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Maria Gaspar On Abolition and the High Stakes of Working with Incarcerated Communities

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Having grown up in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, where Cook County Department of Corrections sprawls across 96 acres, Maria Gaspar has always felt the haunting presence of detention. As a child, she visited that jail as part of a Scared Straight program and, through the years, became more involved in conversations about mass incarceration, abolition, and spatial justice.

Both an educator and practicing artist, Gaspar has put collaboration, compassion, and critical thinking at the center of her work. At the School of the Art Institute, she teaches students to develop interdisciplinary, research-based approaches to art making. Outside the classroom, she...

ACCURE

EN | Accure is a brand built on the belief that health should never be generic. While many solutions take a one-size-fits-all approach, Accure focuses on the individual. Every body is unique, with its own needs and rhythms, and care should be designed to reflect that. That's why the brand offers personalized solutions that adapt to different people and their nutritional goals. ES | Accure nace con la convicción de que la salud no puede ser genérica. Mientras muchas propuestas apuestan por lo uniforme, Accure pone el foco en la persona. Cada cuerpo es único, con sus propias necesidades y ritmos, y el...

Massive speakers and swimming pool in front of mid-century library feature at Exhibit Columbus

A massive sound system with a publicly accessible Bluetooth connection and a sculpture built from industrial scraps feature among the installations at Exhibit Columbus in Indiana, USA.

The biennial festival returned this year for its fifth cycle with a series of architectural pavilions arranged around the historical centre of the small Indiana city. Known for its mid-century modern architecture, Columbus was built under the patronage of local businessman J Irwin Miller and includes churches by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and American architect Myron Goldsmith.

Exhibit Columbus is facilitated by...

Dezeen Debate features BIG's "comically out of scale" complex

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features BIG's four-building 670 Mesquit complex in Los Angeles. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

Danish studio BIG recently revealed 670 Mesquit, a four-building complex in Los Angeles with housing, an elementary school and other facilities, recently approved by the city council.

Readers reacted to the plans, with one calling them "comically out of scale for the area" and another warning that "the thermal bridging on those balcony slabs will be a problem".

Other stories in this week's newsletter that sparked debate include an autonomous AI-powered gold...

Dried Slices of Produce Enliven a Cellar-Like Space in Ruby Jackson’s ‘Picker’

Like ancient traditions of weaving papyrus, Ruby Jackson fashions a similarly desiccated substrate from delicate cuts of produce. The Chatham, New York-based artist sliced and dried a range of fare from apples and pears to purple daikon and watermelon, creating thin, translucent pieces to be collaged into various forms.

Jackson’s recent solo exhibition, Picker at Chatham Soccer, presented a series of the resulting works. A troupe of dancers frolicks along one wall, while more abstract forms arranged in gradients appear on another. With yellow foam walls and wood paneling, the unconventional space evokes a fruit cellar primed for storing harvests through...

Marlon Blackwell Architects clads Arkansas building in giraffe stone for "sense of place"

Arkansas studio Marlon Blackwell Architects has completed the headquarters building for the Heartland Whole Health Institute, which features a curved form and facades covered in stonework resembling a giraffe's hide.

The three-storey building is located within the 134-acre (54-hectare) Crystal Bridges Campus in Bentonville, Arkansas.

It serves as the new home of the Heartland Whole Health Institute, founded in 2019 by philanthropist Alice Walton, who is the daughter of the founder of retail giant Walmart.

The nonprofit organisation aims to transform the healthcare system. It works with the health care...

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A Low-Cost, Quickly-Deliverable Modular Signage System

This signage system was designed for Taiwan's National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU) by Hand Heart Design, a Taiwanese design studio. The brief was tough: The school asked for a wayfinding system that could be delivered on a tight deadline, and at a low cost.

HHD's solution was to mass-produce metal plates with a grid of holes drilled in them. This was cheaper and less time-consuming than ordering individually printed plates; the "graphics" were instead provided by a template and lengths of rope.

The signs are powder-coated and the ropes are wax-coated, so the signage is...