A Daily Dose of Architecture Workforce: A Better Place to Work edited by Aurora Fernádez Per, Javier Mozas a+t, 2014 Paperback, 160 pages [All images courtesy of a+t] Recently I picked up a couple used books that are all about work: Nikil Saval's Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace, published last spring, and Studs Terkel's 1972 classic Working. These two books, combined with a+t's first installment in its Workforce Series, paint a picture of how work and the workplace itself has changed over the last century or so. Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services. These services include ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. The word crowdsourcing itself is a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing, and was coined in 2005.[1][2][3][4] As a mode of sourcing, crowdsourcing existed prior to the digital age (i.e. "offline").[5] There are major differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Crowdsourcing comes from a less-specific, more public group, whereas outsourcing is commissioned from a specific, named group, and includes a mix of bottom-up and top-down processes.[6][7][8] Advantages of using crowdsourcing may include improved costs, speed, quality, flexibility, scalability, or diversity.[9][10]
Crowdmap What Exactly Is Crowdmap? Crowdmap is designed and built by the people behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. As the platform has evolved, so have its uses. Crowdmap allows you to set up your own map of Ushahidi without having to install it on your own web server. What Can I Do With Crowdmap? World's first 'invisible' tower Tower Infinity will be built just outside of Seoul near Incheon International Airport. Through digital processing, images will be scaled, rotated and merged to create a seamless panoramic image that appears on rows of LED screens to create an illusion of invisibility. A graphic by GDS Architects explains how they'll pull off the Infinity Tower's "invisibility" illusion using cameras placed at three different heights to create a seamless panoramic image. From left to right, a look at how the building will appear when the LED facade system isn't activated; then lit with 30% power; on the far right, 100% power. Tower Infinity's invisible face is essentially just state of the art camouflage. In essence, whatever is going on behind the building will be projected onto the front of the building.
Support for Scentsy Consultants You’ve signed up to represent a direct selling company; now you need to get ready for a successful launch party. How you start your business will greatly determine how you’ll run your business and how far you will go. Introducing your new business to others will set the tone for future sales, bookings and recruits. (Note: this also works if you’re re-launching an existing business. Sometimes it’s important to get back to basics and start anew.) Course Materials - Crisis Mapping, Politics & New Media Dear community, I am developing a new course: Political Science 397: Crisis Mapping, Politics & New Media. As the course progresses I will post materials here for your review. Please feel free to use any portion of the materials posted here for your own course development.
15 Outstanding DIY Projects To Make Your Home Interior Looks Amazing. Every summer most of us wants to go traveling and visiting new places or even relatives, but not everyone likes to go out on every vacation. Well there’s nothing wrong with that, because sometime we have many things to do for our home as well, like some construction work, shifting and refurnishing etc. So if you would be staying at home this vacation then these 15 brilliant ideas are specially for you. With just a little bit of creativity and hand work you will be able to create these outstanding projects.
Global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability As internet and mobile phone use increases, technology is transforming the field of transparency and accountability making it an increasingly dynamic space across the globe. Technology is helping to improve citizen participation in decision-making and producing new ways of identifying public service challenges through processes such as ‘data mashing’. This paper documents current trends in the way technology is being used to promote transparency in different parts of the world. It reviews over 100 projects from across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, examining how new technologies are re-energising traditional methods.