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Indigenous technologies “could change the way we design cities”, says designer Julia Watson

February 11, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Jingkieng Dieng Jri Living Root Bridges are a system of living ladders and walkways

Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. In her new book, LO–TEK Design by Radical Indigenism, Watson argues that tribal communities, seen by many as primitive, are highly advanced when it comes to creating systems in symbiosis with the natural world. “There are

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Indigenous technologies “could change the way we design cities”, says designer Julia Watson

February 11, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. In her new book, LO–TEK Design by Radical Indigenism, Watson argues that tribal communities, seen by many as primitive, are highly advanced when it comes to creating systems in symbiosis with the natural world. “There are

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Carlo Ratti’s Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech

January 6, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology. A part of the the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen, The Eyes of the City exhibition is now open at Futian station. It features works

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Two robotic fabrication methods entwine to make Tongji University bridge

November 29, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Thin carbon fibres wind over a 3D-printed metal frame to form this hybrid bridge, made by university students in Shanghai using two emerging robotic fabrication techniques. Students participating in the DigitalFUTURES International 2019 summer workshop at Tongji University worked with local research studio Fab-Union to design the bridge, which can hold more than 20 people.

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Today’s innovations could be “redundant in five years” says curator of Designs for Different Futures

November 7, 2019 Kristine Klein 0

Designs for Different Futures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Designs for Different Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art collates projects that speculate on ways to tackle some of today’s biggest issues – including an arched pavilion designed for harvesting crickets, clothes that grow and a font illegible to computers. Designs for Different Futures comprises 80 works that address the challenges and opportunities

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Today’s innovations could be “redundant in five years” says curator of Designs for Different Futures

November 7, 2019 Kristine Klein 0

The Designs for Different Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art collates projects that speculate on ways to tackle some of today’s biggest issues – including an arched pavilion designed for harvesting crickets, clothes that grow and a font illegible to computers. Designs for Different Futures comprises 80 works that address the challenges and opportunities

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Switching to timber could solve Dutch housing shortage and be “a chance for our climate”

October 24, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0

The Netherlands could build a million new homes from sustainably harvested local wood and save 100 megatons of carbon in the process, according to architect Marco Vermeulen. The Dutch architect has calculated that the country’s 140,000 hectares of harvestable woodlands could provide enough timber for 22,000 houses each year. This means the country’s entire shortfall

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“Facial recognition is a fundamental threat to society”

October 9, 2019 Owen Hopkins 0

Facial recognition used in Hong Kong protests

The use of facial recognition in Hong Kong and London’s King’s Cross demonstrates the need to control access to the technology in the same way other dangerous items are regulated, says Owen Hopkins. For the past few months I’ve been transfixed by the protests taking place in Hong Kong, and the way, as so often happens,

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“Facial recognition is a fundamental threat to society”

October 9, 2019 Owen Hopkins 0

The use of facial recognition in Hong Kong and London’s King’s Cross demonstrates the need to control access to the technology in the same way other dangerous items are regulated, says Owen Hopkins. For the past few months I’ve been transfixed by the protests taking place in Hong Kong, and the way, as so often happens,

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SCI-arc’s Fiction and Entertainment graduates imagine future worlds

October 3, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0

From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. SCI-Arc’s MS Fiction and Entertainment program is led by Liam Young, a speculative architect who features in Dezeen’s award-winning

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