The City Remixed
by admin on October 29th, 2006
A local design promotional platform called INOUT, challenged 12 creative young designers and professionals to redesign their city’s landscape. The resulting entries were both fresh and thought provoking i.e. ‘Drinking Trough’ by Axel Jaccard, that collects water so that city animals can drank from it or Adrien Rovero’s ‘6 Bicycles vs. One Car’ which is a bike park that occupies a single carpark space.
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From AT: San FranciscoOur new site covering the Bay Area
by sarakate on April 28th, 2006
• The Gallery: Niana Liu: A local artist who favors San Francisco itself as one of her subjects.
• We Covet This Couch: The editors try to track down a couch seen on designer Ilse Crawford’s website.
• Marin Headlands Center for the Arts’ Open House: Endless inspiration from last weekend’s event.
Local Cultures Connected Through a Global Network
by GeoSocial on April 17th, 2006
Worldchanging ally danah boyd has written a fine essay on glocalization, networks and local cultures. Definitely worth the read:
“Glocalization is the ugliness that ensues when the global and local are shoved uncomfortably into the same concept. It doesn’t sit well on your palette, it doesn’t have a nice euphoric ring. It implies all sorts of linguistic and cognitive discomfort. This is the state of the global and local in digital communities. We have all sorts of local cultures connected through a global network, resulting in all sorts of ugly tensions. Designers who work with networks must face these tensions and design to take advantage of the global while not destroying the local. …
“The digital era has allowed us to cross space and time, engage with people in a far-off time zone as though they were just next door, do business with people around the world, and develop information systems that potentially network us all closer and closer every day. Yet, people don’t live in a global world - they are more concerned with the cultures in which they participate.”
(Posted by Alex Steffen in The Means of Expression - Media, Creativity and Experience at 01:10 PM)