Interview with Ricardo Mayor on the role of designers and architects crafting our social tissue. We explore how the tiny house model was adapted to respond to the current refugee crisis. From how new production models can empower citizens and change our relationship with refugees, to ultimately changing the way we design cities.

Let us start with a rather simple but necessary statement: The internet is as amazing as it is dreadful. It is time to fix it, make it more human, and holochain wants to be this tool.

How exactly is the blockchain expected to change our economy? It is less about removing the middleman than automating its function: providing trust. And coincidentally, it also challenges the existence of omnipresent brands.

Fablabs, makerspaces, emerging global knowledge commons... These are but some of the outcomes of a growing movement that champions globally-sourced designs for local economic activity. Its core idea is simple: local ownership of the means to produce basic manufactures and services can change our economic paradigm, making our cities self-sufficient and help the planet.

Nations States have failed to tackle climate change. Then, what if a network of cities paved the way to a more sustainable world. Mark Watts is Executive Director of C40, a network of 91 of the world’s major cities, committed to bold action on climate change. Here is his perspective on this global issue.

The emergence of 'smart cities' came as a step forward in the deployment of technology to improve our cities, and therefore our lives. It didn't take us long to realize the dangers of allowing private companies to get access to one of our most precious and yet most undervalued assets: our data...