Category: Essays

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Elizabeth Lowrey|Essays

The Workplace Recalibrated – Hybrid Working Will Drive Everything

How do workplaces get from where they were to where they need to be?

Steven Heller|Essays

Teaching The “S” Word

Steven Heller|Essays

The Thrill is Gone: A Collector’s Lament

The thrill of the hunt has been replaced by the ease of Ebay and Etsy. The joy of the browse is now a trudge through a recent spate of online book fairs.

Steven Heller|Essays

Incompetence Is a Skill

It is a true fact that once you learn how to swim or ride a bicycle you never forget. Not so with digital design tools.

Laura Scherling|Essays

How Micromobility Vehicles are Redesigning Global Transportation Systems

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt business-as-usual, a micromobility revolution is quietly moving forward.

Steven Heller|Essays

WAR! What’s it Really Good For?

Do not be surprised by how much warfare has actually contributed to our world.

Steven Heller|Essays

Insomnia: A Wake-Up Call

“The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep,” my primary care physician told me during our last Zoom call.

Susan Morris|Essays

Utopias at the Architecture & Design Film Festival

The surprising trend in this year’s Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) was Utopias.

Steven Heller|Essays

On Bee-ing

Ever since this pandemic, the Times’ online Spelling Bee, launched in 2018, is the first ritual of the day.

Steven Heller|Essays

A Month With President Obama

I spent last month, approximately three hours-a-night, seven-days-a-week, with President Barack H. Obama.

Susan Morris|Essays

Observed at DOC NYC 2020

Of the more than 200 films at the 2020 DOC NYC festival, the largest documentary film festival in the U.S., films centering on design and the built environment highlighted the themes of obsession, the passage of time, and the city as …