Estate Perfomance #27

INTERNET EXPLORERS

The Sunderland Collection of historic maps (plus other cartographic material) is a comprehensive survey of humankind’s endless thirst for knowledge. Now, by means of an all-new digital environment, the collection’s range of proven and speculative routes and redrawn horizons can travel as far as the ambitions of their makers, ready to be discovered afresh by a global audience

Cultivating Surreality

Dadaist and Surrealist practices challenged the traditional vocabulary of artistic creation. Rather than being styles, these two movements described a way of seeing the world. Those mindsets continue to inspire artists, designers, and architects today. Here, Ines Glowania examines the meaning of provocation, more or less based on a certain drawing of a moustache.

PEI AND DISPLAY

M+ gallery presents the first full-scale retrospective of internationally renowned architect IM Pei

SPECIAL BRUT

Take two landmark Brutalist houses in São Paulo, install a simultaneous exhibition of complementary Abstract works by under-the-radar Brazilian artists and the result is a mesmerising mix that is, well, concretely captivating

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RETURN JOURNEY

The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, originally a 1930s Art Deco palace conceptualised by a Japanese princess, has a surprising history of cross-cultural meeting points. Here you’ll find Japanese craftsmanship alongside French artistry by the likes of Lalique

MANHATTAN MASTERMIND

Architect Rosario Candela worked as a cryptographer during World War II, and brought the same ruthless, analytical logic to his apartment buildings. They are now revered as New York’s most elite private abodes, as a new book attests

The Post-Human Economy

Artificial intelligence chatbots like GPT reveal that the robots have already taken over

Heritagutopia: a new utopian paradigm

The progress of humanity has always, and sometimes even unconsciously, been confronted with the concept of utopia at the social, economic, political, and urban level. The strength of every utopian vision lies in the disruptive factor inherent in the idea of metamorphosis of the status quo

Build a Corporate Culture That Works

There’s a widespread understanding that managing corporate culture is key to business success. Yet few companies articulate their culture in such a way that the words become an organizational reality that molds employee behavior as intended.

Barriers to social sustainability in urbanisation: a comparative multi-stakeholder perspective

Social sustainability is a key pillar of sustainable development that usually receives less focus and emphasis when compared to other environmental or economic aspects. This entails the need to address this gap, should the concept of urban sustainability be comprehensively tackled. Despite such importance, social sustainability is considered a relatively difficult pillar to measure, considering its entanglements with the concerned individuals, communities, and stakeholders.

Making history, making place—contextualising the built heritage of world expos 2010 and 2015

Be it the 1873 World’s Fair in Vienna, which established the city’s status as a link between the Occident and Orient, or the very first Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, which showcased the then British empire to a global public and the world to its domestic visitors. World’s fairs have been and are still an indispensable part of a shared human history as well as an indicator of a country’s economic and cultural relevance on a global scale.

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The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years

Three designers, a museum curator, an artist and a design-savvy actress convened at The New York Times to make a list of the most enduring and significant objects for living.

Download - AI in the workplace: How companies and workers are getting it right

The new resulting guide, “AI in the workplace: How companies and workers are getting it right,” culminates months of research and reporting by Charter’s staff to provide that. In addition to promising practices from enterprises including Cisco and Microsoft and startups such as Humane and BenchSci, you’ll find:

Specific case studies of worker involvement in adoption, from companies small and large.
Examples of custom tools and workflows that companies are developing with input from their workers.
Frameworks for mitigating bias in AI systems.

10 Questions With… Armstrong Yakubu

It is universally acknowledged that every London property sited along the Thames commands real estate gold. But it wasn’t always so. When Riverside opened on Hester Road in 1990, it was on the wrong side of the tracks. Architect Norman Foster looked beyond the derelict docks and abandoned warehouses to inject a mixed-use building with much needed vitality in a depressed corner of the capital.

A New Approach to Knowledge-Sharing Within Organizations

There are significant trade-offs inherent in traditional knowledge-sharing tools and mechanisms, such as operating manuals or trainings. The more comprehensive the instructions, the less likely that they’ll be absorbed and understood by employees. The more precise the instructions, the less they allow for customization or employee initiative. And the more rigid the instructions, the less they can evolve as circumstances change.

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