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Ed Wall
@eddwall.bsky.social
· Nov 27
“X is a distorted form of public space - but so was Twitter before Musk bought it.”
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Thanks to Josh and all at Landscape for publishing some of my recent public space writing.
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#landscapearchitecture #landscape #publicspace #cities #digital
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Thanks to Josh and all at Landscape for publishing some of my recent public space writing.
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#landscapearchitecture #landscape #publicspace #cities #digital
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Mustafa Suleyman & Bill Gates on Today, BBC Radio 4 - asked what benefits #AI could bring to healthcare, Gates’ second suggestion was that ‘it could help explain your bill’. We don’t have ‘bills’ in the UK for healthcare, but thanks for being honest about the direction of travel.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Mustafa Suleyman & Bill Gates on Today, BBC Radio 4 - asked what benefits #AI could bring to healthcare, Gates’ second suggestion was that ‘it could help explain your bill’. We don’t have ‘bills’ in the UK for healthcare, but thanks for being honest about the direction of travel.
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"Today, some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes... The tools to help them survive, rebuild and eventually return home already exist. But they require time, cooperation, trust and a desire to invest in peace rather than war."
Filippo Grandi
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
Filippo Grandi
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
Opinion | I’ve Been the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for a Decade. This Is the Crisis I See.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Today, some 117 million people have been forced to flee their homes... The tools to help them survive, rebuild and eventually return home already exist. But they require time, cooperation, trust and a desire to invest in peace rather than war."
Filippo Grandi
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
Filippo Grandi
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
Architecture for Warfare came out this week. While much of my writing speculates optimistically at the possibilities of landscape and architectural practice, this research funded by the Graham Foundation, examines some of the limits. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Architecture for Warfare came out this week. While much of my writing speculates optimistically at the possibilities of landscape and architectural practice, this research funded by the Graham Foundation, examines some of the limits. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
Thanks Will for sharing 🙏🏼 www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
Huge congrats to @eddwall.bsky.social for his latest Jovis book, Architecture for Warfare, on AECOM & the military-industrial-landscale sector. Starting with personal history it goes into the violence of such architectural practice, gorgeously designed by Guglielmo Rossi with Ed's drawings.
December 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Thanks Will for sharing 🙏🏼 www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...
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Great news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New leader says Unison will end support for ‘destructive’ Labour right wing
Blunt remarks indicate UK’s largest union may be on collision course with Wes Streeting and Labour more widely
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Brilliant Humanitarianism series on e-flux. @eflux.bsky.social @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social @alucidwake.bsky.social
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Humanitarianism - e-flux
www.e-flux.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Brilliant Humanitarianism series on e-flux. @eflux.bsky.social @jonathanlukeaustin.bsky.social @alucidwake.bsky.social
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Rocks, Dornoch Beach, October 2025
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Rocks, Dornoch Beach, October 2025
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The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Geert Wilders didn’t lose the Dutch election - he had already won
Dutch politics has been transformed by 20 years of hateful speech about foreigners
www.irishtimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
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Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,344
Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Outrun rhe sea… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea
As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Outrun rhe sea… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.
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We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.
Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing.
Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
Here’s how the process is supposed to work:
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We can add to this mix the proliferation of private ICE detention facilities and speculative Gaza redevelopment and border tech (I wrote about an earlier era back in 2018:) and and and…
All Eyes on the Border
Materialized in steel and concrete, patrolled and “performed” by state apparatuses and sensing technologies, the border is charged by the politics of recognition.
placesjournal.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We can add to this mix the proliferation of private ICE detention facilities and speculative Gaza redevelopment and border tech (I wrote about an earlier era back in 2018:) and and and…
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UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.
‘Another Nakba’: UN expert says Gaza recovery will take generations
UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.
bit.ly
October 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.
There is so much wrong with this: “Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts…”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
There is so much wrong with this: “Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts…”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The theft of public land for their 5th home:“The Waleses are relocating…” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#righttoroam #publicspace
#righttoroam #publicspace
‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone
Royal couple’s desire for more privacy means 2.3-mile perimeter exclusion zone and less public land for walkers
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The theft of public land for their 5th home:“The Waleses are relocating…” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#righttoroam #publicspace
#righttoroam #publicspace
Summer reading pair, with insights on the digital from both Shannon Mattern and Steve Kennedy!
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Summer reading pair, with insights on the digital from both Shannon Mattern and Steve Kennedy!
This is landscape.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found
In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is landscape.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Do you want to talk about rent control? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘All those posh apartments. It’s a playground for the rich’: is Manchester turning into London?
£6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or wo...
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Do you want to talk about rent control? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
If there is a “coalition of the willing” supporting Ukraine, is there a “coalition of the unwilling” who have agreed to look away from the destruction of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank?
www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...
www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...
‘Coalition of the willing’ agrees key parts of post-ceasefire operations and plans to ‘step up’ support to Ukraine – Europe live
UK prime minister accuses Putin of ‘turning his back on peace’ and says allies will offer more support for Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If there is a “coalition of the willing” supporting Ukraine, is there a “coalition of the unwilling” who have agreed to look away from the destruction of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank?
www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...
www.the-guardian.com/world/live/2...
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The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...
www.labornotes.org
July 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Something else that has been abandoned to the brutality of private equity…
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms
Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Something else that has been abandoned to the brutality of private equity…
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What does a human rights lawyer have to do to just become a lawyer? Nothing. Just do nothing.
July 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What does a human rights lawyer have to do to just become a lawyer? Nothing. Just do nothing.