From the SENSEable City Laboratory - a new research initiative between the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the MIT Media Lab - comes mobile landscape | graz in real time.
“The city demands continuous interpretation. Today the experience, infrastructure and morphology of the city are more closely related than ever before. The […]
I don’t want to turn the blog into a repository of Hurricane Katrina articles, but I keep wondering what it will actually take for people to fight back, and this Guardian piece by Cornel West gave me a few things to think about.
Exiles from a city and from a nation
“People said: ‘It looks like something […]
Harpers: The Uses of Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
This piece went to press as Hurricane Katrina hit, but the online version includes a postscript on New Orleans.
“Many official disaster-preparedness scenarios…presume that human beings are prone to panic and in need of policing … In 1906, for example, no one quite declared martial law, but soldiers, […]
Organised by ephemera, Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War has just begun its journey as a uniquely mobile conference.
“The purpose of the conference is to gather a variety of creative thinkers - researchers, philosophers, artists, and others - who are interested in global culture and politics. […]
The latest issue of Design Philosophy Papers is on homelessness and raises these interesting points in the introduction:
“When first signalled as a DPP theme, we knew it was a concern that would become increasingly significant, but not quite as rapidly as has transpired, with the Tsunami in South East Asia, and now, nine months later, […]