This is the location from which the studio will be working for the next 2 months on a couple of connected objects research projects. Answers on a postcard please.
Author Archives: Neil Clavin
Week 10: In motion
Its been a busy week with the feeling that the constant push of the studio is starting to create some significant motion. There were some great responses to the Urban Interface Safari walkshop and the studio is in dialogue with … Continue reading
Week 9: Photos & analysis – Urban Interface Safari walkshop
On Sunday 11 March 2012 a group of designers and a digital journalist toured Cologne for an Urban Interface Safari ‘walkshop’ (in collaboration with Bottled City) to find, document and discuss interfaces in public space. You can retrace our tour via … Continue reading
Week 8: Urban Interface Safari – Sunday 11 March 2012
Sunday 11 March 2012 is the first Urban Interface Safari in Cologne – it should be an interesting and fun tour! A few reminders: We meet at 14:00 (2pm) outside the Cologne Hbf in front of Zeitcafe (look at that … Continue reading
Week 7: You are invited to the Urban Interface Safari: Cologne – Sunday 11 March 2012
Today our cities are full of cameras, monitors, sensors, antennae, wifi networks, cables, signals and displays. Devices and interfaces collecting, displaying and acting on information. As citizens we often don’t notice these devices in our streets and neighbourhoods. We rarely … Continue reading
Week 6: Ghetto code
Week 6 has looked mainly like this….
Week 5: On the delicate nature of beginnings
The purpose of this studio is to work on projects which genuinely interest me in new areas. Areas which I find more fertile and fun than some of those which are so heavily mediated at the moment like mobile phones, … Continue reading
Week 4: Intersection
Week 3: Invisible cities
In the city the net effect of our actions can be difficult to perceive. As conscientious citizens we strive to be positive, to regulate our power consumption and choose low emission transport for ourselves and the public good. How do we know … Continue reading
Week 2: Emotional topography
In the quest to make our cities more efficient, functional and sustainable there is a danger that the softer emotional aspects which can make cities so compelling become overlooked. In the same way that mobile devices can measure our speed and … Continue reading
Week 1: Parametric architecture and participatory urbanism
A highlight of this week’s Passagen design festival in Cologne was a lecture by Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid architects on Parametric Architecture. Patrik argues that Parametric architecture is the ‘great new style after modernism’ – a fireworks display of … Continue reading
Dollar
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This is a concept proposal to the The Dollar ReDe$ign Project. The goal of the project is to ‘to rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy. ‘ The proposal is to give the dollar back to … Continue reading