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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2h

Did Expressway World for summer books but thanks for the others

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 3h

New architecture books recommendations please. Published 2025 only.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 16h

The details in this story are magnificent.
www.thetimes.com/article/3dc7...

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 23h

Ha ha ha ha

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Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social · 2d

Bang on stuff here, with some hard questions for designers and educators on what to do now

Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

And that is how it works.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

UK government undermined China spying probe to protect Beijing ties, say officials on.ft.com/42u7bqq

UK government undermined China spying probe to protect Beijing ties, say officials

Prosecution case collapsed after senior security advisers said they would not testify that China was an ‘enemy’

on.ft.com

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

Vol 1. Only. Reader without stamina.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

And by the way, I love ‘Oh Lucky Man’.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

I think the ubiquity of images has levelled things out. One more thing about counter culture is that in the old days we had to hang out in the same places to buy records or clothes now everything is available online those loci have disappeared. Everyone is just in their bedrooms.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

This is certainly also true.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

And I think there’s a lot more interest in food than there was. People sublimating desire in it, then photographing it, reviewing it and so on. But maybe we just can’t see what is counter cultural, too old!

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

It’s interesting. I was talking to my girls about it (in their early 20s) and they both say they don’t see much counter culture. But there is I think a lot more complexity around sex and gender as you say. Also Japanese-influenced stuff, from furries and Manga things to god knows what.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, it’s only a little bit of sun

Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

Spatial memory. Which gets killed every time I move.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 2d

I think that’s probably right.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 3d

Love it when the sun shines on spines.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Big "Hurrah for the blackshirts!" moment for the Express.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Batshit.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 3d

I think design was more radical
And more direct in the 80s. It seems to have a more direct effect on society. From graphics and album covers to PoMo and punk fashion. I
Might be wrong though. Might be nostalgia

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 3d

Good Q

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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 8d

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse on.ft.com/3VE0r5s

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse

Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?

on.ft.com

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Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 4d

‘All the algae and fungi, the recycled water bottles and seaborne-plastics have made not a blind bit of difference to the planetary crisis, and design as a profession and an industry knows it.’

@edwinheathcote.bsky.social on design’s existential crisis:

www.ft.com/content/e637...