Archives for December, 2007

call for publication

Fred Dervin has invited me co-edit a book: New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)construction of identity. We would like to invite you to submit abstracts. And please ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 12:24 pm.

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bioject

I had a fascinating conversation with JB after his thesis defense yesterday evening; thanks to Oren, colleague at ReD Associates. As JB writes about his research: "Biojects ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 4:05 pm.

Filed under meet.

Top-Braille

Read in Le Monde, this article about Top-Braille a nomadic object that enables blinds to have access to information: "Brevetée dès 1996, la souris nomade TopBraille ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 4:33 pm.

Filed under use.

atlas of radical cartography

Seems highly interesting... How can neo-nomads resist? An Atlas of Radical Cartography.

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 10:46 pm.

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history of the hotel

.!.Via archinect. A History of the Hotel, slide show. Apparently the history of the MODERN hotel begins in America... Screenshot from slide show: "Photograph of demonstration ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 10:32 pm.

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Everland

A hotel for neo-nomads: Everland by Swiss artist-duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. "Everland is a Hotel with only one room including a bathroom, a king-size ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 12:53 am.

Filed under create, design, stay.

Okids phone

N. is fantastic... She keeps on feeding me with cool stuff to blog!? Check this "visuel interactif" Design made in Korea (Le Monde, 25-11-07). Below some ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 12:35 am.

Filed under design, read.

‘robot’ bar

The wine room at the Clarion Collection Hotel in Københaven has an automat that serves you an exact dose of 65cl of wine, not a ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 9:15 pm.

Filed under design, use.

negative horizon

"It is hard to imagine a society that would deny the body just as we had progressively denied the soul. This, however, is where we ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 6:47 pm.

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wear your home

Carry your home... "like a snail" would say Do-ho Suh... who presents in an interview for art:21 the Seoul-Home/LA-home project: "The experience was about transporting ...

1 Comment. Posted by Yaz on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 9:10 pm.

Filed under wear.

pentaphone

looking for un petit coin de paradis to call in peace? Find a pentaphone nearby! Design by Robert Stadler. Via Dezeen. Apparently, "It is ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 12:40 am.

Filed under attend, create, design.

room 307

Thanks to Mehdi, some news about hotel innovations: check the Accor Innovation website. A guided tour of room 307: "Access to the room is controlled by radio ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 11:29 pm.

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floating house (la maison flottante)

The poetic project of the Bouroullec brothers... Screenshots from the Bouroullec's website... © Paul Tahon + R. & E. Bouroullec "Resting just above the water and ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 10:54 pm.

Filed under design.

technology supported learning

I found the above advertising postcard in a book I borrowed from the library (as all neo-nomad qui se respecte must do, plug into libraries ...

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:06 pm.

Filed under learn, use.

wear it once…

Beautiful! A fantastic article by PinMag: Jum Nakao: Paper Fashion Art. Screenshot From PingMag... 

0 Comments. Posted by Yaz on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 10:05 pm.

Filed under create, wear.