The archetypical Filipino on foot— the one who navigates his or her immediate urban locality — can be characterized by the labyrinthine mental-mapping of a confused and jumbled city of obstacles where the home-office commute, the loading bays of jampacked clanky jeepneys, the constellation of informal bazaars, uninspired condos, clogged…

Sa bansang Pilipinas, higit sa dalawampung porsyento ng mga Pilipino ay lugmok sa kahirapan. Magmasid tayo sa paligid, sa gitna ng isang pandemya, maraming salat, maraming buto’t balat. Higit sa 3 milyong katao ang walang tirahan sa Kamaynilaan Siyam na porsyento ng kabuuan ng mga mahihirap na Pilipino ay nasa…

Being a greenhorn in the expansive territory of social innovation, I make it a point to be omnivorous, if not fully agnostic, when it comes to things I can learn, issues I can reflect on, impact I can help bring about, networks I can link up with, and opportunities I…

On her insightful TedTalk, urban theorist, social innovator and architect Liz Ogbu posited: Why I’m an architect that designs for social impact, not buildings. Ogbu, an alumna of Harvard University, introduced herself as an architect who does not design buildings. For the layman, this might be rather puzzling, as most…

How I abhor Facebook Stories. And Snapchat. And Instagram Stories. Or any other micro-blogging app out there that chronicles the most mundane activities of the digital generation that unscrupulous developers wanted to shove down our lumpy throats. I hate the inordinate craving for attention and next dopamine hit we get…

The cinematic avant-gardism of the quintessential filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has stirred up a hornet’s nest of motion-picture conservatism. Kubrick’s indefatigable obsession to a radical approach in film-making has sent shockwaves throughout the industry, while his professional eccentricities caused extreme discomfort to his contemporaries. Breaking grounds and charting new territories in…

Let’s all agree: This is the longest, most excruciating period of our lives spent in forced confinement, made all the more fragile by an unprecedented medical threat never seen nor felt by today’s generation. This egregious health crisis has brought the best and the worst in the human spirit and…