Concepts for AHO project

by admin on November 1st, 2006

I’m giving a short conceptual workshop at the Oslo School of Architecture today. These are some notes and links for the students.
Physical / virtual space

Mapping services (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap)
Geotagging virtual objects with physical coordinates (Flickr maps
Tagging physical space (Cybsticker, Yellow arrow)
RFID

New social spaces

Networks created by cell phones & personal communication devices (Mobile Landscape Graz)
Social networking […]

100 ARCHIPHOTOGRAPHICAL TAGS

by admin on October 20th, 2006

We’ve got over 1oo themed links to stock images of architecture in my del.icio.us pages. From Hopper Heads to plaster and roughcast; canal architecture to Gothic architecture; pattern and decoration to urban townscape; Hector Guimard to Tadao Ando.
You can view all 100 themed links here
Andy Marshall is a professional architectural photographer. Most images can be […]

Links for 2006-04-05 [del.icio.us]

by GeoSocial on April 9th, 2006

• Berlusconi seeks votes in sex lines and swear words - World - Times Online
  HE HAS vowed to give up sex for the election, compared himself to Jesus and Napoleon, and admitted phoning late-night erotic chat lines. Nothing, it seems, is out of bounds for Silvio Berlusconi.
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt - the youth of today
  This exhibition shows how contemporary art confronts the various life worlds of teens, twens, and postadolescent thirtysomethings whose experience of youth culture often continues into their family lives and careers.
• A Few Stories (and Podcasts) from the Source: Radical Craft | Metropolis Magazine
  conference that explored the craft in architecture, technology, fashion, science, and more.
• art report
  Relational Architecture at Centre Pompidou
• Smart City 2020 | Metropolis Magazine
  "A particularly powerful design strategy under these conditions is to look for the ways that embedded intelligence loosens traditional relationships and constraints, and seize these as opportunities for fundamentally reimagining a product or system’s orga
• Glowlab » bomb squads for street art
  The Ohio bomb squad was called in to investigate Super Mario Question Blocks — real world representations of game objects from Super Mario that teenagers had placed in public spaces. Some of the artists may now face charges.
• "We can rebuild him. We have the technology.’ Almost.
  scientists explained in a symposium on "The $6 Billion (Hu) Man" how much of what was once fiction is becoming reality - including electronically powered legs, arms and eyes.
• Mr Genuinely Grey to see off Makeover Man - World - Times Online
  signor Prodi is likely to take power after the vote this weekend, by daring to be dull.
• New Scientist Technology Blog: Antisocial networking
  A site called Snubster lets you create a list of people that you don’t want to be friends with.
• WRT: Writer Response Theory - The Second First Person
  Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media is due out in November 2006, but a preview of the table of contents is now available.

One Year On…

by mad architect on March 28th, 2006