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Growing Beyond the Computer
Cortney Cassidy on leaving her tech job to become a full-time gardener.

by Willa Köerner
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Embodying an Ecological Framework
Casey Tang on forest gardening, complex systems, and mapping ecological design onto software methodologies.

by Meg Miller
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A New Order of Regenerative Kinship
Austin Wade Smith on subverting technological infrastructures to steward symbiotic relationships with the more-than-human world.

by Willa Köerner
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Visualizing Sound
Artists Travess Smalley and Daniel Lefcourt on graphic notation.

by Meg Miller
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Sensing the Earth
An interview with Agnes Cameron on satellite imagery and ways of seeing that go beyond the human eye.

by Meg Miller
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From Silicon to Slime
An interview with Claire L. Evans on the endless entanglement of our biological reality.

by Willa Köerner
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An Interview with Spencer Chang
On their new collections app, Gather.

by Charles Broskoski, Meg Miller, and Spencer Chang
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Wikipedia as Sacred Text
“Once you stop thinking of Wikipedia as a passive consumption space, it’s really empowering.”

by Sharon Park and Carolyn Li-Madeo 
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With and Without a Firm Grasp, Part II
A conversation on the making of a Ramadan calendar.

by Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab and Forough Abadian
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It Became A Ritual 
“I wanted us to leave something every day—it didn’t matter what it was.”

by Njari Dimario Anderson and Ariel Dong
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Webs of Care
Ingrid Raphael talks with Rae Dand and Onelson Nicholas about how care is activated when our needs are met

by Ingrid Raphael
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Khorasan Dreamscapes 
On Afghan diaspora communities, film representation, and the practice of collectively cataloguing knowledge as it expands

by Rona Akbari and Weeda Azim
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Holding Hands
On meeting online, dating during a pandemic, and growing an internet garden together—an Are.na love story

by Lily Nguyen and Fiona Carty
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Tools for Cultural Production: Archiving Voice, Culture, and Community
Omar Mohammad, Shiraz Gallab, Florence Fu, and Darin Buzon on self-preservation

by Omar Mohammad
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Teaching the Internet in the time of COVID-19
On new approaches to time, attention, tools, and teaching amid a global pandemic.

by Rosa McElheny and Simone Cutri
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Code Societies, A Speculative Oral History: On Spirituality and Fellowship
Andreas Jonathan, Eliseo Rivera, and Tina Nguyen talk about relationships as technology and finding spirituality and fellowship apart from dogma.

by Neta Bomani
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Code Societies, A Speculative Oral History: The Cybernetics of Reproduction
Code Societies’ Melanie Hoff talks with doula and childbirth educator Elizabeth Perez on the subject of the cybernetics of race/ism and sex/ism

by Neta Bomani
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Unlearning hierarchy at the Free School of Architecture
How a self-organized summer school is reorienting design education

by Elisha Cohen, Lili Carr, Karina Andreeva and Tessa Forde
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Toph Tucker and Jasmine Lee on Why Restaurant Websites Are Good and We’re All Going to Miss Them
And how labor often gets left out of the discussion around nostalgia for the old web.

by Meg Miller and Laurel Schwulst
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Andrew Beccone of Reanimation Library
An interview with Andrew Beccone on the generative potential of libraries and facilitation as art.

by Meg Miller
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