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While searching for some information on the Cradle To Cradle certification I came across this is article by William McDonough in Nature and reviewed in Scientific American and summarised on his website William McDonough in the ICEhouse at the 2016 World Economic Forum. Credit: Marta Chierego This view an idea is relevant to the articles I have been posting on the site …
A NEW LANGUAGE FOR CARBON – CO2 IS NOT THE ENEMY ! Read More »
From the Urban Age Electric City Conference Richard Sennet’s talk on the different ways a “Smart City” might be performed gives forth alternative ways technology might in fact make opportunities for citizens and participants to create the city rather have it developed “top-down” by architects and bureaucrats, this despite the on-going concern that through the pervasive surveillance and exclusion …
From ASLA Dirt recently at the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference in Philadelphia, the intricacies of practicing integrated design reveal that even in the USA it is difficult to justify and implement the required processes to actually make integrated design work. On a current project in Cape Town involving banking and life insurance clients and and extensive team led by …
In contrast to the apparent teething problems of London’s Bike Sharing program, Washington seems to be succeeding according to Kaid Benfield on Sustainable Cities Collective Capital Bikeshare, Washington’s wildly popular bikesharing program, now claims to have nearly 11,000 members and 1100 bikes in circulation from “over 110” self-service stations placed strategically around the city and Arlington, Virginia. …
Melanie Friedrichs with members of Wa Nak Jariioo, in the neighborhood of Grand Dakar, in Dakar, Senegal. For years, the majority of first-world academics, politicians, and practitioners have viewed economic development as a two-stage process. When a country or region is too poor to help itself, offer aid: start schools, open clinics, build infrastructure …
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: THE MISSING STAGE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Read More »
A timely essay by MITCHELL SCHWARZER in Places on the history of container architecture and urbanism – In South Africa various uses have been made using the ubiquitous shipping container – emblem of the consumer society to shape something different – however they still cost more the what eh local populations of the South can afford so shack-land is unlikely to give way to container-land – but heir use as Spaza shops …
From HUFFPOST New York and other sources as credited -Mitchell Joachim’s crazy vision of an biomorphic future Fab Tree Hab Architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim hates the idea of a lower-pollution New York a hundred years from now. He envisions a city that actually eliminates pollution. View a 2010 TED talk here “I want a city that …
‘Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an aging Society via Dwelling in the Golden Years: Experiments in Senior Living | Features | Archinect Its going to happen to all of us – “Done got Old – can’t do the things I use to!” – Junior Kimbaugh – even those of us in deep denial who intend to work till we …
DWELLING IN THE GOLDEN YEARS: EXPERIMENTS IN SENIOR LIVING Read More »
Those of you who have read this site know my admiration for Bjarke Ingels of BIG architects – here is run down of his lat years winnings from METROPOLISMAG.COM BIG’s proposal for Greenland’s National Gallery of Art. We’re having a hard time keeping up with all the competitions the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won, and …
While we need designers and why design is a city and a brands most valuable asset, the idea that it is the designer or architect’s role to originate “brilliant” designs from scratch is a paradigm that’s time is past – it leads us down the path of the “Starchitect” and icons of design which destroy the fabric …
USER-LED INNOVATION CAN’T CREATE BREAKTHROUGHS; JUST ASK APPLE AND IKEA Read More »