Outdoor geometric tape installations

By Aakash Nihalani.

(via Design Milk)

We *Heart* the Arctic

This Greenpeace heart of flags is a call to action for all member states of the UN.

The climate is changing to the detriment of the environment.

Environmental indicators of change are well documented.

Latest records make for grim reading.

Combative rhetoric by our world leaders is ineffectual without concrete plans for global action.

Global climate governance is challenging — not impossible.

The Arctic is perhaps our clearest indicator of climate change.

Over 1.8 million individuals already agree.

(Props and applause to Greenpeace International.)

Naoya Hatakeyama: ‘Blast’

(via pink tentacle and Tofu)

Table Boat

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla used a table — turned upside down and made into a boat — as a metaphor for mobilizing discussion between the US government and municipal parties residing on the highly politicized and de-militarized island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. I love the ingenuity, wit, and absurdity of the idea.

Read an interview and watch an excerpt from Under Discussion here.