cloud of reassembly

Emily Badgers, from The Atlantic,  talks about 5 planning moves that could have prevented or at least mitigated some aspects of flooding in New York.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/10/5-ideas-could-have-prevented-flooding-new-york/3754/

Architecture and Resistance by Lebbeus Woods

Project Description in Spatial Information Design Lab

The Million Dollar Blocks is a Data Spatialization/Visualization project that reveals potentials for neighborhood investment strategies by showing relationships between neighborhoods and their being possible origin for high incarceration rates.

” The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure — education, housing, health, and family. Prisons and jails form the distant exostructure of many American cities today.

The project continues to present ongoing work on criminal justice statistics to make visible the geography of incarceration and return in New York, Phoenix, New Orleans, and Wichita, prompting new ways of understanding the spatial dimension of an area of public policy with profound implications for American cities.”

See Design Competitions projects.

A Land Art Power Generator

OMA’s Roadmap 2050 is a guide to a low-carbon Europe.

See links below for articles and access to documents:

http://www.archdaily.com/56229/roadmap-2050-a-practical-guide-to-a-prosperous-low-carbon-europe/

http://www.roadmap2050.eu/

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/energy2020/roadmap/index_en.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/09/roadmap-2050-eneropa-rem-koolhaas

Link to article here.

“Synthetic-biology-based approaches to design practices, which have a material engagement with design and engineering practices, propose a new set of conditions in which architectures can alter their characteristics to suit changing environmental conditions. Living materials raise the possibility that buildings can make a positive impact on their local surroundings by performing remedial functions, that the construction of architecture could actually heal a stressed environment, for example, by removing toxins or fixing greenhouse gases. These new technologies could be on building exteriors, which present a managed interface with the environment.”

MACHINE VII is a collaboration of ATWOOD-A with Alex Robinson.

MACHINE VII is a sand deposition, extraction and manipulation machine. It makes renewable piles of sand.

The future of 3D printers.