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“There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.”
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Next month flying robots will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to build a three metre wide, six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France.
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Cinemod Studio have created a reactive football stadium in Peru that is “able to communicate the ebb and flow of excitement and disappointment to the surrounding city, thus becoming a watched spectacle in itself”.
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“With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets — like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away — to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.”
(Source: ted.com)
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Firefly is a set of comprehensive software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper (a free plug-in for Rhino), the Arduino micro-controller, the internet and beyond.
It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds, and will read/write data to/from internet feeds, remote sensors and more. It also includes a Pachube reader.
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There was a time when London united around the vision of a better future and a group of young idealists were fusing art and science to build an egalitarian city.
This documentary is their story.
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SONGDO - Audiovisual performance by AntiVJ, August 2009
New Songdo city, South Korea.
“The importance of technology, the coexistence of the ancient and the new and the presence of the sea as both a calming and menacing elements seem to be the fundamental ideas to the creation and development of this model-city. The city of Songdo is a challenge to human’s ability to plan a large scale construction work and, most of all, it will reflect on how urban society can be organized for people to interconnect, network and live with each other in such controlled and optimized environment. AntiVJ’s artists produced an audiovisual piece exploring these ideas.”
AntiVJ is a visual label initiated by European-based artists whose work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on our perception.
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Documentation of the first public exhibition of the Ocean of Light hardware, Surface, at the Kinetica Art Fair, London, February 2010. Surface uses minimal visuals and sound to evoke the essence of character and movement. Autonomous entities engage in a playful dance, negotiating the material properties of a fluid surface.
Ocean of Light uses a 3D grid of individually addressable LED lights to evoke presence and movement in a physical space that participants can walk through and view from any angle.
The Ocean of Light project is a collaborative research venture, led by Squidsoup.
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By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster?
Dr. Dickinson Despommier thinks that Vertical Farms might be part of the solution.
More at verticalfarm.com
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Shoal by Troika combines sculpture with architecture and technology. Spanning across a 50 meter long corridor, 467 fish-like objects wrapped in iridescent colours and suspended from the ceiling rotate rhythmically around their own axis to display the movements and interdependency typical to school of fish. Shoal was curated by PAM (Karen Mills and Justin Ridgeway) and commissioned by TEDCO as a permanent installation for the Corus building located at Toronto’s Waterfront, Queens Quay East.
