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Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Visual Arts

A roundup of films from the 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals that feature design — built, graphic, and digital; and the arts — visual, performing, and literary.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Built Environment

The built environment was represented in the 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals with a variety of films.

The Editors|Essays

Remembering Hugh

It is with great sorrow that we share the news that Hugh Weber—network theorist, design advocate, and one of our industry’s most evangelical believers in the power of design and community—has died.

Laetitia Wolff|Essays

Practical Utopias: Luca Ballarini, Turin’s Designer-Caretaker

Utopia + care-taking of our cities sound like opposites, in fact they’re complementary to creating vibrant, greener, more inclusive communities.

Jennifer McKnight|Essays

Midterm Reflections on the Ethel Reed Show at PosterÂ House

Ethel Reed, a designer/illustrator discovered as a very young woman in 1895, rose to the top of her field creating designs for the Boston publishing industry.

Victoria Solan|Essays

Meet Me Under the Bents

There are now more than 25 so-called “infrastructure parks” in North America, including Canada’s Bentway.

Susan Morris|Essays

The New York Film Festival 2022: Borders

Another cache of films at the 60th New York Film Festival focused on borders and anxious interpretations of cities.

Susan Morris|Essays

The New York Film Festival 2022: Landscape, Design Labor, + NY

Films at the 2022 New York Film Festival center on landscape architecture, the labor of design, settings in New York, and creative artisans.

Susan Morris|Essays

The New York Film Festival 2022: Building-Centric Films

This year’s New York Film Festival, the 60th, featured films that used architecture, design, urbanism and landscape architecture as a key storytelling devices.