Rory Hyde

“Most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet, [they] come into the library to use a computer, to use wifi, to look something up, to ask a librarian for help.”

It doesn't get more egregious than this:
#auspol

“Andy McDonald, 61, says he ‘fell on to’ the shark and ‘was like, punching it’ before friend helped him paddle to shore” 😳

man smoking a cigarette and after work you try to become yourself again

Built for Inequity How Australia’s quiet architecture of policy and profit sustains disadvantage

Australia’s biggest problem isn’t the next crisis — it’s the growing gap between those who sail through it and those who drown in it. If we can afford inequity, we can afford to fix it. www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/built-for-...

'Inequality is not an accident of fate but the outcome of deliberate design — and therefore it can be redesigned.' Essential reading from @mrdtjames.bsky.social on the failed promise of fairness.

man in 3 piece suit and round glasses, he is smoking a cigarette

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."

Aldous Leonard Huxley

The Trump Supremacy [FREE TO READ] Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

www.ft.com/content/1377...
@edwardluce.bsky.social

Wealth gap widening: new report A UNSW Sydney and ACOSS partnership report has revealed the latest wealth and income inequality data.

Yes, out of touch, and slippery too. He's talking about *incomes*, not *wealth*, which is the bigger number, and very much still widening. www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Fantastic day at Balam Balam Place in Melbourne, for Robin Boyd Foundation event ‘Living in Australia’. Great series of talks and discussions, expertly curated by @roryhyde.bsky.social of Melbourne School of Design, ending with great keynote by Elizabeth Timme of @officeofoffice.bsky.social

A Homebase superstore done out like an Egyptian temple

Egyptian-style column details

"Egypt: Influencing British Design" at the Soane museum, where these images of the Warwick Road Homebase superstore, built in 1988 and long demolished, are on show.

Bang on stuff here, with some hard questions for designers and educators on what to do now

The day stared back at me as if waiting for me to tell it what to do.

“I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.” ~ Virginia Woolf

So great, love Mike, will have to get up to Sydney!

Two frames. Both show couple outside building with AUCTION sign looking at brochure. Frame 1: Person one says, “It’s perfect, but we’ll never be able to afford it.” Person two says, “But the govt’s first homebuyers’ assistance scheme means we only need a 5% deposit…” Frame 2: person one says, “The same 5% the price went up since the last time we said we’d never be able to afford it?”

Pump it up.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Glorious

I lived on Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee as a student and it still tastes like PhD stress

'[Farrell was] striving to make architecture more communicative and uplifting at a time when modernism seemed to have finally run its course.' – Cath Slessor

'Bauhaus the design movement or the band?'

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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One for all the supply supply supply yimby and abundance bros.

‘While we shall be judged for a year or two by the _number_ of houses we build … we shall be judged in ten years’ time by the _type_ of houses we build.’ - Nye Bevan, 1944, quoted by @municipaldreams.bsky.social

Megasheds the size of 12 football pitches, surrounded by barbed wire and flashing lights, that make lots of noise and potentially disrupt local energy supply while creating a handful of jobs are not going to be a source of local renewal - all that Nvidia money isn't going to show up on high streets

Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...

‘Eno’s exchanges in 1995 with friends such as Kevin Kelly (Wired, the Whole Earth Review) and Stewart Brand (the Whole Earth Catalogue, the WELL) now feel a little quaint, like a coffee house claque in 18th-century Vienna.’

Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gah, so good

“If we leave it up to the market, you would have only offices, furnished tourist rentals and second homes — a Paris without Parisians, a Paris for the rich” (Indeed. Look at Anglosphere capitals. Amusing to watch the FT try to get its head around this pretty excellent policy) on.ft.com/4nxze08

The cliché house (by @KarlreMarks)

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.