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Category Archives: Power & resistance

Bouquet for Edmonton

Monday, February 11, 2008

Marilei Fiorelli has created ephemeral winter art for Edmonton, which has had over a week of below -20C cold. Snow graffitti flowers make a bouquet for a frozen city. Check out her blog for more, before it melts! Let’s make an annual tradition out of this – if one can have [...]

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Bare life?

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Lebbeus Woods, SLUMS: The problem (via Subtopia)
People with steady jobs and incomes, who are assured of having enough money to go to school, to the doctor or clinic; who can save some money, buy enough food and clothing to last a while; who can plan for the future; all too often coast along without thinking [...]

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Academic spaces and citizen researchers

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Despite the fact that academics like to research all kinds of social spaces, there are hardly any studies of the social spaces where research is done. But every now and then we get glimpses, like this story about Parisian academics being “banished to the banlieues”:
The three institutions that are being turned out of their ancestral [...]

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Future cities, exposed behaviours and the problem of public agency

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

My dissertation looks at how pervasive computing and locative media practitioners treat cities as interaction design spaces and publics as co-creators, so I’m always interested in how people are envisioning future cities. Dan Hill recently pointed to the Living City project, in which three alternative and parallel futures are explored:
Living City is an ecology of [...]

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Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Missile Defence!

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Ah, Christmas. Peace on Earth. Goodwill to all men and women…. What better organization to track the progress of Christmas’ most proficient gift-giver — Santa — than NORAD, the Christmas-friendly organization that:
continuously provides worldwide detection, validation and warning of a ballistic missile attack on North America and maintains continental detection, validation, warning and aerospace control [...]

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