Selling-off and selling-out are land transactions but they're both erasure by another name.

Now we watch as Ford leads and institutions follow, dismantling them through managed neglect and a particular indifference: to the public, to anyone who might want a planetarium or a public lakeshore or a community that has survived dispossession once already and does not need to do it again.

In the contemporary timeline of Toronto "the good", these four were arguments worth making—civic architecture as a form of care, spaces where publics were actually imagined and built.

The McLaughlin Planetarium, Ontario Science Centre, Ontario Place, and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
Buildings are not neutral. They can be arguments about who a city is for, what it values, and what it thinks is worth keeping.

Who isn’t welcome in Mark Carney’s technicolour Liberal caucus? - National | Globalnews.ca The prime minister has drawn floor crossers that range from an NDP MP that backed Avi Lewis to a conservative that wanted December to be known as 'Christian Heritage Month.'

Mark Carney is one Bloc MP and one Elizabeth May away from a full House of Commons set. globalnews.ca/news/1177188...

all seas, times, and tides

This is how @airfrance.bsky.social treats customers (in this case, grant-funded researchers). Damage your equipment, offer 5%, refuse to explain, charge you twice, walk away.

Case C-10376743 for anyone tracking Air France's customer care standards.

#AirFrance #CustomerService

1 month later, after 12+ emails and multiple documentation and receipt requests (all provided), Air France's offer: €100. No breakdown. No justification. Customer Care response: "There is nothing further I can add to what has already been stated."

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

From the Soil to the Sky Elise Misao Hunchuck writes to Montserrat Bonvehí Rosich

“Every city is built on the decomposed dreams of its previous inhabitants, the material breakdown of obsolete social relations, the nutritive remains of sometimes abandoned, sometimes destroyed, ways of life.”

This is the great @elisehunchuck.bsky.social at the CCA website. Go and read this!!

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GPS for the Brain: Cognitive Mapping Revisited

The talk by Laura Kurgan puts the discourse of cognitive mapping into dialogue with advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Laura is later joined in conversation by Jussi Parikka.

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Exciting news for @transmediale.bsky.social, the tm community, and its many communities to come! Congratulations to Neema and Juan Pablo! Can't wait to attend next year's festival!

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Pixels in, People out: An Image-Based Ideology of Space

This conversation between Felicity Hammond, Nina Davies, and Julian Oliver explores how algorithms shape public spaces by eradicating the human experiences that define place.

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The next addition to our online archive: The Grid: A Lecture on Cybotron and Techno-Vernacular Expressionism by DeForrest Brown, Jr.

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The claim that libraries are an alternative to libgen is ridiculous. Almost all libraries don't have expensive academic books. Libgen is the university library of the world, open to everyone regardless of wealth, location, or academic credentials.

My deepest thanks to Astrid Kaminski for inviting me to write in this stunning volume (designed by Sean Yendrys) on the practice of Meg Stuart.

source: pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0929/repo...

Some days one misses home more than others.

Image from September 3, 1973, is one of the first images published by NASA and Landsat. At the top of the colour composite image, just right of centre, you can see the familiar sprawl—even then!—of Toronto holding onto the edge of Lake Ontario.

It has been more than two days that the supply of electricity to Gaza has been shut off. It must resume — essentials including food, electricity, and medical supplies should never be used as political tools. (1/3)

Each month, we’ll be releasing three video recordings from the transmediale 2025 livestream 👾

Starting from Affective Proximities: A Genealogy of Queer Media Tactics, a conversation between Cait McKinney, David Isaac Hecht, and Alexandra Juhasz.

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Looking forward to co-hosting soon the MARG symposium ‘Transitioning Architecture – Pedagogy, Research and Collaboration’ at Manchester with many great guests!

If you have the chance to visit us in Venice, please do!
If you have the opportunity to support the exhibition in making its way to Venice or the means to support the fund, please visit us here > > >
donations.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...
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The exhibition is only part of the story. Monies raised from each exhibition are put into a trust aimed at resources, quick response funding, skills workshops, and support to experimental artists living and working across the Pacific region, where the arts are profoundly underfunded (if at all).

So excited to finally be able to share that we* are headed
to Venice—it's been years in the making, with www.oceanicrefractions.org surfacing again as part of The 19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti.

Poilievre promises new military base in Nunavut as part of Arctic defence plan | CBC News The federal Conservatives have taken the wraps off a portion of their plan for defence — specifically defending the Far North.

In 2024, the Liberals released a "defence update" titled "Our North Strong and Free". Now PP shows up in Iqaluit with essentially no warning and wants to outdo them. (Will a full base in Iqaluit have any consequences? Who cares?) The persistent militarization of the North: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

An incredible part of co-curating @transmediale.bsky.social with Ben Evans James has been to develop the prologue—two days of workshops in Berlin! Take a look at the links—spend 1/2 or a full day working alongside eeefff, De Forrest Brown, Jr., @wileycount.bsky.social, Alexis Convento, and others!

Essay (the inimitable) @dubravka.bsky.social and i wrote for @transmediale.bsky.social 's journal (#7) now online tinyurl.com/28tpse3h
🙏 @elisehunchuck.bsky.social for the invitation+trust, and a wonderful Editor's Note! 🙏 Farida (+Aquiles Navarro) for the unique experience for music beyond music

Andrew Cuomo, who was found to have sexually harassed Charlotte Bennett in a report by the New York Attorney General, is now continuing his years-long retaliation and harassment campaign against his young former employee with a defamation suit. www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...