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Escalation of Commitment
Escalation of Commitment
Shane Reiner-Roth traces the development of Los Angeles's freeway infrastructure
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Safeguarding Memory in Colonial India
Yakin Kinger explores the politics of commemoration
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On the Edge
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5 February 2024
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Playing it Safe
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Keep Safe, playgrounds, safety, risk, regulation, public space, control, contemporary playground design,
8 July 2024
Playing it Safe
Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan, and Angie Door on the creation of play subjects and playgrounds
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The River and the Risk
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Keep Safe, photography, landscape, river landscape, floods, Germany, Ahr Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, landscape conservation, landscape protection, AfD, Heimat
2 July 2024
The River and the Risk
Leonie Hartung asks what it means to legally protect a (river-)landscape when the concept of landscape itself is no longer tangible
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Everyday Safety: Beware of Falling Fruit
Sony Devabhaktuni and Joanna Mansbridge on performances of everyday safety in Hong Kong
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System Settings
6 November 2023
System Settings
Thuto Durkac-Somo considers the frictions inherent to networked architecture
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Dedicated to the Safety of Life and Limb
Elliott Sturtevant on the early twentieth-century rise of the safety expert
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
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24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
The formaldehyde-based resins that bind pressed woods are an overlooked, yet foundational, agent in the homemaking and technological dreamworlds of mid-twentieth century North America. Formaldehyde, an irritant, allergen, neurotoxin, and carcinogen, undergirds much of the comfort, security, and affordability of the modern home. In this talk Nicholas Shapiro tracks(...)
9 March 2017
When Shelter Becomes Exposure
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The formaldehyde-based resins that bind pressed woods are an overlooked, yet foundational, agent in the homemaking and technological dreamworlds of mid-twentieth century North America. Formaldehyde, an irritant, allergen, neurotoxin, and carcinogen, undergirds much of the comfort, security, and affordability of the modern home. In this talk Nicholas Shapiro tracks(...)