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Children Inherit the Map

The places where children grow up shape their opportunities, expectations and sense of responsibility towards others. Exploring spatial inequality, urban economics and the experience of southern Italy, this essay argues that lasting prosperity depends on extending access to development beyond the centres where wealth is concentrated.

Amir Duhair

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Does Form Follow the Image?

Architectural images no longer merely represent buildings; they increasingly shape how architecture is conceived, judged, and circulated. This essay asks whether form has begun to follow the image, and what that shift means for function, meaning, human experience, and architectural criticism.

Amir Duhair

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AI & Humanity: The Promise and the Price of Progress

Central to these discussions is the inquiry into what constitutes human identity. Although artificial intelligence can simulate intelligence, conversation, and even emotion, it lacks the capacity to authentically experience empathy or moral responsibility.

Joe Algharam