AI is shifting design from image-making to editing, judgment, and
Inflatable air-conditioning fashion and reactive objects signal a future where
The Politics of Air-Conditioning and Urban Heat
Air-conditioning is now a climate, health and justice battleground as cities overheat and comfort becomes infrastructure.
When Your Home Becomes a Risk Object
Parametric insurance, climate risk, and AI are turning homes into continuously priced assets—and reshaping who can afford resilience.
Cooling Offices Is Now a Design Problem
Heatwaves are forcing offices to rethink cooling as architecture, economics, and carbon collide. Can productivity stay humane without hotter cities?
When Smart Glasses Become Luxury, Who Owns the Face?
Meta’s Kylie Jenner AI glasses blur fashion and surveillance, turning the face into a new battleground of desirability and control.
The Anti-Smartphone Childhood Design Brief
Smartphone Free Childhood turns nostalgia into a design argument: children’s attention now needs protection, ritual, and offline limits.
AI Monitoring and the Future of Aging in Place
Sensors promise safer aging in place, but they also normalize surveillance. Is the smart home care—or controlled living?
Can a Jacket Replace the Water Bottle?
UT Austin's water-harvesting jacket turns clothing into survival tech—and raises hard questions about premiumizing basic needs.
Should Brands Be Rated on Death Care?
Hospice New Zealand’s Dying Reviews turns end-of-life care into a public service test. Brilliant accountability or dangerous simplification?
