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Sunset is arriving noticeably earlier, meaning less mood-lifting daylight for everyone. The weather is turning colder, so well soon spend even more time cooped up inside the homes where weve huddled, and sometimes completely quarantined, for six months.

Many of us are working and studying at home by day, then trying to shift into relaxation mode in the very same rooms at night. And were doing all of this while battling the many stresses that 2020 keeps on delivering.

If ever there was an autumn when things could be a bit brighter, this is it.

So while better light bulbs or a repositioned lamp wont solve everything, its a great year to reassess the way your home is lit and possibly make some changes.

DIFFERENTIATE NIGHT FROM DAY

Its hard to step away from work or school when youre living in your workspace. One way to shift the mood and tell your body and brain that its time to relax is to change the lighting when day becomes night.

By day, use lightbulbs that mimic daylight (about 5000 Kelvin). Virginia-based architect Warren Ralston says this is usually the lighting we see in offices, because its cool white hue offers plenty of energizing brightness.

Smart LED bulbs can be set to this brightness in the morning and kept there all day.

Another great thing about 5000K daylight LED is how well it works for video conferencing, says Atlanta-based interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn. Anytime Im working from home, I turn on the overhead LEDs and it eliminates yellowy shadows from the videos.

When your workday is over, switch to lamps and fixtures fitted with traditional warm bulbs or set your smart bulbs to a lower intensity (about 3000-3500 Kelvin, or as low as 2500 for very warm light).

Many types of smart lightbulbs can be adjusted easily with a remote control or through an app, Flynn says. This is hugely helpful for creating ambience and warmth versus using pure daylight for work purposes.

You can also set your lights on timers, so your preferred evening lighting comes on automatically.

LIGHT YOUR THINGS, NOT YOUR ROOMS

Brightening up your home may be about repositioning the lights you already have, rather than adding more.

Light has to reflect off of something in order for your eyes to perceive that light, Ralston explains. So you dont really light a space. You light a surface. Youre lighting a wall or a floor or an object.

Try positioning lamps or overhead lights so the light bounces off items you want to highlight, or off surfaces like a glossy tabletop or lustrous fabric.

Consider rearranging furniture and art to make better use of the light coming from ceiling fixtures and sconces.

Ralston sometimes uses virtual reality technology to show clients what a room will look like at different times of day, and how lighting options would look paired with different furnishings. He says theyre often surprised at how different the light looks depending on what surfaces surround it.

WARM YOUR SPACE WITH FIRELIGHT

In the fall, lighting a few logs in a traditional fireplace is a great way to shift the mood in your home. And if you dont have a fireplace, you can still enjoy that same warmth and flickering light, says designer and sculptor Elena Colombo, who creates fire features that range from elaborate outdoor installations to delicate tabletop fire bowls.

A small fire bowl can be used on a coffee table or as a centerpiece on a dining-room table to create a warm, welcoming, flickering light thats a step beyond what candles offer, Colombo says. Many fire bowls burn an alcohol-based gel that requires no ventilation.

As soon as your eye sees the flame, she says, it just changes your mood.

When choosing your source of indoor firelight, just be sure to follow any fire safety restrictions where you live.

And when night falls, Colombo suggests switching on a few low-wattage lights near the door to your deck or patio. Just having a view of your warmly lit outdoor space can keep you from feeling penned in on a dark autumn night. It will make your home feel more expansive, and maybe even inspire you to grab a sweater and sit out under the stars.

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TV Series Finale reports that HGTV confirmed in a press release who will be taking part in the show's sophomore season. Four teams of two will compete to transform a selection of identical three-story properties into an interior designer's dream in just one month. They consist of Mike Holmes, of Holmes On Homes, and Alison Victoria of Windy City Rehab,Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, stars of Nate and Jeremiah: Save My House; David Bromstad (My Lottery Dream Home) and Tiffany Brooks (50K Three Ways); and 100 Day Dream Home stars Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt. Rock the Block will premiere on HGTV in early 2021.

Home renovation hero Ty Pennington is set to host the show, responding to an Instagram announcement with a comment noting, "Whoop! Can't wait!" As the press release advised, "With a $225,000 budget and a whole lot of teamwork, the dueling duos hope to win major bragging rights and their names on a street sign." HGTV president Jane Latman enthused that fans can, "Expect to see impressive displays of strategy, creativity and incredible designs from these top stars." She also promised, "bold build and design challenges; in-show surprises; and appearances from special guest judges."

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You cant underestimate the power of flowers to cheer people up, even ina pandemic.

Its thoughtful, its refreshing, its something bright, natural and healthy, says Jeff Gordon, the owner of Sarasota-based Suncoast Florist. A number of our local customers comment that you just want something bright and fresh in your home.

As more people choose to spruce up their houses or the houses of friends and family members with flower arrangements, some flower-related businesses in the area have gotten a boost during portions of the pandemic. But recent months havent all been rosy florists have seen their share of sales fluctuations. Plus there are new precautions to take when delivering flowers to homes, hospitals, assisted-living facilities and other locations. Throw in a rose shortage, and theyve got a whole bouquet worth of challenges.

April Showers

Gordon says the uncertainty that filled peoples minds in March and April led to a downturn in business. We missed the Easter season, which was a pretty good hit, but we recovered as soon as possible, he says. Mothers Day was just overwhelming. It was astounding.

For his customers and customers nationwide, sending Mom a flower arrangement was still a safe way to mark the occasion during the pandemic. Mothers Day is the big one for sure, he says. Probably close behind that is Valentines Day. We just slipped that in before everything got crazy.

Michael Longo, the owner and designer at Naples Floral Design, says that since closing and then reopening toward the beginning of the pandemic, his store has gone through some changes. He reconfigured the retail area to make space for a designer, so employees were more separated. He also added tables outside, so customers could pick up orders without coming in.

Like at Suncoast Florist, Mothers Day was good for Naples Floral Design, too better than last year even. It was a blessing because we got destroyed in March and April, Longo says.

Courtesy. Michael Longo, owner and designer at Naples Floral Design, says his business offered to bring special items to people who were separated from their loved ones, whether they were at home or in hospitals or nursing homes.

Stephanie Newton, the owner of Tampa-based Posies Flower Truck, seized the moment during stay-at-home orders, delivering more than 600 bouquets. I guess people were just using that to reach out to people they couldnt see and for special occasions they couldnt celebrate together, she says.

Newtons flower truck pops up twice a week at Hyde Park Village, an outdoor shopping area in Tampa, and visits other locations in the area, giving customers the chance to build bouquets. This summer, traffic for the truck has been better than ever at Hyde Park Village. People are spending more time at home, she says. Making a little excursion to the flower truck is a fun outing. Having something beautiful and fragrant at home when youre spending more time at home is a nice thing.

She expects business to pick up even more in the fall, when shell start to visit additional destinations. Plus, she expects her delivery option to continue to be popular with Posies customers. The delivery part of our business is still really big, says Newton. Before it was a small companion piece to the flower truck. Now deliveries are half of the business.

Theres another plus for Posies during the coronavirus pandemic, too the flower truck is an outside business. I dont think people are as concerned about being around a lot of people, Newton says. Theres plenty of space to spread out. Our business model works in a pandemic.

She declines to share 2019 revenuebut says that since she started the business in 2017, its grown each year. We have even with the pandemic exceeded last years revenue, she says. Weve had a 20% increase in revenue year over year since weve been in business.

Special Delivery

One source of complications? Deliveries. Weve implemented all sorts of COVID-sensitive protocols in terms of deliveries, Gordon says.

Suncoast Florist drivers wear masks, and when they drop off an arrangement at a house, they leave it at the door and step back to keep their distance. When Suncoast Florist delivers to a hospital now, instead of going inside, a hospital employee comes out and accepts the arrangement. Im very impressed that they have never stopped accepting floral deliveries, Gordon says.

Courtesy. Jeff Gordon, owner of Sarasota-based Suncoast Florist, says business was overwhelming for Mother's Day.

The company also makes deliveries to assisted-living facilities and nursing homes, though some facilities havent allowed deliveries during the pandemic. Among the facilities allowing floral deliveries, some accept them at the door, and some take drivers temperatures before accepting them.

Suncoast Florist also continues to provide arrangements for funeral homes during the coronavirus. Many families couldnt have any kind of a funeral service but wanted flowers for private viewings, Gordon says. It was busy there for a while for sure.

For walk-in customers, the procedure has changedtoo. We are not allowing them to come in as deep in the store as in the past, Gordon says. And early in the pandemic, the shop only offered curbside pickup.

Bouquet Toss

Flower arrangements are a key part of decor for weddings and events up and down the west coast of Florida. Nowwith many events canceled, postponed or downscaled, the floral industry is feeling the impacts.

Some of Suncoast Florists weddings and events were canceled right away. Then there was a period in the summer with no activity. Events, such as those hosted by area nonprofits, are still not back on the books for the most part. Now were getting back to the point of small weddings, small venues, fewer people in bridal party and fewer centerpieces, Gordon says. Its starting to feel closer to normal, just smaller.

Its thoughtful, its refreshing, its something bright, natural and healthy. A number of our local customers comment that you just want something bright and fresh in your home. Jeff Gordon, Suncoast Florist

Naples Floral Design is experiencing something similar. Normally, the company does 100 weddings a year. In 2020, some have been postponed and others downsized. Last week, we were able to do wedding of 100 people in Estero, says Longo. Most of them are smaller. Theyre downsizing, but people are still getting married.

In normal years, December is a busy month for Suncoast Florist. Gordon expects it to be busy this yeartoo, despite the pandemicand, in some cases, because of it. For friends and relatives who cant gather for holiday celebrations, for example, flower arrangements could become a way to send their thoughts during the season, Gordon says.

For holiday parties and corporate gatherings, demand is harder to gauge, with many events likely canceled this year.

Courtesy. Stephanie Newton, owner of Tampa-based Posies Flower Truck, delivered more than 600 bouquets during the early weeks of the pandemic.

Suncoast Florist reacts to fluctuations in demand fairly quickly, Gordon says, because of Sarasotas proximity to Miami, a major shipping destination for flowers. But despite that proximity, like many industries, floral businesses have had to contend with supply chain issues during the pandemic particularly early on.

Suncoast Florist buys many flowers from Central and South America, and when countries there shut down, their farms shut downtoo. It took weeks for things to get back up and running. We went through a rose shortagethen a lily shortage, Gordon says. A couple of farms closed that didnt reopen. Now, he says, availability has stabilized more.

Newton, with the Posies Flower Truck, was concerned about supplies as well. When the pandemic hit, she thought she might not be able to get any flowers. Then I started getting phone calls from floral farms in California, she says. They offered to get products to her directly, without going through a middleman. Newton is also using logistics services to get products from other parts of the U.S. and Europe, and shes been able to keep her truck stocked with blooms.

With Love

The pandemic has also pushed some florists to innovate. During the pandemic, for instance, Naples Floral Design started something new it offered to bring special items to people who were separated from their loved ones, whether they were at home or in hospitals or nursing homes.

Customers called in with special requests, asking for specific things to be delivered, among them a Chicago-style pizza. Longo and his team also delivered teddy bears, brought people balloons for their birthdays and made up fruit and food baskets with items from the grocery store.

Its one of Longos efforts to keep up with changing demands during the pandemic as sales fluctuate from month to month. But beyond the business implications of the virus, Longo knows better than most about the human toll.

In April, his father died from COVID-19. He didnt get to see him before he died, and he still hasnt been able to get to New York to see his mother because of quarantine restrictions.

That loss and that distance is part of the reason why he puts a great deal of effort into delivering items that express love, from food to flowers. He wants his customers to feel like their moms and dads are taken care of. We just keep moving forward, Longo says. If someone calls me with a request, Ill go get them anything they want.

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School is in session, and today's lesson is brought to you by none other than The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Marlo Hampton. The fashion enthusiast and designer label lover has an honorary degree in diva-hood with a minor in DGAF-a-tude. Marlo's Instagram alone is practically a master class in trendy looks from barely-there, sexy dresses togowns with gold sneakers. And now,we're ready to take notes because Marlo just managed to pull off the unthinkable in luxurious living.

On October 7, Marlo shared a paparazzi-inspired snap on Instagram as she stepped out of a black-and-orangecolor-blocked Rolls Royce. "No I'm not foreign, but I drive em'," Marlo quipped in her captionas she finaglds her massive Herms Birkin bag from the passenger's seat.

There's a lot happening here and we are still trying to process all this amazingness. To start, Marlo's outfit from her white, mod-inspired sunnies to her crisp white shirt and orange pants with white trim and peach Giuseppe Zanotti heels perfectly coordinates with the luxe ride. Hair, nails, lip shade, and even her tan, croc Birkin all match to a tee. Honey, your minivan could never!

Is this two-toned Rolls Marlo's new set of wheels? Well, all evidence (including her matchy-matchy ensemble) point to yes considering that she has hernamescrolled inside the driver door.

It was an education in the art of slayage and we are all under her tutelage.

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Gigabit services often bypass MDUs and home clusters because of the construction disruption and high cost of bringing fiber to each housing unit.

The broadband industry has been serving recently built, larger multiple dwelling units (MDUs) and multiple tenant units (MTUs) with in-building fiber infrastructure. When providing services in older buildings, operators increasingly turn to G.hn instead of deploying fiber because a fiber-centric strategy requires a massive investment to pass every door and many subscriber sign-ups to achieve economies of scale.

According to the most recent MDU data available from the U.S. Census Bureau (for 2017), the number of small to medium MDUs (two to 19 doors) represents 16 percent of the total number of housing units compared with barely 8 percent for larger units. Ninety-five percent of these units were built more than 15 years ago, which further complicates deploying fiber inside these buildings.

Given the age and construction types of MDUs with fewer than 20 doors, the deployment challenges are quite different. The first challenge is density. Given the small number of doors, the solution needs to scale from a very low number of subscribers. This prevents the use of high-density devices and makes the business case for GPON extremely difficult.

The second challenge is that there is no wiring closet in the building. The solution needs to be installed outdoors, near the telephone pair demarcation point or where the coaxial taps are reachable. This is typically on the outside of the MDU or near the curb, where the fiber feed terminates. A fixed wireless radio also can bring the gigabit signal to these buildings.

The solution needs to be deployed outdoors, which means it must be hardened in conformance with the IP67 standard to ensure that it resists water and dust, and should not require a local power source (local power sources are complex and costly). The third challenge is therefore the ability to power the G.hn access multiplexer (GAM) from the subscribers. This is known as reverse power feeding (RPF).

The fourth challenge relates to the complexity of entering the premises for installation or service calls. It is important to enable subscribers to self-install equipment in their apartments with no need for assistance.

Serving small and medium-sized housing units from the outside in takes into account that the telephone pairs or the coax taps are accessible only from the outside of a building or from the curb, where there is no local power.

Positron introduced the GAM-8-MRX (eight-ports copper) and the GAM-4-CRX (four-ports coax with each port serving up to 16 subscribers) with RPF support specifically to serve gigabit to housing units with fewer than 20 doors. Installing these GAM devices does not require entering a building and eliminates construction work and the resulting disruption. RPF support eliminates the need for an outdoor power source and allows GAM devices to be installed where the fiber or fixed wireless access terminates, be it a manhole, rooftop or utility pole.

Because subscribers can self-install, a technicians work is a lot simpler and truck rolls can be reduced to the initial installation trip. These cost savings result in stronger business cases, where even an initial low subscriber take rate delivers a positive return in no time.

Reverse power feeding (RPF) is a technology standardized by ETSI and the Broadband Forum. It allows sending power from customer premises to a GAM. RPF is a critical technology for powering outdoor GAM and reduces installation costs by removing the need to connect to power and monitor power consumption with a meter.

Garden-style homes are notoriously challenging to serve cost effectively. Homeowners associations resist the deployment of fiber because of the impact on existing infrastructure and landscape.

An interesting characteristic of G.hn ports is that they can operate either as domain masters (usually GAM devices) or endpoints (terminating the G.hn link and converting to Gigabit Ethernet). Positrons outdoor GAM devices support a unique daisy-chain capability in which the first GAM device connects to a fiber or fixed wireless multi-gigabit feed and then creates a distribution downlink to the next GAM device using two G.hn ports. The next GAM in the chain then serves an average of four homes on the existing telephone pairs and uses the remaining two G.hn ports to feed another downstream GAM.

A typical installation will see the chain of GAM deployed at each copper pedestal (serving a small number of homes) located every 300 to 500 feet to extend gigabit services over several thousand feet.

This approach eliminates disruption from the deployment of fiber while ensuring performances on par with a GPON feed with a 1:32 splitter architecture.

The Positron GAM is a fiber-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp) solution and comes with multiple 10 gigabit SFP+ interfaces to support any type of fiber or PON standards (using an ONT as required).

The GAM hardware enforces per-subscriber bandwidth profiles and always guarantees a fair and balanced use of the backhaul link to include value-added services such as IPTV, video streaming, online gaming and telephony. Its extensive support for VLAN (including Q-in-Q) allows for seamless integration with the operator xPON services and the OSS and BSS functions already in place.

The GAM family includes 12- and 24-port indoor units and the newly introduced four- and eight-port outdoor units with RPF support. All of these units are offered with copper (telephone pairs) and coaxial configurations to match the available in-building wiring or cabling.

G.hn is an access technology for operators looking to simplify their access network with an Ethernet-like technology. With G.hn, operators deliver advanced services, such as gigabit high-speed residential internet and 4K IPTV without the high capital and operational expenses associated with a fiber retrofit. Each G.hn subscriber port supports up to 1.7 Gbps of dynamically allocated bandwidth for near-symmetrical gigabit services.

Positrons GAM connects to and extends multi-gigabit feeds from fiber (xPON) or fixed wireless access radios. It serves all residential gateways with gigabit Ethernet router ports using G.hn. In addition to delivering residential high-speed internet, Positrons GAM solution is compliant with MEF CE 2.0 and is suited to deliver business Ethernet services in an MTU deployment.

The ITU-T G.9960 G.hn Wave-2 standard leverages the existing telephone wiring (UTP, CAT-3 or CAT 5/5e) or RG-6/RG-59 coax cabling (each coax port serves up to 16 subscribers) to deliver a gigabit internet service to each unit inside an MDU or MTU without the cost, complexity and delays associated with in-building fiber installation.

Delivering gigabit services to small and medium MDUs and home clusters has its challenges. It is time to reconsider the strategy and the underlying technologies and distribution mediums to achieve a solid business case and a positive return on investment with the fastest time to revenue. With the outdoor Positron GAM and support for RPF, a provider can use the following approach to address the four challenges identified earlier:

Overall, a provider can deliver a better quality of experience to subscribers. With G.hn, providers meet the demand for more bandwidth flexibility with dynamic bandwidth allocation in the upstream and downstream directions to satisfy the needs of the high-speed internet connections now used for working remotely, remote learning and overall entertainment.

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New Delhi: Power consumption in the country recorded double digit growth in the first week of October at 25.95 billion units (BU) amid buoyancy in industrial and commercial activities. According to the power ministry data, power consumption grew by 13.65 per cent during October 1 to 7 to 25.95 BU, up from 22.83 BU in the same period last year.

Power consumption in the month of October last year stood at 97.84 BU. Thus, the extrapolation of one week data indicates that power consumption is likely to witness year-on-year growth this month.

Experts said, power consumption has started showing an increase as commercial and industrial demand improved with easing of lockdown restrictions and is likely to improve further in the coming months.

The COVID-19 situation affected power consumption for six months in a row from March to August this year.

Power consumption on a year-on-year basis declined 8.7 per cent in March, 23.2 per cent in April, 14.9 per cent in May, 10.9 per cent in June, 3.7 per cent in July and 1.7 per cent in August.

The data showed that electricity consumption grew by 11.73 per cent in February.

Power consumption has shown an improvement after lockdown was eased for economic activities from April 20 this year.

After a gap of six month, power consumption recorded a growth of 5.6 per cent in September this year at 113.54 billion units (BU) from 107.51BU in the same month last year.

Earlier this week, Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh while addressing a virtual conference said, "In September, our power demand was higher than September 2019. So the growth started again. Despite the fact that COVID problem lingers, the growth in our power consumption and demand has started."

Peak power demand met, the highest supply of power in the country in a day, during October 1 to 7 was recorded at 170.04 GW (on October 7).

Peak power demand in September this year recorded a growth of 1.8 per cent at 176.56 GW, compared to 173.45 GW a year ago, the data showed.

Peak power demand met had recorded negative growth from April to August this year due to the pandemic. The peak demand met dropped to 24.9 per cent in April, 8.9 per cent in May, 9.6 in June, 2.7 per cent in July and 5.6 per cent in August.

In March, it was muted at 0.8 per cent.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The global motor control centers market is projected to reach USD 6.3 billion by 2025 from an estimated market size of USD 4.6 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 6.4% during the forecast period. The growing demand for industrial automation in developed regions, increased use of electric motors in key industries, and increased industrial plant uptime have boosted the demand for motor control centers. Moreover, the booming power sector and augmented power generation capacities globally would further aid the growth of this market. The stagnancy in the oil & gas industry and the decrease in mining activities in Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa would act as restraints for the growth of the motor control centers market.

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The low voltage segment is expected to dominate the motor control centers market in 2020The low voltage segment dominated the motor control centers market in 2019 owing to the extensive adoption of low voltage motors in various industries across the globe.Low voltage motor control centers are mainly installed in the chemical & petrochemical, pulp & paper, food & beverage, automobile, oil & gas, and cement industries.

They are mostly used in industries to control the voltage, speed, torque, and frequency of motors, among other functions. Therefore, they are in high demand, considering the increasing industrialization and urbanization.The intelligent motor control centers segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR from 2020 to 2025"The intelligent segment is estimated to be the fastest growing motor control centers market, by type, from 2020 to 2025.This growth is attributed to the increasing levels of industrial automation in regions such as Asia Pacific and the Middle East & Africa.

Although the initial costs of intelligent motor control centers are high, they provide advantages such as reduced installation time.The other benefits of intelligent motor control centers include increased reliability, lesser wiring, reduced maintenance time, greater speed and precision in defect identification, remote monitoring and control, and greater compactness compared to conventional motor control centers.

All these factors are expected to drive the intelligent motor control centers market during the forecast period.Asia Pacific is expected to lead in the global motor control centers market in terms of market size and growth rateAsia Pacific is currently the largest motor control centers market, followed by North America and Europe.The Asia Pacific market is driven by rapid industrialization, increasing electricity demand, and power generation capacity additions in the region.

It is projected to grow at the fastest rate, with China dominating the regional market.With rising industrial automation and increasing power demand and power infrastructure, the need for high-efficiency motors has increased considerably.

The increasing demand for motors is consequently leading to the growing demand for motor control centers. Apart from the Chinese and Indian markets, the motor control centers markets in countries such as Japan, Malaysia, Australia, and South Korea are also growing at healthy rates.

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The global motor control centers market is dominated by a few major players that have a wide global and regional presence. The leading players in the motor control centers market are ABB (Switzerland), Schneider Electric (France), Eaton (Ireland), Siemens AG (Germany), Rockwell Automation (US), and WEG (Brazil).

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An entire floor of NGV International will be dedicated to works in illumination, juxtaposed against the historical collection, literally showing them in a new light.

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And a big shiny Venus, by controversial, world-famous sculptor Jeff Koons, will sit immodestly among it all, the decoration on a gigantic art cake.

The Triennial has immodest ambition: to "explore the pressing issues of our time and survey the world's foremost artists, designers and architects" in media ranging from ancient Indigenous practice to the cutting edge of technology.

New York artist Tabor Robak is at that cutting edge, and says it's a huge honour to be part of the Triennial. His Megafauna, an immersive installation of computer-generated animations that will surround the viewer in an entire gallery, is the biggest work he has ever made, in the biggest room in which he's ever had to work.

Tabor Robak's Megafauna 2020 (detail).Credit:Tabor Robak / NGV

"It opened up possibilities," he says. Robak read up on Australia and was captivated by stories of megafauna, the exotic, huge, extinct animals that roamed our continent. He married that with ideas from robotics and artificial intelligence, to create a work he says is "both terrifying and exciting".

"It's easy to say technology will save us, or that it has our impending doom baked into it. I tend to take a middle road... [looking at] the urge to race towards this technological future, that comes with a lot of ethical and environmental cost."

Robak wanted to convey the potential of creating new lifeform on a "Godlike scale", playing with the design languages of the future from military weapons, healthcare and surveillance. "This will be a holy site, and these are deities."

His biggest disappointment is that, even though the exhibition runs until April 19, he may not get to see it. As with the vast majority of the artists, Robak has had to supervise the installation process remotely, placing his trust in the NGV team and an intricately detailed brief - down to the wiring standards - to make sure his vision isn't compromised.

Ellwood said Robak was one of the first artists the gallery commissioned to "plan something spectacular and he's pulled it off".

The pandemic shutdown, and the likelihood of continuing restrictions on public gatherings and venues, had affected the exhibition structure, Ellwood says, but it has "barely suffered".

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Some works that were more about physical engagement or interactivity had to be modified from their original plan, but Ellwood says "they don't lose their power". His best bet is that, by December, government rules will have relaxed enough to allow plenty of visitors.

Gallery layout was tweaked so as to not overcrowd any particular area or encourage people into corners. They will closely monitor visitor numbers, and make more use of outdoor spaces. Most of the art was commissioned before the pandemic but those that tackle themes such as isolation, loneliness, and speculation about the future may have new resonance.

"I can't wait," Ellwood says.

Nick Miller is Arts Editor of The Age.

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SEATTLE, Washington According to the United Nations, more than 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing, including slums and informal settlements. Densely packed and increasingly gentrified urban spaces have created a global housing crisis. A 2018 report by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy sampled more than 200 global cities and cited only 10% as being affordable. The cost of accessible housing is directly correlated to povertyboth aggravating and mitigating it. As such, many cities are attempting to stem soaring real estate prices and increase housing accessibility in a myriad of ways. Examples of proposed mitigation have included acquiring more governmentally owned land in the case of Chengdu, China, or encouraging private sectors to finance projects such as the Urban Wealth Fund in Hamburg, Germany. However, architects themselves may play a critical role in solving the global housing crisis.

Although the novel coronavirus has dampened the decade-long trend of moving from suburban or rural areas to citiesoften perceived as the soul of real estate, commerce and culturethe percentage of people residing in cities is predicted to reach 68% by 2050. In addition, some of the fastest-growing mid-sized cities, which the U.N. defines as having fewer than one million inhabitants, are in Asia and Africa.

This may appear to be encouraging news as sub-Saharan Africa is home to 27 of the worlds 28 poorest countries and has an average poverty rate of approximately 41%. Logically, urbanization could act as a catalyst for economic growth, increased job opportunities, higher incomes, access to education and a higher demand for food grown in poverty-stricken rural areas.

However, the number of the urban poor is rising as prices for rent, food, transportation and energy consumption in cities soars. For instance, a 2018 study on urbanization showed that in African cities, 39% of renters are insecure about losing their property. Moreover, urbanization also directly impacts the environment. Air pollution, traffic congestion and higher temperatures are the result of previous urban designs, traditionally employing massive tracts of concrete and steel.

The combined factors of insecure housing and environmental risks exacerbate issues of poverty and can correlate to negative health-related issues. Many experts suggest that the housing crisis, specifically the urban housing, is a result of a century of reactive housing policies instead of proactive policies. Evictions have led to mass human rights violations and current designs are unsustainableboth in a literal and environmental sense.

How can architects and architectural firms play an integral role in addressing this growing crisis?

The role of the architect was previously that of designing and completing infrastructure projects. However, the architects role has evolved over the years and now encompasses different aspects of a project.

Luxury high-rise buildings made for mega-companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Coca-Cola have ushered in attractive and career-defining contracts for architects and firms, and many have followed suit. Yet, this comes at the cost of a global housing crisis.

While some experts cite that giant corporations and private equity firms primarily drive housing markets, some architects are making a change by embracing social responsibility for the environment and the growing renter population.

Some of the leading architect figures and firms around the globe, including Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, MVRDV and MASS Design Group, demonstrate that there are innovative ways to build affordable, high-quality and environmentally conscious structures.

Today, urban architects face a hefty challenge. Not only are their designs constrained by the aesthetics of an existing neighborhood and limited budgets, but past failed attempts at creating affordable housing make investors wary.

Architects began to move away from mass affordable housing projects due to criticisms of modernist structures being dense, uniform and dysfunctional structures. As such, architects began favoring aesthetics over residents actual needs. These include public housing projects ranging from Les Bosquets in Paris to Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis.

Social responsibility as an architect is not a clearly defined role nor is it new. William Mangold, a professor of interior design at Pratt Institute, broadly defines architectural social responsibility as characterized by attitudes that value justice, equality, participation, sharing, sustainability and practices that intentionally engage social issues and recognize the consequences of decisions and actions.

Architects such as Alejandro Aravena are prime examples of the ability to both deliver aesthetics and adopt the role of a socially responsible designer.

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, one of the most prestigious awards in the architectural world. What is unusual about Aravena is that architectural experts respect his aesthetic form but Arvena has also designed more than 2,500 low-cost social housing structures. He also coined the idea of half of a good house which consciously stayed within the limited governmental budget to build half a house where families could reside in and then allowed them to build or invest in the second half at the pace that worked for their budget. This gave families a home while enabling them to expand the space beyond the bare minimum governmental mandate.

MVRDV is a firm based in Denmark that has designed projects for cities in India such as Pune in 2018. Their low-cost high-rise structures accommodated around 5,000 residents and took into account the diverse structures of families. Each unit ranged from 45 to 450 square meters based on resident needs and is part of a larger, communal complex that includes public courtyards and green spaces.

A final example is a U.S.-based firm, MASS Design Group. While the design firms work in Burera, Rwanda was not a housing project but instead a hospital project, the co-founder Michael Murphy succinctly affirms the evolving role of the architect: Architecture is an expansive fieldbut too often it has been narrowly considered, ignoring the social justice inherent in appropriate design.

The growing interest in socially responsible architecture for the environment and residents extends beyond individualistic pursuits. Universities are also beginning to offer increased course offerings in ethical design. Conferences are occurring on levels as large as the 2016 U.N. Conference on Housing and Sustainable Developmental (Habitat III) and between stakeholders, designers and local residents that provide platforms for dialogue. Additionally, institutions such as the Smithsonian are collaborating with design students and highlighting the need for socially responsible architecture.

With a new wave of conscious design and direct collaboration between architects and future residences, addressing the growing housing crisis may not seem so monumental. Creating affordable housing addresses many of the underlying issues of global poverty. Studies have shown that stable and secure home environments vastly increase the mental well-being of a person which can translate into areas such as job stability, curbing homelessness, drug abuse rates and health consequences. The overarching fact is that unless cities radically dissipate or design models change, there will be finite space to house the growing global population. As such architects, architectural firms, global organizations and governments need to work together to address the global housing crisis.

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