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Herbert Wright's selected articles on...

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that you may not find in other sections 

In the Air 

We need to breathe! Art, science and social campaigning meet in this Wellcome show

CoBo Social June 2022

"About Us' - Temps Profond à Paisley

What is our place in the universe and 'deep time'? The first event of a UK-wide celebration makes you wonder... IN FRENCH!

Chroniques d'architecture March 2022

Heaven or Hell?... regarding the Metaverse, crypto-transactions, fantasy architecture and our planet.

Blogged in original English, November 2021

First published in French as Enfer ou Paradis in Chroniques d'architecture

Hello, Bomb?

Is the COVID-19 pandemic bringing us closer to the digital matrix? How do we share society with intelligent digital beings?

blog May 2020

Ramping Up the Countryside

Rem Koolhaas' show Countryside, The Future is at the Guggenheim NY, which remains closed for now. But you can read all about it...

CoBo Social April 2020

The City of the Singularity

Speculation about machine intelligence in complete control of the city and its citizens. The technical feasibility of this science-fiction scenario could come soon. It has political, philosophical and perhaps existential dimensions

blog

part 1- You See Us - November 2019

part 2- Missions Too Important to Jeopardise - January 2020

Finding the Truth Where It Hurts

Forensic Architecture is a research group that seeks the truth about some of the darkest events of our time. A show at the ICA, London reveals some of their work

Journal of Wild Culture April 2018  

The final interview with Prof. Paweł Machewicz, March 2017, before his dismissal as director, Museum of Second World War, Gdansk - transcript + follow-up statements from related parties - independant blog March 2017

You Say You Want A Revolution

The Victoria & Albert Museum's far-out show about the 1960s will blow your mind- and as my review says, there's a message for our divise times as well

Blueprint Nov/ designcurial Dec 2016

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Stranger Than Known

50 years ago, The Byrds released the first psychedelic song. Eight Miles High bridged racial and cultural divides... far out!

Journal of Wild Culture August 2016

Jimi Hendrix in Mayfair

His groovy, cosy restored London flat like a time-warp - but is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

Blueprint March / designcurial April 2016
 

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Peak Humanity

Peak Oil? Peak Stuff? The biggest of all is coming at us now

Demographics and environmental degradation suggest the human race will soon be heading towards the Big Exit. We can shrink, or we can find a way out... way way out.

It's the biggest issue you'll ever read about.

Journal of Wild Culture Feb 2016

The Great Beyond
The Architectures of the Afterlife: A journey into the structures of Heaven, Hell and Limbo
Uncube (the Death issue) November 2015

Night Shift- a new show about a century of London's nocturnal transport
Designcurial September 2015

The Matter of Tiny Feet
Photographer and anthropologist Jo Farrell's new book reveals the women whose feet were bound for a banished tradition
Journal of Wild Culture June 2015

Milan's €3-billion Menu, Eat In or take-Away
Some say Milan Expo is a waste of money, a vanity fair corrupted by corporate presence. Anarchists say Fuck Expo. But it's also a celebration of civilisation, and I say it's worth it. Why? There's a message there that may actually save the human race
Journal of Wild Culture May 2015
or... with more pictures... personal blog May 2015

Riding Big Waves in the Spirit of Eco-Feminism
Sailing the Atlantic, tracking the health of the ocean and the all-female crew: Dr Lucy Gilliam's eXXpedition Atlantic, and an insight into pollution, toxics and eco-feminism
Part 1: Lucy Gilliam, toxics and planning a voyage through plastics
Part 2: eXXpedition Atlantic and eco-feminism

Journal of Wild Culture March 2015

Hacking the Animal
Myth and magic turned humans into animals . . . could technology do the same? And would being an animal be just another crazy thrill, or could we learn something to help humanity survive?

Journal of Wild Culture February 2015

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A Brief History of Text Life
When it comes to texting the future, the Romans beat Twitter hands-down. Inscriptions last and are now heading beyond the Solar System. And how could our social media messaging evolve?
Journal of Wild Culture November 2014

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Fighting the Sun for Sport: The Start

UK amateur cyclist John Bowskill tackled 'the toughest mountain bike race in the world'. The first of two reports on his epic endurance challenge starting in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.

Fighting the Sun for Sport: The Finish

Jon Bowskill and his bicycle have come down from the mountains, now he has the Sahara Desert to deal with! Final installment reporting about his epic endurance challenge
Journal of Wild Culture July 2014

Piling Up the Now
What of design in a world run by artificial intelligence? HAL, Watson, servers that really are up there with the clouds...
RIBA Journal May 2014

An Inside Job

A British-led operation breaks into a Lithuanian prison. Their tools: art. Their mission: to save lives. I report
Journal of Wild Culture April 2014

Republic of the Moon at The Bargehouse SE1
The Art Catalyst's new exhibition lets artists loose with the Moon- and raises the question, what do we do with it? Read about the 'Bewildering Beauty of the Moon'...
Journal of Wild Culture January 2014

10 Billion by Stephen Emmott
We're 'fucked' says Microsoft science chief in a new Penguin book
Journal of Wild Culture August 2013

Kinetica Art Fair and Ecobuild
Kinetica- what's happening at London's kinetic/cybernetic art fair?
Ecobuild- 2013's massive sustainable building trade show- where's a Segway when you need one?
Blueprint May 2013

Interview- Brian Cox talks about CERN, the Higg's boson, Star Trek, how to communicate big messages, the importance of engineering and more- interview for Buro Happold's global mag
Y magazine Issue One December 2012

In remembrance: Soho's Crazy Café Diva
Sad and mad- my favourite Soho eaterie closed this month

le cool May 2012

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Olympic Rings in Sporks and Sauces

My photo composition, March 2012

I stayed in Hong Kong's most notorious building, and I say
Long Live Chungking Mansions!
blog- January 2012

DETH 2 KORREKT SPELLING- How to save the World Language
blog- Jan 2011

42 Questions for God, December 2009/September 2010

From the Deep Archives!

My 1998 interview with Ian Brown

(ex-Stone Roses vocalist, then emerging indie solo star)

TransAction/ Rock-the-World September 1998