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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · 16d

Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict
By Tim Cunningham. Exposing how governments, public officials and private actors on both sides of the Atlantic entrenched racial and ethnic divisions through manipulation of the planning of the built environment. www.routledge.com/Human-Rights...

Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict

Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes how governments, public officials and private actors on both sides of the Atlantic entrenched racial and ethnic divisions through manipulation of ...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Sep 2

ABUNDANCE NO CAPITAL
The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo
Edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien. How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative @mitpress.bsky.social architecture.https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553124/abundance-not-capital/

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Aug 12

LA CREATIVIDAD COMO ELEMENTO TRANSFORMADOR DEL TERRITORIO La Cárcel_ Segovia Centro de Creación L.Rodrigo-Martín U.Valladolid y P. Núñez-Gómez UCM. La reconfiguración de la antigua Prisión Provincial de Segovia en espacio de creación artística visualcompublications.es/SAUC/article...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Aug 9

NOT HERE, NOT NOW.
Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
How to learn to think the unthinkable
@mitpress.bsky.social
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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Aug 6

Iwan Baan: From Las Vegas to Rome Princeton University School of Architecture This show turns to the spectacle of Las Vegas to rethink Rome–both urban centers that lie at the intersection of power and play. also see Rome—Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses (Lars Müller Publishers)

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 28

Translating the 15-Minute City: Local Adaptations of a Global Urban Policy Framework by Maciej Misztal University of Warsaw. With a focus on the role of spatial, institutional, environmental, demographic, and cultural conditions.
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Translating the 15-Minute City: Local Adaptations of a Global Urban Policy Framework

The concept of the 15-minute city (FMC) has rapidly gained prominence in urban policy discourse, promoted as a solution to contemporary challenges such as clima

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona by Nicolás Palacios Crisóstomo, David Kaufmann
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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Urbanism Reader
Design, Technology, Culture and the Future of Cities
Stefan Al (Anthology Editor) , Tom Verebes (Anthology Editor)
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The Urbanism Reader

Positioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexit…

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

PODCAST Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
Counterinsurgency Urbanism with Ted Rutland
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/counterinsur...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

Authenticity and Urbanism A Critical Inquiry By Ali Madanipour
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Authenticity as an evaluative relationship with an origin, it unpacks a range of origins from a critical, non-essentialist perspective: self, author, substance, event, time, place and society.

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

Seeing like AI? AI urbanism reconsidered through a critical posthumanist perspective.
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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide by Johanna Waldenberger &Federico Savini
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Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide

Scale and spatial politics are central to degrowth research, yet scholars often overemphasise the (limited) potential of local practices. This paper proposes a bioregional spatial planning approach...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

A caring civilisation worthy of the name: on refuturing the everyday through/by design By Jomy Joseph
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A caring civilisation worthy of the name: on refuturing the everyday through/by design

With the Earth's climate systems and life-sustaining biosphere unravelling under climate breakdown, the present and future of worldviews of modernity, progress, and development for organised human ...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

Why should architects design for other species, or seek to learn from other species how to design for humans?
placesjournal.org/article/anim...
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Animal Architecture: In Conversation

An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Architecture of Generosity: Google Bay View and the New Techno Empire by Georgios Eftaxiopoulos
Google not only disguises an unprecedented extraction of raw materials but facilitates the formation of an in-all-but-name techno empire.
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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 17

Play It Again, Sam
Repetition in the Arts
by Samuel Jay Keyser, linguist and jazz trombone player
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Play It Again, Sam

Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists' refusal to ...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jul 1

PODCAST: Christian Schmid: Henri Lefebvre and the space of the city. Schmid is geographer, sociologist, urban researcher and until recently Professor of Sociology in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Christian Schmid: Henri Lefebvre and the space of the city.

YouTube video by A is for Architecture Podcast

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jun 17

LECTURE: The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture and Joy by @vishaan.bsky.social Why cities are the last, best hope for humanity, and why designers must, alongside political, business and cultural leaders, steward the healing of the planet.
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The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture and Joy

YouTube video by Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jun 3

Suspended Moment
The Architecture of Frida Escobedo ed. Max Hollein The woman that treat space as a language—layered, responsive, and reflective of both a site’s history and its present. @yalepress.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781588...

Suspended Moment

An illuminating profile of one of today’s most innovative and forward-looking architects, whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emo...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · Jun 3

Incorporating Architects
How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire
by Aaron Cayer via @ucpress.bsky.social When US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, and employed more people than were housed in most cities. www.ucpress.edu/books/incorp...

Incorporating Architects by Aaron Cayer - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · May 31

Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - An Introduction to AI for Architects
Neil Leach
4th june at AA www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · May 28

Dare forme al mondo
Per un design multinaturalista
di Andrea Staid (in Italian)
The ecocentric perspective of design, human, begetal, animal
www.utetlibri.it/libri/dare-f...

Dare forme al mondo | Libri | Utet Libri

L’attuale congiuntura globale impone una riconsiderazione radicale delle nostre pratiche quotidiane, orientandole verso una sostenibilità che superi...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · May 20

Not Here, Not Now
Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby @mitpress.bsky.social
What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.
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Not Here, Not Now

When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby do, in this exhilarating, yet ...

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · May 20

PODCAST: Window Shopping with Helen Keller
Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture
By David Serlin Hosted by Shu Wan
How encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture.
via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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David Serlin, "Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · May 20

The Manifesto House
Buildings that Changed the Future of Architecture
by Owen Hopkins @yalepress.bsky.social
Manifesto houses reflect new visions for how we can live. Often extreme and uncompromising, they are vehicles for new ideas, and new ways of doing things.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Manifesto House

Manifesto houses reflect new visions for how we can live. Often extreme and uncompromising, they are vehicles for innovation, new ideas, and new ways of doin...

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