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Week 169

Fiona Raby once told me that the major­i­ty of her work with stu­dents at the RCA was about psy­chol­o­gy. After a week like this, I can see where she’s com­ing from. With­out going into too much detail, I had my work cut out for me with a new group of stu­dents who I will be … Con­tin­ue read­ing Week 169

Week 165

So week 165. One of those old-fash­ioned frag­ment­ed weeks that reminds me of why I decid­ed a while ago that I should stop hav­ing more than two meet­ings on one day. Any­way.  Fol­low­ing the week­end of Stekker Fest crazi­ness I had a bit of an off day on Mon­day. Tues­day I sat down with Ianus … Con­tin­ue read­ing Week 165

Announcing This happened – Utrecht #6

Last week we announced the sixth edi­tion of This hap­pened – Utrecht. The pro­gram was up on our Dutch site already, here’s the pro­gram in Eng­lish (soon avail­able on our inter­na­tion­al .org site, too). As always I am very excit­ed about the line-up. Can’t wait to hear what sto­ries these peo­ple have to share about … Con­tin­ue read­ing Announc­ing This hap­pened – Utrecht #6

Week 139

The pre­vi­ous week seam­less­ly flowed into this one when on sat­ur­day I sat down to final­ize the deck of slides for Raum Schiff Erde. On sun­day morn­ing, I grabbed a train and five hours lat­er I was in Stell­w­erk, the con­fer­ence’s love­ly venue. Kind, clever peo­ple, a nice relaxed and friend­ly atmos­phere, inter­est­ing talks, all … Con­tin­ue read­ing Week 139

links for 2009-11-23

harbor_laboratory A good exam­ple of artists cre­at­ing a con­text for cit­i­zens to par­tic­i­pate in the plan­ning of urban space. In 2008, the Parfyme col­lec­tive ran a ‘lab­o­ra­to­ry’ in Copen­hagen har­bor where peo­ple could come in and exper­i­ment with new uses for the area. (tags: playful09 play par­tic­i­pa­tion har­bor art copen­hagen den­mark urban­ism urban plan­ning exper­i­ments lab­o­ra­to­ries) … Con­tin­ue read­ing links for 2009-11-23

links for 2009-10-19

Chris Heath­cote: anti-mega: What­ev­er dimin­ish­es con­straint, dimin­ish­es strength Chris quotes Brid­get Riley on sketch­ing who in turn quotes Stravin­sky on con­straints. (tags: sketch­ing con­straints cre­ativ­i­ty draw­ing) rus­sell davies: what would clay do? Start­ing small, mak­ing sure par­tic­i­pat­ing is worth­while to the first few, all things that seem so log­i­cal but are so easy to for­get once … Con­tin­ue read­ing links for 2009-10-19

links for 2009-07-18

SILENT LONDON by SIMON ELVINS Inter­est­ing and beau­ti­ful visu­al­iza­tion of Lon­don noise lev­el data. I am par­tic­u­lar­ly intrigued by the braille like ver­sion. (tags: noise sound maps visu­al­iza­tions data lon­don dataviz) YouTube — Dani doing can­dles and melodies in the radar­funk PIPS:lab have a new show that fea­tures a thing called the Radar­funk. Here’s a … Con­tin­ue read­ing links for 2009-07-18

links for 2009-05-20

Foursquare Seeks to Turn Nightlife Into a Game — Bits Blog — NYTimes.com Dodge­ball cre­ator Den­nis Crow­ly’s revamped his loca­tion based social net­work­ing tool, but with added play­ful­ness. So far it sounds firm­ly aimed at the geek elite. Would­n’t it be nice if some­thing like this was designed to be a bit more acces­si­ble, so … Con­tin­ue read­ing links for 2009-05-20