Resilience

This "mobile laboratory" initiative by BMW and Guggenheim was an interesting manifestation of the optimistic 'change is possible if we want to make it' vibe prevailing at the time (2011-12).

Communications between citizens and their institutions is often problematic, discouraging people from engaging. Brickstarter is a platform to turn possibilities into proposals into projects.

A team of creative neighbourhood-changers that assemble as a non-profit think tank to come up with interesting ways to start conversations, renew a sense of community, and unfold curiosities.

Cities thrive when they successfully service our basic needs with intelligence and simplicity. Recovering from 60 years of automobile-focused development and sprawl, urban planners are taking things in the right direction—backwards.

Dan Hill on “dark matter”: a term borrowed from the historian Wouter Vanstiphout referring to the hidden mass of policies and power that affect decision-making, the process, as well as the success or failure of projects.

The new loosely organized online lobbyists are becoming a political force. Are they succeeding?

Aerials was a forum about doing and designing business for a networked world. Organized by Totem, a Toronto-based consultancy, and curated by The Alpine Review, the first Aerials event was held in Toronto 10/2015.

Some early thoughts on the blockchain by way of a series of recent articles by Ben Thompson and others.

Quality education and the nordic model: how it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity