Frontier Magazine

Weekly appreciations from the forefronts of architecture, technology, culture, and education. By @briansholis.

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I appreciate @Richard_Florida & his colleagues putting a name on this phenomenon, but I also feel it has distressing implications, so for this week’s newsletter I wrote a bit about why:

https://t.co/ZQTx937O3m

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Ken Montague: “It’s possible to establish an art collection of portraiture that will be uplifting while being truthful to history and exploring ideas that are essential when we think about Black culture, Black identity, Black life.” https://t.co/iYEc7vwhio

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“The idea is to make sure that these institutions reflect the communities that they serve on all fronts.” This week’s podcast: art collector & patron Ken Montague on Black joy and changing museums from the inside: https://t.co/iYEc7vwhio

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The second in our series of products we can get behind: @rbeccazhou & Annie Kreighbaum’s @softservices:

https://t.co/wbI0kGcrvV

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Happy to have our podcast interviews with @djrupture and @longform_ed linked in today’s First Floor, a great music newsletter by @shawnreynaldo:

https://t.co/ZgFkEHVDux

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“The @vollebak product that caught our attention is less of a spectacle: the Garbage Fleece, launched last year.” https://t.co/b2vIuTd3sM

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As we enter gift-giving season, I wrote this week on @freshkillspark & @vollebak, two very different organizations repurposing waste into something new and better.

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On @freshkillspark: “It took decades to close the landfill; it is taking decades to rehabilitate its Staten Island site; and it’ll take yet more decades of awareness-raising and activism to reduce our great tides of refuse to a trickle.”

https://t.co/vA1rPxAuuQ

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Thinking about Humane’s AI Pin and @newcomputer’s Dot, I realize: “there is still plenty of room to grow within current paradigms of human-computer interaction. That runway is in designing conversation.”

https://t.co/oG8va6Mry5

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The bad-neighbor effect was part of my argument against the MSG Sphere in July. Glad to see the London Mayor’s office taking their concerns seriouly.

https://t.co/jW21lKyvgj

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejects Madison Square Garden’s plans to build a Vegas-style giant orbed shape entertainment venue in east London’s Stratford district https://t.co/8Ok0sCeFuB

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This week: realizing I want AI that builds upon what I know, not what the world does. For me, that means @newcomputer over @Humane. Hardware is (almost) fungible; relationship-building isn’t. cc @jasonyuan & @sjwhitmore

https://t.co/oG8va6LTIx

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On a new book about experience design: “Burickson’s framework does, though, give me useful ways to think about experiences that feel inconsiderate or hollow.”

https://t.co/crLbtt6m0U

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@longform_ed So glad we connected, and here’s a direct link (to https://t.co/bOStviq7qZ)

https://t.co/l1NW0F0Uks

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Congrats to the @_andychung and the @read_cv team! Read an interview with Andy here:

https://t.co/zfDOl70Fhy

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Super excited to launch some big new updates to profiles on https://t.co/WJsdKb8tla today! Our new writing tab gives you the power to publish a blog, journal, or anything word-related right on your profile. We've also made attachments and text editing richer and more flexible ✨

Changes are live now, so let us know what you think!

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Abraham Burickson’s @yalebooks title “Experience Design” reminds me of @notrobwalker’s “The Art of Noticing” and @austinkleon’s “Steal Like An Artist”—they all advocate for using our powers of observation and creativity when relating to the world.

https://t.co/crLbtt6TQs

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This week: Abraham Burickson’s @yalepress @odysseyworks book “Experience Design” suggests a profound shift in how we conceive of the act of design:

https://t.co/crLbtt6m0U

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Related: https://t.co/mJmL00gtgM

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The new exhibit “Urban Archaeology” shows off architectural relics salvaged from buildings destroyed during the urban renewal era in St. Louis https://t.co/MMq6XmeTta

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The @pulitzerarts Foundation has a great-looking exhibit on the “lost buildings of St. Louis.” At the same time, its patron has a large real-estate project one block west of the museum. Urban-development advocates would benefit from linking the two.

https://t.co/Kygx56yTdy

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@kneelingbus LOL I first read this as public-transit advice

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@dada_drummer Last one, for now, partly because it’s depressing to post these: https://t.co/FctLQAtmlF

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I spent a few months interviewing Discogs sellers and former employees about the site's decline, why it's flailing, and how the new fee increase is making it untenable for many longtime sellers. The piece is now live at @Stereogum:
https://t.co/EIEVyZaHc1

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Independent-music communities are at a crossroads. There’s more great music, and more great music writing, than ever. But despite (because of?) technological progress, it’s getting harder to find & support it.

https://t.co/Oqqc4M0Muz

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Following on from the piece above & from my interview last week with Jace Clayton: Spotify will soon no longer pay royalties on tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams. Here’s @dada_drummer rightly excoriating this policy:

https://t.co/xsQmYGP0Lj