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by KA McKercher | First published December 2023 TLDR: (Co)designers can benefit from creating a scope of practice to communicate our skills and limits to the people we work with and for. A scope of practice can help us be accountable, say no, grow our skills and notice where we could and shou

TLDR: Regular supervision can sustain and improve co-design practices and practitioners. While leading co-design is a relatively new job, organisations and funders have a responsibility to support staff leading co-design.

NMBW Architecture Studio’s innovative inner-Melbourne office conversion exposes the true cost of Modernism’s ‘less is more’ (via Box office hit: Sanders Place | The Monthly)

Corona hat das Stadtbild radikal verändert – von der Infrastruktur bis hin zur Kultur. Wir haben mit der Soziologin Simone Jung über die Herausforderungen und die aktuellen Chancen des urbanen Wandels gesprochen.

Corona: Die Entdeckung des Parks - kulturnews.de

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The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

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Our policymakers are putting a lot of energy into thinking about what they’ll do if the AI bubble doesn’t pop – wrangling about “AI ethics” and “AI safety.” But – as with all the previous tech bubbles – very few people are talking about what we’ll be able to salvage when the bubble is over.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

There are some promising avenues, like “federated learning,” that hypothetically combine a lot of commodity consumer hardware to replicate some of the features of those big, capital-intensive models from the bubble’s beneficiaries. It may be that – as with the interregnum after the dotcom bust – AI practitioners will use their all-expenses-paid education in PyTorch and TensorFlow (AI’s answer to Perl and Python) to push the limits on federated learning and small-scale AI models to new places, driven by playfulness, scientific curiosity, and a desire to solve real problems.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

Cruise, the “self-driving car” startup that was just forced to pull its cars off the streets of San Francisco, pays 1.5 staffers to supervise every car on the road. In other words, their AI replaces a single low-waged driver with 1.5 more expensive remote supervisors – and their cars still kill people.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

The entire investor case for AI is “companies will buy our products so they can do more with less.” It’s not “business customers will buy our products so their products will cost more to make, but will be of higher quality.”

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

Even more important, these models are expensive to run. Even if a bankrupt AI company’s model and servers could be acquired for pennies on the dollar, even if the new owners could be shorn of any overhanging legal liability from looming copyright cases, even if the eye-watering salaries commanded by AI engineers collapsed, the electricity bill for each query – to power the servers and their chillers – would still make running these giant models very expensive.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

The market can remain irrational longer than any of us can stay solvent, but when Uber runs out of suckers, it will go the way of other pump-and-dumps like WeWork.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave nothing behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online

HAUS 1 is the second project completed by MVRDV within Atelier Gardens, following last year’s reopening of TON 1, a historic film studio originally built in the 1920s. Situated at the southern edge of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, the masterplan transforms the campus of the Berliner Union Film Ateliers (BUFA) as part of a vision to expand the site’s user base beyond filmmakers to encompass all forms of ‘change makers’, including impact organisations and individuals with a focus on climate activism and social justice.

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