New York City's street vendors are as much of a fixture of the city as steam rising from the sidewalk, or a taxi driver with a story to tell. But coupled with gentrification, the pandemic, and more frequent flash flooding, how is the industry faring?

How do we move beyond the legacies of colonial ways of seeing, and inhabiting, the urban grid? This is where speculative design comes in handy, where Indigenous practitioners can offer us another way to see our shared urban spaces.

How do we move beyond the legacies of colonial ways of seeing, and inhabiting, the urban grid? This is where speculative design comes in handy, where Indigenous practitioners can offer us another way to see our shared urban spaces.

Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city that is shedding its historical sectarian binaries.

Belfast is kaleidoscopic — a product born out of contested histories and the desire to break free from it. As Northern Ireland commemorates 100 years since partition, take a journey through a city that is shedding its historical sectarian binaries.

Lina Bo Bardi is a perfect example of how place can shape the direction of our work. She was also a rarity: a female architect making headway in the boy's club of mid-century modernism and an Italian making a mark on Brazilian design. She studied architecture in Rome under Marcello Piacentini, whose stripped classical buildings of the 1930s became emblematic of Mussolini's Italy. After graduating, she worked alongside Gio Ponti in Milan, whose elegant Pirelli Tower of the early 1950s would show how beautiful a skyscraper could be. So when she arrived in Brazil in 1946 with her husband, she brought with her a wealth of experience in European modernism.

Lina Bo Bardi is a perfect example of how place can shape the direction of our work. She was also a rarity: a female architect making headway in the boy's club of mid-century modernism and an Italian making a mark on Brazilian design. She studied architecture in Rome under Marcello Piacentini, whose stripped classical buildings of the 1930s became emblematic of Mussolini's Italy. After graduating, she worked alongside Gio Ponti in Milan, whose elegant Pirelli Tower of the early 1950s would show how beautiful a skyscraper could be. So when she arrived in Brazil in 1946 with her husband, she brought with her a wealth of experience in European modernism.

The concept of 'public space' is an ever-evolving one.

The concept of 'public space' is an ever-evolving one.