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Design criteria: Disregard for conventional views of beauty An aesthetic pleasure that lies beyond conventional beauty Beauty in the smallest most imperceptible details

Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

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When sidewalks and streets are built for some bodies and not for others at the scale of infrastructure, they create what political scientists Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom call “thick injustice”—inequities within urban structures that are “deep and densely concentrated, as well as opaque and relatively intractable.”

Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

Tye has identified seven architectural elements, what he calls the “super vitamins” of enriched environments, that help us to be healthier and more in sync with our surroundings, and several of these are pulled directly from nature: natural light, natural materials, and structures reminiscent of natural shapes. He uses evidence-based design, which

Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

We wanted to explore what it would look like if we created a social-media platform that moves against hierarchy and making people into brands. What care and safety mean when creating online connections that feel more tender and meaningful and not so transactional and extractive. And we’re thinking about citation, ensuring that creators and people o... See more

Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?

Discovering your personal ‘joy line’ is a fascinating process.

Marie Kondo • Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying

I want our physical environments to be magnetic. Irresistible. If this is not your thing, you will be tempted to discount its importance. That’s a mistake. Unless, of course, you want a church full of people just like you.

Andy Stanley • Deep and Wide

The Wendy’s was a low square building with the look of having been slapped together from a kit in an architecturally careless era, but it had a beautiful front door. It was a replacement, solid wood, and someone had taken the trouble to carve a row of flowers alongside the carved handle.

Emily St. John Mandel • Station Eleven

There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or do things they’d miss otherwise.