New York / Young Architects Program. Montréal 2011 | Ecocity World Summit | Themes and Tracks. INTERROGATING PUBLIC SPACE | CREATIVE TIME PRESENTS.
Yes, That’s a nice Urban Data Visualization. So what? Report of City_Play_Data – Expert Meeting on Digital Media and ‘Ownership’ in the City As you may have noticed, over here at the Mobile City we have recently shifted the focus of our program somewhat. Rather than addressing the role of digital media in cities in general, we decided to focus on a number of issues that we feel are particularly urgent in urban design. One of them we have labeled ‘ownership’. For us ‘ownership’ is about bringing about a sense of engagement with urban life and providing citizens with opportunities to (collaboratively) act.
We are very happy to address this question in a partnership with Virtueel Platform who has asked us to conduct a study on this issue (to be published at some point later this year). The City as a Platform The meeting started with a presentation by Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand who are working on an idea they call ‘The City as Platform’. Design Approaches Loosing Ground Gamify, bleh … One, gamification forces people to play. Education. Local Projects. The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients.
Local Projects. Street Festivals and Programs. Landscape Design Partnership - Garden and Landscape Architure: Creating a living space. Furniture. Landscape Architecture « Jacques Abelman, Celine Baumann (celinebaumann.tumblr.com), YukaYoshida The Wildpoints strategy creates a new form of urban green by actively seeking out new places for nature to colonize the city. The end result of found nature and design interventions adds up to an urban biodiversity network. Discovering Wildpoints The small presence of uninvited nature in the city – where wild grasses and plants come up through the cracks, providing food and shelter for insects, birds, and other small urban animals, are almost never created intentionally.
They spring up at construction sites in disturbed soil, in quiet alleys where wind-borne seeds settle and thrive between bricks, or under bridges where mosses and ferns find the humidity and darkness they need. These sites are reservoirs of genetic diversity as well as habitats for uncounted species. What is biodiversity in the city? Biodiversity can have many interpretations. 4 New Biotopes for Urban Sites Results and Benefits. SmART Meters | Earprint Productions. Meter Obsession by Jason Reinier I have been obsessed with meters, water and gas, for many years. I first noticed meters when I was at Colorado College. When I was a freshman taking an electronic music course, we created “musique concrete” pieces from tape recordings. My First Encounter On one very special walk with my professor, Steven Scott, we stopped and listened to a gas meter.
The Original Earprint I discovered the meter above years later in Oakland, California and gave it a listen. This was the first “earprint” I had ever really noticed and it was this meter and the resulting earprint that was the inspiration for Earprint Productions. Here’s one of my favorites: Meters as messengers of the underworld I became interested in systems – I was reading The Way Things Work and Underground by David McCauley and was fascinated by the systems for treating water, gas and sewage. They are often quite beautiful and suggestive – even evocative.