at since the new year… it’s not ready but it never will be. Can I get a ‘just do it’ from someone please 😂 cc @alexevansuk @lzsl @EmRoseBaz

"Solutions are probably mistakes because they don't have enough information." —Keller Easterling

@StuartElden Wishing you all the best for a quick and full recovery, Stuart!

There you go

“An infinite and unlimited reverse Colorado”. nytimes.com/2023/06/10/cli…

A multi-hundred foot chunk of the Nova Kakhovka dam is gone, the Kakhovka Reservoir is quickly emptying out into the Dnipro.

"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." nytimes.com/2023/06/01/cli…

"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." thedial.world/issue-4/law-of…

UK design school instructors: Are you or are you not entitled to the portfolios of work your students produce under your studio briefs?

#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”.

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:

@hautepop This looks incredible! can't wait to dive into it :)

...and yes, the satellite image wraps round the entire book cover and looks absolutely amazing and I can't believe how lucky I am.

tfw when your UK book cover is only by goddamn NASA 🛰️🌫️😶‍🌫️🥰

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." nytimes.com/2023/04/12/sci…

"A lot of ASML’s technology is not on blueprints,” he said. “It’s in the heads of people."

"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." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@Furmadamadam @tamars A text we commissioned to Mia Fuller for "A Moving Border" in 2019 addresses the topic from the perspective of Italy's nation-building efforts, and in relation to 'internal' colonialism in South Tyrol and the Alpine regions post-WWI

@Furmadamadam There is basically no discussion, acknowledgment, or even awareness in the public discourse, and little to none in the architectural one, too. The work of DAAR + Emilio Distretti (referred to also by @tamars) is pretty much the only thorough examples lavoroculturale.org/verso-un-ente-…

Clenching the fist has now become a form of 'design activism' . We really need new, less opportunistic critics...

"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. nytimes.com/2023/03/25/opi…

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 nytimes.com/interactive/20…