- “Strip Malls tends to incite disregard, if not outright disdain:” Flip A Strip is a reaction to this, an interesting competition to redesign the Strip Mall, put together by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. The registration deadline has just passed, but the project is a foray into dialogue on the places we inhabit and their imact, a mode of civic engagement often lacking.
- Sky Circles: An quick collection of circular communities and developments as seen from the sky. Are they Zoomburbs or Boomburbs?
- Rice Paddy rice using the ancient art of conducting: Despite what the google translation may bungle, the images are worth a look just for the novelty.
- Pre-Fab Futures: Walker design director Andrew Blauvelt will be sitting on a panel at Pratt in April, discussing pre-fab architecture. [via]
- Don’t sell skittles: My google alerts went crazy this week, apparently because a honors student in New Haven Connecticut bought skittles from another student, a clear violation of school rules, landing him a suspension. This turns out to be not art related (though colorful), but the school’s spokesperson, Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo, set my google alert for Catherine Sullivan afire. At least our schools are leaving candy behind.
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