Failed Architecture

Israel’s Flawed Translation Technologies Treat the Palestinian Body Like a Glitch

Meera Badran

Discrimination in speech-translation software adds to existing digital and physical infrastructures set in place to control and constrain the Palestinian body.

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Darknet Markets are Bringing More Kinds of Drugs to Many More Places Than Ever Before

Charlie Clemoes

Transparent Pod, Laptop, Bed, State-of-the-Art Webcam: How COVID-19 Changed the Online Sex Industry

Marian van Bodegraven

Baristas, farmers, day laborers, content writers, and teenagers

All Design Is Political, Not All Politics Is Design

Leijia Hanrahan

Accra’s International Trade Fair Embodies Ghana’s Complex Legacy of Pan-African Modernism

Ruth-Anne Richardson and Łukasz Stanek

Solidarity and Safety in the Architecture Office: An Interview with UVW-SAW’s Keri Monaghan

Charlie Clemoes

Chile’s Establishment Have Just Discovered a Concern for Santiago’s Heritage After Years of Negligence

Valentina Carraro

Evadir, no pagar, otra forma de luchar!

Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving

Giulia De Cunto and Francesco Pasta

NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital

Kevin Rogan

Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping

Charlie Clemoes

Barricades, Boulders, and How LA’s Public Space Became a Battleground for the Commons

Sasha Plotnikova

The distinction between private and public is too rigid, it doesn’t allow for in-between areas

How British Colonial Architecture Excluded Pakistani Women From the Public Sphere

Yusra Alvi

Betraying the Profession: Design Labour Against Technocracy

Bassem Saad

Baku’s Urban Growth Machine Pits Residents Against Construction Workers

Nazaket Azimli

Anti-car barriers, fencing, security cameras, anti-homeless spikes, and other blunt technologies

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

Jess Myers

Let’s Remind Architecture and Design Organisations of Their Support for Black Lives Matter

Black Females in Architecture, Migrants Bureau, Design As Protest and Failed Architecture

Call for articles: Cities After Algorithms