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The black and white of design

The black and white of design Design Week reports that the Royal Mint has offered a public prize for the design of a commemorative 2012 coin, noting that this initiative, along with Boris's public competition for a new Routemaster and the 2003 public
The future of music and the future of design

The future of music and the future of design November 11 2008: MIT electronic music guru Tod Machover’s talk here on Tuesday was searching and provocative. Opening with the startling fact that although almost universally armed with iPods, we are less able to
Class war

Class war In the hospitality room last night before the Chico Mendes Legacy event. Matthew Taylor buttonholed guest speaker Charlie Kronick about the new Greenpeace Heathrow strategy. Kronick is Director of Climate Strategy for the organisation. In the
Seoul searching

Seoul searching Earlier this year I interviewed Winy Maas of architects MVRDV about a beautiful small-scale project he was doing in Rotterdam called Didden Village. Back then I wrote: "MVRDV’s signature “obsession” — the word Maas uses for it — is density:
Art as a Trojan horse

Art as a Trojan horse The latest print edition of Neural Magazine includes a single piece of yellow notepad paper - apparently at least. I haven't seen it yet. On this sheet, readers are encouraged to write a letter to the White House. This letter will be
Pessimism, optimism, pt 1

Pessimism, optimism, pt 1 There is a massive gulf between what we now know about climate change and what we're prepared to do about it. There's a phrase that people use at the RSA to describe the difference between what we say we want to do and what we
Chico Mendes

Chico Mendes Photo:taken by Alexandre Severo of a 2006 protest by the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil in a shanty town named after Chico Mendes in São Lourenço da Mata, Brazil, following threats of eviction by the landowning company. . Photo:taken by
Example #2 - Real Time Energy Displays

Example #2 - Real Time Energy Displays Energy consumption in the home is invisible, which becomes a social problem when it accounts for 27% of the UK's CO2 emissions. Part of the problem is that it takes a certain type of person to find beauty in a
Blog round up

Blog round up Bruce Sterling at Wired blogs on a Grist post about Austin, Texas, announcing it's going to create a "smart grid" - the radical resource-saving electricity grid championed by people like Thomas Friedman here. Bruce Sterling at Wired blogs on a
Obama and cultural theory

Obama and cultural theory In this post I am going to try to weave together cultural theory and Barack Obama’s future presidency. In this post I am going to try to weave together cultural theory and Barack Obama’s future presidency. In this post I am

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