Galaxy Soho Complex, Beijing...

Some images of the Galaxy Soho Complex by, I believe, ZHA... 

Domestic Details & Moments - Grankulla, Finland...

Interdisciplinary Design (Symposium) Publication/ Book...

The Interdisciplinary Design Symposium Book...

A copy of the VCUQatar MFA Department's publication/ book made following our symposium on Interdisciplinary Design, organized here in Doha last year. 

The book includes contributions from a roster of international designers and academics, including many of our MFA Alumni (examples of which are included below)... 

Event Co-Chairs:  Pornprapha Phatanateacha/ Thomas Modeen 

Editor: Thomas Modeen 

Publication Designer: Felicity Ulmer 

Event Photography: Mack Cortel  

Copyright 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar 

Some images from Alia Khairat's contribution...

A page from Esra Kazem's essay...

A spread from Maryam Al-Homaid's chapter...

Images of Lina MaHusain's work...

Under the Motorway, Vantaa, Finland...

The Walter Runeberg Museum, Porvoo, Finland...

Beijing Buildings...

The Skyways of Minneapolis...

Thanks to the extended Skyway network one can transcend across most of downtown Minneapolis without setting a foot outside. Confusing at first for a novice, these, somewhat 'labyrinthal', above ground burrows connecting the various urban hubs to each other nevertheless provide a quasi-hermetic world of their own with their extensive choice of interconnected restaurants and coffee-shops, stationary stores, clothing shops, jewelers, flower-shops, relators, banks, galleries, hotels and more... It probably would be possible to sustain oneself (both in body and spirit) in these passages for a substantial time period without having to set a foot on an actual sidewalk... 

Good times...