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CairoScene
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Tomorrow's Workspace Reimagined: Inside Style Design's TDS Showcase
At The Design Show 2025, Style Design stages a multi-zoned installation that questions why we work the way we do. There's something poetic about revisiting the future by walking through the past. At this year's edition of The Design Show Cairo, Style Design is constructing a provocation. Titled 'Tomorrow's Workplace', the multi-zone installation asks us to reconsider what we expect from the spaces we work in. Not just ergonomically, but emotionally. Split across three distinct yet interwoven areas - the Immersive Plaza, the Biophilic Hub, and the Infinite Hub - the booth is less about showcasing furniture and more about designing relationships. With ourselves, with others, with time, and with change. Anchoring the entire experience is a sweeping spatial timeline. Here, Style Design honours over a century of furniture evolution, moving from the Bauhaus' disciplined form-function minimalism to the hybrid-era's sensory-rich design. Visitors will come face to face with the Wassily Chair and the Barcelona Chair, the Panton's single-mould statement, and the ergonomic revolution ushered in by Herman Miller's Aeron. The progression isn't just visual - it's philosophical. From the Eames' belief that, 'eventually everything connects,' to today's reality where work no longer lives inside cubicles, but floats between screens, cities, and time zones. Beyond the timeline, two speculative capsules present opposing, yet complementary visions. The Infinite Hub, a hyper-digital vision of productivity, leans into a tech-forward, AI-powered future. Think responsive lighting, immersive data walls, and smart surfaces designed to keep pace with the speed of now. In contrast, the Biophilic Hub proposes a gentler reality. One where human wellness guides every design move. SceneHome isn't just covering Tomorrow's Workplace - we're part of it. You'll find our digital presence embedded inside the Biophilic Capsule, simulating what it means to produce editorial content in a space designed for the future. How does the environment affect the stories we tell? What happens when a design publication becomes part of the design? It's about more than desks and chairs - it's about rituals, rhythms, and environments that allow creativity to breathe. Olive branches pierce through the floor. Textures sooth instead of overstimulate. For a publication that lives and breathes digital media, this moment of analog intimacy is both metaphor and manifestation. Inspired by MillerKnoll's Design with Impact philosophy, Tomorrow's Workplace prompts reflection. Can a space help us move more and scroll less? What does workplace intimacy look like in an age of notifications? Can you design for quiet urgency - the kind that sparks flow without burnout? The installation is about integration. Between the digital and natural. Between ambition and wellbeing. Between the infinite scroll and the still page. Visitors should expect to not only leave with photos of statement chairs. But to leave with a question: What kind of world do we want to work in? And maybe, in the quiet curve of a Herman Miller backrest or the soft acoustics of the Biophilic Hub, they'll begin to find an answer. The space acknowledges the tension between digital speed and analog depth, between solitude and togetherness. And it doesn't pretend to resolve those tensions. Instead, it invites you to feel them, question them, and maybe leave with a clearer sense of what you need from the spaces you work in. As AI, climate shifts, and generational change continue to reshape how we live and labor, installations like Tomorrow's Workplace feel less like design statements and more like cultural diagnostics.
Miami Herald
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
‘Curated it for the culture.' Walshy Fire documents dancehall in new book
Walshy Fire has long been involved in the dancehall scene. As a kid, he grew up near House of Leo, an iconic dancehall venue in Kingston, Jamaica. As a young adult, he joined Black Chiney, a Jamaican sound system. And for the last several years, he has been a fixture of South Florida's dancehall scene, hosting his own party as well as touring around the world with Major Lazer. In 2025, the artist born Leighton Walsh took his love of dancehall to a new venue: the page. With his recently released book entitled 'Art of Dancehall: Flyer and Poster Designs of Jamaican Dancehall Culture,' Walsh looks at the culture of dancehall through the fliers that colored the scene. The fliers came from his collection and from those of graphic artists around the world including Lee Major, Muscle, Mark Professor and Stanjah. Published by Penguin Random House, 'Art of Dancehall' is available at Books & Books for $50. The book establishes the actual dancehall venue as the crucial meeting place for those who wanted to hear the burgeoning genre. Before cellphones and social media, those pieces of paper that promoters handed out told people what was happening in the dancehall scene, particularly if it came by way of the cassette, according to Jamaican DJ and producer Jason Panton. 'You wouldn't know what was going on without cassettes because they used to put fliers in cassettes,' Panton recalled, explaining that people would record dancehall nights on the tapes and distribute them. These cassettes 'would inform what was going on in sound system culture.' The book shows how, as dancehall spread across the globe, the art created to promote the shows differed by country — from the hand-drawn, DIY nature of the Jamaican flier to the simple typography of the British to the combination of both that was seen in the U.S., even as far as incorporating the Japanese dancehall scene. 'Japan is a special place,' Walsh said. 'Anything that's in culture, they try to do it better than the people that originated it.' For Panton, it's the attention to detail that ultimately stands out. 'You can tell it was done by somebody who really understands dancehall culture,' Panton said, explaining that Jamaicans need to do a better job of 'preserving our own culture' which Walsh deserves the utmost credit for doing. 'What makes this connect on an intimate level is someone who loves the culture does it.' Added Panton: 'It feels like someone inside of the culture curated it for the culture .' Walsh, who spent three years working on the project, thinks its time that dancehall got its flowers. Hip-hop got its shine in 2023 as the world celebrated its 50th anniversary. Soca even got a similar reverence later that same year. Now, it's dancehall's turn. 'There's a need to get everyone on board about how important dancehall culture is,' Walsh said.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
ICE arrests Harlem activist amid deportation battle
LOWER MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Robert Panton has spent the latter part of his life fighting for his freedom and has been teetering on deportation for the last five years. On Tuesday, during a routine check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the 59-year-old was taken into custody. More Local News 'It's a gross misjustice that can be reversed at any time,' Panton said in a video recorded shortly before his detention. Panton has been fighting deportation to Jamaica since 2020, when a judge ordered his release from prison as part of a radical reform initiative. He had served three decades behind bars for a narcotics conviction during the 'war on drugs' in the 1990s. 'The same day of my release, ICE took me into custody during the worst pandemic in history,' Panton said in 2020 from behind bars. For 10 months, Panton was held in an ICE detention center during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was later granted a temporary reprieve through deferred action on his deportation. Since his compassionate release, Panton has turned his life around. A Harlem resident since the age of 4, he has mentored at-risk youth, advocated for immigration reform, and runs a suicide prevention hotline. His son is a New York City police officer. More: Latest News from Around the Tri-State 'I appreciate all my supporters fighting for due process and proper consideration of being in this country,' Panton said Tuesday. Despite his efforts to rehabilitate and contribute to society, Panton said current laws continue to punish people like him. 'Our current laws continue to punish people like me even after we complete sentences,' he said. The Trump administration has renewed its focus on removing individuals since taking office in January. 'We're removing public safety and national security threats to this country,' border czar Tom Homan said Monday. Panton's family and attorney are continuing to fight to keep him in the United States. The district court (Southern District NY) issued a temporary order that Robert cannot be removed pending further briefing in his case. ICE has not yet responded to a request for comment. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
I'm a career coach — these are the 4 lies you absolutely should tell during a job interview
Be a liar — or you won't get hired. Isobelle Panton, a Manchester-based content creator who offers career advice online, revealed the 'lies that you absolutely should tell at an interview,' including the reason for leaving your previous job. 'Even if it is the most valid reason, if it is negative, I don't want to hear it,' Panton said in a TikTok video scoring 2 million views. 'Keep it positive, keep it professional, keep it progressive.' Instead, she advised saying something along the lines of: 'I'm looking to leave my current company because I think I've exhausted all the development opportunities there.' She recommended highlighting why you desire a role at the prospective company, such as its 'dynamic' qualities and opportunities for promotions and career growth. Secondly, she said to 'always lie about how many offers or processes you're in.' 'Even if this is your dream, dream job, don't make out like this is the only interview that you're having because it gives the air of desperation that you really need this job,' she said. 'Whereas if they think you have multiple eggs in multiple baskets, and they perceive you as top talent…[it] means that you are more likely to get the offer that you're actually looking for.' Next, Panton said to keep aspirational travel plans to yourself — in other words, don't spill the beans about your 'big plans to go and travel Thailand for a year.' 'The amount of people that admit wanting to go travel in the year later, it just tells me that they're only getting this job so that they can pay for that,' she explained. 'Part of life is about what you want to do, but I don't need to hear it.' Finally, she advised against divulging goals of building 'your own empire.' 'I'm the biggest advocate for side hustles — love a side hustle, don't get me wrong — but if you join an interview and then you tell me that, like, basically this money is seed money for your own business entity, then I'll perceive you to be working on it on work time and on the weekends and on the evenings,' she continued. This tells her that the interviewee has other motivations for working for her company. Panton's advice opened the eyes of interview hopefuls about the realities of a corporate job. Specifically, some argued, that 'interviews are just about who is the best liar.' 'This is actually kinda sad,' lamented one user. 'Why is [it] so acceptable to lie though?' questioned another. 'Corporate is just basically a bunch of people lying to each other. I hate everyone about it,' someone else commented. 'So basically pretend you don't want the job for money, though that's the main reason people work in the first place,' snarked another person. 'It's a game, and you have to play it!' argued one viewer. 'Im not built to climb the corporate ladder im a bad liar,' quipped someone else. 'Everything here exemplifies the most annoying aspects of corporate culture and hiring practices,' griped another. 'What do you mean you *want* me to lie to you?' But Panton urged TikTokkers not to shoot the messenger. 'Hey I don't make the rules,' she said.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Sunken Continents Near Earth's Core Could Unbalance Our Magnetic Field
Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an instability of our planet's magnetic field. The two odd formations – one under the Pacific and the other beneath Africa – resemble each other in terms of seismic waves, so were assumed to have the same composition. Cardiff University geodynamicist James Panton and colleagues have now concluded otherwise, determining the two regions are made of different materials and have different histories. If true, it could affect heat flow and convection deep within our planet in ways that could influence the way Earth generates its magnetosphere. Up to 900 kilometers (560 miles) high and thousands of kilometers wide, the two "large low-velocity provinces" have puzzled scientists since they were revealed by seismic data in the 1980s. Research has since suggested they're at least, in part, composed of former oceanic crust. "It is … fascinating to see the links between the movements of plates on the Earth's surface and structures 3000 kilometers deep in our planet," says University of Oxford seismologist Paula Koelemeijer. Millions of years of natural crust cycling mixed what was once Earth's surface deep into the mantle. The resulting composition now covers up to 30 percent of the core, slowing the seismic waves geologists use to probe Earth's inner structure. "Our models of mantle circulation over the past billion years demonstrate that large low-velocity provinces can naturally develop as a consequence of recycling oceanic crust," write Panton and team, arguing against competing theories that the anomalies arose from the collision with Earth some 4.5 billion years ago that led to the Moon's formation. The Pacific structure appears to have 50 percent more fresh oceanic crust mixed through it than the African province, the researchers found. That makes for a greater difference in composition between the Pacific province and the surrounding mantle, not to mention a notable difference in its density. "We find the Pacific large-low-velocity province to be enriched in subducted oceanic crust, implying that Earth's recent subduction history is driving this difference," says Panton. The notoriously active Pacific Ring of Fire has consistently replenished the crust material, the team suspects. In contrast, the region around the African structure is not as geologically active, so the older crust it contains has been more thoroughly mixed in, making this structure less dense. "The fact that these two large low-velocity provinces differ in composition, but not in temperature is key to the story and explains why they appear to be the same seismically," explains Koelemeijer. The different temperatures of these two structures, compared to their surrounding regions, impact how heat dissipates from Earth's core, which in turn affects the convection in the core that drives our planet's magnetic field. The researchers suspect that as the two mantle structures are not allowing the core's heat to escape evenly on both sides of our planet, they may be contributing to unbalancing the field that maintains our atmosphere's life-supporting qualities. Africa's large low-velocity province has already been implicated in the weakening of the magnetic field nearby. The researchers require more data, such as observations from Earth's gravitational field, to better understand the impacts of this deep Earth asymmetry. This research was published in Scientific Reports. Earth's Core Could Be Hiding a Vast Reservoir of Primordial Helium Physicists Create Lab-Grown Diamond Even Harder Than Natural This New Quantum Tech Could Revolutionize How We Navigate The World
