A Design and Technology Podcast covering all things impacting our visual culture. Design, Architecture, movies, video games, fashion. It’s all on the table as we connect the dots between cultural hype, politics, technology and more.
Hands Off My Images: the EU vs. AI Renders, the End of the Neom Era & Gehry's Final House_ MXD News Ep. 42
The EU wants you to label your AI renders — and Caleb is not having it. "Get your hands off my images." This week: why a rule aimed at consumer fraud lands hardest on the small studios and students who finally got professional-grade imagery, whether the Neom era is really over (the money didn't disappear — it moved to data centers), and the hot take that Gehry's houses beat his museums. Plus NYC's 4,000-home bet at 100 Gold Street, MVRDV's street furniture, Google Japan's conveyor-belt keyboard, and Louis Vuitton's flying-car runway.MXD Signal — weekly news on architecture, design, and visual culture.
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9 Oct 2026
Data Centers Are the Only Thing America’s Building, AI Influencers & Gen Z Cyberdecks | MXD News Ep. 41
We open with a striking construction stat: data centers are drawing around $725 billion in capital while home building and factory construction decline. We talk about what that means for architects and students entering the job market, whether “I won’t build data centers” is a meaningful ethical line, and why so much capital is now flowing into buildings almost nobody will experience.Then we get into the weirdness of the modern internet: Higgsfield AI’s push to mass-produce AI influencers, dead internet theory, OpenAI’s Dots campaign for 24/7 agents, and Meta’s Muse wearable, which people are calling the 2026 Tamagotchi. Plus a break from the screens with BuildFest at Bethel Woods, where architecture students designed and built timber projects around the theme “Acts of Construction.”We also look at Gen Z’s cyberdeck trend (genuine counterculture or just aesthetics?), a $60,000 castle for sale in Hokkaido and what it reveals about Japan’s attitude toward old buildings, a viral “meeting titles as YouTube titles” bit, and why subcultures are multiplying while going viral gets harder than ever.
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2 Oct 2026
Gaza's Devastation In New Images, Amazon's Drone Chaos & SpaceX's Starship Breakthrough _ MXD News
This week we start with a heavier topic: newly updated Google Earth satellite imagery exposing the scale of destruction in Gaza, paired with on-the-ground photos of a makeshift football pitch built where the main stadium once stood. We talk about the role images play in making distant devastation real, the practice of forensic architecture, and how communities rebuild function and daily life amid ruins.Then we lighten up with Amazon's new delivery drones — loud, clumsy, camera-equipped, and in desperate need of a personality upgrade — before diving into SpaceX's Starship reaching orbit and what that means for the economics of space travel, satellite deployment, and design in spacecraft interiors.We also cover the "Stools" furniture exhibition in NYC featuring architect-designed stools from firms like Norman Kelly and OMA, Costco's plan to build mixed-use housing on a former hospital site in LA, and the ongoing fight over Trump's threat to shut down or demolish the Kennedy Center.Make sure to follow us on our socials!Instagram - @mxd_signalTiktok - @mxd_signal
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