Cooling corridors stitched block by block
How a coalition in Porto Alegre blends shade tech, water rituals and community markets to reclaim overheated avenues.
Read feature →Issue 108 · Field Edition
Cities, climate, and the rituals that keep communities resilient
Flux Digest tracks how designers, technologists and neighborhood coalitions re-imagine streets, housing and public space. This issue dives into cooling corridors, circular supply chains, and the teams building ceremony back into remote work.
Spotlight narratives
Long-form stories following the people who build public infrastructure for a hotter, denser world.
Night networks designed with couriers
Micro-bus hubs, rider safe houses and dynamic lighting built with delivery workers.
Read →Return of the rituals
Distributed teams layering ceremony and commons into async workflows.
Read →Fungi labs for social housing
Bio-composites, community fabrication and the policies fueling adoption.
Read →Collections
Weekly bundles of essays, playbooks and interviews organized by the themes readers care about most.
Designing shade-first streets
Cooling nodes, water dramaturgy and the markets that activate them.
Explore →Teams of teams
Handshake contracts for shared platforms and cross-squad rituals.
Explore →Blended funding labs
How civic sandboxes align founders, regulators and residents.
Explore →Audio drops
15-minute audio essays to pair with your commute or evening walks.
Flux Waves · Episode 42
Urban ecologist Malik Araya and city technologist Bruna Teixeira share the rituals that keep cooling corridors maintained.
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How choreographers and planners co-design open streets in Quito.
The cooperatives offering heating, childcare and civic tech support.
Architects blending prefabs, biotecture and neighborhood-owned energy.
Topic directory
Jump into curated archives. Each directory includes reading order, ritual prompts, and outcome metrics.
Join the weekly signal
Briefings arrive every Sunday. Expect audio highlights, upcoming field labs, design rituals and toolkits to remix with your team.
Contributors
Editors, researchers and producers embedded with communities from Porto Alegre to Tallinn.
Co-leads cooling corridor research residencies. Writes the weekly Signals digest.
Hosts Flux Waves and documents bio-based housing experiments across LATAM.
Builds civic dashboards, maintains open datasets, and leads the metrics clinic.
Reader resources
Downloadable assets and rituals to adapt for your next civic sprint.
Facilitation kit
- Checklist for convening neighborhood assemblies.
- Agenda templates for sprint retros and metrics clinics.
- Feedback loops for residents, founders and city staff.
Visual assets
- Hero imagery ratios and photo art direction notes.
- Iconography set for climate, mobility and policy topics.
- Typography guidance and color tokens.