@mariofaranda

Co-founder, @studiofolder / Teaching @ColumbiaGSAPP / Design, technology, cartography. Book: https://xitter.cf/t.co/rUD1lltbDT

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“Prologue to the Sky River” presents nearly three years of research on the materiality and spatial implications of a new theory and vast weather engineering project on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Co-written w/ brilliant @elisehunchuck & Jingru (Cyan) Cheng. averyreview.com/issues/53/pr…

The Avery Review | Prologue to the Sky River

The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.

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From acclaimed architect and investigator Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding is a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel's destruction of Gaza and crimes against its people. Deeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision. On sale today.
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"Solutions are probably mistakes because they don't have enough information." —Keller Easterling
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honestly wonder if the U.S. had picked up the sound of the implosion days ago, but weren't keen on revealing any hints about their underwater monitoring capabilities
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“An infinite and unlimited reverse Colorado”. nytimes.com/2023/06/10/clima…

Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico. (Published 2023)

A $5 billion plan to desalinate seawater in Mexico and pipe it to Phoenix is testing the notion that desert cities can keep growing as the Earth warms.

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A multi-hundred foot chunk of the Nova Kakhovka dam is gone, the Kakhovka Reservoir is quickly emptying out into the Dnipro.
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"the idea that you could balance water supplies like that had always been a 'legal fiction," [...] This is the hydrologic disconnect coming home to roost, Ms. Campbell said." nytimes.com/2023/06/01/clima…
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"This unstable relation [the shifting relation between land and sea] forces us to confront the consequences of climate change, as fixed certainties — soil, resources, infrastructure – that have for so long governed our imagination of land fall apart." thedial.world/issue-4/law-of…

The Law of the Sea Needs a Rewrite — The Dial

As the world contends with climate change, we must establish new expectations of, and investments in, the sea.

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UK design school instructors: Are you or are you not entitled to the portfolios of work your students produce under your studio briefs?
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#BiennaleArchitettura2023 #TheLaboratoryOfTheFuture Golden Lion for the Best Participant to #DAAR (#AlessandroPetti, #SandiHilal) “for their long-standing commitment to deep political engagement with architectural and learning practices of decolonization in Palestine and Europe”.
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Sickening to hear this from the curator of this year's Venice Biennale, Lesley Lokko – large numbers of participants from Africa have been denied visas to attend:
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Virginia Norwood, the inventor of @NASA_Landsat's Multispectral Scanner System, dies at 96. Since 1972, Landsat's "images have provided powerful visual evidence of climate change, deforestation and other shifts affecting the planet." nytimes.com/2023/04/12/scien…
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"With a price tag of more than $380 million — costlier than a Boeing 787 Dreamliner — [ASML's next machine] will be capable of etching delicate patterns on silicon wafers smaller than a virus." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War

The low-profile firm has become crucial to a half-trillion-dollar global industry.

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"A lot of ASML’s technology is not on blueprints,” he said. “It’s in the heads of people."
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Clenching the fist has now become a form of 'design activism' . We really need new, less opportunistic critics...
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"For 13,000 years, the lake has existed with no outlet to the sea, her large deposits of salt left behind through evaporation. [...] if we do not take emergency measures immediately, Great Salt Lake will disappear in five years.". Five years. nytimes.com/2023/03/25/opini…

Opinion | I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake (Published 2023)

The Latter-day Saints church has the moral authority and political sway to save the Great Salt Lake.

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NEW: We worked with the artificial intelligence company Synthetaic to detect and analyze the Chinese balloon in satellite imagery. This allowed us to track the movement of the balloon itself, not just its expected path based on weather projections nytimes.com/interactive/2023…

Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space (Published 2023)

A new analysis of satellite imagery traces the path of the Chinese balloon from its launch in China to the United States.

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Very interesting report on Wikipedia's redesign by Alex Hollender alexhollender.com/wikipedia-… (via @azeem)
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Ivor Williams@ivorinfo16 Mar 2023
What makes life feel important to you? I'm exploring how we make meaning in life, and have a quick survey for you. I'm interested in hearing from 16-24 year olds, so please share widely if you can! 🙏🏻 @caspertk @drkathrynmannix @thomaswhartley @DBetzH forms.gle/gpnAwyiMWYzLFo9e9
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"Without access to Russia airspace, Delta’s Detroit-to-Shanghai flights are now being forced to fly near obscure Pacific landmasses like Shemya Island southwest of Alaska—or Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific." nytimes.com/2023/03/17/us/po…

Banned From Russian Airspace, U.S. Airlines Look to Restrict Competitors (Published 2023)

Because of the war in Ukraine, U.S. carriers have to take the long way on flights to and from Asia, giving an advantage to foreign rivals flying the same routes.

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Please, if you watch anything from this year’s @transmediale, let it be this: Svitlana Matviyenko @svitlanax on the speeds and vectors of energy terrorism in her Marshall McLuhan lecture, NUCLEAR CYBERWAR, featuring a response by @interprt’s Nabil Ahmed. 2023.transmediale.de/en/even…
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