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Forthcoming: Small, Moving Parts: A Century of Fiches, Fairs, and Fantasies

New Post

Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Briefings Draw on the Persuasive Authority of PowerPoint

Encrypted Repositories

Post-It Note City (on the aesthetics of participatory design)

Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking

Fluttering Codes: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-Flap Display

Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences

Digital Frictions Series @ Urban Omnibus

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

Woven Circuits

The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly

Minimal Maintenance

Auditing Urban Intelligence

Networked Dream Worlds (on 5G)

FAMILIA: Corporeal Care and Affective Ties

San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City

Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge

Our Libraries Aren’t Failing Us, We’re Failing Them

Fugitive Libraries

A Map That Tracks Everything

Maintenance and Care

Furnishing Intelligence

Sonic Archaeologies

Testimonial Tables

All Eyes on the Border

Executable Spatial Scripts

Things that Beep: A Brief History of Product Sound Design

Community Plumbing (on hardware stores)

Urban Scanner (Interview)

How to Graft a City

Infrastructures for Tomorrow’s Urban Intelligences

Databodies in Codespace (on precision medicine and data-driven urban planning)

Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures

Extract and Preserve: Underground Repositories for a Posthuman Future

The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments

Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media

The World Silicon Valley Made

Sharing Is Tables: Furniture for Digital Labor

Bibliographic Machines

Mapping’s Intelligent Agents

In Wild Air

The Archival Apparatus

Closet Archive

A City Is Not a Computer

Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization

A Brief History of the Shelf

Equipment for Redemptive Living

Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects (on Zoe Beloff)

Cloud and Field (on field guides to global digital systems)

Public In/Formation

Information Professional (Dutch) Interview

Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019

Middlewhere: Landscapes of Library Logistics

Indexing the World of Tomorrow

Deep Time of Media Infrastructure

Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound

Deep Mapping the Media City

Mission Control: A History of the Dashboard

Speculative Archaeology

Preservation Aesthetics

Library as Infrastructure

Precedents for Experimentation: Talking Libraries with Shannon Mattern and Nate Hill

Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions

Interfacing Urban Intelligence

Review of Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond

Tuning into the Invisible: Roman Mars’s 99% Invisible

Urban Software Art: Spaces of Critical Engagement

Embracing the Formalist Mantle

Preserving Yesterday’s Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today’s

Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures

Infrastructural Tourism

Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science

Bureaucracy’s Playthings

Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter

Review of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects

Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited

Archizines’ Rustling Pages

Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins

DataCase

Sounding Towers

Delicious: Renovating the Mnemonic Architectures of Bookmarking

Click/Scan/Bold: The New Materiality of Architectural Discourse and Its Counter-Publics

Fluid Text, Total Design: The Woodberry Poetry Room as Idea, Collection, and Place

The New Everyday

Review of Mark Shepard, Ed., The Sentient City

Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter

Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions

Edge Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media at Gehry’s IAC Headquarters

Infernal Archive: Medial States of Matter in the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Silent, Invisible City: Mediating Urban Experience for the Other Senses

Chainbuilding: The Signature Building for the New New School

Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar

Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum

Blog to Book, Space Beer to Ballard: The BLDGBLOG Book

Sound Studies: Framing Noise

Broadcasting Space: China Central Television’s New Headquarters

Media, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Resonant Texts: Sounds of the Contemporary American Public Library

Just How Public Is the Seattle Public Library? Publicity, Posturing and Politics in Public Design

The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities

Bad Signal

Plurality in Place: Activating Public Places in Seattle

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