Observed
After George Floyd’s murder, many companies adopted several practices to help hire and retain underrepresented workers, including establishing leadership development programs and training managers in inclusive practices.
Here’s how they did.
Happy birthday, Jason Kottke! Here’s to the next 50 years of
Kottke.org.
The actors’ performances are deliberately chilly and subdued, no atrocities are shown directly, and psychologizing is reduced to a minimum: at Cannes,
two films reconsider the visualization of the Holocaust.
The European Union’s Digital Services Act, the latest (and most robust) legislative attempt to curb disinformation on social platforms,
is likely to draw ire from X’s Elon Musk.
The growing field of
neuroarchitecture: Can urban planners and architects mitigate cognitive decline through design?
“I’m filled with dread over climate change.” Architect and filmmaker Liam Young explains why
his Planetary Redesign exhibition, currently on display at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), is necessary.
In a new exhibit, Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, the artist builds a bridge between the traditional intimacy of portraiture and contemporary Black life. “He is the link between the past and present within this exhibition,”
says co-curator Antwaun Sargent.
The enduring wisdom of the agora: How the Greeks
designed spaces for public debates.
Google turns 25!
“
At the Precipice,” on view at the
Design Museum of Chicago through October 20, is an
exhibition where sadness, fear, and anger collide.
Poet Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
on book bans and curriculum challenges: “We cannot navigate our multicultural American society if we are operating from myth and stereotype instead of fact and shared experience – and its democratic workings slow when the education our students are taught is inaccurate and incomplete.”
Polish-Israeli architect Zvi Hecker, a towering figure in Israeli Modernism, has died at 92.
Massive pieces of
public art have gone missing in Baltimore, Md. — more than 12, it appears — and nobody knows a thing.
Mark Hogan, the founder of the San Francisco-based architecture firm OpenScope Studio, wants to
reimagine (and repurpose) vacant malls, one piece of Lego at a time.
The Art Institutes, once a nationwide system of for-profit colleges,
has abruptly closed its eight remaining campuses. The enterprise had been fraught with issues, including allegations of fraud and low enrollment during the pandemic.
Is the
design industry ageist?
Back to the drawing board: Lego has abandoned a pilot program to make some of their toy bricks out of recycled plastic bottles, after data revealed the new product would have a higher carbon footprint.
Without water or protective safety gear, workers who cut and grind popular forms of engineered stone for kitchen countertops
are increasingly dying of silicosis.
Anti-racist Shakespeare? To teach, or not to teach.
Counterfeit engine parts have been found in commercial airline engines, forcing major airlines to ground aircraft.
