on submissions 2

excitement!
all our staff submissions are in, 1 or 2 other experts articles due very soon.
Issue One is building into something unexpected!
hope to have some sneak preview stuff for blog followers in the coming month....

stay tuned

Slowness

Slowness:

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.



Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.

In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Milan Kundera, Slowness (via thought-emancipation)

Future Systems

"It's not the technology, it's the system that I think is going to prove to be the most resistant. I think we are still trapped in this industrial framework of making money and constructing our environment that is going to be the real challenge. If we think that it has taken 20 years for the internet to kick in and for people to open their minds up and think we are a connected world now. I think it's going to take even longer before the bulk chemical companies, manufacturers and other industrialists are going to work with any new framework. They will probably have to be dragged kicking and screaming into it." Dr Rachel Armstrong on future urban living. See more here
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/what-future-urban-living/using-technology-to-design-cities-urban-living

Pavegen Technology

The ideas are becoming a reality....
http://inhabitat.com/award-winning-pavegen-floor-tiles-will-use-energy-from-footsteps-to-light-up-uk-shopping-center/pavegen7/?extend=1
Technology can take us there....

humanising

humanising technology. should we be fearful?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/arts/design/design-firm-seeks-to-humanize-technology.html?_r=2&src=tp&smid=fb-share

Factory Fifteen

Some awesome stuff by Paul Nicholls of Factory Fifteen
The videos especially are worth a look - direct links here http://vimeo.com/25678978

Thanks to 3D Dreaming for the heads up

sketchup tech-NO-logy for petitioning

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/08/18/concerned_villagers_use_google_sketchup_against_warehouse_conversion.php

check this link.....
NY Community group using sketch-up to aid in preserving their neighbourhood open space

on submissions

the article slots are filling up....

looking forward to more image based submissions

if you plan to submit something for ISSUE 1 let us know by this wednesday

click here to remind yourself of the brief requirements

The Landscape Architects

Thanks to the Landscape Architects Team for helping us spread the word.

Submissions have been trickling in.... Looking forward to some more before this Wednesdays Deadline

John May

"Within the short span of a few decades, the digital control surface has supplanted nearly all other representational techniques within the design fields (including industrial, architectural, landscape-architectural, and urban design). In doing so it has rather silently erased an older mode of representation--which was essentially geometrical and mechanical--substituting in its place an entirely different visual logic, rooted in an ongoing coalescing between statistical reasoning and electrical engineering. Although the most obvious effects of this substitution are aesthetic, its reverberations are in fact extensively epistemological and even (increasingly) ontological, undercutting and refashioning certain long-standing conceptual divisions among technology, subjectivity, perception, and political agency."

John J. May, 2011

Audio generated landscapes

Stumbled across this digital audio landscape today.
Check it out + the many more by flight404

Link to Video