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Another world is possible. A post on a very intriguing exhibition… Singapore, including architect and filmmaker Liam Young
Another World is Possible
Another World is Possible By Honor Harger 20 September 2025 In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. As my friend Liam Young says, it’s as if we are…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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⏱ But if you don't have time for that, I would appreciate it if you could comment sharing any interesting examples, patterns, or resources you’ve seen that demonstrate how AI fits into development
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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🧠 Developers, I need your input! 🙏 😊
We’re exploring ways to enhance the developer experience with ArcGIS. AI-assisted coding is reshaping how we build software, and I’d love to hear how you use it in your everyday work.

👉 Got 2 minutes? You can share your thoughts in our survey: lnkd.in/erxe7twp
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This is why Greenland became so attractive these recent years… “There is still time for the two superpowers to step back from the brink of their latest row over rare earths. These minerals are needed to manufacture most electronics of both the consumer and military sort”
America and China return to fierce trade conflict
Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat
www.economist.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Theo Riofrancos, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism - WW Norton, October 2025
wwnorton.com/books/978132... @triofrancos.bsky.social
Extraction
'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.&hellip;An immense contribution.' &#8212;Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
“The architects of today can and should acknowledge and embrace the multi-species collaboration inherent in any ecosystem. We should be just as concerned with whooping crane-centered design, wetlands-centered design, atmosphere-centered design, or even hard-drive-centered design...” Liam Young
Designing Futures
Can storytelling prototype the future? Speculative architect Liam Young examines how imaginative narratives navigate tomorrow's challenges.
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August 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reuters: As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain's longest-ever heatwaves, *the temperature in one of its poorest neighborhoods — Puente de Vallecas — measured as much as 8 degrees Celsius higher* than other parts of the city which had more trees”.
Madrid’s poor neighbourhoods clamour for more trees to cool streets in deadly heatwaves
As temperatures in Spain rise as a result of global warming, trees may play a crucial role.
www.reuters.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“NEW INV.: The disappearance of Namibia’s grasslands is not a natural occurrence but rather can be traced back to German settler colonial practices following their genocidal campaign against the Nama and Ovaherero peoples in the early 20th century.” @forensicarchi.bsky.social
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August 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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China says it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh
China Says It Spoke With Neighbors on Planned Mega-Dam’s Impacts
China said it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh.
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July 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation | Berta Flaquer

How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty?
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Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation
How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book...
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July 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Check out my new post on where Greenlanders live as #Greenland is getting more and more international attention for its new opportunities including new trade route, route for travel (tourism), untapped mineral resources (including REEs, oil and gas)…
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Note #5 Greenland: Where People live in Greenland (a map, three charts)
Map of Greenland's towns and three charts plotting its total population count, total population growth projection and its urban population growth projection
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April 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Why not using existing infrastructures rather than clearing a part of Amazon rainforest to build what? a… highway!?!?!?!
Belem was always a bad choice. There is existing infrastructure in Rio.

This is infuriating.

I'm working on MegaCOP dynamics and the environmental impact is the worst hypocrisy. #COP30

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The recent conflict has devastated Gaza’s already fragile waste collection system. With hundreds of thousands of tons of waste piling up in the streets, health and environmental risks are escalating.
Explore our latest Reuters Graphics piece 🗑️ #Gaza #ReutersGraphics

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Gaza’s garbage crisis
After 15 months of war, Gaza is suffering from a destroyed waste system.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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La planète Mars hier.
The surface of Mars, photographed a few hours ago.

Rover tracks in the foreground.
February 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Note #4 Why Greenland matters? Inhabiting a disputed cold territory
#landscapeecologies #extremeenvironments
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Note #4
Why Greenland matters? Inhabiting a disputed cold territory
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February 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Eyal Weizman: “There’s a clause in the genocide convention that is particularly architectural: ‘Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. 1/2
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Thursday briefing: The outlandish plan to turn Gaza into a ‘riviera of the Middle East’
In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump’s proposal is an attempt to reshape political reality that has historical precedent, explains architect and researcher Eyal Weizman
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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We have a new 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 for you: "Water as a Boundary Actor" by Laura Otto, junior professor at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg.

You can rewatch the talk she introduced it in on our Youtube channel: lnkd.in/epDDpG8c

#rcccriticalconcepts #rcc #envhum #water #culture
February 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
11 and 13/03/2025 if you’re in Turin, Fragile Cities: Tactics of Care in the New Climatic Regime including Andres Jaque, as inaugural symposium of Invisible Cities Lab.
February 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
China electrifying its economy?

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Note #3 China electrifying its economy
Short note on natural infrastructures at the heart of possible tensions (?)
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January 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM