The Archive — Issue
Second Acts
People who reinvented themselves mid-career and took their first discipline with them. An architect who grows buildings, a neuroscientist who composes, a roboticist who dances.
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The Architect Who Grows Her Buildings
Ines Valdés-Okafor left glass towers behind to grow walls from fungus. Her structures are now outlasting her critics.
Listening to the Brain Sing
In a basement lab in Reykjavík, Saoirse Lindqvist turns the electricity of sleep into string quartets.
Robots That Learned to Dance
Nkechi Moreau-Hale teaches machines to move like people, and people to move with machines.