Cities after Covid: Back to life
The lockdown experience has fundamentally changed the way that many of us relate to the built environment. Designers can make shared spaces safer — but can they make people feel safe again?
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The design of spaces has always “nudged” people’s behaviour. But with digital technology, our tools are becoming more precise and potentially far more powerful. So how far should we push?
The lockdown experience has fundamentally changed the way that many of us relate to the built environment. Designers can make shared spaces safer — but can they make people feel safe again?
Healthcare facilities must not only be safe, but be perceived as safe
It could make it into the place we’ve always wanted it to be
Conscious Cities founder Itai Palti on his influences — good and bad
Itai Palti’s Conscious Cities movement is rethinking the urban landscape using neuroscience, AI and human-centred design. Is this the future of architecture?
Smartphones suck our mental energy and leave us disoriented and alienated. How can urban designers use their immense power for good?
One of humanity’s oldest skills is making an unlikely comeback as designers rebel against the render
AI is already supporting architects and engineers — but how far could it go?
The rise of the robots will make millions of jobs obsolete in the very near future. What are we going to do?
A railway interchange south of Stockholm is getting a new lease of life
Johan Edstav is a Green politician in one of the world’s most sustainable countries. So why does he want to build a city on this field?
A sociologist analyzes BIM
Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill’s most groundbreaking designs — including the first building to be measured in kilometres
“We’re problem-solvers who happen to be architects. Sometimes the solution is not just a building”
We are all taught to believe in the power of collaboration, but what really drives the relationships that create our built environment?
An engineer’s view of creative problem-solving
The Paris architect on what helps him to think
Ping pong tables, pod chairs, beach huts and giant slides — is this really what it takes to make us more creative at work?
Professor Heinz Wolff has now invented an entirely new approach to elderly care — a system that relies on man rather than machine
(* that might actually work)