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- G/I/S: Terrain, Speculation, Swarms
[Nix Ex Machina. Having humbly set himself apart as one of lifes great thinkers, Tarko rejects the menial tasks offered to him by the job agency and quickly reaches the conclusion that selling snow to the Eskimos is well within his capabilities. Not put off by a few holes in his business plan–a complete lack [...]
- Studio: Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks
[Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks, Advanced Studio, University of Waterloo, Fall 2009.]
Today we are having the final review of the “Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks” Studio at the University of Waterloo. We will be sharing some of the work here in the coming week or two, but in the meantime, here is the brief. Please email us [...]
- Post-WPA Symposium – Open notes
[The WPA 2.0 jury as curated by cityLAB - from left to right: Stan Allen, Thom Mayne, Marilyn Taylor, Cecil Balmond, Liz Diller, Walter Hood.]
Here are my iphone notes from the Symposium. My fine colleagues at The Dirt have done far better in capturing the full spectrum of the day… but I give you here [...]
- HYDROCity Symposium this Friday
[HYDROCity symposium on Hydrology and Urbanism is (free and) all-day Friday, November 6.]
We are excited to reveal more details about HYDROCity Symposium on Hydrology and Urbanism.
It is this Friday and will feature an impressive international lineup of speakers presenting work and research on where water meets the city and vice versa. The schedule is as [...]
- HYDROCITY seeks projects
[image by Fei-Ling Tseng.]
InfraNet Lab is seeking projects, built, unbuilt, dreamed, etched, scripted, carpet-bombed, etc … that address issues or opportunities within hydrology and urbanism. Selected projects will be included, alongside pre-slected projects, as part of an international exhibition. The exhibition, titled HYDROCITY, will feature visionary projects operating primarily at the city or infrastructural [...]
- Clean Urbanism / Dirty Realism
[Cover of issue #11 from Rotterdam-based MONU.]
The output of MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) continues to impress, and with issue #11, Bernd Upmeyer and company raise the bar. This issue is dedicated to clean urbanism and a range of responses, mostly antagonizing or shoring up sustainability and its discontents, come pouring in. An initial browse reminds [...]
- InfraNet travels
[AEROFLOT]
I am traveling through Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Iceland in the coming weeks. You can catch some frequent twittering at twitter @masoncwhite and hopefully some (slightly less) frequent posts here on related travel findings…
- After Zero
NEW GEOGRAPHIES #1 to launch March 31
Edited by doctoral candidates at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), the second volume of the New Geographies journal is entitled “Volume One, After Zero.” Contributors to New Geographies #1: AFTER ZERO include: Albert Pope, Ulrich Beck, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara, Erik Swyngedouw, Keller Easterling, Thomas [...]
- Resource Hogs: Greening Prison Infrastructure
[Wasco State Prison, California via California Department of Corrections:www.cdcr.ca.gov]
Prisons are perhaps the most resource-intensive institutional infrastructures. This is largely a function of the unique nature of the building typology, which requires continuous operation, high levels of lighting (for security) and water consumption (for the inmates). Moreover, prison cells that contain toilet fixtures are [...]
- From Ego to Energy – Towers of Power Revisited
[EnviroMission\'s Proposal for a Solar Tower in Australia via www.t-mation.com]
As the race for the tallest tower progresses, research into solar power design has created (perhaps for the first time) a need for height. The solar updraft tower – a combination of a solar chimney, greenhouse and wind turbine – was first presented in 1903 [...]
