An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt

How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.

by Michelle Fornabai

The fleeting fate and enduring potential of the slump test.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

by Orit Halpern

Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.

by Travis Jared Marmarellis Bunt and Mathew Staudt, with Tat Lam and Timmie King Hong Tsang

Re-processing Beijing’s hutong villages.

A conversation with Mahadev Raman

Triple bottom line.

by Neeraj Bhatia

Architecture and the open work.

by Wolfgang Kessling and Christian Oberdorf, Transsolar

Don’t let performance kill the poetry.

By Nicole Lambrou

Measuring the human condition.

By Matthew Wisnioski and Kari Zacharias

Field notes from the arts research boom.

by Leah Meisterlin

How (not) to experiment in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.