January 2012
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insideOUT
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world.
These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them...
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Lift Up
Haitian Documentary LIFT UP Commemorates Two-Year Anniversary of Haitian Earthquake
Starting January 12th, to help commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake, we will be having a week-long, commemorative online release during which award winning Haitian documentary film LIFT UP will be available online and for free at http://liftupmovie.com/.
For LIFT UP, January 12th...
Cómo hacer ciudad: el modelo Medellín
Las postales de Medellín se han desplazado a sectores de la ciudad que históricamente permanecieron ocultos de la imagen exportada al resto del mundo, en los polos que han dado lugar a las más radicales transformaciones. A través de un nuevo modo de hacer arquitectura orientada a la integración social en una red de espacios públicos vulnerables, se aleja del ranking de las ciudades más violentas...
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The world can't afford to keep wasting soil
One-third of Earth’s soil is degraded because of unsustainable farming methods, which could lead to a major food crisis.
Late last year, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the state of the world’s soil and water resources. The bottomline: 25 per cent of the world’s food-producing soils are highly degraded or are...
Simplify Your New Year's Resolution Process:...
“To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow,” wrote playwright Eugene Ionesco in 1959. Ionesco’s metaphor may be violent, but with good reason. Breaking from our usual habits is difficult and often painful – requiring not just willpower and stamina...
December 2011
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1000 doors
1,000 recycled doors are enough for the South Korean architect Choi Jeong-Hwa to transform a dull ten-story building into a fresh-looking landmark. This ‘skyscraper’ in the center of the Korean capital Seoul has become a pixelated landmark, that tells the story of thousand people who once chose a fitting color for a door in their apartment.
In his work Jeong-Wha uses a lot of every-day used...
Cyclifiers →
In order to contribute to cities that use their resources efficient, 2012Architecten has been investigating processes that empower local exchange and production. When we want to transform cities into smart environments that behave like ecosystems we need program and buildings that provide an alternative to transporting our resources, products and components around the globe. These connectors...
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Amateur Building Tactics
Amateur building tactics refer to the myriad practices of self-building that occur across the world without the input of an architect. These practices are usually the result of need and the will to survive and are typically located in what are variously termed informal settlements, shanty towns, favelas, shacks, katchi abadi etc., settlements that are built on left-over and neglected pieces of...
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Stealing the future, selling it in the present,...
“We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and...
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“Like the story of life,
Is hello, goodbye”
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Peak soil: it's like peak oil, only worse →
Resource collapse is bigger than peak oil, and bigger even than the projected depletion of natural gas, coal and uranium – it encompasses each and every natural resource extracted, exploited or otherwise processed on an industrial scale.
This is not to deny peak oil, or the subsequent decline of all the other hydrocarbons that are essential to our lives and economies; the point is that even if we...
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The New Green Architecture: It's About More Than...
For the past decade, architects and developers—and even lawyers, policymakers, and product manufacturers—have lined up for the LEED(Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) credential, proudly adding it to their names and business cards. A lengthy, points-based checklist earns buildings a similar certification, complete with fancy placards boasting Platinum, Gold, or Silver certification...
“De pequeño se vive, de mayor se sobrevive”
– Leopoldo María Panero
November 2011
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Naples to host next World Urban Forum
The city of Naples has offered to host the sixth session of the World Urban Forum. Scheduled for the first week of September 2012, the theme of the Forum will be The Urban Future
“We look forward to working with UN-HABITAT and other partners to make the next World Urban Forum even more successful than the previous ones,” he said.
UN-HABITAT Executive Director, Dr. Joan Clos thanked...
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the Make project! →
An online TOOL and social network for the consultation and interchange of sustainable technologies for development
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Arab spring →
An interactive timeline of Middle East protests
Ever since a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in December 2010 in protest at his treatment by police, pro-democracy rebellions have erupted across the Middle East. The Guadian UK interactive timeline traces key events.
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October 2011
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“ As revoluções começam sempre nas ruas sem saída.”
Brecht”
– from entresonhos
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As Danger Laps at Its Shores, Tuvalu Pleads for...
By AMELIA HOLOWATY KRALES
Amelia Holowaty KralesMangroves planted by a nonprofit group on Tuvalu, a Pacific archipelago struggling with rising seas, in the hope that they will prevent erosion when they reach maturity. In global climate forums, Tuvalu’s government has repeatedly hammered home the message that its 11,000 citizens have hardly contributed to the heat-trapping emissions that cause...
Libya after Gaddafi - Inside Story - Al Jazeera... →
After more than eight months of bitter fighting, Muammar Gaddafi has been killed in the Libyan city of Sirte.
The National Transitional Council says Gaddafi was targeted while trying to flee the city through an underground tunnel.
What does Gaddafi’s death mean for the country he ruled for 42 years? And how can Libya start building its future?
Inside Story discusses with guests: Awad...
Bajamar Ballad _ Buenaventura _ Al Jazeera →
For years, 25,000 Afro-Colombian refugees and migrants have lived in a town on stilts over the sea [Oliver Schmieg]
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stuff expat aid workers like →
!! hilarious!!!
Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like is an ongoing series of sometimes satirical, sometimes ironic, usually humorous (but sometimes dead serious), always honest vignettes of the humanitarian aid industry from the inside. Sometimes we want to complain about one of the many ills of the Aid System. Other times we celebrate that same system. Sometimes we expose odd behaviors we recognize in...
1k house →
The 1K House is an MIT joint-research initiative started between the Department of Architecture and the Center for Real Estate in 2008. The goal of this research initiative is to harness the intellectual capacity of MIT faculty and students to improve the plight of the world’s poor with respect to their housing needs. The intent of the project was established: how can design work to improve...
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Congreso nacional de tierras, territorios y... →
September 2011
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June 2011
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¿ green means sustainable ?
La oficina STAR strategies + architecture compartió con nosotros un interesante estudio crítico, actualmente en proceso, sobre el abuso de una sustentabilidad “banal” en la arquitectura actual, en el que el Verde ha aparecido como “la representación más rápida y simple de lo sustentable”.
Actualmente la ‘sostenibilidad’ comparte muchas atributos divinos con Dios: ser supremo, omnipotente,...
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Beck-Girl
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http://acampadabcn.visita3d.com/ →
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“The cost of saving the lives of the people affected by the tremor and the cost...”
– the architecture of humanitarian aid in post-disaster context
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