This morning, I was amazed by the new design of the Lausanne Public Transport vending machines. Instead of putting a map with names of the different places (the most common way to give a global representation of space), they put a list of names (bus/metro stops) in alphabetical order. This limits t...
[Design] Bad design: Lausanne's public transport
This morning, I was amazed by the new design of the Lausanne Public Transport vending machines. Instead of putting a map with names of the different places (the most common way to give a global representation of space), they put a list of names (bus/metro stops) in alphabetical order. This limits t...
[Street Art] Ductape in the city
I really like this french artist: cedric bernadotte, especially two projects: the one in which he removes all the writings in the streets and the other in which he duct tapes stuff in cities! ...
[Space and Place] Spatial structure of the network economy
Yes, space matters...Mapping the Global Network Economy on the Basis of Air Passenger Transport Flows by F. Witlox*, L. Vereecken and B. Derudder In this paper global air traffic data are used to attain an insight in the spatial structure of the network economy. The main emphasis is on identifying ...
[Research] Can You See Me Now? evaluation
Just read this: M.Flintham, R.Anastasi, S.Benford, T.Hummings, A.Crabtree, C.Greenhalgh, T.Rodden, N.Tandavanith, M.Adams, and J.Row-Farr (2003). Where on-line meets on the streets: experiences with mobile mixed reality games. In Proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems, ...
[Blog] Academic blogging
Main points covered in the discussions at Bloggercon III about academic blogging: 1. Why should academics blog ? 2. What changes for academics when they blog ? 3. What’s the potential effect of blogging in the academic world ? 4. Why do academics make good bloggers ? 5. Blogs vs. Blackboard 6. Pub...
[Space and Place] A glimpse of Lyon Light Festival
Few pictures taken this week end at the Light Festival in Lyon, France. The pieces work showed here had been taken from the superflux exhibition in the 7th arrondissement. I am trying to put the names of the artists but it's hard to find from here. The third one is by Sanaz Azari (''poubelles lumin...
[TheWorld] From berkeley to lyon
Last firday, walking in the streets of Lyon, I found this interesting picture, I think Larry Hyman (researcher at University of California, Berkeley) made it when he worked in France... ...
[Tech] rss4you in Liberation
(ego-trip) My side-project with roby: the french RSS aggregator rss4you has been quoted in Liberation. They also quote our friend jerome :) RSSCe fichier texte résume le contenu d'un site ou d'un blog et permet à un utilisateur de consulter les flux provenant de multiples sources d'information dif...
[Future] So now there is FabArt!?
After the arrival of FabLab (i.e "something that make almost anything", nanofab, will there be Fab Art? ...