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It maps more than 20 artist-run spaces, including artists’ homes, skate parks, niche shops, and working studios. If you’ve ever ridden a Cubao-bound bus before the EDSA Carousel rewired the commute, you’ll remember the ritual question: Ibabaw o ilalim? It wasn’t just about which stop you’d get off—it was commuter shorthand, a local code. Ibabaw kept you on EDSA, condemned to the slow crawl of traffic. Ilalim dropped you into the underpass, a gamble for speed that sometimes paid off.

A month-long printmaking festival at Gravity Art Space serves not as a definitive survey, but as a working cross-section of the craft. (Main photo: Prints and print portfolios by students of the University of Mindanao.) Hosting a print fair in a gallery space is rare. Prints—especially on paper—are often overlooked in local art scenes, seen as fragile or less collectible.

A room filled with visions that may never break ground, “Architecture and Urban Design Visions” at the Yuchengco Museum spans all three floors and presents more than just a collection of unbuilt structures. Organized by the United Architects of the Philippines (Makati Chapter) and curated by Jeannie Javelosa, it offers a glimpse into what architecture could become when liberated from constraints.