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The Subjectivity of Colour
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21 August 2017
Gunnar Birkerts (1925-2017)
The Latvian-born American architect Gunnar Birkerts, known for his Scandinavia-inspired modernist buildings, has died age 92. Birkerts worked in the firm of Eero Saarinen before seeing up Birkerts & Associates in 1963. One of his most iconic projects is the Latvian National Library in Riga, commissioned in the late 1980s and awarded the AIA's Library Building Award in 2017.
21 August 2017
Elon Musk calls for ban on killer robots
A group of 116 robotics and AI experts have penned an open letter calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots. Supported by Tesla’s Elon Musk and Google’s Mustafa Suleyman, the letter asks for a ban on autonomous weapons: “We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close.”
21 August 2017
Rowan Moore denounces exultation of Thomas Heatherwick
The architecture critic Rowan Moore has penned an article in The Guardian criticising the celebration of Thomas Heatherwick by the media and clients. "There is a tendency to believe him capable of almost anything, even when there is no evidence of his aptitude, such as masterplans or the making of new neighbourhoods," says Moore.
21 August 2017
India opens Partition Museum near Pakistani border
India has opened the world's first Partition Museum in the Indian border city of Amritsar. The museum houses a collection of which a major proportion has been crowdsourced from families caught up in the mass migration prompted by the division of Pakistan and India.
21 August 2017
Fotografiska to open gallery in east London
Sweden’s Fotografiska is to open its first overseas gallery in east London, seven years after the gallery was founded in Stockholm in 2010. The new space will occupy the ground-floor of a new building in Whitechapel, close to the Whitechapel Gallery. Fotografiska is also said to be searching for a space in New York.
21 August 2017
Donald Trump's arts committee resigns
Sixteen members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities who resigned today in the wake of President Trump’s response to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chuck Close, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paula Boggs and Kal Penn were amongst those who criticised the president's "false equivocation" and “refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred.” Most of the members of the committee had been appointed by the Obama administration.
18 August 2017
Facebook tests "Featured Topic"
Social media giant Facebook is testing an offering called "Featured Topic", which introduces news stories in users' feeds that respond to users' specific interests. While Facebook claims this will "help people discover stories that might be relevant to them," it seems likely to exacerbate the echo chamber effect that already characterises Facebook's presentation of news stories.
17 August 2017
Scientists develop self-healing robots
Roboticists at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed prototypes of the world's first self-healing robots. In the experiments, the team built soft robots made from rubbery polymers (typically used for picking up delicate objects in the food industry). When damaged, the polymers were able to recover their original shape and eventually heal completely. "The prototypes were able to fully resume their tasks."
16 August 2017
Design Museum announces designs of the year nominees
The Design Museum has announced the nominees for its Beazley Designs of the Year, revealing a list that is notably more politically engaged and socially aware than in previous years. Curated by Glenn Adamson, the list includes the pink pussyhat, Wolfgang Tillmans’ Remain campaign and The Refugee Nation flag.
16 August 2017
Anti-same sex marriage campaign copies bisexual pride flag
A new logo adopted by The Coalition of Marriage, an Australian anti-same sex marriage campaign, is extremely similar to the bisexual pride flag. The new logo is based around blue, purple and pink, which are the colours of the pride flag created by activist Michael Page in 1998.
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