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Engage first, ask for money later/ Crea legami, i soldi chiedili dopo
(EN) Fundraising for social causes is becoming more and more finely experienced and aware about the potential of social networks. The imperative is: cultivate commitments and make people connect with causes they can believe in. Barak Obama has become a successfull example in this direction and the new mindset is that there are millions of potential donors out there. One of the latest book about the subject is called Digital Giving: How Technology is Changing Charity and the author, Richard C. McPherson shows how giving money is one step removed from a social media introduction. To have a quick idea on what the book is about check this inspiring post by advergirl where i found the infographic of this post. ——————- (IT) Le raccolte fondi per cause sociali stanno diventando (almeno negli USA) sempre più sofisticate e consapevoli delle potenzialità dei social networks. L’imperativo è coltivare legami e connettersi alle persone attraverso campagne in cui possono credere. Barak Obama è
read more Engage first, ask for money later/ Crea legami, i soldi chiedili dopo
Your actions follow you around/ Il prezzo delle tue azioni
(EN) Have you ever imagined a society where everything is for rent and the price is based on your reputation? Explore how could it be browsing this kind of photoromance, titled RentAThing, made by two researchers at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milano.The work is dated 2006 but the topic is up-to-date… ——– (IT) Ti sei mai immaginata una società dove tutto è in affitto e il prezzo è calcolato in base alla tua reputazione? Per avere un’idea di quello che potrebbe accadere, due ricercatori dell’Interaction Design Institute Ivrea a Milano si sono inventati una specie di fotoromanzo intitolato RentAThing, con i Playmobil come attori principali. Il lavoro è del 2006 ma oggi è più attuale che mai…
How Star Wars changed the world/ Star Wars, quanto ha cambiato il mondo?
(EN) In a 2005 Wired issue they published a cosmic infographic showing us how Star Wars became “one of the most fertile incubators of talent in the worlds of movies (Lucasfilm), visual effects (Industrial Light & Magic), sound (Skywalker Sound), and video games (LucasArts)”. Check it out through this flash interface or on this more practical image extracted by kottke. ————— (IT) Il numero di maggio del 2005 di Wired conteneva un’infografica cosmica che metteva in evidenza come il film Star Wars abbia rappresentato “uno dei più fertili incubatori di talenti nei mondi della produzione di film (Lucasfilm), dei visual effects (Industrial Light & Magic), del suono (Skywalker Sound) e dei videogames(LucasArts).” Dagli un’occhiata attraverso l’interfaccia in flash o nella riduzione a pratica megaimmagine fatta da kottke.
6 maps for Torino/6 mappe per Torino
(EN) Using the tools of design, a selected group of young designers of different nationalities, got together during the summer and created ComplexityMap, a project on information empowerment building maps around the city of Torino and trying to answer this question: How can the city be made legible and comprehensible, understood as a complex organism and as a web of physical and social networks? Starting from the assumption that the representation of the phenomena demands the gradual abandonment of classical visual languages they produced visualisations in the form of diagrams and maps of relationships, with the aim to induce a new way of viewing human-city interaction, and likely to become useful for outlining new criteria for its development. The topics could be: health and well-being, food and new food networks, urban mobility, security and quality of life in the city, new production systems, and forms of representation of the region and its communities. Download the PDF maps or Explore them
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