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Sandra Richter and the curious life of a park bench
She co-founded Soofa to put useful technology on the sidewalk. Now working as Sandra Ferguson, the Cambridge designer is turning songs into clothes - another way to bring an idea out into the world.
RIOS designs the reasons people stay
A pink chair, a loading dock, a backstage corridor: RIOS treats the overlooked parts of a place as the main event. Its work shows how architecture earns its keep after the opening photograph.
Lisbon Is a City Built to Be Rebuilt - Now It Must Survive Its Own Success
Lisbon turned earthquake rubble, abandoned docks and steep streets into a global calling card. The next trick is harder: keeping the city useful to residents while the world keeps arriving.
Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen is a climate futurist, author, and strategist who coined the terms 'bright green environmentalism' and 'predatory delay.' He co-founded Worldchanging.com, wrote the internationally bestselling 'Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century,' and now runs The Snap Forward - a Substack newsletter with 24,000+ followers helping readers navigate the era of planetary discontinuity. Featured in Rolling Stone's '25 People Shaping the Future,' he advises institutions, investors, and individuals on climate strategy and teaches Personal Climate Strategy workshops.