<p>Intro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3VKO02JyRytjTAjh854kxO?si=303132d711cd49fe">Hopeful Monsters</a>,” by Charlie Nieland</p><p>Discussed:</p><ul><li>Architecture firms <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2022/03/02/david-chipperfield-zaha-hadid-architects-suspend-work-russia/">grow a spine (?)</a> over Russia v. Ukraine: Is it a moral stand, or admission they won’t get paid? And yet, many are still working for the Saudis, on <a href="https://www.neom.com/en-us">NEOM</a> and such projects.</li><li><a href="http://helsinkidesignlab.org/">Helsinki Design Lab</a></li><li><a href="http://brickstarter.org/">Brickstarter</a></li><li><a href="https://dashmarshall.com/strategy/future_says/">The Most Important Mile</a></li><li><a href="http://avfutures.nlc.org/">Imagining Future Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles</a></li><li><a href="https://peopleparty.app/">People Party</a> - Generating scale figures for renderings that look like their communities</li><li><a href="https://medium.com/dashmarshall/brute-force-architecture-and-its-discontents-a4d9d9fe9406">Brute-Force Architecture</a> - “Look at all these things that we didn’t choose” &gt;&gt; Exhaust failure. If architecture labor was more expensive, would that be possible?</li><li><a href="https://www.discovery.org/p/gilder/">George Gilder</a> and the Early Cloud – “Conserve what is expensive, waste what is abundant.”</li><li><a href="https://architechie.org/">Architechie</a></li><li><a href="https://reeftechnology.com/">REEF</a>&nbsp;</li><li>WSJ – <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ghost-kitchens-are-proving-to-be-a-messy-business-as-reef-global-shows-11638187201">REEF bought the wrong lots</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RenewNewcastle">Renew Newcastle</a> (Australia)</li><li><a href="http://www.participatorycity.org/">Participatory City</a> (London)</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Outro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2rqVAj02zaRGkNq6CR97nH?si=492b3f14ce714ee3">Freedom of Choice</a>,” by Devo</p>