PICNIC Festival 2011 - Theme: Urban Futures

"The world is undergoing the largest wave of population growth in history: we are looking at more than 8 billion people in 2030 and essentially all of the growth will take place in the less developed countries, concentrated among the poorest populations in urban areas. By that time at least 70% of the world population will be living in an urban environment."

Investigating several urban future scenarios, including perspectives on:

Infrastructure
(mobility, sewage, utility grids, street plan, public transport, public and private buildings, public services)

Sustainability
(waste, water, green energy, pollution, Co2, building green, nano-tech, urban gardens, economy, bio-tech, food)

Society
(governance, open data, health, education, social cohesion, poverty, democratization, privacy, aging, immigration, safety)

Design
(city planning, architecture, health care, educational system, green, social change, data visualization, products, services)

Media
(urban screens, social media, gamification, trans media, augmented city, open versus closed, privacy, social engineering)

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video: Wireless in the world

Wireless in the world 2 from timo on Vimeo.

Retematizando o blog, posto um vídeo de Timo Arnall, que representa uma visualização do invisível, ou seja, através do vídeo faz visível as tecnologias wireless no ambiente urbano. Essa estratégia busca através da visualização um melhor entendimento dessa camada de fluxos invisíveis que compõe nosso ambiente.

"This new urban landscape is no longer predicated solely on architecture and urbanism. These disciplines now embrace emerging methodologies that bend the physical with new measures, representations and maps of urban dynamics such as traffic or mobile phone flows. Representations of usage patterns and mapping the life of the city amplify our collective awareness of the urban environment as a living organism. These soft and invisible architectures fashion sentient and reactive environments."

vídeo: apresentação The Alphabet and the Algorithm - Mario Carpo

via: socks-studio

Por que designers deveriam aprender a programação

Muito legal esse videozinho de 4 minutos. Concordo com tudo isso.
Mais um estímulo pra não desistir de aprender a programar...

Prix Ars Electronica 2011

Está aberta a chamada de trabalhos para o Prix Ars Electronica 2011

Prix Ars Electronica é um dos mais importantes prêmios anuais no campo da arte interativa, eletrônica, da música e da animação e cultura digitais. Tem sido atribuído desde 1987 pela Ars Electronica (Linz, Áustria), um dos maiores centros mundiais para a arte e tecnologia.

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