Just discovered Rezza. Can’t get this image out of my head. Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: September 2011
high-low tech
In the spirit of the public amateur, I’m going to document my way through a class I’m taking at the MIT media lab: Crafting Material Interfaces. It’s taught by Leah Buechley, with instruction and time in her lab to investigate materials and methods. The High-Low Tech group brings together digital and analog, futurist and traditional … Continue reading »
urban immune system research
Over at We Make Money Not Art, there’s a long and substantial interview with the Institute for Boundary Interactions and their various prototypes for a large and ongoing project, Urban Immune System Research: The Urban Immune System Research [UISR] project was the culmination of a two day event we ran in December 2010 as part … Continue reading »
![border town: beyond ramps [curitiba, brazil]](http://ablersite.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/curitiba_busstube.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "border town: beyond ramps [curitiba, brazil]")
border town: beyond ramps [curitiba, brazil]
How does a bold, military-appointed, possibly technocratic architect-turned-mayor create a model universal-access transportation system, cheaply and effectively, and use it—along with other initiatives—to turn around the environmental prospects of the entire town? [image] This post is part of Border Town, now exhibiting at the Detroit Design Festival. Border Town took place in Toronto this summer: … Continue reading »
mark shepard’s CCD-me-not
This isn’t the first adaptive umbrella I’ve written about, but it’s certainly as timely, and there’s now a prototype in development. Mark Shepard is creating a Sentient City Survival Kit, “set of artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city”: As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces … Continue reading »
