Caroline 'TrebleMuse' Bennett

Intelligent people are not biased. That's what makes them so cool. They can change their mind. And they don't feel any shame in doing that. They learn something new. Like a concept, maybe some kind of reflection they did in their alone time, and that's enough for them to re-think and change their mind about something. It's like a software update. They don't give a fuck about being right. Finding the truth is their ultimate goal.

Why is it important to picture place? For one of my favorite landscape theorists, J. B. Jackson, to picture America was to understand America. He believed that the landscape was not merely scenery but the physical expression of a society’s values, ambitions, contradictions, and everyday existence. The ordinary spaces of American life, highways, parking lots, suburbs, gas stations, empty fields, and roadside buildings, were as revealing of the national character as its monuments and celebrated natural wonders. To look closely at these places was to recognize that history is not only written in books or preserved in grand architecture, but continuously inscribed upon the land by the people who inhabit and transform it. Picturing America, therefore, was not simply an act of documentation or an aesthetic pursuit; it was a way of understanding how a nation constructs its identity, how its ideals become physical realities, and how those realities often contradict its ideals. For Jackson, the landscape was, above all, “history made visible.” To picture a place was to make visible the often-overlooked forces that shaped it, and in doing so, to understand not just what America looked like, but who Americans were becoming. This is why I love @GrantYun2's new project. It taps into the legacy of imaging (not only imagining) place, especially the American place. This little on-chain generative code city represents: Road distance 16.4 mi 13–18 mi Annual energy 513 GWh/yr 200–700 GWh / yr Annual water 866 M gal/yr 350–1,200 million gal / yr Construction hours 30.2 M h 14–40 million h Embodied carbon 1.3 Mt CO₂e 600,000–1.8 million t CO₂eTop Operating carbon 150,745 t/yr 60,000–200,000 t CO₂e / yr Residents 21,561 12,000–40,000 people Food eaten 9,379 t/yr 6,000–16,000 t / yr

30 days until @ArtBasel Miami Beach. Where ancestral knowledge meets the possibilities of digital art. This December, Winds of Yawanawa, the groundbreaking collaboration between the Yawanawá and Refik Anadol, arrives at Zero 10, Art Basel’s initiative dedicated to art of the digital era. The presentation brings together the original drawings by Yawanawá artists Nawashahu and Mukashahu, all 1,000 works from the digital collection, and three newly commissioned canvases, revealing the evolving dialogue between Indigenous artistic traditions and contemporary technology. Presented by Scorpios in collaboration with HOFA Gallery and Instituto Nixiwaka. Discover the story behind Winds of Yawanawa in the feature by designboom. Art Basel Miami Beach | Zero 10 VIP Preview | 2–3 December 2026 Public Days | 4–6 December 2026 Miami Beach Convention Center designboom.com/art/refik-ana…

Great news: the Government has introduced legislation that would give London the power to introduce an Overnight Visitor Levy. I strongly welcome this step, which could help fund the places, culture and infrastructure that make our city one of the world's greatest destinations, and support our visitor economy.