http://folksonomy.co/?rss=374 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:24 +1000 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:24 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=210 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3306 Information visualisation created in HTML5 by designer Luke Twyman http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3306 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3267 Chasing Ice is the story of one man s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet Within months of that first trip to Iceland the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life The Extreme Ice Survey With a band of young adventurers in tow Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world s changing glaciers As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally Balog finds himself at the end of his tether Battling untested technology in subzero conditions he comes face to face with his own mortality It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3267 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3266 Lebbeus Woods Architect February 16 - June 02 2013 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Architect Lebbeus Woods 1940-2012 dedicated his career to probing architecture s potential to transform the individual and the collective His visionary drawings depict places of free thought sometimes in identifiable locations destroyed by war or natural disaster but often in future cities Woods who sadly passed away last year as planning for this exhibition was under way had an enormous influence on the field of architecture over the past three decades and yet the built structures to his name are few The extensive drawings and models on view present an original perspective on the built environment - one that holds high regard for humanity s ability to resist respond and create in adverse conditions Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules he once said SFMOMA has collected Woods s work since the mid-1990s amassing the broadest collection of his work anywhere the exhibition will feature these holdings as well as a selection of loans from institutional and private collections San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3266 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:46:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Pedagogical experiments played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th century In fact the key hypothesis of our Radical Pedagogy 1 research project is that these experiments can be understood as radical architectural practices in their own right Radical in the literal meaning from the Latin radice as something belonging or relating to the root to its foundations Radical pedagogies shake foundations disturbing assumptions rather than reinforcing and disseminating them This challenge to normative thinking was a major force in the postwar field of architecture and has surprisingly been neglected in recent years Architectural pedagogy has become stale Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before it happens The fact that they wait for instruction is already the problem Teachers likewise worry too much about their place in the institutional hierarchies Curricular structures have hardly changed in recent decades despite the major transformations that have taken place with the growth of globalisation new technologies and information culture As schools appear to increasingly favour professionalisation they seem to drown in self-imposed bureaucratic oversight suffocating any possibility for the emergence of experimental practices and failures There are a few attempts to wake things up here and there but it s all so timid in the end There is no real innovation In response to the timidity of schools today the Radical Pedagogy project returns to the educational experiments of the 1960s and 70s to remind us what can happen when pedagogy takes on risks It s a provocation and a call to arms Beatriz Colomina with Esther Choi Ignacio Gonzalez Galan and Anna-Maria Meister 28 September 2012 The Architectural Review 1 Radical Pedagogy is an ongoing multi-year collaborative research project by a team of PhD candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Beatriz Colomina and involving seminars interviews and guest lectures by protagonists and scholars The project explores a remarkable set of pedagogical experiments of the 1960s and 70s that revolutionised thinking in the discipline Each student is working on one of these experiments and collectively mapping the interconnections and effects of these experiments towards a major publication and exhibition Fig 1 Tournaments in the Course Culture of the Body at the Valpara iacute so School 1975 Courtesy of Archivo Hist oacute rico Jose Vial Escuela Arquitectura y Dise ntilde o Pontificia Universidad Cat oacute lica de Valpara iacute so http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3241 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:25:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3223 CityViewAR is a mobile Augmented Reality application that allows people to see how the city was before the earthquakes and building demolitions Using an Android mobile phone people can walk around the city and see life-sized virtual models of what the buildings looked like on site before they were demolished and see pictures and written information Hundreds of 3D models of key city buildings have been made available from architect Jason Mill of ZNO while the Christchurch City Council and Historic Places Trust have provided photographs and building histories CityViewAR is based on the HIT Lab NZ Android AR platform which uses the GPS and compass sensors of mobile phones to enable virtual information to be overlaid on live video of the real world Android AR makes it easy for Android developers to build their own outdoor AR applications The software was previously used for showing individual buildings but this is the first time that it has been used to show dozens of buildings at once and the first time in world that mobile phone AR has been used for earthquake reconstruction HIT Lab NZ 2011 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3223 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:30:08 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3161 In a masterstroke of design the curator of Chaos and Classicism Kenneth Silver chose a work of art to illustrate the Nazi annexation of neoclassicism that at first glance is anything but threatening The Four Elements by Adolf Ziegler decorated the walls of Hitler s Munich apartment A member of the Nazi Party Ziegler was charged by Hitler in 1937 to stage-manage the purge of modern art in the notorious Exhibition of Degenerate Art Ziegler s depiction of four nude women who symbolize fire earth air and water the four elements of nature recognized in antiquity personifies little but the pretentious sterility of culture under the Third Reich Yet it is the perfect embodiment of the banality of evil Ed Voves 4 October 2010 Fig 1 Adolf Ziegler The Four Elements Fire Water and Earth Air Die vier Elemente Feuer Wasser und Erde Luft before 1937 Oil on canvas three panels left to right 170 3 x 85 2 cm 171 x 190 8 cm and 161 3 x 76 7 cm Bayerische Staatsgem ldesammlungen Sammlung Moderner Kunst in der Pinakothek der Moderne Munich http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3161 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:52:53 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3087 From humble country road to the the most fashionable street in Europe Oxford Street has been home to such colourful characters as highwayman Jack Wild writer and opium addict Thomas de Quincy and shopping impresario Gordon Selfridge The Happy Mondays Rebel MC Tom Jones and Sinead O Connor join in a unique and eclectic musical celebration of this retail mecca and its history Channel 4 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3087 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:51:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3041 On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores how Britain trains the artists and designers of the future Christopher Frayling and Sarah Teasley celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Royal College of Art the world s oldest art and design school But one of its former teachers the industrial designer Ron Arad argues for a broader arts education which doesn t split sculpture from painting architecture from design And the artist Antony Gormley redefines the limits of sculpture and building Start the Week 2012 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 Start the Week duration 43 minutes first broadcast Monday 19 November 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3041 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:11:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Sven Birkerts a modern-day Luddite is feeling uneasy about all this rapid cultural change He longs for the slow elegance of print culture So much so in fact that the cover of his new book The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age features a fuzzy caramel-colored snapshot of a naturally-lit library which houses the endangered species of digital modernity a leather armchair draped with an afghan droopy lace curtains and shelves of softened leather hard-backs coveting thick yellowed pages and the tidy immutable thoughts of yesterday s literary prophets Birkerts is terrified that his warm dusty paradise is being ransacked and the remaining rubble is merely forgotten or misunderstood in a world distracted by garish pulsing iconography Amanda Griscom 1996 Amanda Scott Griscom 1996 Trends of Anarchy and Hierarchy Comparing the Cultural Repercussions of Print and Digital Media Brown University http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:34:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3022 International Conference Workshops and Exhibition University at Buffalo The State University of New York 3-5 May 2013 Call for Paper Abstracts DEADLINE 12 November 2012 What new lines of inquiry and emergent relations between urbanity and digital media are found in non-Western cities in post-Capitalist cities in cities hosting civic turbulence or crossing international boundaries What urban-medial relations are taking shape differently in urban milieux that may have been heretofore overlooked These cities are deserving of more attention than ever before as sites of population growth of new cultural and social formations of new entanglements between urban life and contemporary media communications and information technologies and more MediaCities promises to expand our understanding of both media and the city today and to articulate new sites of practice and working methods for an expanding field Areas of interest may fall broadly into several themes with the assumption that others will appear in the process of proposals and discussion leading up to the event always expanding our lexicon and mental maps of MediaCities globally These themes are Other Urbans Uncommons Zero Growth Cities Media Geographies and Bordervilles Jordan Geiger Fig 1 Reuters Sheng Li 2011 ethnic Dong minority woman uses her mobile phone to take a picture of herself after a Kam Grand Choir gathering in Tongguan village of Liping county Guizhou province http pixtale net 2011 10 21st-century-china img33 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3022 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:55:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3008 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Japan Proposals for In-Person Presentations Due 6 December 2012 The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices its associated design journals the On Design Book Series and the Design News Blog are sites of discussion which explore the meaning and purpose of design Participants in these forums also speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes The Conference Journal Book Imprint and News Blog support a cross-disciplinary knowledge community bringing together researchers teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical research and application market pragmatics and social idealism In professional and disciplinary terms the conference journals book series and online media traverse a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of anthropology architecture art artificial intelligence business cognitive science communication studies computer science cultural studies design studies education e-learning engineering ergonomics fashion graphic design history information systems industrial design industrial engineering instructional design interior design interaction design interface design journalism landscape architecture law linguistics and semiotics management media and entertainment psychology sociology software engineering technical communication telecommunications urban planning and visual design e to name some of the design disciplines Common Ground http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3008 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:22:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2985 Blue Velvet begins with the lily-white small town of America s collective fantasies and shows us its dark underside drugs violence sex and particularly sexual perversion Our hero Jeffrey hiding in the dark peers through the slats of Dorothy Vallens closet at Dorothy getting undressed and Frank s strange sadomasochistic sex with her Jeffrey stands for all of us American filmgoers peering voyeuristically at Evil in traditional American films Lynch clues us as to how we should read his film when he shows us a cluster of ants under the Beaumonts pretty lawn This is Tennyson s nature red in tooth and claw-the underside of cutesy Lumberton with its free enterprise propensity for cutting down trees Norman N Holland http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2985 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:49:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2931 OpenUrban is the first open source user-generated web map and forum focusing on current and proposed urban development It is a web platform for civic collaboration a venue for debate and an outlet and archive for information on urban development We embrace crowd sourcing technology as a means to inform and empower By combining written media with spatial information OpenUrban creates a powerful tool for people to understand how their cities are changing and supports their active participation in that change OpenUrban 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2931 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:28:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2898 Martin Trusttum from CPIT s Faculty of Creative Industries likens his ArtBox project to a game of Tetris It s just like Tetris but in slow motion They are cubes and eventually they will come together to form a precinct ArtBox will be located on the corner of Madras and St Asaph streets on the old Southlander Tavern-Jetset Lounge site opposite Anton Parsons sculpture Passing Time It is a rare collection of mobile and flexible modules designed by Sydenham-based F3 and will offer about 18 spaces suitable for galleries and studios It offers a practical timely solution to the many low-cost premises used as galleries and studios destroyed by the February 2011 earthquake Vicki Anderson 07 September 2012 Stuff co nz http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2898 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:47:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2886 my favourite beach - West Whittering in East Sussex England I wanted to shoot in intimate close up using short depth of field DSLR HD I live in Nottingham - about as far away from the sea as you can get in the UK This is a type of beach memory film - for all us city dwellers who need to remember the coast line and nature A type of antidote to our urban life where we forget about nature The water is out there and its always moving and we should be in it Jonathan Hamilton 2012 Fig 1 Never Quiet Never Still uploaded by Jonathan Hamilton http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2886 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:19:35 +1000