Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Harvesting Change
An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt
How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
The Art of the Slump
by Michelle Fornabai
The fleeting fate and enduring potential of the slump test.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
A New Normal
by Filip Tejchman
Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Smartness as Instrument
by Orit Halpern
Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.
Issue 03, Performance
Organic Algorithm, Organic Urbanism
by Travis Jared Marmarellis Bunt and Mathew Staudt, with Tat Lam and Timmie King Hong Tsang
Re-processing Beijing’s hutong villages.
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Integration
A conversation with Mahadev Raman
Triple bottom line.
Issue 03, Performance
The Subjects of Performance
by Neeraj Bhatia
Architecture and the open work.
Issue 03, Performance
Cloud Theater
by Wolfgang Kessling and Christian Oberdorf, Transsolar
Don’t let performance kill the poetry.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Big Data, False Data, Smart Data, Dumb Data
By Nicole Lambrou
Measuring the human condition.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Sandbox Infrastructure
By Matthew Wisnioski and Kari Zacharias
Field notes from the arts research boom.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
The City is Not a Lab
by Leah Meisterlin
How (not) to experiment in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.
LABORATORY SERIES. No.10. Iron Lung Ward at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center during the 1952 Polio epidemic. The Iron Lung was developed as a temporary respiratory aid for polio patients unable to breathe on their own. Subjects, primarily young children, were confined to the airtight chamber from the neck down. Acting as an artificial lung, the apparatus created a negative pressure environment around the subject’s torso allowing the patient’s lungs to expand and contract. Photo: Wikipedia.
