Rory Hyde
@roryhyde.bsky.social
A/Prof in Architecture & Curatorial Practice, Uni of Melbourne
www.roryhyde.co
www.roryhyde.co
“Most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet, [they] come into the library to use a computer, to use wifi, to look something up, to ask a librarian for help.”
State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10
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State Library of Victoria staff have accused management of undermining the 171-year-old institution’s core purposes in favour of flashy tourist-oriented “digital vanity projects” in a proposed restructure.
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10, while many publicly accessible computers would be removed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“Most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet, [they] come into the library to use a computer, to use wifi, to look something up, to ask a librarian for help.”
“Andy McDonald, 61, says he ‘fell on to’ the shark and ‘was like, punching it’ before friend helped him paddle to shore” 😳
WA windsurfer escapes with bitten board after great white shark encounter at popular surf spot
WA windsurfer escapes with bitten board after great white shark encounter at popular surf spot
Andy McDonald, 61, says he ‘fell on to’ the shark and ‘was like, punching it’ before friend helped him paddle to shore
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A windsurfer has come face to face with a suspected great white shark at a popular surf spot in Western Australia, and walked away with a bitten board but otherwise unscathed.
Andy McDonald was riding his hydrofoil board – a type of board with a wing attached, allowing surfers to hover above the water – at Bombie surf break near Margaret River at about 5.45pm on Monday evening with a group before he suddenly came crashing into the water. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“Andy McDonald, 61, says he ‘fell on to’ the shark and ‘was like, punching it’ before friend helped him paddle to shore” 😳
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Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
Built for Inequity
How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage
www.thespencerstreetend.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
'Inequality is not an accident of fate but the outcome of deliberate design — and therefore it can be redesigned.' Essential reading from @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the failed promise of fairness.
Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...
Built for Inequity
How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage
www.thespencerstreetend.com.au
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
'Inequality is not an accident of fate but the outcome of deliberate design — and therefore it can be redesigned.' Essential reading from @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the failed promise of fairness.
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"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr
The Trump Supremacy
[FREE TO READ] Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Fantastic day at Balam Balam Place in Melbourne, for Robin Boyd Foundation event ‘Living in Australia’. Great series of talks and discussions, expertly curated by @roryhyde.bsky.social of Melbourne School of Design, ending with great keynote by Elizabeth Timme of @officeofoffice.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fantastic day at Balam Balam Place in Melbourne, for Robin Boyd Foundation event ‘Living in Australia’. Great series of talks and discussions, expertly curated by @roryhyde.bsky.social of Melbourne School of Design, ending with great keynote by Elizabeth Timme of @officeofoffice.bsky.social
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"Egypt: Influencing British Design" at the Soane museum, where these images of the Warwick Road Homebase superstore, built in 1988 and long demolished, are on show.
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Egypt: Influencing British Design" at the Soane museum, where these images of the Warwick Road Homebase superstore, built in 1988 and long demolished, are on show.
Bang on stuff here, with some hard questions for designers and educators on what to do now
on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Bang on stuff here, with some hard questions for designers and educators on what to do now
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The day stared back at me as if waiting for me to tell it what to do.
October 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The day stared back at me as if waiting for me to tell it what to do.
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“I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.” ~ Virginia Woolf
October 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.” ~ Virginia Woolf
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Pump it up.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Pump it up.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Glorious
Not a bad location for a public library. Salamanca's main library, is located in the Casa de las Conchas (House of Shells) built between 1493 and 1517 by Rodrigo Arias de Maldonado, a knight of the Order of Santiago de Compostela and a professor in the University of Salamanca.
October 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Glorious
I lived on Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee as a student and it still tastes like PhD stress
October 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I lived on Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee as a student and it still tastes like PhD stress
'[Farrell was] striving to make architecture more communicative and uplifting at a time when modernism seemed to have finally run its course.' – Cath Slessor
Remembering Terry Farrell: ‘Britain’s most charismatic exponent of Postmodernism’
Remembering Terry Farrell: ‘Britain’s most charismatic exponent of Postmodernism’
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
'[Farrell was] striving to make architecture more communicative and uplifting at a time when modernism seemed to have finally run its course.' – Cath Slessor
'Bauhaus the design movement or the band?'
September 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
'Bauhaus the design movement or the band?'
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“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”
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‘While we shall be judged for a year or two by the _number_ of houses we build … we shall be judged in ten years’ time by the _type_ of houses we build.’ - Nye Bevan, 1944, quoted by @municipaldreams.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
‘While we shall be judged for a year or two by the _number_ of houses we build … we shall be judged in ten years’ time by the _type_ of houses we build.’ - Nye Bevan, 1944, quoted by @municipaldreams.bsky.social
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Megasheds the size of 12 football pitches, surrounded by barbed wire and flashing lights, that make lots of noise and potentially disrupt local energy supply while creating a handful of jobs are not going to be a source of local renewal - all that Nvidia money isn't going to show up on high streets
September 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Megasheds the size of 12 football pitches, surrounded by barbed wire and flashing lights, that make lots of noise and potentially disrupt local energy supply while creating a handful of jobs are not going to be a source of local renewal - all that Nvidia money isn't going to show up on high streets
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‘Eno’s exchanges in 1995 with friends such as Kevin Kelly (Wired, the Whole Earth Review) and Stewart Brand (the Whole Earth Catalogue, the WELL) now feel a little quaint, like a coffee house claque in 18th-century Vienna.’
Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno
At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...
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September 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
‘Eno’s exchanges in 1995 with friends such as Kevin Kelly (Wired, the Whole Earth Review) and Stewart Brand (the Whole Earth Catalogue, the WELL) now feel a little quaint, like a coffee house claque in 18th-century Vienna.’
Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“If we leave it up to the market, you would have only offices, furnished tourist rentals and second homes — a Paris without Parisians, a Paris for the rich” (Indeed. Look at Anglosphere capitals. Amusing to watch the FT try to get its head around this pretty excellent policy) on.ft.com/4nxze08
The left’s radical plan to fix housing in Paris
Authorities are using an arsenal of interventionist tools to make city homes affordable. Critics call it an attack on property rights
on.ft.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“If we leave it up to the market, you would have only offices, furnished tourist rentals and second homes — a Paris without Parisians, a Paris for the rich” (Indeed. Look at Anglosphere capitals. Amusing to watch the FT try to get its head around this pretty excellent policy) on.ft.com/4nxze08
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The cliché house (by @KarlreMarks)
November 17, 2024 at 6:35 AM
The cliché house (by @KarlreMarks)