Parks and greenspace must be part of any climate solution: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/parks-and-greenspace-must-be-part-of-any-climate-solution/556324/ #Regenerative #Urban #Architecture #ClimateChange
Parks and greenspace must be part of any climate solution: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/parks-and-greenspace-must-be-part-of-any-climate-solution/556324/ #Regenerative #Urban #Architecture #ClimateChange
"The “open source soundscapes” methodology addresses this gap of knowledge and, by arguing that quietness is a commons, it places people at the heart of the quiet areas evaluation and planning process": https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/noise.2017.4.issue-1/noise-2017-0008/noise-2017-0008.xml #Urban #Design #P2P
"Surveillance capitalism: critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project. Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy & data harvesting": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns << Big Tech's push to privatise & dominate the basic infrastructure of life is a shit show & insane. #Urban #Technology #Politics
As the world gets louder, we combat sound with more sound, searching for an illusion of control: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-noises-we-try-not-to-hear
#FFHCI #Culture #Technology #Urban
A City Is Not a Computer: https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/
This seems an obvious truth, but we need to say it loud and clear. Urban intelligence is more than information processing.
Placemaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placemaking
Participatory design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design
Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901118310888
Wang Shu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Shu
Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu: International Lecture Series
Wang Shu in conversation with Dr Edward Denison
Wang Shu Interview: Architecture is a Job for God:
Wang Shu - Future Of Our Cities:
Wang Shu Interview - Amateur Architecture Studio
Wang Shu Five Scattered Houses:
Jan Boelen in dialog with Indy Johar / 150 Years of the MAK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Boelen
The eclectic Jan Boelen, director of the Z33 Arts Centre in Hasselt and of the Ljubljana Biennial of Design (BIO), presents the 50th edition, where a team approach will triumph:
https://www.domusweb.it/en/interviews/2014/04/18/the_biennial_turnedcollectiveworkshop.html
Time School or a School of Time:
https://z33research.be/2018/10/time-school-or-a-school-of-time/
Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Jan Boelen, “Design as Learning”
Opening Talk "Victor Papanek - The Politics of Design" 28 September 2018
Z33 debates: Designing Futures - future thinking with Tobias Revell and Jan Boelen:
CTMBRU - Jan BOELEN, Z33, Atelier Luma
#Urban #P2P #Design #Politics #Technology #Art #Architecture #Regenerative #FFHCI
Today, nearly 60 percent of kids get to school by car, almost four times as many as in the late 1960s, when just 16 percent of children did so. https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/05/high-school-commute-drive-sleep-exercise-children-teens/588850/
And any amount of "electric self driving AI cars etc." won't change this inhumane absurdity. Seems people like @elonmusk have not gotten the memo yet.
Interview with Lorenzo Tripodi
Open Streets are programs that temporarily open streets to people by closing them to cars:
https://openstreetsproject.org/ #OpenSource #Urban #Infrastructure #Politics
"Back to the Future in Urban Design" - talk by @colvilleandersn at republica 19:
5 Types of Terrible Drivers: A Dossier from a 1955 Driver’s Ed Manual: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/5-types-of-terrible-drivers-a-dossier-from-a-1955-drivers-ed-manual/ #Technology #Augmentation #Urban
Hacking the Cyborg - Can collective intelligence save us from self-destruction?
http://www.urbz.net/articles/hacking-cyborg
Spreadsheet urbanism - How we locked ourselves in a box:
http://urbz.net/articles/spreadsheet-urbanism
"The bureaucracy that oversees urban plans hates nothing more than ambiguity - Space should be either be public or private, residential or commercial, open or closed. We live in the age of ‘spreadsheet urbanism’, the spatial expression of the merging of urban planning and real estate speculation."
New Democracy: David Bollier and the City as a Commons:
https://dezwijger.nl/programma/the-city-as-a-commons
Digital Fabrication, Circular Systems & the Future of Cities - interview with Tomás Díez:
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy - talk by Saskia Sassen: