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After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Summer Islam, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Jeannette Kuo - Building Outside the Norm
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Building Outside the Norm

Summer Islam, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, and Jeannette Kuo

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Straw bales being strapped to the existing brick walls as external wall insulation on the straw shed demonstrators, built by Material Cultures and the RIOT Lab EPFL in collaboration with WeCanMake. Image: Ibolya Feher.
After Comfort: A User’s Guide
April 2026
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Notes
1

Marc Angélil and Cary Siress, “The Urgency of Stewardship,” After Comfort: A User's Guide (e-flux Architecture), October 2023, ➝.

2

Donella Meadows, “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System,” The Sustainability Institute, 1999, ➝.

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© 2026 e-flux and the author
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