// Benjamin Bratton on QUARANTINE URBANISM "What are the important lessons to be learned before the normality that caused mayhem returns? A second wave of the virus would be catastrophic, but so would another wave of its underlying causes." strelkamag.com/en/article/18-…

Announcing Work in Progress – a new podcast by Design Hub Gallery. The first episode features metahaven reflecting on the the development of their practice and their current exhibition #MetahavenFieldReport. designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-pr…

Join #TheTerraforming on April 24, 6 pm (Moscow time) for The Revenge of the Real online colloquium. Register strelka.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Presentations by researchers and faculty: Benjamin Bratton, Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh, Holly Jean Buck, and EGS faculty Jean-Luc Nancy.

If you missed the live stream last night, you can catch up with a recording of the Earth Day Symposium on Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival website.

It took us ages to find, but it was the obvious choice to open the @ArchReview Tourism issue ✈️ Drawn by Airbus in the days before computer modelling, this ghostly plane outline and its empty chairs speak poignantly of the uncertain future of flying bit.ly/2KPCBiM

We've lost a good friend and contributor to the history of MoMA PS1, Germano Celant (1940–2020). He organized "The Knot" (1985) at PS1, the first exhibition in NY that brought together 12 major postwar "arte povera" Italian artists working in materials like rags, paper, and rope.

We'll be tuning in Naomi Stead Justine Clark !

The 'Bringing them Home' report was released 23 years ago today, and chronicled the painful history of forced family separation. On this #SorryDay we are remembering these stories and our thoughts are with survivors and communities. #SorryDay #NRW2020 #Solidarity

This coming Monday 1st June I will be chatting with Kim Bridgland and Aaron Roberts about our work 'In Absence'. If your'e free between 2-3pm see the link below - bookings are essential :) ngv.vic.gov.au/program/in-con…

“We should remember that this idea of framing everything in terms of the economy is a new thing in human history. The pandemic has shown us the economy is a very narrow and limited way of organising life and deciding who is important and who is not“ theguardian.com/world/2020/jun…

Reconciliation is NOT social justice and Native Title is NOT Aboriginal sovereignty. Try not to conflate them non Indigenous Australia!

‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators…’ The Saturday Paper has taken Amy McQuire's article from this Saturday out from behind the paywall. Recommended. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime…

Important development:

Tune in to spaced-apart.com this morning for our Q&A with Melbourne based artist, jeweller, writer and educator Roseanne Bartley. 10am MEL time at spaced-apart.com.

Pre-order on Bandcamp: The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) Original Soundtrack by KUEDO. 100% of proceeds until 31st Aug to Legal Defense Fund and 🅱🅻🅰🅲🅺 🅻🅸🆅🅴🆂 🅼🅰🆃🆃🅴🆁.🆄🅺 — kuedo.bandcamp.com/album/the-spra…

The Victorian Government's Community Crime Prevention Fact Sheet for Gender-sensitive Design has been published. ⁠ ⁠ Several of the XYX Lab's projects and collaborations have been mentioned alongside the work of many more great resources. Link - soo.nr/F7pG

"Congestion can be mined as a rich seam of desires around lifestyle, social frisson, and belonging." RMIT's Paul van Herk leads the Melbourne case study for 'Cultures of Congestion' - a new project by Strelka and ArtRebels

We are going live shortly at 5pm with Reflecting on Metahaven: Field Report, a Q+A with Metahaven metahaven. Part of #OpenHouseMelbourne2020. Watch online here: bit.ly/2Oir64X

We also have Kate Rhodes RMIT Design Hub Gallery on #collaboration between curators and architects, Marina Khémis on recent projects Adrien Gardère and David Francis, Luo Pan and Lisheng Zhang UCL Institute of Archaeology on China’s museum boom (2/2) musex-design.org/full-programme/