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17 DEC 09
MIT SENSEable City Lab team unveils Copenhagen Wheel [Australian Design Review] SAVE
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"MIT SENSEable City Lab researchers have today unveiled the Copenhagen Wheel at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference. Researchers describe the wheel as a “new emblem for urban mobility, [transforming] ordinary bicycles into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units”. The hub stores information about the rider and their surroundings, providing real-time feedback via Bluetooth to your phone. The wheel stores information as you cycle, recording road conditions, carbon monoxide levels, noise, temperature and humidity levels, as well as information about your own effort levels. At the same time, it captures the energy produced through cycling and braking, storing it for an energy boost when you need it." Great to see this come to fruition.TAGS
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Bulimba Boathouse [Australian Design Review] SAVE
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"The generosity of this move expressed the sense of community the original garden suburbs aimed for and conjures the impression that the suburb is not as dense as it is. It may seem counter-intuitive, but a key to higher densities lies in understanding the value and function of open space, and the Boathouse offers a spirited precedent for rediscovering the possibilities of garden space in satisfying or diverting our spatial appetites." Interesting discussion. Owen & Vokes are quite brilliant.TAGS
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Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World [The Onion] SAVE
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"Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth."TAGS
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16 DEC 09
How the gates were closed on the jet-set era [Times Online] SAVE
"If strikes go ahead Terminal 5 will become the setting of recriminations and conflict, rather than an impressive monument to a future that was a long time coming and which may now have passed. Like all city gates, it is as much memorial as entrance. With the prospect of no one going anywhere, its confidence and ambition are mocking. Elsewhere, airport values are less troubled and equivocal. Seoul’s Incheon is spectacular evidence of uninhibited futurism. At Osaka in Japan, Renzo Piano has created the artificial island of Kansai. Foster’s Beijing boggles. Copenhagen’s Castrup shows how calm and beautiful an airport might be if it is understood as a transport facility, not an out-of-town retail park."TAGS
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Hermès : Window Installation [Fubiz] SAVE
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"Une magnifique installation du créatif et designer japonais Tokujin Yoshioka. Une opération d’illusion visuelle présentée sur la vitrine de la Maison Hermès au Japon, jusqu’au 19 janvier 2010. A découvrir en images et vidéo dans la suite de l’article." Magnifique indeed.TAGS
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15 DEC 09
Greenwich: Monument to Blair’s Britain [Building Design] SAVE
"It’s 10 years since the Greenwich peninsula was at the centre of millennium celebrations, but its redevelopment has proved to be a microcosm of New Labour’s wasted opportunities"TAGS
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13 DEC 09
We Make things which Make cities - Renzo Piano interview [Abitare] SAVE
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"Calvino was terrified by disorder. He always had pieces of paper in his pocket and he would use them to write notes which were like hieroglyphics. But, be careful… Calvino was also linked to the real world. This obsession with taking notes, his “stealing from daily life” is common to all those who have never believed in the idea of a wild creative impulse… As a good Genovese and a Virgo, this method stays with you for your whole life…"TAGS
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12 DEC 09
Movie Posters of the Decade [The Auteurs] SAVE
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"Trawling through databases of all the movie posters released in the past ten years and trying to remember my ten favorites, two things stand out: that only a very small percentage qualify as great pieces of design in their own right (there are far fewer contenders for movie poster of the decade than there are for movie of the decade for sure); and that my favorite posters have little bearing on my favorite films." Some beauties here.TAGS
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Street Computing Workshop 2009 [OzCHI 2009] SAVE
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You might want to read the paper by Andrew vande Moere and me concerning teaching urban computing.TAGS