February 2026 – Housing cooperatives are gaining momentum in the Netherlands and are increasingly seen as a potential response to the current housing crisis through renewed forms of collective ownership and collaborative housing production. 

Well-documented examples are essential to inspire and support emerging initiatives. This book presents 15 successful housing cooperatives —10 from Germany and 5 from the Netherlands, including San Riemo (Munich), Boschgaard (Den Bosch), and De Nieuwe Meent (Amsterdam). 

It examines their organizational structures, architectural approaches, legal frameworks, financing models, and everyday residential practices. Drawing on interviews and an analytical essay, The Architecture of Housing-Co-ops offers empirical insights and conceptual reflections for researchers, practitioners, and others interested in alternative and affordable forms of living. By Marieke Kums and Carolin Koopmann, published by nai010

September 2025 – Icons and limited glyph set for Open Infrastructure Map, a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database.

October 2024 – Marjoree is named after Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician. Between 1975 and 1977 she discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons and developed a notation method to describe them. Any triangle can tile the plane. Any quadrilateral can tile the plane — even non-convex ones. Some hexagons can tile the plane but no polygons of seven or more sides. There are exactly fifteen types of pentagons that tile the plane, four of which were discovered by Marjorie Rice.

Responding to a column by Martin Gardner in the July 1975 issue of Scientific American, titled “On tessellating the plane with convex polygon tiles”, Rice set out to find new types of pentagonal tilings in addition to the eight types of tilings that were previously discovered by other mathematicians. 

Living in San Diego, Marjorie Rice was at the time a fifty two year old home maker and a mother of five children. She worked in secret at her kitchen table on the tessellation problem — none of her family was aware. Without any background in mathematics, she devised a new symbolic notation system to classify the known tilings and started her search for new ones. Within a few months, in February 1976, she shared a new tiling (type 9) with Martin Gardner:

Dear Mr. Gardner, ... Here is a pentagonal tile that I believe really is different from any you have listed though similar to types 7 an 8 ... Sincerely, Marjorie Rice

Gardner passed this on to Doris Schattschneider, an American mathematician specialised in tiling patterns, to verify this was actually a new tessellation. Schattschneider was able to validate Rice’s discovery. Over the years, and in continuous correspondence with Doris Schattschneider, Rice discovered three more types of pentagons that tile the plane. Her work was published in Mathematics Magazine by Schattschneider in 1977. In 1999 her last discovery, the type 13 tiling, was installed  on the floor of the foyer of the Mathematical Association of America.  Available at showmefonts. In collaboration with Bernd Volmer (design & production) .