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R E S O U R C E S AI WEIWEI: RESETTING MEMORIES BY AI WEIWEI, MARIA LUISA AGUILAR This book which is from the exhibition by the same name in Mexico City's MUAC. In this book, Ai Weiwei addressed two national traumas: the destruction of cultural heritage during China's Communist Revolution and the murder of 43 students in Mexico. These are represented respectively by a Ming dynasty temple that the artist purchased and rebuilt, and a fi lm and Lego portraits of the Mexican students. UNFOLDING FASHION TECH: PIONEERS OF BRIGHT FUTURES BY DANIËLLE BRUGGEMAN, JAN MAHY, MARINA TOETERS (Editor) Despite technological advances—new kinds of fabric, design processes, 3D-printing, miniaturized electronics and design software—changes in the fashion industry and everyday apparel have not been as signifi cant as we might expect. If the fashion industry were to embrace any of these innovations more fully, its character could change completely within only one or two seasons. Unfolding Fashion Tech shows what the future of fashion could look like, according to designers, scientists, industry professionals and theorists in the fashion tech fi eld. It unites their diff erent perspectives on the challenges and explores alternatives to the plentitude of discarded garments buried in land masses everywhere. THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION BY ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN, DARREN ANDERSEN, LAURA BLISS, ALISON GRISWOLD, NICK VAN MEADE, CHRISTOPHER SCHABERG, OLALEKAN JEYIFOUS (Illustrator), HENRY GRABAR (Editor) This is the third installment of the SOM Thinkers series which was started from wanting to start a public conversation about the built environment. The other books of the series being: The Future of Public Space and The Future of the Skyscraper. These books take today's most pressing questions about design and architecture and give bold and accessible solutions. This book has essays on the transportation to come and solutions from the past. Exploring a wide variety of impacts and diff erent types of transportation through essays refl ects what that experience can have on everyday people. Amplifying voices beyond those with the rideshare autonomous vehicle or rocket segment, this book considers how such experiences might change in the future. It even looks to the past as a solution for our future transportation problems.