|
|
| The world is facing a crisis of debt, a crisis of truth, a crisis of sprawl and a crisis of purpose, what can design do? Volume #9 predicted the crisis and its effects on suburbia, Archis RSVP #13 came together to record the aftermath of the crisis in the Detroit suburb of Warren. C-LAB's Imagining Recovery competition gathered ideas for how to move forward. This dossier accumulates approaches and strategies ranging from design proposals to grass roots activities that are dealing with the heritage of the suburban sprawl in the aftermath of the crisis. |
This is the first of the FWD series, which summarizes hand picked content I find elsewhere on the web and would like to share with you. from the In the Shadow of Progress a picture show on the GOOD website. The stark reality of this moment in time is that many people are losing their [...]
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 26-08-2009 |
| No comments | Add comment |
Suburbia is getting its fair share of attention currently and with reason, as prophesied Volume’s 2006 #9 issue, the urgency to reinvent the suburban mode of living has never been greater. In order to address this urgency Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com have announced the Reburbia competition: a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs.
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 10-07-2009 |
| No comments | Add comment |
Imagining Recovery is an exhibition based on an international competition charging designers to collectively imagine innovation recovery through design. Designers were asked to offer their expertise in designing a means of getting from the present to the image of recovery.
| Posted by Edwin Gardner on 10-06-2009 |
| No comments | Add comment |
bookmarked on: Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 06:48 | Organoponicos: Thriving Urban Agriculture in Cuba
bookmarked on: Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:21 | Slow Money & Nurture Capitalism | trackchanges by Continuum
“I’m just a regular person who thinks everything is out of control.”
This is how Woody Tasch, author of the new book Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered and founder of the burgeoning Slow Money Alliance, began his talk last week to a group attending Boston’s Slow Food meeting.
bookmarked on: Thursday, 20 August 2009, 10:07 | Eye blog » Power vacuum, part one. Victor Margolin on design and sustainability
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a lucid thinker and vivid critic, shared some critical thoughts with Ksenija Berk last winter, in this two-part interview. His overview of basic ideas in design thinking brought to light some thoughts that could foster positive change in society – and in design itself, which all too often forgets its chief goal: the wellbeing of all mankind.
bookmarked on: Thursday, 20 August 2009, 10:07 | Eye blog » Power vacuum, part two. More on design and sustainability. Eye blog interview with Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a lucid thinker and vivid critic, shared some critical thoughts with Ksenija Berk last winter. Part two of a two-part interview (part one published yesterday).
bookmarked on: Thursday, 30 July 2009, 03:34 | Mud Baron
Helping the Kids of the Los Angeles Unified School District Grow
see more bookmarks
go to the bookstore
Al Manakh Gulf Continued (12) Collective City (3) Suburbia After the Crash (4) Sustainability Reloaded (31) The Moon (5)
