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Global Design NYU is based at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Global Design NYU is a place where the intersection between Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape is radically explored to create vibrant resources for scholars, students, and practitioners. Global Design NYU (GDNYU), an exhibit and symposium for innovative architecture, urban design, and landscap
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02/13/2025
We are going to Venice!
Coding Plants
A Sustainable Artificial Reef and Living Kelp Archive for the Ocean
19th International Architecture Exhibition: Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Venice, 2025
01/29/2025
Fresh from the press! I'm out with a new book. Here is the publisher's pitch:
The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by U.S. scholars. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the nuke’s ‘father’, is repeatedly centre stage, as in the case of the recent film about him. These are elitist stories that more often than not ignore the suffering and violence of the bomb to laypeople in general, and to marginalised groups in particular. Starting with the gruesome mining of uranium by First Nation people in northern Canada, and continuing with the racialist culture of uranium enrichment in the Atomic City of Oak Ridge, Peder Anker offers alternative perspectives. It’s a story of how the bikini swimwear came to fetishise the nuclear bombardment of the Bikini Atoll with its celebration of ‘sex bombs’ and (an)atomic ‘bombshells’. Our current global warming fears also hearken back to ordinary citizens wondering if atomic bombs would blow up the entire sky. If some of this was news to you, it might have to do with how the story of nuclear bombs has been told.
06/01/2024
"If you want to better the world, try a good laugh rather than a moral reprimand."
I am proud to be in the latest issue of TAD, Technology/Architecture + Design, with an article co-authored with Marty Matlock, Malkin Shoshan & Hazem Rashed-Ali about climate change.
"Views from the Outside" Technology|Architecture + Design, 8(1), 8–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2024.2308499