July Issue

By now it’s obvious that the built environment has taken on new meanings. Thinkers in biology, design, and architecture take on the future of spaces and how they can be reimagined, redefined, and reconstructed.

There has never been a better time for a design revolution, says David Benjamin, founder of The Living. Are first principles the best way forward, or does the future lie in something still emerging?⟶

Christina Cogdell, professor and author, asks whether today’s living architecture can hold up to traditional methods of building that use low-tech biomaterials such as wood and adobe⟶

Biodesign has gained public recognition through its close relationship with exhibition spaces. But as the inequalities that plague the culture industry are broadly exposed, curator and historian Michelle Millar Fisher explains how practitioners face a crisis of conscience⟶

Scientific instruments are cast as impartial extensions of the human sensory system—they’re not. As biology becomes more widely used, design for humans will inevitably become design for the more-than-human, says designer, biologist, and professor Elizabeth Hénaff ⟶

Biodesigned Editor and bioethicist Alex Pearlman spoke with one Cleveland-based architect who has a radical idea to make the construction industry circular: feed demolished buildings to fungus⟶

Christina Cogdell on architecture and design’s ability to reach across ideologies [Video]⟶

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