MDW2025 – Day 3

April 10, 2025

If you spend half an hour queuing for something, make sure it’s to see NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti students and their Design for the Moon in the main courtyard of the Statale University.

From accessories that remove moon dust to small gardens from the homesick, from portable showers to compact meals that turn into lollypops, from an apparel to brew tea in space, which is a fundamental commodity as far as I’m concerned, these students worked with NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration to propose their ideas and will showcase two models of possible settlements that you can build up there.

Take your time to talk to them. They’re awesome.

books and literature

Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting

I have a profound loathing for Virginia Woolf’s writings. Not the woman, I think she was awesome. Her writing. It’s personal, and possibly shallow, and has mostly to do with my mother: she loved Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and forced me to read it

July 26, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

S.L. Huang’s The Language of Liars

This is possibly the best science fiction story I’ve read this year, and I’ve been reading Asimov. Oh. My. God. It’s the kind of book I won’t shut up about any time soon: I’ll go out in the street, and grab random people by the

July 25, 2026 9:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

Get the Party Started

Paul Shillcock posted something honest a few weeks ago, which is rarer than it sounds on LinkedIn. He admitted that he spends half his time explaining the terms appointing party and appointed party from ISO 19650, that almost nobody uses them (not the way they

July 22, 2026 9:00 am