Revealing the Hidden Connections: Housing Projects & Historic Forests
By Summer Constantino
A condemned housing project is the last place you’d want to go hunting for treasure, literally or figuratively. Or is it?
Entering dilapidated buildings is not for the faint of heart. Ghosts seem to be behind every corner and the visual reality is best described as “hopelessly depressing”. But if you can shoo away [...]
The Death of a House
By Adrian Perez
The house is alive as long as it is inhabited. It breathes, sees, digests, listens, talks, it ages, and it dies. Upon its death, it must be disposed of or it will slowly decompose.
Like a corpse, it must be buried or it will decay before the public eye; this type of dead space is considered the gangrene of the urban body.
Like a corpse left bare, it [...]
Designing for Social Innovation
By Scott Boylston
The national IxDA conference in Savannah, Georgia brought a great many things to town, but nothing was quite as exciting as having Ezio Manzini here. Invited as a keynote speaker for the event, Ezio also took the time to give an engaging talk at SCAD’s Gulfstream Center on the role of design in [...]
Mapping Optimism
“I have cast my lot with those, who, age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”
—Adrienne Rich
By Scott Boylston
What on Earth are we doing? Is it OK to ask that? Does the common wisdom of the day monopolize insight into what can and cannot be done in this world, not only despite its [...]