Citydatafuture. Registration now open: link The registration fee is €60 (€30 for full-time students) which includes lunch & coffee. Date Thursday, 25th September 2014Venue Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, Italy.1 Keynote speaker: Dan Hill Alongside the UrbanIxD exhibition taking place in Venice, the project is presenting a one-day symposium to encourage debate and discussion around the themes of the exhibition, and of the UrbanIxD project itself. This exhibition is a culmination of the work that has been carried out over the two-year duration of the UrbanIxD project, in particular the work of the Summer School held in 2013.2 Papers, Posters, Discussion Panel The programme will include presentations of position papers, case studies, and posters that address the UrbanIxD exhibition and project themes in novel and inspiring ways, drawing on original work.
To round off the day, Martin Brynskov will host a discussion panel to debate the emerging themes of Urban Interaction Design. List of Posters. Rockwell Group : Home. 1%CLUB. How do we work? — Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre. Infogr.am. Latitude Urbanism? We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Rising Voices Microgrants 2013 | Supporting global citizen media at the local level. Grantees. Brickstarter. A Collective Memory of Childhood. Launch event on 28 July 2012, 2-5pm, at Furtherfield Gallery Then open 9am - 7pm daily Artist and composer Michael Szpakowski has worked with local children and their families to create a generative sound sculpture that invokes the collective memory of childhood, drawing on the memories of Haringey residents from all over the world.
Through a series of celebratory events at Coleridge Primary School and Furtherfield Gallery, Michael gathered field recordings of children’s' rhymes: playground, skipping, clapping and those of other games from three generations of local residents, in every language that is spoken locally. These are mixed with fragments of a magical and gentle Summer music that he will compose to fit with the sounds of the park - working with modal and pentatonic scales and scoring for bells, flutes, harps and singing bowls. About the Artist Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer and film-maker who devises and facilitates many of our Outreach projects with young people. About. Www.limmat.org/ES/filelinks/From_NGO_to_SocEnt_95.pdf. The Creative Exchange. WHO project description (2009) | New Media Concepts for the Third Sector.
2009 Teachers and coordinators: Teemu Leinonen, Mari Tikkanen ( ) and visitors Description: Social media tools and services are revolutionizing how we communicate and work together. The private sector has already begun adopting these new ideas and techniques, however, the same transformation has yet to take place among the international development sector, particularly within the United Nations.
The possibilities these tools provide for new, better ways for global agencies to collaborate, communicate and work in a field environment are immense, yet they have not been explored. The urgent need for innovative design thinking and creative, yet practical and feasible solutions and services, is great. The study project will last 15 weeks, starting January 1 6 th and ending May 4th in a session presenting the concept and prototypes made.
The final seminar with the presentation of the concepts will take place in TaiK. Study material: Will be provided within the study project. Sharetribe - share goods, services and rides in your local community! Everyday African Urbanism | Africa Centre. Why We Do It Urbanisation can be defined as the rapid and massive growth of, and migration to, large cities. We are currently experiencing the second most important period of urban growth and transition in the history of the world and this process is almost entirely localised within the Global South. Statisticians have been measuring this transition since 1950 and expect it to continue until approximately 2030. Over this period, the Global South will see the urban share of its populations grow from 18 to 60%.
Although today 39% of Africa is officially urbanised, this figure hides enormous discrepancies across the continent – certain countries (all of the large African economies) and regions have already reached the 50% mark while others lag far behind. How We Do It FOOD SECURITY PILOT The initial manifestation of the Everyday Urbanism project is the Food Security Lab. Astounding and Interactive Sidewalk Art Around the World. Alternative sidewalk design explores eco-friendly, minimally invasive ways to pave pathways for pedestrians. Artists take the concept in another direction and create a temporary reprieve from the daily grind by offering interactive spaces for play and pondering. Sometimes they’re in the concrete jungle, and other times new spaces are created in unlikely locations, allowing pedestrians to explore the terrain. The sidewalk becomes the art itself. We recently told you about a giant trampoline sidewalk, and it inspired us to search for other impressive and imaginative “sidewalk” art.
Photo via inhabitat We mentioned the 170-foot trampoline walkway by Estonian firm Salto Architects in our Most Imaginative Design of 2012 roundup. Photo via Colossal Artist Bored created this larger-than-life Monopoly game in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. Photo via Trendhunter Photo via Architizer We’re in love with this fantastical roller coaster walkway in Duisburg, Germany.
Photo via InfraBodies. The Good, the Bad, and the Empty. Video: Center for Urban Pedagogy Why are there so many empty lots in our neighborhood? This is the deceptively simple question posed by students at Walt Whitman Middle School in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, and it propels The Good, the Bad, and the Empty, the latest video exploration created by the Center for Urban Pedagogy Working in partnership with the Brooklyn College Community Partnership, CUP teaching artist Douglas Paulson and the Walt Whitman students deploy a variety of story-telling techniques — from sock puppets to site videography — to tally up and analyze the empty lots in the neighborhood.
The students interview local landowners, city officials, an environmental consultant, an advocate for the homeless, and a high school administrator, among others, and learn some of the non-intuitive rules of urban real estate (e.g., why it's often more profitable to leave a lot vacant and trashy than to construct something useful and attractive) . — Nancy Levinson. How might we inspire and enable communities to take more initiative in making their local environments better? - Concepting - Wingpost- UPDATED. A low tech solution that enables flat inhabitants to connect with each other sharing their knowledge, skills & time. Together with a team at the openIDEO Jamming session in Singapore, we came up with this low tech concept for 'wingpost'. We recognize that within a flat there is a lot of knowledge and skills & even time that can be shared. Elderly have time during the day for example for watching over kids while they need help for example with heavy groceries.
We want to enable dates between inhabitants of the flats in order for them to get to know each other and establish relations in which both neighbors can help each other. One neighbors can help with groceries while the other will share 'grandma tips'. Getting to know your neighbors & being able to help with easy tasks will increase the bond within the flat. Because the flat has both elderly people & younger people living there we thought of a 'wing man service' that appeals to them both. Therefore we created "Wingpost". Testing: Creating the City for Our Children. How Social Media Could Revolutionize Third-World Cities. Networking technologies are about to make governments more accountable and transparent. A man bikes past a fountain in Mexico City. (Henry Romero/Reuters) When a housewife in a working-class district of Mexico City gets fed up with the lack of working lights in her local park, she logs on to Twitter and complains directly to the city's mayor.
In an age of incessant digital chatter -- and in a city of 22 million -- this might seem futile. But the mayor, who has more than 600,000 Twitter followers, replies to her complaint within hours. In fact, the mayor's Twitter feed reads like a gritty chronicle of life in a megacity. The biggest forces driving social change today.A debate At first glance, it looks like a strange mix of unedited rants by aggravated citizens and upbeat public relations by an ambitious mayor.
In Latin America, Mexico City is not unique. I suspect most mayors fully understand this risk, and that those who respond to complaints are making a good faith effort. Open Living Labs | The First step towards a new Innovation System. Israel and Iran: A love story? In English | HOAS Laboratorio. HoasLab is a design project carried out by think tank Demos Helsinki and Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region between 2010–2012.
HoasLab has explored and developed new models for smart and shared living. The project has been supported by Tekes and is part of the official programme of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 year. The results of the project can summed up in four main points: Action A sense of community in a house is a result of communal action. Housing Even well designed spaces do not automatically create a community and even a building in a terrible condition can be great to live in.
Communication A bulletin board and an email list and are quite inefficient means of resident communication. Information Students of today are the society of tomorrow. Demos Helsinki has developed twelve proposals for smart and shared housing out of the experiments of HoasLab. 1. 2. Well organised communication makes it easier to ask and offer neighbourly help. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Results. WDC Helsinki 2012. Media Architecture Biennale 2012 | official site. WAYN.COM (Where Are You Now?): The world's largest travel and lifestyle social network - WAYN.COM. Netcycler - online marketplace for swapping, giving away and donating secondhand and used books, games, electronics, baby stuff, clothes etc. Ice men by nele azevedo in belfast, ireland | designboom. Nov 14, 2012 ice men by nele azevedo in belfast, ireland ‘minimum monument’ by néle azevedoimage © néle azevedo brazilian artist néle azevedo has sent designboom her latest work from her ‘minimum monument’ project, presented as part of the belfastfestival at queen’s university in northern ireland.the artwork is a collection of hundreds of carved ‘ice-men’, perched readily side by side on the steps of custom house in the city of belfast, a carefully prepared intervention that slowly thawed under the heat of the day. the figures sit slouched, with legs dangling – an oddly charming set of charactersfull of aloof charisma. the project was selected by the curator of the event as a tribute to titanic victims, the ephemeral artwork a powerful expression of the transitory nature of life, and death. the artwork is collection of hundreds of carved ‘ice-men’, perched readily side by side on the steps of custom house in the city of belfastimage © néle azevedo image © néle azevedo.
Urban arteries. Соседские встречи — лекция в Санкт-Петербурге, 18 ноября, Make It — события The Village. Global Studio. Onni: INNOVATIVE CITY® PROGRAMME'S CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS. By the City/For the City | SpontaneousInterventions. The Institute for Urban Design created By the City/For the City to turn the traditional design competition process on its ear by sourcing the sites and situations to be addressed directly from the people of New York City, rather than choosing a site and “parachuting in.” A digital public input site, built on Project for Public Spaces’ Ushahidi-based PlaceMap, asked people to complete the phrase “Wouldn’t it be great if… ” From this, 600 ideas were generated and analyzed, and an open call brought in 150 proposals by designers who proposed responses to the ideas that intrigued them most.
The resulting publication, An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York, provides a snapshot of possible futures. Accessibility, Community, Information, Pleasure 6 months Problem - lack of public interest in urban design Solution - digital platform connecting public desires with design solutions. Cities: Urban Life In The 21st Century.
Institute for Urban Design. Tracking Cookies | SETUP. Onze tracking cookies zijn een speelse manier om bij uw event feedback van uw bezoekers te verzamelen. Wat inspireerde ze? Waar werden ze enthousiast van? Het werkt doordat we echte koekjes uitdelen waarop we een QR-code en een emotie (bijvoorbeeld 'inspired' of 'excited') hebben gedrukt. We vragen of de bezoekers de koekjes willen scannen (met hun mobiel) wanneer ze de emotie die op het koekje staat voelen. Een voorbeeld: Jan staat bij de mainstage en kijkt uit naar zijn favoriete band die zo begint met spelen. Wanneer gebruikers dit doen bewaren we op welke locatie en tijdstip ze dit hebben gedaan, en welke emotie ze voelden.
Onze koekjes zijn verspreid tijdens Festival de Beschaving en tijdens de Dutch E-culture Days die deel zijn van de World Design Capital Helsinki viering. Bekijk het verslag van onze pilot op Festival de Beschaving. Our History. Helsinki Plant Tram. Helsinki Tagged! Helsinki Tagged! - Helsinki World Design Capital Exhibition Client: Dublin City Council In Helsinki, from the 6-16th September, people could find dotted around on large individually crafted tags, insights into Helsinki city. These insights were from a broad range of people, many of whom are actively involved in making Helsinki even more dynamic and inspiring. In our central exhibition you could discover insights into Dublin, and a map to help you discover all the tags within Helsinki. A competition was run to see who could find the most tags. Over the course of the exhibition over 700 photos of the tags dotted around Helsinki were uploaded to our website.
While we hoped that designers and regular attendees of design events would enjoy this exhibition we were particularly interested in engaging with people who live in cities and would not normally think about design. We think that informed and positive change comes about when people are consciously aware of their surroundings. Happy Birthday Helsinki. Helsinki: Everyday discoveries.
I am strolling across Kasarmitori square in Helsinki when I notice a red and white sign hanging from a lamp post. I don't think it's been there before, at least not for long. "My daughter is obsessed with Moomin, I'm not sure why. I think he is like all Finns, the strong and silent type! " The little arrow suggests that I should check out the other side of the sign.
What is this about? Could it be that there is a tagged route in Helsinki, similar to what there was in Turku last year, when Turku was European Capital of Culture and there was a great collection of 50 comics posted around town? I meander through Esplanadi park and the busy shopping areas towards the central railway station. I decide to make a detour to Suvilahti but this time I cheat and don't walk there.
I wonder what I am actually looking for, or forward to. The colourful flags point out the beginning of the Everyday Discoveries exhibition area. While passing a dull grey lamp post, I detect another poetic sight. London Creates Its Own Version Of NYC’s High Line Park. Taking a cue from the popularity garnered from building New York City’s High Line Park from derelict railroad tracks, London has decided to transform abandoned city space into a green, public place. The mayor of London, Landscape Institute and Garden Museum held a design competition that garnered 170 submissions, 20 short-listed entries, 4 runner-ups and a winning design called “Pop Down”, an underground walkway that re-purposes old mail-rail tunnels.
Fletcher Priest, the design firm, will build urban mushroom gardens along the pathway, which will be lit by fiber-optics and sunlight filtered through sculptural glass-fiber mushrooms at street level. The tunnels are located under Oxford Street. To see the 20 finalist designs and the winning entry, visit the Landscape Institute webpage. Landscape Institute Images via Inhabitat. Choreographing Public Spaces To Tell Stories – James Tichenor & Josh Walton, Rockwell Group [Video] 15 New Design Projects Helping Improve Life In NYC. DesigNYC | Demonstrating the value of design through action | DesigNYC.org. Five Ideas for Public Space: Irene Guzman — BMW Guggenheim Lab | LAB|log.