Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm = Architectural Pathway to Artificial Life
“It’s NASA meets Archigram meets Manuel de Landa meets Theo Jansen – a walking city gone off-world, communicating via secure satellite to earthbound observers back home”
Archigram drawings coming to life, sign me up.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/architectural-pathway-to-artificial.html
Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City
A thoughtful essay on the implications of massive infrastructure projects on the mental health of the populace.
“Put another way, if a new highway can have a measurable, and easily detected, impact on a city’s economic health and administrative well-being, then could a new highway – or bridge, or tunnel, or flood wall, or, for that matter, sewage treatment plant – have a detectable impact on the city’s mental health?”
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/psychiatric-infrastructure-of-city.html
Oil Addiction
Short but to the point film from our friends at Good Magazine. Not only does corn-based biofuel remove acres from the food supply, it is actually produces higher pollutant output than fossil fuels. The February issue of Science magazine highlights studies showing that biofuels produce more greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels when all of their production inputs are accounted for. How long will it take for everyone to realize hydrogen fuel cells are the answer?
http://theburnlab.blogspot.com/2008/08/oil-addiction.html
http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/02/10/ethanol-myth-blasted-in-new-science-mag.aspx
Bodies in Urban Spaces
“…both set out to explore the “relationship between body, space and architecture”. the urban based
series was created as a set of human sculptures which were spread throughout the city of vienna.
the artist has effectively transformed the human body into form, a complete reversal from the
classical convention of creating the human form from a material.”
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