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Open Schools

Disruption is coming to education in the form of new learning space designs that upend the traditional classroom as we know it.

The process for creating prosthetic devices is painfully slow and based on out-dated technology. Digital tools and 3D printing can change everything; they certainly did for Paralympic cyclist, Denise Schindler.

Workplace, Environment • Issue 006

Compact Urban Living

Living in Boston is great, if you can afford it. A new design methodology for housing might hold the key to both affordability and livability.

Community • Issue 005

Human Operating System

Design Thinking for Sustainable Healthcare

Community • Issue 005

From Pod to Place

Todd Ferry guided students in the process of building a neighborhood of homes for some of Portland's houseless community.

Education • Issue 005

Making Space for Makers

“By making, students take control of their own learning by incorporating experiences that often deal with the messiness and unpredictability of the real world.”

Environment • Issue 004

Architecture in Revolution

Why Cuba? After watching the documentary Unfinished Spaces, I fell in love with the idea of visiting Cuba. The film chronicles an arts-focused campus that Fidel Castro commissioned soon after his socialist regime gained control of the island, and then the campus’ ultimate demise. The documentary artfully weaves the design and construction of the art schools with the political climate of Fidel’s regime. The film was an inspiring starting point for my research.

Workplace • Issue 004

Brand is the New Black

Sasaki designed Havas/Arnold Worldwide’s brand into every detail of their new Downtown Boston space, creating an environment that clients and employees identify with, and where they can do their best work.