Book: What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented in ways relevant to the Facebook age.
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24 October 2010
Collaborative Consumption
Book: What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented in ways relevant to the Facebook age.
13 April 2010
Retrofitting Suburbia
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
"While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. Here is a comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions."
Tedx video here
11 February 2010
Landscape of Energy
Edited by Rania Ghosn.
Energy infrastructures deploy space at a large scale, yet they remain invisible because the creation of value in the oil regime has long externalized spatial costs, sliding them out of sight and away from design's agency. Contemporary environmental, political, and financial crises have brought energy once again to the forefront of design concerns. Rarely, however, do practices of sustainable design-efficient building skins, islands of self-sufficiency, positive-energy machines-address the spatiality of energy systems. Instead, they tend to emphasize a renewable/nonrenewable binary that associates environmental costs exclusively with the infrastructure of oil and overlooks the geographic imperative of all forms of energy.
Volume 2 of New Geographies proposes to historicize and materialize the relations of energy and space, and map some of the physical, social, and representational geographies of oil, in particular. By making visible this infrastructure, Landscapes of Energy is an invitation to articulate design's environmental agency and its appropriate scales of intervention.
Energy infrastructures deploy space at a large scale, yet they remain invisible because the creation of value in the oil regime has long externalized spatial costs, sliding them out of sight and away from design's agency. Contemporary environmental, political, and financial crises have brought energy once again to the forefront of design concerns. Rarely, however, do practices of sustainable design-efficient building skins, islands of self-sufficiency, positive-energy machines-address the spatiality of energy systems. Instead, they tend to emphasize a renewable/nonrenewable binary that associates environmental costs exclusively with the infrastructure of oil and overlooks the geographic imperative of all forms of energy.
Volume 2 of New Geographies proposes to historicize and materialize the relations of energy and space, and map some of the physical, social, and representational geographies of oil, in particular. By making visible this infrastructure, Landscapes of Energy is an invitation to articulate design's environmental agency and its appropriate scales of intervention.
13 January 2009
...Crowded...
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman.
The case is made, the need is clear...the only thing missing (beside the actual leadership and money) is the tools, frameworks and designs.
While new batteries, better cables and technologies I will leave for the scientists, what is the role of architects and urban designers?
-Understanding the infrastructures (energy, transportation, data/information) on multiple scales, relationships, schedules and performance.
-Creating new relationships on the scale of the dwelling by representing the systems, the needs and the opportunities.
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