Amidst community speculation, the essay highlights the personal impact of a young girl's ritualistic act of lighting candles at Pepe's memorial. Her gesture transcends the constructed narratives, acknowledging Pepe's existence beyond the confines of societal expectations and moral judgments. In doing so, she underscored the value of his life, irrespective of the narratives imposed upon it.

Sick waters were not only the result of grey and black water produced, drained after the shower, collected in the sewage system, and then used by the citizens.

Zurich is a city where the body is celebrated as a means for social bathing activities. The perseverance of the bathing culture despite the privatization of the shower, has prevented the body from becoming a taboo within society. The boundary between what is public and what is private is pushed in a way that allows citizens to freely express their social and hygienic basic needs.

At the heart of SoCity is an innovative paradigm centering decentralized incentive policy. By quantifying each participant's social and sustainable contribution, monetizing it, and providing rewards to encourage positive feedback loops, we create a dynamic, self-reinforcing system that drives real urban changes.

Showering in the contemporary city is a habitual and almost scheduled event. It has become so integrated within our daily routines that it has become an essential portion of the day or even night without our direct awareness or consciousness

Seebad Enge is the latest public shower to be constructed on the Lake Zurich. It is the public bath to witness the transformation of the shower space into a more private space. It was the end of a shower boom era; a time when Zurich has put a stop to an increasing density of city showers and has shifted towards a greater use of private showers.

seeing it as more than a resource

urban showers

In MIT Architecture, I often find theoretical notions to stay ethereal. Although creative ideas and principles are valuable, the actual process of turning theoretical ideas into a physical reality is challenging. I believe that execution in fabrication is a critical step to test and validate the design as they turn into tangible objects.

Zurich, the shower city, has strived to maintain the shower space as a public activity and social event as public bathing functionally served the bodies and the minds of its people. Bathing in a 21st century river that runs through the infrastructure of a contemporary city is quite rare to find. The Zurich city shower is a space that contributes to the city as much as it is shaped and designed by its urban parameters

What stories, myths, and rumors encircle one of the most recognized architects [Zaha Hadid] and a major female figure in the field? And how does this reflect in the way [non]architects, architects, academics, and students perceive others who identify as female in architecture?

The City of Zurich is a shower in its purest natural form. It is a shower consisting of a series of existing natural water bodies; rivers, glaciers, and a lake. It is the product of geologically historical events that contributed to the formation of a natural shower. The City Shower.

The landscape described was breathless and sensational, thrusting spikes of naked rocks was almost piercing the sky. Mitton depicted Turner’s painting an early pioneer of the picturesque movement, as an ekphrastic scenery that was adventurous yet mysterious. However, it was not any places British, but Burma (now widely known as Myanmar), where the empire would later colonize for over a hundred years.

The DAO practice shares a similar concept with the ancient daoism philosophy in that it explores balanced ways to coordinate people and resources, promotes human-centered autonomy and empowers the community with ownership

feeling sidetracked while attempting to think about numbers living in a number world

The shower is a practice. The shower is also a space. A space occupied by the citizen through time. The shower is a site specific activity that involves the practice of cleansing within a distinctively designed and dedicated space. The verb to shower has preceded the shower as a noun along the times of human existence and urban development.

This short film captures the field condition of MIT as a continuous active process. There is always ground being moved, creating a field condition when various operations of different scales. The digging, the hammering, the building, and the dismantling. All the actions left traces and then were removed.

In the northern territories, food accessibility is not a problem that can be solely solved by engineers or the construction of a new grocery store. Culturally, foodways are networks. Caribou, berries, and fish entangle intergenerational Indigenous women; their pathways are vast and interconnected, forming expansive territories of land and water stewardship.