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Despite it all, some really good things happened this year. Simon Wilson selects a few. Sure, it was a bad year. The storms were awful, and even though the...

While urban design alone can’t mend the tears in our social fabric, planning decisions and thoughtful, inclusive design can offer or hinder opportunities for interaction.

All those summer book lists came out before the season began. Maybe its hard to keep track of those early recommendations, or perhaps you zipped through all those books already.

Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field’s ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.

Field highlights how encounters in public spaces are vital for enriching our lives

Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.

Efficient urban design, attention-grabbing screens and isolating headphones all mean we’re rapidly losing the art and joy of spontaneous encounters. But artist Andy Field has a plan for how we can start to connect again…