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Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in August

Design Week

London-based design studio Accept & Proceed – which recently designed an Orwell-inspired identity for data rights agency AWO – has launched a podcast, which explores the ways in which brands and creative businesses are rethinking their impact on society. Podcast: Endless Vital Activity, from Accept & Proceed.

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

Azure Magazine

Instead, with inclusionary housing – market-rate projects that include a percentage of affordable units – there is less resistance, and less public sector funding required. β€œIt cities have declared racism a public health emergency. (BANANA stands for “build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.”)

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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 β€˜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 β€˜monitored’ by the system.