GROWTH
CONCRETE STEPS
How architectural norms need to change
Building green is in vogue, but what goes wrong when and where with the ambition for more environmentally sustainable design?
by Jemma Jamin
DATA-CENTRED DESTINY
The impact of cloud computing really is in the skies
There are billions of gigabytes of data flowing from our devices to the ‘sky’. However, this data does not just disappear into the “cloud”, but ends up in vast, windowless buildings filled with rows and rows of Orwellian servers...
by Elena Pavāre
WATER WARS
The Nile basin's most valuable commodity
Competition and conflict on the Nile hints at a future where a resource so often taken for granted holds the power to make and break governments and policy...
DRAWING THE LINE
Going organic with the metropolis
Take the bus, save a polar bear? Is public transport the future of cities or is Utopian urban planning a never-ending narrative on sustainable living? Public transit can help solve the problem but it can also create new ones...
by Pranav Nair
THE OVERTON WINDOW
The public emergency of climate change denial
Sceptics pose an unappreciated public emergency to states and society. The denialist movement strives to widen the set of politically acceptable policies to include policies of climate indifference that directly exacerbate the impact of climate change...
DEBRIS OR NOT DEBRIS
Talking Trash, Tea and Destint with Rising Star Harriet Brettle
Space is vast, yet useable space is cramped and, ironically, increasingly claustrophobic. Harriet Brettle - Head of Business Analysis at Astroscale - on why we need to care about the mess hanging perpetually above our heads...
by Tom Gardner
CANCER ALLEY
Covid-19 discriminates
The pandemic has highlighted that systemic racism can manifest in something as indiscriminate as a microscopic virus...
