Fantastic conversation with Nicolay Boyadjiev of Re-Arc Institute on a “paraphilanthropic” approach to humanitarian architecture, public-private partnerships, innovative contracts, and more: scratchingthesurface.fm/263-nicol…
An evergreen topic: design public spaces for children! sarahendren.com/2025/02/0…
My friend Jack Goldsmith and his colleague Bob Bauer are doing us all a favor, explaining and historicizing presidential power with the Executive Functions newsletter.
One goal for this spring is to write and pitch a longform book review. Curious if folks here have methods or frameworks that set up that particular writing process well.
I really enjoyed talking with architect and podcaster Erin Peavey about design for interdependence, family life, disability and more: open.spotify.com/episode/7…
Intrigued by Architectural Uprising.
Leah Libresco Sargeant is that rare journalist looking hard at the post-Dobbs landscape.
Another week of frigid walking commutes, but I’m cheered by spotting paper flyers advertising IRL mixers for millennial singles — “apps are out, meetups are in.” Go go go, y’all — undigital habit shifters unite.
“I had no interest in subverting things — monogamy, moral norms, courtship, the nuclear family, faith, a classical education — that I’d never had or known in the first place… sarahendren.com/2025/01/2… (h/t @ayjay)
A couple of my projects will be in this exhibition at the V&A this summer. I wish I could see it!
My grad student from Istanbul brought me some real-deal Turkish Delight.
Our daughter now has her driver’s license. New era of “excuses to go to the grocery store” commencing.
It has been forever since I listened to Erykah Badu’s Badhuizm, and my goodness. A stunning and enduring record.
On choosing.
Off to purchase blue books for my students’ quiz like it’s 1993
I have some work in a show opening next week at MoMA called Pirouette: Turning Points in Design.
It’s the first day of classes and I will be talking with students about @ayjay’s thoughts on being a self-deceived rational utility maximizer.
On Magnum Opus Syndrome and coaching PhD students: sarahendren.com/2025/01/0…
I wrote about people as object lessons.
Thank goodness for Cameron Tonkinwise: “You just know the university managerial class making decisions to sign on with flailing organizations like Open AI will weasel a response like ‘the best way to learn what something is, is by using it.’ But I’ve been driving for 30 years and…