Shannon Mattern

Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.

The humble drinking fountain can tell us much about a society’s attitudes towards health, hygiene, equity, virtue, public goods and civic responsibilities.

A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space.”

Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.