Given Brangelina's interest in architecture, we can imagine a design-forward safari lodge with futuristic tents, hand-made African textiles and artwork by the little ones alongside ethically sourced food and wine--like rosé from Pitt and Jolie's Miraval Estate in Provence.
The Stack imagines a design brief for the whole world while floating or falling through all the ever-efflorescent plasmas and atmospheres of digital information.
We tend to imagine a grand design in the architecture of maintaining power.
I can't imagine a successful design for Freedom Tower until these issues of meaning are sorted out.
Imagine a pub designed for people with dementia, complete with old beer adverts, games of dominoes and darts, a DJ playing a selection of music from the 50s and regular live entertainment, where people with the diagnosis can feel welcome and those who look after them can receive support.
Imagine a paywall designed to show you which friends have subscribed and the great content they're consuming that you'd get access to if you paid.
"Imagine a building designed and constructed to function as elegantly and efficiently as a flower," as the challenge reads, and you can begin to grasp the scale of the task.
Furthermore, for each dollar of imports from China, a lot of that money was spent in the United States preparing the import; imagine an iPad designed and marketed from Cupertino, Calif., but counted as an import from China.
One can imagine an ICU designed with a wrap-around, outer corridor providing families private access to a loved-one's bed, while preserving the unobstructed line of sight and clutter-free workspace the nurses need, thus allowing for visitation any time, day or night.
