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Louisa Eunice|Essays
The afterlife of souvenirs: what survives between culture and commerce?
“Arts and crafts is the only creative industry where developing countries have a leading position in the global market.” What we often call kitsch may, in fact, be cultural endurance.
Sanaphay Rattanavong|Design and Climate Change
The prepper’s palette: designing for collapse in a culture of control
From bunkers to backpacks, the visual language of doomsday prepping is designed for social dissolution. But when disaster strikes, it’s not the trappings of rugged individualism that will save us; it’s radical interdependence.
Ellen McGirt|Analysis
Authoritarian by design
The “America by Design” initiative proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country.
Alexis Haut|Analysis
Say it with your chest: WNBA players fight for pay and justice on their t-shirts
Earning just 9% of league revenue, WNBA players are demanding fair pay. Their protest t-shirts are changing how sports activism looks today.
Chantal Flores|Analysis
GenAI art is enlivening the search for Mexico’s disappeared
Families who’ve lost loved ones to the country’s decades-long Drug War are turning to an unlikely source to reenergize search efforts: ‘Ghiblified’ AI art.
Rebecca Billi|Analysis
Cop cities and covert communes: how architecture shapes urban conflict
Friction is inevitable, but urban practitioners have a say in whether it builds or destroys cities.
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