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Joyce Hwang, an architect and associate professor at the University at Buffalo, New York believes in integrating the world of nonhuman animals into human architecture. This means taking inspiration from the sustainable ways animals build. It also means considering how to accommodate nonhuman animals when planning human structures rather than ignoring or repelling them. Part of Museum of Modern Art’s Built Ecologies video series, this short film surveys some of Hwang’s most notable projects to explore how a recognition of and respect for wildlife is at the centre of her work.
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Rituals and celebrations
A whale hunt is an act of prayer for an Inuit community north of the Arctic Circle
8 minutes
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Cosmology
Tiny, entangled universes that form or fizzle out – a theory of the quantum multiverse
11 minutes
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Music
The peculiar beauty of a song caught between composition and improvisation
3 minutes
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Rituals and celebrations
A beginner’s guide to a joyful Persian tradition of spring renewal and rebirth
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Astronomy
The history of astronomy is a history of conjuring intelligent life where it isn’t
34 minutes
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Politics and government
How it looked to Afghan women to see the Taliban return to power
33 minutes
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Love and friendship
Love looks a bit different for a chain-smoking couple in a small apartment
11 minutes
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Metaphysics
Simple entities in universal harmony – Leibniz’s evocative perspective on reality
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Biography and memoir
Passed over as the first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight carved out an impressive second act
13 minutes