Sarah Owen
@sarahowen
Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
The sound of gentrification is silence.
Xochitl Gonzalez • Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
“In actual fact, [BeReal] is trapping us in an endless, 24-hour cycle – one in which every user knows that everyone else is carefully curating their casualness”
Felicity Martin • BeReal and the non-stop urge to contentify our lives
The small town where I grew up has three tracts within it. Staying within your tract is an extreme level of residential stasis, but 30 percent of young adults do just that. By contrast, huge leaps, like my great-grandmother’s from New York to Honolulu or my parents’ from Honolulu to New Hampshire, are extremely uncommon.
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
Within the tranquil Porta Vittoria neighborhood in Milan, Italy, the European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) proposal by noa* is intended to serve as a center for creation that inspires and liberates the mind. Titled ‘the Tree of Knowledge’, the project was flanked by the development of a natural landscape that permeates all spaces,... See more
noa* tops library concept in milan with organic roof ring + blossoming park
“Non-self-coercion” is the conceptual distillation of several converging threads of what you could call productivity criticism (if not outright backlash).
Pamela Hobart • Non-Self-Coercive Productivity
"According to the Outdoor Foundation, Americans went on 1 billion fewer outings in nature in 2018 compared with 2008."