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[Recycling urban infrastructures] High Line Park NYC

Category: ⚐ EN+design+findings+proyectos+r[eu]cycling+urbanism

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It’s a rare day indeed when we see [specially in urban scale] a brave project that amazes all of us, and I think this is one of those…
Apart from the “cool” new-yorker look, is some kind of relief that one of many awesome urban-scale proposals has been carried out. It had to happen in New York and lead the way in the U.S. of recycling and not demolishing when a construction stops being in use or is not profitable anymore. I suppose this frecuent situation is due to a lack of legislation to protect buildings that has special interest, but I think this is a cultural issue…

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Astonishing presentation tool – prezi.com

Category: ⚐ EN+technologies

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Prezi has been founded by Adam Somlai-Fischer and Peter Halacsy. Adam, an artist and graphic designer had been building flash navigations mostly for architecture firms or science education sites since 2000. continue reading

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Lecture in Paris/ dix petites lecons que nous avons appris de la ville

Category: ⚐ EN+sostenibilidad

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Tomorrow [ecosistema urbano] will give a lecture at the Laboratoire Urbain Participatif.
Saturday 16th of June, at 16.30.

address: 56 rue Saint-Blaise, 20 ème arrondissement.

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noodle to noodle_film festival:green unplugged

Category: ⚐ EN

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We were last week in a conference of Michael Braungart, co-author of the famous book “cradle to cradle” and during his presentation he joked with the possibility to call the book “noodle to noodle”, he said “it is the same”. I’m not sure he was thinking about this video that won the people’s choice in the Green Unplugged film festival. continue reading

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Open and free web repository that aims to provide public access to US Federal Government datasets

Category: ⚐ EN+technologies

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Twitter is currently echoing the excitement of open data advocates and data geeks alike, due the release of data.gov, an open and free web repository that aims to provide public access to US Federal Government datasets. Or, in official terms: “The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government“. continue reading

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GREEN ENGINES PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE FOR SELF-SUSTAINABLE CITIES

Category: ⚐ EN

international summer workshop 13-17 July 09 BARCELONA BARCELONA TRES TURONS PARK A CASE STUDY
Urban parks can be the future green engines of a self-sufficient urban environment. A productive landscape merges nature for pleasant city escape, with a resource-efficient milieu. The implementation of sustainable ecosystems of community self-organization into new strategic planning, integrates community supported urban farming, with the production of renewable energies, water purification and waste management. This productive landscape strengthens personal and community responsibility, it is a platform for individual creativity, and social organization. continue reading

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PARTICIPATE!!!!! WHAT IF…? CITIES

Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+sostenibilidad

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Today we present here a new initiative in which we have been working for the last months and we are asking for your participation.
We are trying to imagine what would happen if we were able to think about real solutions but…new / alternative / revolutionary … which together were capable of generating an alternative urbanity implemented over the contemporary city? continue reading

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4th INCLUSIVA-NET MEETING: P2P NETWORKS AND PROCESSES

Category: ⚐ EN+technologies

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2009
Event dates: July 6 to 10, 2009 in Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)

Medialab-Prado issues a call for the presentation of papers to be publicly presented during the 4th International Inclusiva-net Meeting. This edition will focus on an analysis of “peer-to-peer” networks and network processes, highlighting the social potentials of cooperative systems and processes based on the structures and dynamics inherent to these types of networks. continue reading

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Architecture and Entropy

Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+sustainability

What do we think or talk when we refer to Sustain and Develop in the last years and for the forthcoming future? How can architects confront their work and ideas within the paradox that any new building, any new city will inevitably disrupt the natural ecology? continue reading

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[EU] spotify playlists #3

Category: ⚐ EN+eu:live+open culture+technologies

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Here we go with the next delivery…

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