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JSTOR Daily
A thousand chrysanthemums, one single plantThe Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum at Longwood Gardens looks like hundreds of plants assembled into a dome, but every blossom grows from one stem, coaxed there over eighteen months of pinching, tying and disbudding.
JSTOR Daily
Design Observer
If you want to treat people like humans, start by talking like oneA social worker turned designer argues that a cold, ambiguous text message from the VA is what 'human-centred' really means in practice, and that care has to be the foundation of a system, not a patch applied afterwards.
Design Observer
Works in Progress
Seventy percent say they hate modern buildings. Cities keep building them anyway.Decades of image-preference surveys show that a large majority of people across age, gender, politics and nationality favour traditional architecture, yet architecture schools and public commissions build almost nothing else.
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