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Covers:  Design, architecture, gaming, technology, urbanism, culture, business, retail, hospitality, education, future of work
Doesn't Cover: fashion, craft
Currently @axism_ndi. Formerly @TheFutureLab, @framepublishers. Bylines @blueprintmag, @DisegnoDaily, @eyemagazine, @iconeye, @formmagazine
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What does Sidewalk Labs' setback mean for the smart city?

What does Sidewalk Labs' setback mean for the smart city?

Frame — Toronto - Once destined to be the most extensive application of the smart-city principal yet seen, at the start of May Sidewalk Labs abruptly walked away from Quayside, its project to transform a stretch of Toronto's waterfront.
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How COVID-19 could impact workplace design: managing movement

How COVID-19 could impact workplace design: managing movement

Frame — Indeed distancing will likely hasten the adoption of several 'smart office' technologies that streamline interactions between employees and their workplace.
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The rise of the virtual gallery tour: what works and what doesn't (yet)

The rise of the virtual gallery tour: what works and what doesn't (yet)

Frame — In fact, these initiatives don't push far beyond the early efforts to digitize the exhibition experience that could be found on CD-ROMs as far back as 1993's Microsoft Art Gallery, which drew from the collection of London's National Gallery.
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An office by DDAA in Tokyo is intended to never reach completion

An office by DDAA in Tokyo is intended to never reach completion

Frame — Japanese architecture firm DDAA's design for an incubator in Tokyo redefines how we think about the concept of both the agile office and the client-architect relationship. By drawing on a culture of impermanence to create a space that evolves with its users, the firm has defined a new philosophy of workplace design that overturns the failing model set by its counterparts across the Pacific.
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Ace Hotel's new spinoff does mindful hospitality for those who hate buzzwords

Ace Hotel's new spinoff does mindful hospitality for those who hate buzzwords

Frame — But while Sister City might be inward-looking, it's not introverted These materials are used confidently, forming thickset arches, palisade-like screens, desktops, bed frames and benches, whilst also panelling most of the social spaces. The designers' mission statement references Shintoism and John Cage, and the ethos of spiritualism removed from orthodoxy certainly carries through.
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Why Europe's newest football stadium looked to the high street to ensure success

Why Europe's newest football stadium looked to the high street to ensure success

Frame — The stadium can claim other firsts however, such as hosting the longest bar in Europe and being the only stadium in the world with an onsite brewery - run by local craft label Beavertown, not one of the 'big beer' brands.
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What can property developers learn from luxury brands? Ask Roksanda

What can property developers learn from luxury brands? Ask Roksanda

Frame — London - London's property market continues to stutter, buffeted by Brexit uncertainty, a natural cyclical correction in prices and a massive oversupply. There were 31,508 unsold homes in the capital as of 31 March, the highest number since such data has been collected.
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Can brands help detoxify masculinity?

Can brands help detoxify masculinity?

The Future Laboratory — Brands have a core role to play in helping men take the first crucial steps on the road to becoming better allies. When we look back at 2018 in 10 or 20 years' time, it will hopefully be seen as an apex point in our collective understanding of what it means to be a man in the 21 st century.
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Does fake meat have a marketing problem?

Does fake meat have a marketing problem?

The Future Laboratory — Gone are the days of pea or soya protein - dubiously coloured, artificially flavoured and pummelled into facsimiles of bacon strips, drumsticks or patties, as unconvincing as they were unappetising. What's in a name? Quite a lot, especially when it comes to the future of food production and marketing.
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Should we welcome more workplace surveillance?

Should we welcome more workplace surveillance?

The Future Laboratory — "With Mark Zuckerberg's congressional hearing still fresh in many people's memories, the notion that another technology unicorn wants to create a personal profile of its users is likely to cause some consternation." CEO Stewart Butterfield described its proposed system as a form of 'personal analytics'.
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Pilots

Pilots

Disegno Magazine — Pilots: Navigating Next Models of Design Education is a collaboration between the post-disciplinary studio El Ultimo Grito and gallery director David Falkner. Each week a different design educationist, or "Pilot", leads two groups of participants in exploring the discipline's potential evolution given growing interest in online leaning.
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The Stadium by Tim Abrahams

The Stadium by Tim Abrahams

Disegno Magazine — Unlike dedicated architectural festivals, expos and biennales, the Olympics lacks a formally structured discussion. But it still holds a trump card: in the form of its buildings it has real consequence. This is usually voiced in terms of legacy, either announced by those charged with delivering its promises, or chewed over by those who seek remuneration through mastication.
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Fugitive Pieces

Fugitive Pieces

Grafik — The latest title from Occasional Papers gathers together the oddments of exhibitions past, providing a vital archive of graphic experimentation as well as a fascinating adjunct to art history. For the eighteenth-century English writer and moralist Samuel Johnson (or Doctor, if you prefer) small tracts and "fugitive pieces" were the lifeblood of a literary culture too easily lost and a repository that he tried his utmost to tourniquet.
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Schlock Auction

Schlock Auction

Grafik — Few have had as much impact or longevity as the film maker Roger Corman. This new retrospective, Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses, does its best to contain his legacy. Someone has capitulated. An executive decision was made on the titling of this book: hell, we'll just pick three favorite movie titles and run with it.
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Team Photo

Team Photo

Grafik — What became of the "Workshop of the World"? London's Science Museum hosts a fascinating, if flawed, investigation into the health and happiness of the UK's industrial sector.
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Do smart cities have an accessibility problem?

Do smart cities have an accessibility problem?

The Future Laboratory — About Services Events Reports Blog Contact (0) As investment in so-called 'smart' cities gathers pace, is enough attention being paid to the accessibility needs of all citizens? As a student, the daily walk up London's Exhibition Road, past its profusion of popular museums, was hindered by groups of tourists that stood four-abreast on the pavement, eager to learn more about the cretaceous period, or space flight, or ornamental Renaissance metalwork.
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What happens when brands retain control of their products?

What happens when brands retain control of their products?

The Future Laboratory — This furore highlights a wider discrepancy between consumers and tech companies concepts of and attitudes towards ownership. Widely held suspicion turned to outrage after it was proved that Apple's phones didn't merely feel slower as they aged, but were intentionally being throttled by the company in order to prevent them from abruptly shutting down.
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Why can't we move past bookmark brand campaigns?

Why can't we move past bookmark brand campaigns?

The Future Laboratory — The idea of apportioning one part of the calendar to the celebration of women in fact serves the opposite purpose, defining a finite period of time to 'deal' with the issues at hand before returning to business as usual. For some, International Women's Day (IWD) operates as necessary annual reminder to wider society that gender inequality remains deeply entrenched.
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Eye Magazine

Eye Magazine

Eye Magazine — The first video game title from Canadian developer StudioMDHR, Cuphead is a run-and-gun game of the sort that was popular in the late 1980s, such as Mega Man and Contra. In the current age of open-world environments, procedural generation and virtual reality, it appears atavistic, especially as it reverts to a fixed third-person perspective, side-on, with the titular hero sliding back and forth against a scrolling backdrop.
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Belval's post-industrial identity crisis

Belval's post-industrial identity crisis

Icon Magazine — As the development of a former steel production district in Luxembourg into a business and cultural hub nears completion, Peter Maxwell reflects on previous efforts to regenerate industrial sites, arguing that human and creative engagement is more crucial to the success of such pro
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We Made That

We Made That

Icon Magazine — The East London-based studio, whose masterplan for Blackhorse Lane in Waltham Forest has picked up the inaugural Mayor's Prize at the New London Architecture awards, uses design to reinvigorate communities. Given the UK's current political climate and the growing pressure of the
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Comfort Zones

Comfort Zones

Icon Magazine — An unconventional procurement and curatorial process by France's centre for contemporary art has resulted in an exhibition that critiques material culture by juxtaposing related objects, says Peter Maxwell The Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) is a body responsible for France's contemporary art collection, an archive that contains 95,000 works, 6,5000 of which come under the moniker of design.
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Coop Himmelb(l)au's Musée des Confluences

Coop Himmelb(l)au's Musée des Confluences

Icon Magazine — The Austrian architecture practice has landed an immense structure of angular steel and crystalline glass at the gateway to LyonIt remains difficult to reconcile Coop Himmelb(l)au - the one-time 1970s avant-gardists who worked mainly in performance or installation, mapping arch
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Dreamland, Margate: "We didn't think a heritage theme park would work long term"

Dreamland, Margate: "We didn't think a heritage theme park would work long term"

Icon Magazine — In line with the seaside town's revival, Margate's traditional fairground has reopened to the public - but with east London creatives, rather than children, as its main target audience. Its designer, Wayne Hemingway, explains why the attraction's longevity depends on more t
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