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Issue 07 Published Apr 14, 2024

Slow craft, vivid futures: documenting design rituals in the green cities movement

Longform reportage, annotated field recordings, and interactive cartography exploring how community studios remix biomaterials, street media, and ancestral practices.

Portrait of Aiko Matsuda

Aiko Matsuda

12 min read · Urban Futures Desk

Urban ecology Design rituals Field notes
Muralists painting with green pigments
Studio Aya · Photo diary

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A rotating mix of longform reads, tactile process journals, and on-the-ground voices curated by the editorial desk.

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Designers working with vibrant materials Design & Futures

Blueprints for cooperative publishing ecosystems

Inside the collectives merging open-source tooling, reader governance, and climate-positive production to reinvent media infrastructure.

By Maya Chen Feature · 14 min read
Material lab workspace with prototypes Process Diary

Tactile prototyping notes from the material library

Swipe through sketch layers, substrate tests, and palette references from our residency cohort experimenting with algae inks.

By Helena Cruz Process · 8 min read
Night time projection mapping on building City circuits

Projection storytelling labs reimagining public dialogue

How civic technologists, poets, and youth archivists co-designed an interactive projection series for late-night commuters.

By Luz Ortega Photo essay · 9 min read
Sound artist performing in a dim studio Interview

Studio conversations

Listening infrastructures with Sonic Commons

An audio-visual collective mapping community care through spatial sound, open instruments, and neighborhood residencies.

  • • 42 min episode with transcript & diagrams
  • • Recorded between Mexico City and Rotterdam
Audio Lab Community care
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Notebook Published Apr 08, 2024

Field atlas: regenerative foodways in the Mekong Delta

Story maps, recipe cards, and oral histories from communities building resilient food futures amid rising tides.

Hands preparing herbs and food
River boats at sunrise
Cartography Food futures Community archive
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Wire dispatch

Latest short-form reports & explainers

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Glowing shape installation

Field note

Augmented rituals for night markets

4 min read · Manila
Hands writing in notebook

Research memo

Designing multilingual knowledge commons

7 min read · São Paulo
Abstract data visualization on screen

Quick read

Ethical dashboards for community-owned datasets

5 min read · Nairobi
Community gathering in city plaza

Explainer

When participatory budgeting meets climate adaptation

6 min read · By Idris Sowe
Community meeting board

Micro brief

Cooling maps launch across Dakar neighborhoods

3 min read · By Aminata Fall
Heat resilient shelter design

Quick stat

70% of residents back solar shade corridors

2 min read · By Chika Okoye
Audio Series Season 04 · Episode 03

Articulate Sessions: Designing for collective memory

Archivists, XR artists, and librarians share frameworks for preserving marginalized stories with immersive media.

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42:18 · Transcript & show notes included

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Guests · Kayo Nakamura, Priya Kotecha, and Maru Castillo Recorded live at the Articulate Residency studio · Berlin

Episode 04 · Memory corridors

38:04 · Field recordings & image previews

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Guests · Laila Mohamud & Jonah Reyes Recorded at the Community Memory Lab · Nairobi

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