Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
This issue is about space and place, and various attempts to engage or overcome them. Our networks today, far from evenly distributed, are by turns empowering, exploitative, galvanizing for activism, surveillant, and emotionally exhausting, as we project joy, empathy, or moral outrage to ever more places from afar. What are the infrastructures on which we rely, and who are their architects, figuratives and literal? As a magazine based in the South with a global reach, ART PAPERS has long asked these kinds of questions. And the logics of design and architecture can venture answers, making these structures visible or building…
