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SPACE10’s New Headquarters Is Very Community-Centric

Design Milk

New additions, including a public library with a take-a-book-leave-a-book system, foster an environment that’s conducive for community exchange and creative ideation. A program of events, always free to attend, will continue to highlight new guests and cultivate a space for discussion, conversation, and inspiration.

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A Vertical Campus Reshapes the Boston Skyline  

Azure Magazine

While in 2012, buildings were considered sustainable if they met LEED standards, Boston University was pursuing the ambitious goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. The program, however, needed to account for quiet workspaces in addition to collaboration zones. The DNA of the building was never lost.

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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

As an undergraduate, he was exposed to a rare-at-the-time design program that wasn’t simply commerce-focused, but also incorporated the history and theory of graphic design. Their program had made a name for itself as the epicenter of progressive graphic design and a hotbed for the intersection of design and critical theory.

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Interface® Considers Design + Sustainability at Every Step

Design Milk

Public health is affected as well – not just for future generations but for today” said Chip DeGrace, Interface Director, Design Purpose. When the time comes for Interface’s flooring to be removed, they’ll take back the used carpet tiles and recycle the materials as backing for future tiles through their ReEntry program.

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The Current Crisis Makes it Clear: We Need a New Deal for Affordable Housing

Azure Magazine

There are, in effect, two parallel but distinct housing crises: While the decades-long erosion of government-led housing programs has left homeless and low-income people without support, rapidly escalating land values in major cities are quickly making rent – let alone home-ownership – all but unattainable for middle-case urbanites.

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The design of API documentation

UX Collective

A really good source of professional knowledge, with a great mentoring program, is The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) (2021) which hosts an annual conference. JS: An API (application programming interface) allows different pieces of software to communicate with each other. Is this correct? Can you clarify?

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The snake that eats its tail

UX Collective

From the shadows on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave to Neil Postman’s warning that we are ‘amusing ourselves to death’ (Postman 2006) with entertainment, concerns over media, distraction, and attention linger in our public discourse. It is also turned inward towards public sector employees who are ‘monitored’ by the system.