The Crit #13: Mound Economics
Keen to receive its own slice of the £6m Westminster Council budget for the Marble Arch Mound, The Crit has decamped to Central London for a visit to London’s reviled, MVRDV-designed tourist attraction.
Scaffolding-based hillocks aside, the new episode sees the debut of new co-host India Block. Disegno’s deputy editor, India takes us through some of the biggest recent stories from across design and architecture.
Over the course of the episode, the team explores the Ghanaian government’s plan to build 88 hospitals in 18 months, all designed by David Adjaye; the design of digital platforms to support sex workers, prompted by OnlyFans’s banking woes; Sou Fujimoto’s pollution-funnelling Thousand Trees project, and architecture’s issues with greenwashing; and the uncertain future facing California’s gig economy workers after Proposition 22 was found to be unconstitutional; plus a whole host of recent product and project releases, not least Yuri Suzuki’s Sonic Bloom installation.
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Show Notes: Ep.13 ‘Mound Economics’
Proposition 22 – 1:46
The Marble Arch Mound – 6:28
Sou Fujimoto’s A Thousand Trees – 14:10
OnlyFans – 20:00
David Adjaye’s hospitals for Ghana – 27:09
Product: Goldfinger – 34:05
Project: Louis 200 – 35:54
Product: Nothing ear (1) – 38:38
Product: Starlink – 41:21
Project: Yuri Suzuki’s Sonic Bloom – 43:40
Credits
All music for The Crit has been created by Yuri Suzuki and Team Suzuki (Adam Cheong-MacLeod and Charlie Carroll) at Pentagram, and our logo was designed by Leonhard Rothmoser.