Installation art urged a deeper physical relationship with the material world, but also an awareness of the historical and cultural associations that places and things carry with them.
Tony Godfrey | Dec 8, 2020
The nation’s largest food charity, Feeding America, has failed to embrace the progressive values needed to make a real impact. Here’s a plan to change that.
Andrew Fisher | Nov 23, 2020
The original game is at the root of a rich design tradition, one that goes well beyond detailed graphics and fluid controls.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Nov 16, 2020
The El Rancho, a self-contained and luxurious resort built along a busted-up highway in 1941, set the tone for the Las Vegas Strip.
Stefan Al | Nov 12, 2020
Two video game veterans field questions on a range of topics, from trends in gaming to the pitfalls of game development.
The Editors | Nov 5, 2020
The fever around data bunkers, manifested in the desire to secure or defend data, is in fact a melancholic attachment to the data.
Tung-Hui Hu | Oct 29, 2020
In an era when public opinion favored sheltering young people from adult society, the Freeville republic and its many descendants immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.
Jennifer S. Light | Oct 9, 2020
“In effect the single word is a new reading process; like electricity — instant and continuous.”
Paul Stephens | Sep 8, 2020
Urban designer Eran Ben-Joseph charts the evolution of the humble parking lot.
Eran Ben-Joseph | Sep 3, 2020
As the fate of the USPS hangs in the balance, postal scholar Ryan Ellis looks back at its creation and reveals how the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 transformed postal politics for good — and for ill.
Ryan Ellis | Aug 17, 2020
