[Space and Place] Shelter Made of the Earth's Own Dust

Still looking at strange houses, there is an interesting project conducted by Nader Khalili as reported in an old NYT issue: Shelter Made of the Earth's Own Dust. It is about using raw material to build arches, domes and vaults. Khalili studied indigenous structures and came up with these nices str...

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[Space and Place] A map larger than the territory

A Map Larger Than the Territory could be a way to draw your elephant paths :) Here is the path we took in Paris last week-end "A Map Larger Than the Territory" is a Web application that enables participants to represent their paths across the city using images, texts and sounds. Territory here...

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[StreetArt] Moondog Loves You

I recently discovered this moondog loves you which I really appreciate :) It is about small pieces of cards with hand-drawn pictures on them. Let's find the book, it seems that it is not well distributed. ...

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[Space and Place] New houses/flat

The french magazine Le Courrier International has an interesting hors-série on the topic of new ways to live in houses/flat. It deals with wooden skyscrapers, mini-house, ecotech, post-communists houses, renewed castle, containers... The container thing and the japanese small houses are definitely ...

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[TheWorld] Various Maps

This Universite Tangente proposed various maps of different concepts: INFOWAR PSYCHICWAR,GOVERNING BY NETWORKS,MEDIA SKILLS,BARCLAYS PLC. Interesting in terms of both content and representation grammar. Example: ...

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[Prospective] Why I like Bruce Sterling...

Referring to ranking systems (reputation based), ecotech prediction, ... Bruce Sterling say in his Viridian design newsletter: Almost everything I was attempting to do in 1998 is now being done better, on a larger scale, and by better-organized groups, in 2004. ...

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[TheWorld] EU contaminated ministers

The wwf.org revealed that: ministers from 13 European Union countries are contaminated with dozens of industrial chemicals according to results of blood tests released today. Fourteen Environment and Health Ministers tested by WWF in June 2004 have a total of 55 industrial chemicals in their blood....

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