What we often forget is the opportunity cost of meat based diets. And another interesting (debated?) point on extensive vs. intensive farming. https://t.co/qJt4xBYJMs
EU’s primary goal in the negotiations is to prevent further disintegration, it’s clearly against its best interest to enter a ‘good deal’ for the UK. This would apply to any other member state. What a well documented, huge political mistake not to realise. https://t.co/Dlsa9XuzYo
An interesting Keller Easterling interview on the idea of Medium Design, on working with indeterminacy and on designing protocols of interplay rather than just objects https://t.co/kckn2Yy1YX
So, PM Orban is leading a xenophobic campain to win far right votes. Consequently Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein UN commissioner for human rights calls him xenophobic. Then, Orban’s foreign minister asks him to resign. Where’s the logic in this, shouldn’t he rather thank free publicity?
“Modernism’s aesthetical ethos of saving, of an economic minimalism, now serves an entirely different purpose. It serves not the happy many, but the happy few. I don’t think anybody who practices modern architecture is even vaguely aware of this.” https://t.co/bBzsWDR0HV
What happens in Eastern Europe when the municipality can access development funds only for investing in local tourism, but the residents actually need a new bus stop? The observation tower-bus stop!
2) (b) staying marginal with involvement in grassroots/bottom-up initiatives that are hardly working above a certain project scale (c) unintentionally serving increasingly populist and unprofessional political agendas by getting involved in often corrupted government projects;
1) Five possible paths for architects these days, none of them is appealing: (a) shaking off political responsibility with proclaiming the city ungovernable and taking a subordinate position to the client with accepting the logic of market economy