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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Selects Winning Proposal for its New Waterfront Home

Azure Magazine

It is the DNA of the proposed design, its sensitivity to people, public space and its incredible ambition to deliver on the brief’s many aspirations and criteria for the project, which lead to a unanimous recommendation by this jury,” said the seven-person adjudication committee in a collective statement. .

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April 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Lebasse Projects Open Call (International) Artists and artist teams are invited to apply for this open call to create public art at 2050 S Bundy. Proposals must have a public benefit. Artists receive free lodging, studio space, and opportunities for exhibition, lectures, workshops, and other public programming.

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Government seeks expressions of interest for design of £5m obesity app

Design Week

billion by 2050. “There will be advantages and disadvantages to this being branding (even in part) as a government funded programme,” DHSC says, adding that government digital assets may be available for better engagement (such as NHS and Public Health England’s Better Health campaign ).

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The Office As We Knew It No Longer Exists

Azure Magazine

In the process, it has catapulted new heroes — medical professionals, grocery store cashiers, takeout couriers, mail clerks — into a vastly altered public sphere. In the midst of a turbulent restructuring of the cultural sphere, we are surging back into public space in search of real connection, communication and activism.

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People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ That Look Like A Dystopian Movie But Are Sadly Real

Design You Trust

About half of the global population already lives in cities, and by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s people are expected to live in urban areas. Rural and suburban nightmares are also allowed. h/t: boredpanda. Hong Kong Street Life.

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The designer who built a drone to save lives

Design Week

Plus we both had public health people in our families who said you have to look at this thing [blood supply],” he adds. . “We kept hearing about these big vaccination campaigns that Bill Gates runs or why World Health Organisation initiatives were failing because of logistics. Where next?

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Why Terms of Use practices need an ethical revamp

UX Collective

If the user does not yet have children, this agreement will be enforceable until the year 2050. It turned out that the average readability level of these T&Cs was comparable to academic writing, which is typically not aimed at the general public. No exceptions. Surely, people must have spotted this one at least, right?