The U.S. electric grid was not designed to meet the increased demands of a restructured electricity marketplace, the energy needs of a digital society or the increased use and variability of renewable ...

Chris Hall salutes a bold, if reductive, cultural history of the grid, from silver screens to Mesopotamian bricks The Grid Book by Hannah B Higgins. MIT Press, 312pp, £16.95. mitpress.mit.edu The Grid ...

It is one of the paradoxes of the human condition that we take infrastructure far more seriously in the breach than in the observance. We have been known to riot if we have too much water or not ...

A new book titled Off the Grid looks at the superb, but under-recognised Belgian graphics pioneers of the 20th century Certain European countries have, over time, become synonymous with a particular ...

Some people dismiss grids as dehumanising "mechanisms of social control". Art historian Hannah Higgins disagrees: grids are powerful frameworks that have transformed society and culture. Here are 10 ...