Supporter Update 🤝🏻 September 1, 2023
Articles, interviews, videos, and podcasts related to seven recent issues
Hi everyone,
The Frontier office is closed for the long weekend, the weather is fine, and my boys are playing in a room down the hall. I’m going to join them, but, as always, want to share some fascinating links I’ve come across in recent weeks. Between this past Wednesday’s issue and the stories, podcasts, and videos below, I hope you find something inspiring and fascinating. And be sure to click the film-title links in the image captions, which will take you to the trailers for the two Jumana Manna films I loved watching last year.
See you next Wednesday.
Love all ways,
Brian
Updates
More stories related to Frontier Magazine issues.
Re: “Palaces of the People” (March 8)
🎨 On Flipboard’s podcast The Art of Curation, a conversation with two security guards at the Baltimore Museum of Art who helped curate a show at the museum
Re: “Making Change” (March 29)
🏠 “Architects Should Serve Humanity,” a fifteen-minute video interview with pioneering Parkistani architect Yasmeen Lari
Re: “Track Changes” (May 3)
🌤️ In Wired, Gregory Barber on local-first software. A thoughtful look at a promising future for anyone who’s been frustrated by a server outage blocking them from their work, email, or files.
Re: “Workin’ On It” (May 31)
👩🏻💻 Web designer and commentator Ethan Marcotte has a new book, You Deserve a Tech Union. Read Marcotte’s announcement, or an excerpt, on AI and deskilling. “I hope it helps you feel like you can and should form a union. Because honestly, you deserve one. We all do.”
Re: “Present Tense” (June 28)
📐 In the Globe and Mail, Alex Bozikovic profiles Canadian-British architect Jamie Fobert, designer of the new National Portrait Gallery in London
Re: “Deep Dives” (August 2)
🎓 “Many of the programs potentially facing the ax are those that grant students the greatest possibility for socioeconomic mobility.” Recent West Virginia University graduate Myya Helm on the steep and targeted budget cuts at the school.
📚 “How Merve Emre became the hottest—and most reviled—name in literary criticism”
Re: “Whiteout” (August 2)
🌡️ Princeton University scientists receive funding for project that “uses commonly available polymers that can manipulate light” to cool indoor spaces efficiently, perhaps without air-conditioners
