The Built World

Wayne Suiter Matamoros|Peru's Sacred Valley

Looking to Latin America for the future of design innovation

Ellen McGirt

Dispatches from Design Week in Hong Kong

Sanaphay Rattanavong|Design and Climate Change

The prepper’s palette: designing for collapse in a culture of control

Dave Snyder

The compound interest of design: what not to build

Rebecca Billi|Analysis

Cop cities and covert communes: how architecture shapes urban conflict

Bert de Muynck|Essays

Walkie talkie: An architect-turned-tour guide on designing presence in Lisbon

Delaney Rebernik|Design Juice

Runway modeler: Airport architect Sameedha Mahajan on sending ever-more people skyward

The first-gen immigrant and second-gen architect says the best airports for our brave new world will blend wayfinding, cultural context, and, sometimes, a smaller footprint.

Delaney Rebernik|Books

‘Designed Forests’ author Dan Handel says design is behind our experiences in nature

We are the humans. We speak for the trees. Sometimes, out both sides of our mouths.

Ellen McGirt|Audio

DB|BD Season 12 Premiere: Designing for the Unknown – The Future of Cities is Climate Adaptive with Michael Eliason

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.

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.

Lee Moreau|Audio

The Futures Archive S1E6: The Toilet

On this episode of The Futures Archive, host Lee Moreau and this episode’s guest host, Devorah Klein, discuss the toilet, privacy, and connections.

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