Design

An exhibition in San Francisco / Una mostra a San Francisco

(EN) A growing number of creatives want to design for a better world. This exhibition explores the definition of Social Design showcasing social designers who are paving the way. I wish my teleport was not broken… —— (IT) Un numero crescente di creativi vorrebbe lavorare per migliorare il mondo. La mostra che si tiene fino a fine marzo a S.Franscisco esplora il concetto di Social Design, esibendo alcuni lavori di designers sociali che stanno esplorando questa strada. Vorrei che il mio teletrasporto non si fosse rotto…

30 ways to electrocute / 30 modi per fulminarsi

(EN) Bre Pettis took pictures of these fascinating illustrations in Elektroschutz book from the ’30, found at the Technisches museum in Vienna. It’s good to know how dangerous can be taking  a bath or peeing around! (IT) Bre Pettis ha scattato le foto di queste insolite illustrazioni  da Elektroschutz,  un libro pubblicato negli anni ’30 e trovato al Technisches museum di Vienna. E’ utile sapere quanto può essere pericoloso fare un bagno o pisciare in giro!

Visualizing the city/ Nuovi modi di visualizzare la città

(EN) Database City is the title of the workshop held in Madrid last month. It was the second edition of a bigger project called Visualizar an open and participartory research project around theory, tools and strategies of information visualization: “VISUALIZAR 2008 is focused on the city context. Urban environments, which are becoming increasingly dense, complex and diverse, are one of contemporary society’s largest “databases”, daily generating volumes of information that require new methods of analysis and understanding” Inside the workshop, seven proposal have been developed. My favourites are these two: In the air is about making visible the invisible, visualizing gases, particles, pollen, diseases, and other different agents of Madrid’s polluted air. The result is a ghost city surrounded by a multicolored fog changing its shape and hue according to the information feed. Unfortunately the visualization is not online but on display at Medialab-Prado in Madrid through January 11th. City Murmur is about visualizing the urban space through the eyes

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