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Futures for the Few, Realities for the Rest: Designing in the Face of the Climate Crisis

Designers love imagining utopias, setting trends and exploring future markets. It is even fair to say that designers are somewhat obsessed…

Feb 21, 2023

Futures for the Few, Realities for the Rest: Designing in the Face of the Climate Crisis

Feb 21, 2023

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Crypto-anarchism

The media can’t seem to get enough of Bitcoin, Blockchain, NTFs, web3 and other crypto buzzwords. Not in the least because it has made a…

Nov 21, 2022

Crypto-anarchism

Nov 21, 2022

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Statement at the New European Bauhaus Festival

— This statement was read at the first New European Bauhaus festival on June 11, 2022. The video can be watched here.

Jun 13, 2022

Statement at the New European Bauhaus Festival

Jun 13, 2022

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Trading Futures

Two decades ago Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby introduced the term speculative design. The use of speculation by designers has existed since…

Jan 10, 2022

Trading Futures

Jan 10, 2022

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A Better Environment Starts With Ourselves

I was only eleven but I remember it well. The slogan of the 1988 Dutch campaign for climate change awareness: ‘A better environment starts…

Dec 9, 2021

A Better Environment Starts With Ourselves

Dec 9, 2021

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A Study Into 21st Century Drone Acoustics

Inside a house in Peshawar, Babak turns up the volume of the radio. The voice of a Pashtun singer is blaring through the house. It’s not…

Sep 27, 2021

A Study Into 21st Century Drone Acoustics

Sep 27, 2021

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The Machine as Curator: The Evolution of the Machine Aesthetic

Time and space died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute, since we have already created eternal omnipresent speed.

Sep 27, 2021

The Machine as Curator: The Evolution of the Machine Aesthetic

Sep 27, 2021

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Designing Without Ego

Imagine a Skype interview from a youth hostel in Tokyo at 11 PM. No video, only sound. Noisy beer-drinking tourists behind me. Contrary to…

Sep 27, 2021

Sep 27, 2021

Ruben Pater

Ruben Pater

Ruben Pater (1977, NL) (he/him) works between journalism and graphic design. He is also a tutor and author of two books. www.untold-stories.net

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