The Space Syntax Laboratory at The Bartlett .. this way of thinking can be found in universities &firms around the world – enabled further by the increasing power of computer technology..
Re the public square
Led by The Bartlett's Dr Jonathan Rokem with Professor Laura Vaughan Learning from Jerusalem is one of the outputs of the Contested Urbanism research project which investigates the role of political, spatial and social factors in shaping urban segregation in Sweden and Israel.
Space Syntax - Dr Jonathan Rokem , Professor Laura Vaughan 's work supported by The European Commission Horizon 2020 🤔
Horizon 2020? You don't say..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_…
The Graphene Flagship is a EU scientific research initiative. With a budget of €1 Bn, it is one of the large scale initiatives organized by the Future & Emerging Technologies program, along w/ the Human Brain Project &the Quantum Technologies Flagship
Paper : "The Brain As A Hackable Driver" cites Marina Abramovic's work..
"In 2019, Chemonics established an office in London, United Kingdom, to increase its aid work with the UK's Department for International Development and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office"
"The Church Commissioners for England has announced the members of the Oversight Group that will advise the Board on how it establishes the new impact investment fund and grant funding programme that is being set up"..
"The Right Reverend Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon, will chair the oversight group, and Geetha Tharmaratnam, Chief Impact Investment Officer of the WHO Foundation, will be Vice-Chair" churchofengland.org/media/press-re…
Not quite on his own tho:
"Along with Youssef Nader and Julian Schillinger, Farritor successfully deciphered the four passages of text, each with 140-plus characters, from the Herculaneum scrolls"
"AI unlocks ancient text owned by Caesar's family"
Last year a breakthrough came when Dr Brent Seales and his team at the University of Kentucky used high resolution CT scans to unroll the texts, butbbc.com/news/science-e…
the black carbon ink used on the scripts was indecipherable from the papyrus itself.
Dr Seales worked with tech investors to launch the Vesuvius Challenge, a $1m (£790,000) prize for anyone that could come up with a solution."..
"In June 2021 Medline was acquired by a consortium of private equity firms Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman valuing the company at $34 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts of all time." Wiki
"Based in Northfield, Ill., family-owned Medline is a little-known but major player in the field of medical equipment." archive.is/XtsqF
"Brothers James and Jon Mills founded the company in 1966, taking it public in 1972. The brothers bought back the shares five years later. James’s son Charlie has been Medline’s CEO since 1997." chicagotribune.com/2021/06/08/her…
"A systematic review and meta-analysis [Rogers J et al., 2020] of the neuropsychiatric manifestations of SARS and MERS CoV revealed that during the acute illness, common symptoms included confusion , depressed mood (32.6%), anxiety (35.7%), impaired memory (34.1%) & insomnia ."
And as I read your speculative thread @DecentBackup , I'm also wondering about Lobach's very public appearance at the WH when Ralph Lauren got his Protection Medal from Biden 🤔🎶