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 is a concept i coined to specify a certain class of objects that follow biological rules and share similar structures in their behavior and constitution with organisms. A specific class of biojects is composed by immaterial instances such as concepts or ideas. They exist as phenomena but are difficult to observe per se (for more information on existent object vs non-existent objects see Zalta and Meinong).”

I thought that this comment on my old blog was worth sharing with you, for that there is a new blog with data on neo-nomads to feed from. Take a look. The project promises to be cool:

Dear Yasmine Abbas

I tried to find your e-mail address but couldn’t find it, so I try to reach you this way. I m a master student of the Architecture faculty on the TU Delft and at the moment doing a graduation projects on the theme of DigiNomads. Who are people travelling around the world while at the same time executing a job using new communication technologies to keep in touch with the rest of the world. The architectural question I have in this regard is:When living in the global city, what are the implications of living on the edge of global and local identities, for the city networks inside the public realm and the architectural typology of the office and the home?

At the moment I m looking for people that feel a little bit or a lot like the person I described as being a DigiNomad. I would like to ask if you maybe know a way to get in contact with anybody like this or if you could get me in contact with anybody who can tell my about his experiences and in this way help me defining my design constraints better.

For making it possible for all my teachers to follow all the things I m doing I created a blog (http://diginomad.blogspot.com ). And of course for everyone that wants to see what I m doing. Although I m already busy with this project for half a year I only decided to use a blog this past weekend. For now it is still rather empty but I will fill it up from now on and soon it will be not only a communication tool but also a resource bank. I have a weekly poll on my blog, so if you like, feel free to vote, that makes me very happy. The more people vote the better I can from my ideas, so I need people to visit my blog :)

I hope you can help my somehow…

And of course spread the word, you never know where the digital highway will bring you.
Best regards,

Janine Toussaint

tmdenouden@planet.nl

DigiNomad, The Perfect Travel? http://diginomad.blogspot.com

Long time ago, I was what… 14? 15? Titouan Lamazou came to the Lycée Descartes, the French school of Rabat, to show some of his drawings. Along with the navigator came a gorgeous “brune,” ou “rousse” (du henné peut-être?), une magicienne en falbala, magnifique. I have little memories from my childhood, but this is one of them. Un voyageur-explorateur, Titouan embodied what I always wanted to be… and I haven’t started yet… well…

File from the Hugo Pratt archive

Titouan for me, c’est Corto Maltese, a hero of Hugo Pratt, ou encore Rimbaud (Rimbaud here interpreted by Xavier Pignon-Ernest)… : car à l’age de 17 ans, Titouan décide de créer un carnet de voyage, and to do so embarks on a boat (Rimbaud had not seen the sea when he wrote the Bateau ivre, but was the same age)…

[…] Et Dès lors, je me suis baigné dans le Poème
De la Mer, infusé d’astres, et lactescent,
Dévorant les azurs verts ; où, flottaison blême
Et ravie, un noyé pensif parfois descend ; […]

+ Rimbaud, Le Bateau ivre

Rimbaud par Pignon-Ernest

Check Titouan’s exhibit… Zoé Zoé aura lieu du 11 Octobre 2007 au 30 Mars 2008, à Paris. Au Musée de l’Homme, Titouan parlera de femmes!

Dessin de Titouan Lamazou

Le lien avec mes neo-nomades… l’ IMAGINAIRE

A scanner to track who is editing wikipedia. Read the Wired blog/article - See Who’s Editing Wikipedia: Diebold, Wikipedia, a Campain.

1. I am French, born in Strasbourg
2. I lived 1/3 of my life in France… 2/3 abroad!
3. People say that I have an accent when I speak French
4. Beside French, je parle Frenglish
5. I am in love with D’Artagnan… et Aramis!
6. I live my life with PANACHE (DASH)!
7. I owe my nickname, Yaz, to a dear friend of mine. That dates way back to 1996. It is today the name of a birth control pill!!! But let’s take the good side of the matter…: I am proud to ubiquitously inspire many women in this world :)
8. My mission is to change the way people think about property, to annihilate borders, and compel people to embrace differences…

Thank you Cati ;)

Mobilité et architecture
Exposition de projets pédagogiques
25/05/07 – 15/07/2007

FRAC CENTRE, Orléans

Le projet Mobilité et architecture s’inscrit en lien étroit avec l’Education Nationale et l’Académie d’Orléans-Tours. Il a été mené par le Service des publics du FRAC Centre en 2005-2007 en région Centre, avec une vingtaine d’enseignants et leurs élèves, de la maternelle au supérieur.

Riche de projets d’architectes explorant cette notion, la collection du FRAC Centre a nourri les démarches pédagogiques des enseignants et l’imaginaire des élèves. « Mobilité et architecture » a donné lieu à plusieurs expositions telles Mouvements topographiques, LEGTA, Châteauroux, 2006 ; Mon corps mobile dans l’espace, Lycée Charles Péguy, Orléans, 2006 ; ou encore A pied’œuvre : voyage(s), au Compa, Chartres, 2007. Les ateliers et les rencontres avec des artistes et des architectes (Betty Bui, Claude Parent, François Roche) ont stimulé la réflexion des élèves et aiguisé leur regard critique sur l’architecture contemporaine.

L’exposition Mobilité et architecture, aboutissement de deux années de travail, regroupe les productions des élèves autour de trois axes : « Architecture mobile », « Architecture évolutive », « Déplacement du corps dans l’architecture et l’espace urbain ».
FRAC Centre / Horaires d’ouverture
L’exposition est ouverte du lundi au vendredi, de 10h à 12h et de 14h à 18h. Les week-ends et jours fériés : de 14h à 18h. Visites commentées en semaine sur réservation, les samedi et dimanche à 16h. Entrée libre.

Instant Urbanism- Tracing the Theories of the Situationists in Contemporary Architecture and Urban Design

Until 16 September 2007
Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel

Instant Urbanism draws its inspiration from the radical proclamations made by the Situationist International with relation to transforming architecture and city spaces. The exhibition shows parallels in the field of architecture contemporary to the situationist movement, with groundbreaking experimental and utopian conceptions of urbanism. Numerous projects in architecture and urbanism today will then reveal in practice that which the Situationists developed as urban critique and theory. Installations featuring new work by Ruedi Baur and Citámbulos of Mexico City will implement the strategy of the “dérive” in contemporary urban design.

Featuring: DÉRIVE / DÉTOURNEMENT / URBAN ACTION / SPORTIFICATION / URBAN NOMADISM / CROSS-PROGRAMMING / ARCHITECTURAL HYBRIDS / ATMOSPHERES / INTERVENTIONS / MODULAR STRUCTURES / BRICOLAGE / PARKOUR / VIRAL ARCHITECTURE / HI SPEED URBANISM / TURBO ARCHITECTURE

Magazine: S AM No.2: INSTANT URBANISM the accompanaying publication is out in August 2007. Information: www.merianverlag.ch

Special Events: “WALL IS A SCREEN” two filmic dérives in Basel: 22. + 23.06.2207, 22 h. Information: www.stadtkinobasel.ch

Partner/ Partners: Museum Tinguely, Stadtkino Basel, Landkino, Zumtobel, roth gerüste, Truninger, Konnex, Lotteriefonds Basel-Stadt, Lotteriefonds Basel-Landschaft

S AM
Swiss Architecture Musem
Steinenberg 7
Postfach 911
CH - 4001 Basel

tel. +41 (0)61 261 14 13
fax. +41 (0)61 261 14 28

info@sam-basel.org
www.sam-basel.org

(via the Bartlett listing)

FYI, my friend Alexandra Ginsberg is showing her work done in collaboration with Oliver Froome-Lewis:

Touching the City is a design research unit that explores the ways in which we interact with the city. Observing the private life of small public spaces, we consider and exchange views on their potential and make proposals for their transformation.

This exhibition documents progress on our first project - the identification, interrogation and stimulation of benchspace and marks the launch of our web site, touchingthecity.com.

Louisiana this week-end, not the state, the museum, 35 km North of Copenhagen… to see MADE IN CHINA, the exhibit featuring among other Chinese artists, my favorite: Zhang Huan. Check his performance: Family Tree, 2000. The exhibit offers a glimpse of the questioning of globalization and Chinese identity… very insighful.

Anyway, I also wanted to share a picture I took. I spotted the pink towel, far away from the museum garden and ran down to the beach for a glimpse of pink against a gray sky:

Zurich next, for the workplace 2010 workshop at the visualization summit. More then!