This issue explores how design and architecture have the ability to constrain, suppress, embrace, limit, or uplift. From anti-homeless benches to wildlife bridges to ICE Detention Facilities, design represents a spectrum of the best and worst intentions of culture, community, and our integration with the natural world.

for Collaboration, ARCADE has partnered with the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments Architecture Writing class, taught by Lauren Gallow, and will be publishing essays written by the students on a topic or design project of their choice. A large part of bringing this theme of “collaboration” to life is through the pairing of each essay with a professional or mentor currently working in the field who is adjacent to the student’s topic.

Rico Quirindongo takes us through his morning; Rob Hutchinson creates something magical out of something destructive; you might already know about Refract; Shell House gets some attention; Rob Moura is not a graphic designer; Seattle Art Fair leans into community programming; and Lauren Gallow takes us through ‘Gleanings’ Cover art by Marisol Morales: La Cosecha, The Harvest

Carlos Khali talks with Judy Lee, a cerebal post-punk rock band explores gesamtkunstwerk, Rachel Gallaher reviews LEGOS, Mutuus’s ‘resident artist’ chats with Anna Coumou, Recology announces 2024 A.I.R.s, Keith Cote has a bunch of -isms, and Michael Barkin documents Love City Love

With so many obituaries in our city, this first edition of Arcade's new quarterly magazine hopes to convey that there is still creative life and a strong community thriving in Seattle and that publications such as ours will continue to highlight those individuals and projects. In this way, Arcade will help maintain a vibrant architecture, design, and arts ecosystem in the best way we know how: through journalism and publication.