Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?
Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?
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Our Culture is at a Tipping Point
S3E11 of The Conversation Piece Podcast
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Design for Survival: How to Build a Better Trauma Bay
In the high-pressure world of emergency medicine, a Toronto hospital finds new ways to save lives
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More Is More: The End of Minimalism
Marie Kondo’s decluttering dominance is over. Make way for maximalism, where the more stuff, the merrier
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The Making of Moonstruck
The 1987 rom-com starring Cher and Nicolas Cage seemed doomed to fail. Director Norman Jewison turned it into a modern classic
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The Racist History of the Painter’s Palette
Terms like “flesh tone” raise the question: Who does the art world think is holding the brush?
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How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online
The AI of the internet determines what’s relevant. One day, it decided my work wasn’t
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Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal
For hundreds of years, doctors thought nostalgia was a disease. Now, it’s a name for our modern condition
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When Cities Are Built for White Men
Our public spaces are used by diverse populations. Why does urban design still fail to reflect that?
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