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Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.
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Augmented (Hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop
28 jan  |  The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.  . . read more
Greg Lynn: University of Michigan Taubman College Future of Design
4 aug  |  University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning hosted the Future of Design conference, Oct. 9 & 10, 2009. Thirty designers, critics and provocative thinkers brainstormed how design is evolving across various disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, interactive, industrial, and interior design. For more information about the event click here . . read more
Labor Party tell Australia 'Don't Go Back' with Abbott
1 dec  |  Having signed up to the Labor party's e-newsletters I've been receiving information on policies, 'informal' videos Rudd has made, and grandiose visions for the future. Today though there was a significant change in tone with the video below. Instead of considered and convivial, it is brutal and singular with the idea that Abbott is a dinosaur and a destructive force to a progressive Australia. The low image quality and speedy release would tell us this video has been made quickly. What's the rush? Is this because Abbott is a real threat to Rudd? Or just to the ETS? And how badly do they want Abbott dead and buried?  . . read more
Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself
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Textbook publishers dream of the tablet
6 jan  |  Here is an imagining from Coursesmart of how the new Apple Tablet could be used by students and textbook publishers. It seems like a really nifty way to integrate textbooks and technology- potentially offering students quick ways to read course work and make notes.

 

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His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart
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 His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart
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Dynamic Architecture
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Met images of student protester with 'petrol bomb'
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