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Something Old, Something New on Hollywood Boulevard
As a move to counter the miasma of gentrification and celebrate the street's blended heritage--incorporating waves of migration and development, pop culture pilgrimage with lived urban experience--the Los Angeles Forum for ...
City Lights
The Helsinki-themed collaborative media and art project CityWall allows users to explore images and data gleaned from the Internet--particularly items from YouTube and Flickr. With help from the Ubiquitous Interaction ...
Cafe Utopia
The BeGood Cafe, founded in Tokyo in 1999, continues the long association between hot beverages and positive social change. Created to provide an open forum for exploring issues related to the environment and ...
Fallen Fruit
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project exploring conservation, ...
Storysharing
The Digital Clubhouse Network grew out of a NASA-sponsored project exploring ways in which digital technology can be used to strengthen communities. The nonprofit group relies on two community incubators--one in ...
Playa Viva
Playa Viva, a resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico, provides models of green business development and ecotourism. The resort's founders realized that their connection to the area would benefit ...
Traffic Space
Bristol-based consultant Ben Hamilton-Baillie and other proponents of Shared Space believe that an urban plan that integrates traffic and human activity more directly will create more accessible public spaces. In ...
Chatter
Disembodied Voices traces the changing nature of personal and public space, exploring the ways in which the evolution of communications technology has expands the private sphere while eroding the public realm. The ...
Quantifying Culture
The Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project created a way of describing an area's cultural infrastructure in quantifiable terms, allowing policymakers to see the effects of artistic development on ...
remote graffiti
locamoda’s wiffiti screens are large public displays to which passersby can send messages via SMS. the screens are mounted in public places like cafes, restaurants, and increasingly workplaces. recently wiffiti screens ...
Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would increase transparency ...
virtual fit
louise guay, president and founder of my virtual model, presented her company’s avatar-based fashion shopping and social networking system tuesday at the moda+tecnologia gathering at the ICA. on-line shopping ...
interknit
netGranny is a revolutionary service where consumers directly commission grandmothers in switzerland to custom-knit socks for them. it has the spirit of transparency of programs like dole’s organic labels, with ...
loopy design
in the aftermath of the birth of environmentalism in the US and the beginning of earth day in 1970, paper recycler ‘the container corporation of america’ sponsored a student design competition for ...
carpenter shelter
at the cooper hewitt’s lackluster ‘design for the other 90%‘ exhibit i was puzzled by the ‘day labor station:’ a well-intentioned shelter for immigrant day laborers who - at ...
