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Beyond the project: from architecture to the living city
This piece discusses the collaborative nature of urban development, highlighting the importance of integrating diverse expertise and community involvement to create a living city. It uses the example of Azhadi Winery to illustrate how successful projects require cooperation across multiple disciplines and examines the complexities of scaling from individual buildings to entire cities.
October 6, 20265 min readNODA
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Form builds the city. Life makes us love it.
Form gives a city its permanence; it is not what makes people attached to it. What the research says about screens, content and community — and why tech-first smart cities keep failing. (Cover Image: Projection on the Grande Bibliothèque, Quartier des Spectacles, Montréal. Photo: art_inthecity, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)
October 5, 2026 · 17 min read
Valuing contribution without a price
An hour of anyone's time is not worth an hour of anyone else's, and a market price is not available for most of what a community actually needs done. What the alternatives have learned, and where each of them breaks.
August 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Four distinct, connected identities
IOTA Field, NODA, Totemian and Lumos are separate names doing separate jobs. What each one is for.
August 9, 2026 · 1 min read