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Using play to imagine future cities from queer utopias to communities on Minecraft | Assemble Papers

The Tower of Babel, Metropolis, Alphaville, AI-generated urban environments – visions of future cities have forever captivated the public imagination. Yet opportunities for citizens to engage their own imagination towards improving their cities have historically been limited within the prevailing ‘top-down versus bottom-up’ planning paradigm. As calls for approaches beyond the binary increase, the act of play has emerged as an impactful co-design tool not only for catalysing citizens’ imagination but also for facilitating its realisation.

There is no such thing as computer art: it’s all just art | Aeon Ideas

‘Computer art’ makes no more sense than ‘paint art’ or ‘piano art’. Computer art is just human art

It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch 2025

It’s Nice That’s curated list of next generation creative talent from across the globe.

Security Zines : Easiest way to learn Security Concepts

SecurityZines are new way of learning security concepts, check the collection of Zines down below. You can get them all in a bundle or individually. But why should you read it ? Because, its proven that graphics has more persistent memory than reading.

Evan Chen • Napkin (v1.6)

Download the most recent draft of Napkin. Or download the cover art image.

Autism may be the price of human intelligence

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection. These shifts may have slowed brain development in children while boosting language and cognition. The findings suggest autism is part of the trade-off that made humans so cognitively advanced.