Another World is Possible Another World is Possible By Honor Harger 20 September 2025 In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. As my friend Liam Young says, it’s as if we are…

Another world is possible. A post on a very intriguing exhibition… Singapore, including architect and filmmaker Liam Young

⏱ But if you don't have time for that, I would appreciate it if you could comment sharing any interesting examples, patterns, or resources you’ve seen that demonstrate how AI fits into development

🧠 Developers, I need your input! 🙏 😊
We’re exploring ways to enhance the developer experience with ArcGIS. AI-assisted coding is reshaping how we build software, and I’d love to hear how you use it in your everyday work.

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America and China return to fierce trade conflict Donald Trump threatens an extra 100% levy as rare-earth minerals prompt a fresh spat

This is why Greenland became so attractive these recent years… “There is still time for the two superpowers to step back from the brink of their latest row over rare earths. These minerals are needed to manufacture most electronics of both the consumer and military sort”

What can we learn from Iran's Military-Infrastructural Landscape? In my last entry in my series of Why Greenland matters, I promised that I would focus on international attention for Greenland’s natural resources.

What can we learn from Iran's Military-Infrastructural Landscape? #militarylandscape #infrastructurallandscape
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Extraction 'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.&hellip;An immense contribution.' &#8212;Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...

Theo Riofrancos, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism - WW Norton, October 2025
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Forensic Architecture on X: "Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the https://t.co/LRtq2MTsYD" / X Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the https://t.co/LRtq2MTsYD

@forensicarchi.bsky.social Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza. (…)

Designing Futures Can storytelling prototype the future? Speculative architect Liam Young examines how imaginative narratives navigate tomorrow's challenges.

“The architects of today can and should acknowledge and embrace the multi-species collaboration inherent in any ecosystem. We should be just as concerned with whooping crane-centered design, wetlands-centered design, atmosphere-centered design, or even hard-drive-centered design...” Liam Young

Madrid’s poor neighbourhoods clamour for more trees to cool streets in deadly heatwaves As temperatures in Spain rise as a result of global warming, trees may play a crucial role.

Reuters: As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain's longest-ever heatwaves, *the temperature in one of its poorest neighborhoods — Puente de Vallecas — measured as much as 8 degrees Celsius higher* than other parts of the city which had more trees”.

“NEW INV.: The disappearance of Namibia’s grasslands is not a natural occurrence but rather can be traced back to German settler colonial practices following their genocidal campaign against the Nama and Ovaherero peoples in the early 20th century.” @forensicarchi.bsky.social
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China Says It Spoke With Neighbors on Planned Mega-Dam’s Impacts China said it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh.

China says it has talked with countries downstream about its new dam project in Tibet, a massive undertaking that will affect a key source of water for India and Bangladesh

Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book...

Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation | Berta Flaquer

How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty?
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Note #5 Greenland: Where People live in Greenland (a map, three charts) Map of Greenland's towns and three charts plotting its total population count, total population growth projection and its urban population growth projection

Check out my new post on where Greenlanders live as #Greenland is getting more and more international attention for its new opportunities including new trade route, route for travel (tourism), untapped mineral resources (including REEs, oil and gas)…
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Hum… I see, business supervenes over environment in their logic. You can’t be environment-friendly & at the same time you encourage such big projects that are harmful to nature. I confess I never believed in this idea of COP because of this hypocrisy!

Why not using existing infrastructures rather than clearing a part of Amazon rainforest to build what? a… highway!?!?!?!

Gaza’s garbage crisis After 15 months of war, Gaza is suffering from a destroyed waste system.

The recent conflict has devastated Gaza’s already fragile waste collection system. With hundreds of thousands of tons of waste piling up in the streets, health and environmental risks are escalating.
Explore our latest Reuters Graphics piece 🗑️ #Gaza #ReutersGraphics

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Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming Under current nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, global warming is projected to reach 2.7°C above preindustrial levels. In this review, we show that at su...

Disappearing landscapes: The #Arctic at +2.7°C #globalwarming
Julienne C. Stroeve et al
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

La planète Mars hier.

Note #4 Why Greenland matters? Inhabiting a disputed cold territory

Note #4 Why Greenland matters? Inhabiting a disputed cold territory
#landscapeecologies #extremeenvironments
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.

5/5 There is a long historical relationship between counterinsurgency and architecture,” Weizman said. “It rests on the idea that architecture can ‘solve’ a political problem and change one’s identity.” A very fascinating interview. Put in order 😅. 2/2’s supposd to appear b4 3/… 😅

and only allowed locals to live there as registered labourers in low-quality public housing. In Algiers in the 1840s, the French army was only able to subjugate guerrilla resistance by razing entire neighbourhoods, organising the city around new roads and markets instead. 4/…

Also: 3/… You can see similar precedents to the Gaza plan. In Kenya during the 1920s, the British colonial administration demolished “African villages” in and around Nairobi as part of an effort to segregate the city on racial lines, …

2/2 Violence is applied to the environment because the environment is what maintains life - and so the killing is indirect. To simply erase Gaza and turn it into a riviera is a way to continue the work of destruction by construction, instead.”

Thursday briefing: The outlandish plan to turn Gaza into a ‘riviera of the Middle East’ In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump’s proposal is an attempt to reshape political reality that has historical precedent, explains architect and researcher Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman: “There’s a clause in the genocide convention that is particularly architectural: ‘Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. 1/2
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Water as a boundary actor: Water connects various social worlds, perspectives, and practices. - Laura Otto

To think of water as a boundary actor according to the framework of Susan Leigh Star's and James Griesemer's concept of boundary objects, we can explore how water connects various social worlds, perspectives, and practices. - Laura Otto

We have a new 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 for you: "Water as a Boundary Actor" by Laura Otto, junior professor at Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg.

You can rewatch the talk she introduced it in on our Youtube channel: lnkd.in/epDDpG8c

#rcccriticalconcepts #rcc #envhum #water #culture

Erratum: it’s “11-12 march” (of course)

11 and 13/03/2025 if you’re in Turin, Fragile Cities: Tactics of Care in the New Climatic Regime including Andres Jaque, as inaugural symposium of Invisible Cities Lab.

Note #3 China electrifying its economy Short note on natural infrastructures at the heart of possible tensions (?)

China electrifying its economy?

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