ANDREW PASQUIER is an Amsterdam-based freelance writer and editor, as well as the chief editor of BUTT magazine.
In Amsterdam, a basement of post-human body doubles is less of a step forward for a savant of Afrofuturist world-building than a rehash her previous hits.
If Carlo Ratti’s design showcase is bloated, messy, and somewhat too disinterested in aesthetics, its address of climate crisis also abounds with a rare quality for 2025: optimism.
