Bangkok Markets

In these videos we could see the grand differentiation between the city’s social classes from location, architecture, scale, and accessibility. 

Self organization out of chaos

Hans Mondernman-Dratchen Intersection,Holland

This intersection exhibits an innovative approach to roads design by an urban designer, psychologist, traffic engineer, Hans Monderman. His theory states that no signs are needed to regulate the flow of traffic,bicycles, pedestrians as they will self organize by the means of eye contact and general awareness.

Another example of traffic self organization in Hannoi,Vietnam.

Vehicular growth Mexico City

More New Cars Than Babies This Year in Mexico City
by Eliza Barclay on 10OCT08

For every birth in Mexico City, two new cars enter the city’s vehicle fleet each year, according to the Center for Sustainable Transport. The non-profit organization compared the city’s birth records to vehicle sales and found that the number of annual births is some 160,000, while the number of new vehicles added to the city’s fleet ranges between 200,000 and 300,000, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics.

D.F.’s vehicular dilemma…

Clean Infrastructural Piracy

Artist Paul Moore creates temporary artworks by cleaning surfaces – reverse graffiti. Video of him at work in San Francisco and of another reverse graffiti artist, Alexandre Orion in Sao Paulo below:

Pengamen Jakarta, Indonesia

Bangkok Water Leisure

chuck hoberman

Projects that have contracting and controlling qualities that adjust to use. Something like this is really forward thinking as to how technology and expansion should be a result of filling in the ranges rather then specific categories.

Hoberman Designs

Mercado Central [Mexico city]

Juxtapose image exersice…follow the video movement into the market

Mercado Central

Jakarta

Precis thoughts attached

Jakarta 10-28-08

chinatown raid interview

china town fake handbag sale

The New Vote…

A collaboration effort brought to us by Prof. Che-Wei Wang.

“It’s a location-based sms polling system that…maps out where votes are coming from.” Che-Wei Wang

The_New_Vote

International Network Archive

Princeton University: Cognitive Maps designed by Jonathan Harris

International Networks Archive

Reyner Banham Loves LA

1972 BBC documentary featuring Reyner Banham.

Mumbai Videos

Despite some parts that smack of municipal propaganda, these 3 videos have been very informative local information within the slums of mumbai. They’ve helped give us more specific, existing, information, corroborate our previous research, and bring up a few surprises.

Scientific American Earth 3.0

 

Articles from the recent Scientific American special issue on sustainability, urbanism, and tecnology

http://www.sciam.com/special-editions/?contents=2008-10

Cyberpunk Manifesto

I’m on a ubiquitous computing kick at the moment….finding that the notion of distributed forms of computing to be highly relevant for many of the projects in the studio. The idea may be technically real in recent years, but in the recent past, it was explored quite robustly in popular science fiction. 

Here’sa quick overview of the genre via Lawrence Person’s “Cyberpunk Manifesto”

http://slashdot.org/features/99/10/08/2123255.shtml

And the text of William Gibson’s Neuromancer i available here.

SLUM LAB

http://www.slumlab.com/

“Sustainable Living Urban Model Lab @ the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. The lab’s focus is to identify and develop architectural technologies for the informal city – spatial, material and informational.”

Interesting design studio at Columbia looking at a specific slum in Sao Paulo “Paraisópolis”, and the infrastructural problems that exist.

Videos of their visit to “Paraisópolis”:

SLUM LAB Paraisopolis Source Video from Proxy on Vimeo.

Paraisópolis (part 1)

Paraisópolis (part 2)

Jan Chipchase on cell phones

 

Jan Chipchase (NY Times Profile) has the best job in the world.

TED Conference video here.

Everyware

Some video of Adam Greenfield on Everyware

Time Magazine – What’s Next 2008

Time Magazine’s issue on the future of ideas:

10 Ideas That Are Changing The World

More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on. Here are a few you need to know about

• Common Wealth
• The End of Customer Service
• The Post-Movie-Star Era
• Reverse Radicalism
• Kitchen Chemistry
• Geoengineering
• Synthetic Authenticity
• The New Austerity
• Mandatory Health
• Re-Judaizing Jesus

Fablab and Fabjects!

Remarkable TED talk from Neil Gershinfeld of MIT concerning the fabbing of objects, right in line with Bruce Sterlings “Shaping Things”. The last quarter of the video is especially appropriate to the studio when Neil talkes about what ideas and organizations they’ve discovered by implementing fablabs globally, but at a local level.

Fablabs

how the hell do you embed videos that aren’t youtube or google??

Fractal Logic: The Mathematics of Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot is a French mathematician who developed the theory of fractal mathematics.

Ambient Intelligence

The research page for MIT’s Ambient Intelligence Group. Worth checking out, especially for entries and supplemental research.

http://ambient.media.mit.edu/projects.php

They have a ppt show posted here

 

And some other links related to Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence:

Wikipedia’s version (Ambient Intelligence)

Wikipedia’s version (Ubiquitous Computing)

http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw47/intro.html

Los Angeles: Driven to Despair

A link to the show NOW on PBS with an episode about highways, gas prices and the housing crisis.

Los Angeles: Driven to Despair