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Barbie, Her House and the American Dream
even as the most popular doll in the world, Mattel looked to confront the way they’d always done things. “We attacked every aspect of the business, from product to communication to content to social mission,” McKnight explained. This helped them ask more upstream questions about their own incumbency – challenging themselves to think about what Barb
... See moreeatbigfish. • The Cost of Mediocrity
“The American dream was Every man gets his castle ,” Todd Gannon, the head of architecture at Ohio State University's Knowlton School, told me. Above all else, the suburban life is one of independence, a self-contained homestead where the American family can realize its desire and potential, unperturbed by others. Even the family car gets its own b... See more
Ian Bogost • Revenge of the Suburbs
Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis. REBECCA SOLNIT
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.... See more
You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also yo
Alyssa Bailey • Here's Every Word of America Ferrera's Big ‘Barbie’ Monologue
...dramatically rethinking what homeownership can look like and most likely divorcing the concepts of house as residence and house as savings account.
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
We have been trained to view our houses and apartments as private refuges, but they must also be seen for what they are: job sites where millions of dollars of the global economy are directly exchanged.