Imagine having an equal share of the pie!

See👇. 'Housing as a common good' 🏡❤️🏡

Full report by Mariana Mazzucato & Dan Hill councilonurbaninitiatives.com/resources/mode…

(For Japanese followers, or speakers) Please consider backing this project! A vacant elementary school coming back to life in Kagoshima. I had the great fortune to meet these folks back in December and I was so impressed by them. Amazing work. for-good.net/project/100053…

Australia imports much of its timber for construction, which is not sustainable by any means—we could grow plenty here, and are not doing so timberbiz.com.au/wake-up-austra… which makes us increasingly vulnerable thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/mat… x woodcentral.com.au/australia-boun…

What if we designed, sourced and built our homes with homegrown materials and resources?

We're very excited to be launching our 'Homegrown Homes for People and Planet' report, supported by the Forestry Commission.

... Coming Weds pm on wecanmake.org 👀

#HomegrownHomes

Ha! Thanks for enriching my diagram! Very good, thanks melissa mean—and keep up the good work! More power to your elbow.

(In wave-a-magic-wand policy class this week: single biggest bang-for-buck policy initiative would be to abolish private schools (well, all but 1-2%) and make local public schools so good it’s not a choice. Impact would be across environment, society, economy + beyond. Discuss.)

“(Finnish) parents rarely are worried about the quality of their neighborhood school…OECD's own analysis confirms that successful education systems often have deliberately aimed at an ideal that the best school for any child is the neighborhood public school” (From P. Sahlberg)

'The aim … was to create a uniform, serene space where nature plays a big part. The weathered silver-grey wood will fuse the building in the landscape with rocks and pines. All in all it is a down to earth and subtle building.' (prefab glulam ftw)
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'Algorithms have become market gatekeepers and value allocators, and are now becoming producers and arbiters of knowledge.' In our article Tim O'Reilly Ilan Strauss Rufus and I argue for a closer look at the economic power of AI in The Conversation ⬇️ theconversation.com/to-understand-…

I'm back at St Antony's Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at Oxford on 3rd May to talk about my new book 'When Death Falls Apart' UChicagoPress. Join me! nissan.ox.ac.uk/event/no-title

Love love love this project

#MelbourneDesignWeek returns 23 May–2 Jun, with #UniMelb hosting hubs at MSD & @MelbConnect.

Focusing on sustainability, ethics & tech, we'll reveal the latest in design thinking & doing via an array of exhibits & events. Full program at designweek.melbourne

A shout out for the Ammodo Architecture Awards. They're very well-framed for interesting, meaningful projects. I'm an Ammodo Ambassador for the Oceania region, so do ask questions if you like — but if you're in the region (or another one!) apply! ammodo-architecture.org/awards

I hugely enjoyed having this discussion with Philip McKenzie for his great podcast—a properly exploratory conversation, for me at least. Sign up to his podcast!

🎧 Join our Prof @CityOfSound on a rambling journey through the worlds of architecture, design, music & the gaps in between on Philip McKenzie’s #TheDeepDive → unimelb.me/3UaS29B

Another great free public lecture at @msdsocial next week: Ana Miljački, historian, critic, curator and Professor of Architecture at MIT, presents the curatorial and pedagogical work of MIT’s Critical Broadcasting Lab (CBL) msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/deans-l…