Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 4

Y Combinator says Google is a ‘monopolist’ that has ‘stunted’ the startup ecosystem

Microsoft is cutting 3% of all workers

#333;">Why one obscure app could help crumble Meta’s empire

If the question, “Who is Meta’s biggest rival?” were on a Family Feud survey, TikTok would likely be the winning answer.
In the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against the Facebook and Instagram owner, the government’s response probably wouldn’t even make the top 10: a small blockchain-based platform called MeWe.
MeWe looks a fair amount like Facebook at first glance, except that you make an account using the Frequency blockchain — which the company explains is a decentralized protocol that lets you move your social connections to other (mostly hypothetical at this point) apps that support Frequency.
The company says 20 million users have joined, but when I make a MeWe account and log in, I scroll through my autopopulated feed and think, “Who are these people?” I search for a few of my Verge colleagues, figuring if anyone has tried this obscure app, it might be one of them, but I come up short.
I try some public figures: Tim Cook? Jeff Bezos? Mark Zuckerberg? There are some accounts with these names, but it seems unlikely they’re the ones I have in mind.The claim that MeWe is a closer competitor to Facebook and Instagram than TikTok might be baffling if you’re not steeped in antitrust law or the specifics of the FTC’s complaint.
Meta CEO Zuckerberg testified he hadn’t even heard of the app before this case was filed.
But the FTC has spent the past three weeks laying out its logic.
Using Meta’s own internal discussions about how it views itself and its competition, it says that Meta has historically, and to this day, competed in a market for connecting with friends and family online — and when it saw its dominance in that space threatened by the rise of Instagram and WhatsApp, it bought them to squash the competition.Whether Judge James Boasberg buys this could determine who wins the case — if the FTC can also show that Meta acted illegally through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to solidify its alleged monopoly power.Antitrust law is supposed to ensure fair competition, which usually means that people have options for a useful class of goods and services — what’s known as a relevant market.
The FTC says that here, that market is “personal social networking services,” or PSNs: spaces where a core purpose is helping people connect with friends and family.
While there are many online platforms that overlap with Meta’s services, the FTC argues that virtually none of them serve that market.
If internet users want to find and hang out with people they know — as opposed to, say, watching influencers or making work connections — then it’s Mark Zuckerberg’s way or… in the government’s telling, Snapchat, BeReal, and MeWe.
Beyond that core definition, PSNs have some other unique features and norms: The apps feature a social graph of users’ friends and family connections, as opposed to mapping users primarily based on their interests.
Users can look up and find people they know in real life.
And they come to the app to share personal updates with those people.Facebook and Instagram increasingly display videos and photos from influencers and celebrities, but the FTC argues personal social networking remains a core service.
It used Instagram chief Adam Mosseri’s testimony to most clearly make this point.
In that testimony as well as posts to his own Instagram account, Mosseri said that it’s still important for the app to connect users with their friends.
The FTC argues that even if that use case is a smaller portion of what Meta’s apps do these days, it’s still a significant need users have that can virtually only be fulfilled by Facebook and Instagram.
While someone might connect with people they know in real life on LinkedIn, they likely won’t primarily share personal updates there.
And while they also could follow and interact with people they know on TikTok or YouTube, they’re more likely to passively watch videos from people they don’t.Meta says this is an entirely wrong way to think about it.
Social media platforms compete for users’ time and attention, so whether a particular app is squarely aimed at so-called friends and family sharing is beside the point.
Facebook and Instagram have evolved to show more content from people like influencers, shifting further from the use case the FTC says Meta has illegally dominated.
The company has already landed some important points that could help its case, and it will get more time to push back on the agency’s framing when it calls its own witnesses in the coming weeks.But as the FTC’s case-in-chief continues into its fifth week, its argument for Meta’s dominance is becoming a lot clearer.Why do people use Facebook?When defining a market, each side is trying to answer a key question: why are people choosing one particular company’s product? A lot of goods and services compete with each other in some sense, but this doesn’t mean they serve the same niche.
In the case of sodas, for example, “you could buy lemon-lime, but many people would never see that as a close substitute for buying Coke or Pepsi,” says George Washington Law professor and former FTC Chair Bill Kovacic.
In the tech world, Netflix has claimed its biggest competitors are Fortnite and sleep — but those comparisons probably wouldn’t stand up in court.The FTC says that outside of Facebook and Instagram, only apps like Snapchat and MeWe can fulfill a users’ desire to broadcast personal updates with friends and family online.
To make its case, it brought in a string of executives from other social media companies to explain why their apps can’t quite scratch the same itch for users.
Strava’s former VP of connected partnerships Mateo Ortega testified that sure, users of the fitness-tracking social media app could share baby photos on the platform, but they probably wouldn’t unless it was in a running stroller.
“It’s all about fitness, and while you can post other stuff, it just doesn’t seem as relevant,” he said.
“You could buy lemon-lime, but many people would never see that as a close substitute for buying Coke or Pepsi”Pinterest’s former head of user growth Julia Roberts testified that users who come to Pinterest “expecting it to be like other social media apps … tend to be confused about how to use the product.” That’s because the app is so much not about connecting with other people that it works much differently from other social media platforms.
Pinterest is more about finding things users are interested in, she said, so “following is not a big part of the Pinterest experience.”TikTok has a tab where users can watch videos from their friends — identified as people who mutually follow each other.
But head of operations Adam Presser testified only about 1 percent of videos watched on the platform are there.
The company doesn’t think of itself as competing with Meta’s apps for personal social networking, he testified.
And even though side-by-side screenshots of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts look identical, Presser said, “when you click out of this view for these other platforms, you would get to essentially what I think of as their core business,” which for Instagram, includes a feed and stories that often contain at least some content from family and friends.At times, Meta’s cross-examination of rival company executives showed the limits of apps’ similarities.
When questioning Apple director of product marketing Ronak Shah, Meta sought to show that group chats in Apple’s messaging feature could serve as a social media feed for friends and family sharing.
But Shah testified that feed would be limited to 32 people at most, and users can’t just look up each others’ profiles like they would on social platforms.
Still, Meta pointed out, Apple’s messages app is listed under social media on its own app store.However, Meta also made important arguments about why the judge should question the FTC’s framing.
It pointed out that some documents from TikTok and YouTube owner Google claiming their products are very different from Meta’s were submitted to foreign officials to try to avoid getting drafted into potentially frustrating regulations.
It also pointed out when TikTok briefly went dark in the US ahead of a (now-aborted) ban, users flocked to Meta apps, showing consumers see it as a substitute on at least some level.
That’s because, Meta argued, competition for users is really about winning their time and attention.Companies can “sometimes make mistakes.
They misjudge who their users are”But X VP of product Keith Coleman testified it’s not that useful to think about competition this way.
Instead, “it’s much more helpful to understand what people are trying to accomplish in their lives and to try to help them accomplish that.” Under former CEO Jack Dorsey, then-Twitter leaned into focusing on news and users’ interests, Coleman testified, because that’s why people were coming to the platform.
Coleman was later surprised at how his own website characterized the product in its help center as a “service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.” “I can’t believe that’s on the website,” he said.
“That’s pretty wacky.”This point was “a caution that not everything a company writes down or says is necessarily decisive in establishing what the boundary of a market is,” Kovacic said.
Companies can “sometimes make mistakes.
They misjudge who their users are.”There are real ramifications for internet users here.
Going back to Netflix’s comparisons, if the streaming video service went down, some people would probably be happy to play a video game or get a few hours of shut-eye instead.
But others would be frustrated that they couldn’t watch a movie, which is why it’s good that Hulu, HBO, and Amazon Prime Video also exist.
The FTC’s argument isn’t that Meta owns the only social apps on the internet, it’s that the company faces little competition for a service many people specifically want — so the fact that you probably don’t know anyone using MeWe is sort of the point.How will the judge decide?Ultimately, Boasberg’s market definition — whether it’s Meta’s, the FTC’s, or his own — will come down to a few things: how Meta views itself, how competitors see it, and his own intuition, says Kovacic.
”Notice how much the FTC has been questioning Meta witnesses on the basis of its own internal documents,” he says.
“Does the story in the courtroom match the story of your own internal documents?” So far, the documents have shown that Meta has clocked that at least some portion of users come to its products to connect with family and friends, but also that the rise of TikTok has had it looking over its shoulder.
In September 2020, Meta told its board that Instagram revenue would be “meaningfully lower” than planned in the second half of the fiscal year because TikTok was drawing users’ attention.
But other internal documents have shown Meta’s well aware that at different points in time, users have come to its apps to connect with family and friends, and worriedly took note of other apps entering that space.
In a 2018 presentation, Meta found that the highest percentage of surveyed users said they come to Facebook, Instagram, and Snap to “see daily casual moments” and “see special moments.” By contrast, users came to Twitter’s feed for news and YouTube’s for entertainment.
And even as Instagram expands into entertainment, the FTC notes that it still advertises its sign-up page as a place to “see photos and videos from your friends.”“Instagram will always need to focus on friends”In a 2018 email, Zuckerberg told Mosseri that “Instagram will always need to focus on friends.” And even though a lot has changed in the social media landscape since then, Mosseri testified that to this day on the app, “friends are an important part of the experience.” Even though users may share fewer of their own updates on Facebook and Instagram, Mosseri admitted that two friends talking in the comments of a public figure’s post counts as an interaction between friends — and one that Instagram actively tries to facilitate.Meta has argued that this special focus on friends and family sharing makes up a shrinking portion of its offerings as it works to compete with fierce rivals like TikTok.
But the FTC says it’s still significant enough to monopolize.
It’s a scenario that came up in another major tech monopolization case, Kovacic says: the late-1990s lawsuit US v.
Microsoft.
In that case, Microsoft argued the Justice Department was ignoring how computing would soon move beyond the personal computer to the Internet of Things, meaning it couldn’t truly lock up the computing ecosystem as much as the government alleged.“Judge Jackson in the Microsoft case said, yeah, those things are happening, but not happening fast enough to deny you real market power in this PC and laptop-based market that the Justice Department is emphasizing,” Kovacic says.Still, he adds, a market niche can at some point become so small that it’s no longer significant in the eyes of antitrust law.
“You can have a process of change that ultimately renders the market segment unimportant,” he says.
“And the hard task of analysis for the judge is to say, has it already happened?”See More:

#666;">المصدر: https://www.theverge.com/antitrust/665308/meta-ftc-antitrust-trial-market-definition-tiktok-mewe-snap" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">www.theverge.com

#0066cc;">#why #one #obscure #app #could #help #crumble #metas #empire #the #question #who #biggest #rival #were #family #feud #survey #tiktok #would #likely #winning #answerin #federal #trade #commissions #antitrust #case #against #facebook #and #instagram #owner #governments #response #probably #wouldnt #even #make #top #small #blockchainbased #platform #called #mewemewe #looks #fair #amount #like #first #glance #except #that #you #account #using #frequency #blockchain #which #company #explains #decentralized #protocol #lets #move #your #social #connections #other #mostly #hypothetical #this #point #apps #support #frequencythe #says #million #users #have #joined #but #when #mewe #log #scroll #through #autopopulated #feed #think #are #these #people #search #for #few #verge #colleagues #figuring #anyone #has #tried #might #them #come #shorti #try #some #public #figures #tim #cook #jeff #bezos #mark #zuckerberg #there #accounts #with #names #seems #unlikely #theyre #ones #mindthe #claim #closer #competitor #than #baffling #youre #not #steeped #law #specifics #ftcs #complaintmeta #ceo #testified #hadnt #heard #before #was #filedbut #ftc #spent #past #three #weeks #laying #out #its #logicusing #own #internal #discussions #about #how #views #itself #competition #meta #historically #day #competed #market #connecting #friends #online #saw #dominance #space #threatened #rise #whatsapp #bought #squash #competitionwhether #judge #james #boasberg #buys #determine #wins #can #also #show #acted #illegally #acquisitions #solidify #alleged #monopoly #powerantitrust #supposed #ensure #usually #means #options #useful #class #goods #services #whats #known #relevant #marketthe #here #personal #networking #psns #spaces #where #core #purpose #helping #connect #familywhile #many #platforms #overlap #argues #virtually #none #serve #marketif #internet #want #find #hang #they #know #opposed #say #watching #influencers #making #work #then #zuckerbergs #way #telling #snapchat #bereal #mewebeyond #definition #unique #features #norms #feature #graph #mapping #primarily #based #their #interestsusers #look #real #lifeand #share #updates #those #peoplefacebook #increasingly #display #videos #photos #from #celebrities #remains #serviceit #used #chief #adam #mosseris #testimony #most #clearly #pointin #well #posts #his #mosseri #said #still #important #friendsthe #use #smaller #portion #what #days #significant #need #only #fulfilled #instagramwhile #someone #life #linkedin #wont #thereand #while #follow #interact #youtube #more #passively #watch #dontmeta #entirely #wrong #itsocial #media #compete #time #attention #whether #particular #squarely #aimed #socalled #sharing #beside #pointfacebook #evolved #content #shifting #further #dominatedthe #already #landed #points #will #get #push #back #agencys #framing #calls #witnesses #coming #weeksbut #caseinchief #continues #into #fifth #week #argument #becoming #lot #clearerwhy #facebookwhen #defining #each #side #trying #answer #key #choosing #companys #product #sense #doesnt #mean #same #nichein #sodas #example #buy #lemonlime #never #see #close #substitute #buying #coke #pepsi #george #washington #professor #former #chair #bill #kovacicin #tech #world #netflix #claimed #competitors #fortnite #sleep #comparisons #stand #courtthe #outside #fulfill #desire #broadcast #onlineto #brought #string #executives #companies #explain #cant #quite #scratch #itch #usersstravas #connected #partnerships #mateo #ortega #sure #fitnesstracking #baby #unless #running #strollerits #all #fitness #post #stuff #just #seem #saidyou #pepsipinterests #head #user #growth #julia #roberts #pinterest #expecting #tend #confused #thats #because #much #works #differently #platformspinterest #finding #things #interested #she #following #big #part #experiencetiktok #tab #identified #mutually #otherbut #operations #presser #percent #watched #therethe #competing #testifiedand #though #sidebyside #screenshots #reels #shorts #identical #click #view #essentially #business #includes #stories #often #contain #least #friendsat #times #crossexamination #showed #limits #similaritieswhen #questioning #apple #director #marketing #ronak #shah #sought #group #chats #apples #messaging #sharingbut #limited #others #profiles #platformsstill #pointed #messages #listed #under #storehowever #made #arguments #should #framingit #documents #google #claiming #products #very #different #submitted #foreign #officials #avoid #getting #drafted #potentially #frustrating #regulationsit #briefly #went #dark #ahead #nowaborted #ban #flocked #showing #consumers #levelthats #argued #really #attentioncompanies #sometimes #mistakesthey #misjudge #arebut #keith #coleman #wayinstead #helpful #understand #accomplish #lives #jack #dorsey #thentwitter #leaned #focusing #news #interests #platformcoleman #later #surprised #website #characterized #center #service #coworkers #communicate #stay #exchange #quick #frequent #believe #saidthats #pretty #wackythis #caution #everything #writes #down #necessarily #decisive #establishing #boundary #kovacic #saidcompanies #arethere #ramifications #heregoing #netflixs #streaming #video #happy #play #game #hours #shuteye #insteadbut #frustrated #couldnt #movie #good #hulu #hbo #amazon #prime #existthe #isnt #owns #faces #little #specifically #fact #dont #sort #pointhow #decideultimately #boasbergs #intuition #kovacicnotice #been #basis #saysdoes #story #courtroom #match #far #shown #clocked #had #looking #over #shoulderin #september #told #board #revenue #meaningfully #lower #planned #second #half #fiscal #year #drawing #attentionbut #aware #worriedly #took #note #entering #spacein #presentation #found #highest #percentage #surveyed #snap #daily #casual #moments #special #contrast #came #twitters #youtubes #entertainmentand #expands #entertainment #notes #advertises #signup #page #place #friendsinstagram #always #focus #friendsin #email #changed #landscape #since #experience #may #fewer #admitted #two #talking #comments #counts #interaction #between #actively #tries #facilitatemeta #makes #shrinking #offerings #fierce #rivals #tiktokbut #enough #monopolizeits #scenario #another #major #monopolization #late1990s #lawsuit #vmicrosoftin #microsoft #justice #department #ignoring #computing #soon #beyond #computer #meaning #truly #lock #ecosystem #government #allegedjudge #jackson #yeah #happening #fast #deny #power #laptopbased #emphasizing #saysstill #adds #niche #become #longer #eyes #lawyou #process #change #ultimately #renders #segment #unimportant #saysand #hard #task #analysis #happenedsee

#333;">Round-up: Canadian-led exhibitions at the 2025 Venice Biennale

The International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia,  has returned, with its grand opening held in early May.
The exhibition runs until November 23, 2025
The Canada Council for the Arts, Commissioner of Canada’s official participation in the International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, administers the selection process and oversees the exhibition at the Canada Pavilion.
But in addition to the Canada Pavilion, Canadian architects and designers have a presence in several other exhibitions that are part of this year’s festival.
Here’s a round-up of the Canadian work in Venice.
Picoplanktonics.
Photo credit: Valentina Mori
Picoplanktonics led by Living Room Collective
Canada’s official entry to the Biennale is Picoplanktonics, a 3D-printed living artwork incorporating cyanobacteria—a global first at the intersection of architecture, biotechnology, and art.
The exhibition, developed by the Living Room Collective, showcases the potential for collaboration between humans and nature. Picoplanktonics is an exploration of the potential to co-operate with living systems by co-constructing spaces that “remediate the planet rather than exploit it.”
The installation transforms the Canada Pavilion into an aquatic micro-ecosystem, where architectural structures grow, evolve, and naturally degrade alongside their living components.
It was designed according to regenerative architecture principles, and is not only a built object, but also a breathing organism interacting with its environment, which prompts reflection on potential futures of the built environment.
The creative team is led by bio-designer Andrea Shin Ling, alongside core team members Nicholas Hoban, Vincent Hui and Clayton Lee.
Etude Ile Verte by Atelier Pierre Thibault.
Photo credit Alex Lesage
Les boucaneries de l’île Verte by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Atelier Pierre Thibault has been invited to participate in this year’s Venice Biennale as the only team from Québec.
His project is inspired by the old fish smokehouses, or boucaneries, of Île Verte.
With the support of the fifty permanent residents of Île Verte, Atelier Pierre Thibault has designed a participatory architectural project that aims to reinterpret the boucaneries as creative canvases to imagine new uses to strengthen Île Verte’s autonomy.
This includes community greenhouses, artist studios, and gathering places.
The exhibition aims to highlight, as Thibault puts it, “the strength of a sensitive and collective gesture in response to the erosion of traditional buildings and the major climate challenges faced by inhabitants living year-round in an isolated island environment.”
The construction of the installations, along with the exchanges sparked with the community, was documented through photography and video, and captures both the process and the spirit of collaboration that defined the project.
Celebrating the Verdoyants’ collective intelligence and inviting reflection on the future of the boucaneries, this participatory project highlights the exemplary and internationally resonant nature of this approach.
The Atelier Pierre Thibault project will be on view at the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
The pavilion itself will take the form of a temporary, lightweight structure constructed from reused materials, situated on the grounds of the French Pavilion, which is currently undergoing renovation.
The curators have selected 50 projects to be featured across six thematic sections: Living With the Existing, the Immediate, the Broken, Vulnerabilities, Nature, and Combined Intelligences.
Image courtesy of WZMH Architects
Speedstac by WZMH Architects as part of Living With…Combined Intelligences 
As part of the exhibition “Living With… Combined Intelligences,” WZMH Architects presents Speedstac, a prefabricated modular precast solution that aims to reimagine how urban areas devastated by war can be rebuilt.
Originally designed to accelerate housing construction in Canada, Speedstac took on urgent new relevance following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
With more than 170,000 buildings damaged or destroyed and millions displaced, WZMH’s innovation, developed through its R&D lab, sparkbird, aims to offer a scalable solution: self-contained, plug-and-play building modules with integrated electrical and plumbing systems that can be seamlessly inserted into existing structures.
The use of modern materials such as high-performance concrete can reduce the weight of the modules, making them easier to lift and move using conventional crane equipment.
Using a robust locking mechanism, several modules can be securely fastened and unfastened as needed, to produce an adaptive modular housing solution.
The Speedstac system aims to offer a solution to the challenges of traditional construction methods, enabling faster, more flexible, and more sustainable building projects.
The Vivre Avec / Living With exhibition is hosted in the French Pavilion.
Presentation, Northern Horizons.
Photo credit: Blouin Orzes architectes
Northern Horizons by Blouin Orzes architectes as part of Time Space Existence 
Through a wide selection of projects—ranging from conceptual works, models and photographs to videos, sculptures and site-specific installations—the exhibition Time Space Existence, hosted by the European Cultural Centre, aims to provoke participants to question their relationship with space and time, re-envisioning new ways of living and rethinking architecture through a larger lens.
Quebec firm Blouin Orzes’ participation revolves around their first-hand understanding of Inuit territories, where they have been working since 2000.
Their contribution is based on their  recent publication, Northern Journeys.
Blouin Orzes’ contribution in on display at the Palazzo Mora, and additional contributions to Time Space Existence are on view at the Palazzo Bembo and Marinaressa Gardens.
View of Commercial and Residential Towers from Seymour and West Georgia Streets.
Image credit: Henriquez Partners Studio
BC Glass Sea Sponge
Another contribution to Time Space Existence is the work of Henriquez Partners Studio.
The transformative mixed-use development which they are presenting merges architectural innovation, social responsibility and urban revitalization, and has recently been submitted to the City of Vancouver.
The project is about ambitious city-building, and aims to unlock public benefits on currently underutilized land in a way that supports some of the city’s most urgent needs, while contributing bold architecture to the city skyline.
Four towers, designed by Henriquez, draw inspiration from rare and ancient glass sea sponge reefs, whose ecological strength and resilience have shaped both form and structure.
These living marine organisms, which are unique to the Pacific Northwest, aim to serve as a metaphor for regeneration and adaptation.
This concept is translated through the architectural language of the towers: silhouettes, sculptural forms, and sustainable performance.
The tallest tower, a stand-alone hotel, proposed at 1,033 feet, is shaped by a structural diagrid exoskeleton that allows for column-free interiors while maximizing strength and minimizing material use.
Developed in collaboration with Arup, the structural system references the skeletal lattice of sea sponges; a concept researched at Harvard for its groundbreaking structural efficiency.
Henriquez Partners’  contribution is on display at Palazzo Bembo.
Renewal Development Shishalh Project Duplex Renderings – Image credit: Renewal Development
Shíshálh Nation: Ten Home Rescue Project as part of theLiving With / Vivre avec exhibition
Vancouver-based company Renewal Development has been selected to appear as part of the French Pavilion’s exhibition on housing innovation.
In 2024, Renewal Development partnered with developer Wesgroup and the shíshálh Nation to relocate ten high value Port Moody homes set for demolition to the shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast.
The Nation has been experiencing an acute housing shortage with 900 Nation members currently on a waitlist for housing.
Renewal Development says that this initiative reflects its “deeply held values of sustainability, and reconciliation” and its “work to offer real-world solutions to waste and housing shortages by reimagining what already exists.”
The project will be on display in the French Pavilion.
The following is a list of other Canadian groups and individuals contributing to this year’s Venice Biennale:
On Storage
Brendan Cormier is a Canadian writer, curator, and urban designer based in London.
He is currently the lead curator of 20th and 21st Century Design for the Shekou Partnership at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Prior to this he served as the managing editor of Volume Magazine.
La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London present for the ninth consecutive year the Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project titled On Storage, curated by Brendan Cormier, in collaboration with Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R).
It explores the global architecture of storage in service of the circulation of things, and features a newly commissioned six-channel film directed by DS+R.
From Liquid to Stone: A Reconfigurable Concrete Tectonic Against Obsolescence
Inge Donovan, based in Boston, achieved her Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design and Architectural History, Theory and Criticism from the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto in 2019 after growing up in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Curse of Dimensionality
Adeline Chum is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Spatial Research and third-year student in the MArch Program at GSAPP.
She has received her Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Waterloo, Canada and has worked in small and medium-sized architecture firms in Toronto, New York, and London.
Oceanic Refractions
Elise Misao Hunchuck, born in Toronto and currently based Berlin and Milan, is a transdisciplinary researcher, editor, writer, and educator.
Her practice brings together architecture, landscape architecture, and media studies to research sites in Canada, Japan, China, and Ukraine, employing text, images, and cartographies to document, explore, and archive the co-constitutive relationships between plants, animals, and minerals—in all of their forms.
SpaceSuits.Us: A Case for Ultra Thin Adjustments
Charles Kim is a designer currently based in Boston.
Stemming from his background in architecture, he is interested in materials, DIY, and the aesthetics of affordability.
Since graduating from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2022, he has been working as an architectural designer at Utile.
Uncommon Knowledge: Plants as Sensors
Sonia Sobrino Ralston is a designer, researcher, and educator, and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in Landscape Architecture and Art + Design at Northeastern University in the College of Arts, Media, and Design.
She is interested in the intersections between landscape, architecture, and the history of technology.
Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism
Mark Wasiuta is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP and Co-Director of the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program.
Wasiuta is recipient of recent grants from the Onassis Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, NYSCA, and the Graham Foundation, where he was an inaugural Graham Foundation Fellow.
Blue Garden: The Architecture of Emergence
Tanvi Khurmi, based in London, UK, is a multidisciplinary designer and artist.
Her practice is focused on addressing and combatting issues surrounding the climate crisis.
After receiving a Bachelor’s in Architecture with a minor in Environmental Studies from the John H.
Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto, she earned a Masters of Architecture in Bio-Integrated Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London.
Design as an Astronaut
Dr.
Cody Paige is the Director of the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, a team of 50+ students, faculty, and staff building and flying advanced technology for space exploration.
The Initiative focuses on helping students take their research into space.
The pipeline developed to achieve this works with students from across the Media Lab and the MIT community to prototype space-related research in the lab, fly and test them in microgravity on parabolic and suborbital flights, and finally to take them to the International Space Station or on to the Moon.
Cody also has a background in geology, specifically quaternary geochronology, and completed her Master of Applied Science at the University of Toronto in Aerospace Engineering and her Bachelor of Applied Science from Queen’s University in Engineering Physics.
 
The post Round-up: Canadian-led exhibitions at the 2025 Venice Biennale appeared first on Canadian Architect.

#666;">المصدر: https://www.canadianarchitect.com/must-see-exhibitions-at-the-2025-venice-biennale/" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">www.canadianarchitect.com

#0066cc;">#roundup #canadianled #exhibitions #the #venice #biennale #international #architecture #exhibition #venezia #has #returned #with #its #grand #opening #held #early #maythe #runs #until #november #2025the #canada #council #for #arts #commissioner #canadas #official #participation #administers #selection #process #and #oversees #pavilionbut #addition #pavilion #canadian #architects #designers #have #presence #several #other #that #are #part #this #years #festivalheres #work #venicepicoplanktonicsphoto #credit #valentinamoripicoplanktonics #led #living #room #collectivecanadas #entry #picoplanktonics #3dprinted #artwork #incorporating #cyanobacteriaa #global #first #intersection #biotechnology #artthe #developed #collective #showcases #potential #collaboration #between #humans #naturepicoplanktonicsis #exploration #cooperate #systems #coconstructing #spaces #remediate #planet #rather #than #exploit #itthe #installation #transforms #into #aquatic #microecosystem #where #architectural #structures #grow #evolve #naturally #degrade #alongside #their #componentsit #was #designed #according #regenerative #principles #not #only #built #object #but #also #breathing #organism #interacting #environment #which #prompts #reflection #futures #environmentthe #creative #team #biodesigner #andrea #shin #ling #core #members #nicholas #hoban #vincent #hui #clayton #leeetude #ile #verte #atelier #pierre #thibaultphoto #alex #lesageles #boucaneries #lîle #thibault #been #invited #participate #from #québechis #project #inspired #old #fish #smokehouses #Île #vertewith #support #fifty #permanent #residents #participatory #aims #reinterpret #canvases #imagine #new #uses #strengthen #vertes #autonomythis #includes #community #greenhouses #artist #studios #gathering #placesthe #exhibitionaims #highlight #puts #strength #sensitive #gesture #response #erosion #traditional #buildings #major #climate #challenges #faced #inhabitants #yearround #isolated #island #construction #installations #along #exchanges #sparked #documented #through #photography #video #captures #both #spirit #defined #projectcelebrating #verdoyants #intelligence #inviting #future #highlights #exemplary #internationally #resonant #nature #approachthe #will #view #corderie #dellarsenalethe #itself #take #form #temporary #lightweight #structure #constructed #reused #materials #situated #grounds #french #currently #undergoing #renovationthe #curators #selected #projects #featured #across #six #thematic #sections #existing #immediate #broken #vulnerabilities #combined #intelligencesimage #courtesy #wzmh #architectsspeedstacby #architectsas #withcombined #intelligencesas #intelligences #presents #speedstac #prefabricated #modular #precast #solution #reimagine #how #urban #areas #devastated #war #can #rebuiltoriginally #accelerate #housing #took #urgent #relevance #following #russian #invasion #ukrainewith #more #damaged #destroyed #millions #displaced #wzmhs #innovation #rampampd #lab #sparkbird #offer #scalable #selfcontained #plugandplay #building #modules #integrated #electrical #plumbing #seamlessly #inserted #structuresthe #use #modern #such #highperformance #concrete #reduce #weight #making #them #easier #lift #move #using #conventional #crane #equipmentusing #robust #locking #mechanism #securely #fastened #unfastened #needed #produce #adaptive #solutionthe #system #methods #enabling #faster #flexible #sustainable #projectsthe #vivre #avec #hosted #pavilionpresentation #northern #horizonsphoto #blouin #orzes #architectesnorthern #horizonsby #architectes #time #space #existencethrough #wide #projectsranging #conceptual #works #models #photographs #videos #sculptures #sitespecific #installationsthe #existence #european #cultural #centre #provoke #participants #question #relationship #reenvisioning #ways #rethinking #larger #lensquebec #firm #revolves #around #firsthand #understanding #inuit #territories #they #working #since #2000their #contribution #based #recent #publication #journeysblouin #display #palazzo #mora #additional #contributions #bembo #marinaressa #gardensview #commercial #residential #towers #seymour #west #georgia #streetsimage #henriquez #partners #studiobc #glass #sea #spongeanother #studiothe #transformative #mixeduse #development #presenting #merges #social #responsibility #revitalization #recently #submitted #city #vancouverthe #about #ambitious #citybuilding #unlock #public #benefits #underutilized #land #way #supports #some #citys #most #needs #while #contributing #bold #skylinefour #draw #inspiration #rare #ancient #sponge #reefs #whose #ecological #resilience #shaped #structurethese #marine #organisms #unique #pacific #northwest #aim #serve #metaphor #regeneration #adaptationthis #concept #translated #language #silhouettes #sculptural #forms #performancethe #tallest #tower #standalone #hotel #proposed #feet #structural #diagrid #exoskeleton #allows #columnfree #interiors #maximizing #minimizing #material #usedeveloped #arup #references #skeletal #lattice #sponges #researched #harvard #groundbreaking #efficiencyhenriquez #bemborenewal #shishalh #duplex #renderings #image #renewal #developmentshíshálh #nation #ten #home #rescue #theliving #exhibitionvancouverbased #company #appear #pavilions #innovationin #partnered #developer #wesgroup #shíshálh #relocate #high #value #port #moody #homes #set #demolition #sunshine #coastthe #experiencing #acute #shortage #waitlist #housingrenewal #says #initiative #reflects #deeply #values #sustainability #reconciliation #realworld #solutions #waste #shortages #reimagining #what #already #existsthe #pavilionthe #list #groups #individuals #biennaleon #storagebrendan #cormier #writer #curator #designer #londonhe #lead #20th #21st #century #design #shekou #partnership #victoria #albert #museumprior #served #managing #editor #volume #magazinela #museum #london #present #ninth #consecutive #year #applied #special #titled #storage #curated #brendan #diller #scofidio #renfro #dsrit #explores #service #circulation #things #features #newly #commissioned #sixchannel #film #directed #dsrfrom #liquid #stone #reconfigurable #tectonic #against #obsolescenceinge #donovan #boston #achieved #her #bachelor #history #theory #criticism #daniels #faculty #university #toronto #after #growing #nova #scotia #canadathe #curse #dimensionalityadeline #chum #graduate #research #assistant #center #spatial #thirdyear #student #march #program #gsappshe #received #studies #waterloo #worked #small #mediumsized #firms #york #londonoceanic #refractionselise #misao #hunchuck #born #berlin #milan #transdisciplinary #researcher #educatorher #practice #brings #together #landscape #media #sites #japan #china #ukraine #employing #text #images #cartographies #document #explore #archive #coconstitutive #relationships #plants #animals #mineralsin #all #formsspacesuitsus #case #ultra #thin #adjustmentscharles #kim #bostonstemming #his #background #interested #diy #aesthetics #affordabilitysince #graduating #school #utileuncommon #knowledge #sensorssonia #sobrino #ralston #educator #teaching #professor #art #northeastern #college #designshe #intersections #technologydoxiadis #informational #modernismmark #wasiuta #senior #lecturer #columbia #gsapp #codirector #critical #curatorial #practices #programwasiuta #recipient #grants #onassis #foundation #asian #nysca #graham #inaugural #fellowblue #garden #emergencetanvi #khurmi #multidisciplinary #artisther #focused #addressing #combatting #issues #surrounding #crisisafter #receiving #bachelors #minor #environmental #john #hdaniels #she #earned #masters #biointegrated #bartlett #londondesign #astronautdrcody #paige #director #mit #students #staff #flying #advanced #technology #explorationthe #focuses #helping #spacethe #pipeline #achieve #prototype #spacerelated #fly #test #microgravity #parabolic #suborbital #flights #finally #station #mooncody #geology #specifically #quaternary #geochronology #completed #master #science #aerospace #engineering #queens #physicsthe #post #appeared #architect

Epic launches a reward program to lure you away from the App Store