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For decades, the international trade system has driven poverty reduction and economic development at an unprecedented scale.
Yet the benefits of that growth have not been evenly shared, leading to growing unhappiness with the status quo.
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Seawater desalination has established itself as a cornerstone of water security in arid and semi-arid regions. Population growth, rapid urbanization, industrialization, and climate variability have significantly increased pressure on conventional water resources, making the use of non-conventional sources essential.
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What if a sustainable building didn’t just avoid harming the environment, but actively functioned as an ecosystem in its own right, sheltering endangered species, sequestering carbon, and rewilding the land beneath it? This is the research question behind EDEN, an ambitious architectural initiative from the OXMAN design lab.
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