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8.2
Translations from Coding to Reality 
Starting in the middle, maybe with the movie The Matrix (1999), coding became an everyday thought problem. The...
Translations from Coding to Reality 
8.2
Variegated Coding 
In her chapter section titled “Controlling Code,” media and communication scholar Wendy Chun offers a pithy...
Variegated Coding 
8.1
Climate: The Path Forward
Climate change is one of the most critical and complex challenges facing communities worldwide. Recent reports...
Climate: The Path Forward
8.1
Climate: From Critical Technologies to Active Agencies
Building technologies that approach climate issues are never objective, neutral, or isolated. Like most technological...
Climate: From Critical Technologies to Active Agencies
8.1
Climate Changes
Climate binds us. Our macroenvironment is now a legal and social contract in the form of the Paris Agreement, also...
Climate Changes
7.2
Circularity at Scale 
When a newly developed technology to carry passengers vertically on an ascending platform between floors in buildings...
Circularity at Scale 
7.2
Sustain This
How should we discuss the most pressing issue: saving our home world? Is it a matter of sustainable resilience...
Sustain This
7.1
Tectonics in Equipoise
More than physical but less than ephemeral might be an excellent way to begin. Defining tectonics as the “physical...
Tectonics in Equipoise
3.2
OPEN: Call for Papers
TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners,...
1.2
Simulations: Modeling, Measuring, and Disrupting Design
Model-based optimization is an innovative optimization strategy and particularly appropriate for time-intensive...