I would have preferred a donkey… But check this GPS drawn animal by Hajime Ishikawa. Information via PingMag:
“I think my favourite thing about GPS is that you have to take it and go outside and walk to get your data. You have to take your bicycle and spend a day to draw this thing. Though it’s a cutting-edge technology and you see location with sub-meter accuracy, it forces you to experience the real land in an analogue way.”
Thierry, my friend working at Nokia, was telling me about an interesting business practice…: He often meets and works with team members at the airport (As many come from different destinations). For example the Seattle airport have conference facilities that you can book in advance (So have many hotels nearby the airport):
“It is practical. There is no need to waste time, get a cab, go to town. When it is time to leave, no rush… you can check-in rapidly, and work together until boarding time. You may have a long day of work, but at least you can go back to your family in the evening. You limit the number of connections for many team members.”
November 13, 2008, world usability day. This year’s theme is on transportation:
“Transportation means moving products and people in its broadest sense. Usability in transportation speaks to the interaction of people and the vehicles, the challenges and issues infrastructure and modes for moving around in our environment. . We spend time repeatedly, everyday getting our things and ourselves from point A to point B. It varies by day, by location, by time and by need and requires us to utilize many forms of transport. World Usability Day 2008 is focused on exploring and creating awareness for several aspects of transportation:
- How has transportation impacted our culture and society? What are the opportunities and constraints for our society?
- How do humans interact with the following aspects of transportation:
- Modes – automobiles, planes, trains and subways, boats, trucks, busses, bikes, animals, and more.
- Infrastructure – roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, and more.
- Technologies and resources supporting transportation – online travel advisory and ticketing, maps and more.
- Security
- Signage
- How do the modes interact with each other?
- How do transportation modes and issues impact our environment? How can being green improve usability of transportation?
- How have accessibility issues and challenges been addressed by transportation?“
Coworking Sites Cater to the Lonely Self-Employed. Tak PL! According to the article… neo-nomadic lifestyle…:
“NEW YORK — The new way to work on your own is to work alone together.
Across the country, spaces are springing up to meet the demands of a new workforce, made up of self-employed entrepreneurs or part-time employees for whom the freedom of padding down the hallway to their home office in slippers and pajamas has turned into a home-based version of solitary confinement.
It’s called coworking, and the places where it’s happening are as flexible as the hours of the people who use them.”
Isn’t it just great? Thank you PL! http://obamatravel.org… Seriously… this should be integrated to MyBO!! Well I guess it is… Drive for change. This campaign is going too fast =)
And just because I am currently located in Denmark :)
Sharing is extremely strong in this age of multiple mobilities. Supporters contribute to the campaign by giving away travel miles, so dedicated volunteers can canvass other battlegrounds. These campaign workers—it is not a new phenomenon—have also to rely on the generosity—an indirect way of funding the campaign—of local inhabitants for lodging.
“via Occupation, the 191-page full-color volume, investigates the macro - and micro–scales – in biology, formal and informal settlements, open-source networks, virtual presence, behavioral mappings – that inform how we read, claim, and intervene in our evolving territories. Occupations must be fleeting, with ambitions to the small-scale not the monumental, a microphysics or microbiology of practices. These tactics (they are not strategies as such) are covert, clandestine, make-shift, contingent and on-the-fly, small subterfuges, ruses and appropriations. They are the multitude of competing experiments, ideas, innovations, inventions, developments and proposals that together make up a map of the evolving and emerging design disciplines at any given moment. Above all, then, these practices are occupations of their disciplines, but ones fully aware of their fragile hold.”
Worth checking. Info via Archinect.
At MIT this fall: urban utopias.
This Is Tomorrow: Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia
MIT Visual Arts Program
Fall 2008
September 29, Imagining Communities, Jesko Fezer
Series introduction by Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer, architect and urban research, MIT Visiting Professor in Visual Arts; Jesko Fezer, architect, collaboration with IFAU (Institute of Applied Urbanism) and co-editor of AnArchitektur, Berlin, Germany.
November 3, Mobile Life, Ghost Towns, Lukas Feireiss, AbdouMaliq Simone
Lukas Feireiss, curator, and editor of “Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment”; AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmith University of London, UK.
November 17, Remote Habitats, Lucy Orta, Nicholas Makris, Armin Linke
Lucy Orta, Studio-Orta, Paris, France and Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment, London College of Fashion, UK; Nicholas Makris, Professor of Engineering and Director of the MIT Laboratory of Undersea Remote Sensing; Armin Linke, photographer and film maker, Milan, Italy and guest professor at the HFG Karlruhe, Germany.
Signce, a Strategic Design Consultancy, has developed my-way©, a tool enabling a two-way navigation experience – target or cruise, according to the time one has at hand to explore the city…
Self-sustainable chair by JooYoun Paek.
Info via Inhabitat. I love it!
7H thinks very practically :) He prints his posters on cloth… “easier to carry”. Serious, I have enough of these giant tubes of paper to bring to conferences. Could be great if you could wash the cloth off and re-use it:
