Archive for the ‘innovation’ Category
(Italian) Torino Città che Impara
Friday, March 12, 2010 15:33 No CommentsUn rapporto che illustra i risultati di uno studio sul campo della durata di un mese sull’apprendimento da parte della città di Torino
‘Torino Citta che Impara’ è la versione in Italiano della relazione ‘Torino as a Learning City‘ di Tim Campbell, Senior Fellow, Comparative Domestic Policy Program. Il Politiche Interne Comparate
(CDP – Comparative Domestic Policy) [...]
‘Drinking Water for Haiti’ closed successfully!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 13:23
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Good news! The fundraising campaign ‘Drinking Water for Haiti’ - a volunteer grassroots donation appeal devised to provide the Haitian population with personal water purification devices: LifeStraw® - was closed successfully.
We would like to make a heart-felt thanks to everyone who contributed to this project and whose support and generosity will change the lives [...]
Rising Currents: an exhibit of ’soft’ proposals for New York’s waterfront at MoMa
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:03
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What: Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront
Where: Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York
When: March 24 – August 9 2010
Who: P.S.1 and MoMa. Barry Bergdoll chief curator of architecture and design MoMa
On March 24 the Rising Currents exhibition will open at the MoMa of New York, it is the last phase of the [...]
SEE Bulletin: exploring matters related to design and beyond
Thursday, February 18, 2010 16:45 No CommentsThe second issue of SEE Bulletin, the only publication entirely dedicated to exploring matters related to design policies and programmes for design support across Europe and beyond, has just been released and it’s really good! A ‘must’ for anyone interested in issues concerning design and innovation policies.
Contents include a research paper by Prof. John Heskett [...]
The Nomadic City Appropriates the Street…
Monday, February 15, 2010 16:42 No Comments…and disrupts its grid¹
Solomon Benjamin
‘Developmentalism’ is now a morbid zeal, mobilized to survey, to GIS, to digitize, to research, and colonize ‘Third World Cities.’ And in this zeal, lies the panoptic desire to turn the steel frame of the Nation State into The Grid and the Rule of Law, the Master Plan that poses the [...]












