Je retiens de l’article: Adresse: jardin public d’Osaka de Courrier International numero 798…
Page 32: « Selon M. Kanetsu, le fait de n’être domicilié nulle part présente de nombreux inconvénients pour les SDF. « Le plus gênant est l’impossibilité de se procurer un téléphone mobile, alors que des sociétés se déclarent prêtes à leur donner du travail s’ils en ont un. Mais pour pouvoir en acheter un, il est indispensable d’avoir une attestation de domicile », explique-t-il. »
(L’info leur provient de Tokyo Shimbun)

… light channel! Continuing on hotel stories and spatial appropriation: you can change the lighting scheme, thus the ‘mood’ of your hotel room at the Hotel Concorde in Frankfurt, while participating in changing the appearance of the facade…

Rooms are advertised as following:
“Individually styled and air conditioned; bathrooms / toilets / telephone / Internet access, cable-pay-TV, in room coffee/tea bar, minibar and safe / colour adjustable illumination / 24h room service”

On my way out from that bookstore, I saw her with a funky bag. I could not get my eyes of… the bag… Random encounter, how many times do you dare to ask? Who makes it? She said “A friend from Seattle, check www.alchemygoods.com; it is made of recycled advertisement banners…” I don’t think I can help it… But I like bags… as Steven Connor writes “If you were to arrive on this earth from another planet, what would be the thing that would strike you most about humans, compared with other species? […] It would be our need, apparently unshared by any other species, to carry things around with us.” And again, “We don’t seem to transport ourselves without transporting things with us. Bags mean this possibility. Bags mean ownership, identity, self-possession. They are memories, the weight of all we have been.” [1] What I like about this bag? It is urban, and as mentioned in the website “The material was printed on and then lashed to the sides of buildings all over Seattle to promote various products. No two bags are alike, so the only thing you’ll be advertising is your individuality.” After zipik, the Ad bag :)

[1] Steven Connor, Rough Magic: Bags, 2000 in Ben Highmore, Everyday Life Reader (Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 2002); p. 346 and 348

So you do not know what to do with empty parking places? “PARK(ing) is an investigation into reprogramming a typical unit of private vehicular space by leasing a metered parking spot for public recreational activity.” If neo-nomadic life is about the making of a meta-architecture of storage space it is also about SHARING space, hence the emergence of a HOTEL/TAXI-CITY (more later :)
+ info via guerrilla-innovation

Check the current issue: Mobility, of VECTORS; “the web-based academic journal Vectors has explored the possibilities of combining audio-visual interactivity and analytical writings.” (via urban-atmosphere mailing list).

“Each of the projects in this second issue of Vectors in some way serves to remind us of the social and cultural imbrications of technologically-mediated mobility. If the telecommunications and entertainment industries (and countless consumers) are now enthralled with all things mobile, the pieces collected here underscore that mobility is first and foremost a social phenomenon, one with long and troubled histories.” (via Vectors)

“Vectors maps the multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era, crystallizing around themes that highlight the social, political, and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence. As such, the journal will speak both implicitly and explicitly to key debates across varied disciplines, including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access. Operating at the intersection of culture, creativity, and technology, the journal focuses on the myriad ways technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations, both in the past and in the present.” (via Vectors)

old news, but this one (association of ideas) follows the U3 post: the e-paper de fujitsu… No need to carry bulky things!

Rayane says:
tu connais le standard U3 ?
Rayane says:
c’est un standard que bcp de marques cherchent à imposer
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
c?
Rayane says:
le principe = un OS dans des clés USB de grosse capacité
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
mhh…
Rayane says:
tu branches ta clé sur n’importe quel ordi
Rayane says:
et tu retrouves ton environnement de bureau
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
ah ouiiii…
Rayane says:
c pas pour tt de suite, mais des sociétés cherchent à faire ca
Rayane says:
U3 s’appelle le regroupement
Rayane says:
et en fait les ordis ne seraient plus que des ‘points d’acces’
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
un lien?
Rayane says:
http://www.u3.com/
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
moi du point de vue du neo-nomad…
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
l’idee d’appropriation temporaire est interessante…
Rayane says:
tape U3 standard sur google ya plein de liens
Rayane says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3
Rayane says:
voila!
http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com/ says:
merci toi! c cool :)