The shape of entropy?
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The shape of entropy?
Bryan Finoki alerts us to Danish attempts to resocialize inmates via prison design.
A physicist thinks he has solved urban issues of scaling.
Discussion Threads
In our discussion of the movie Tron Legacy, in terms of the fold, DeLueze and networked culture, jk3hl coins the term tron-tecture.
spacefraud wants to know if craft is back in where did craft go?.
From the title sounds like we can expect more pieces. Sort of a short piece of investigative design fiction?
Over at TC, Diabase clues us in to what he has been working on for a bit - ARKit. ARKit designs and manufactures factory-built buildings using a wall panel system they designed themselves that incorporates sustainable materials and achieves a high degree of thermal performance.
School Blogs
Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago points us to the work of Daniel Starcher a second year M.Arch student, who designed some pink bridge-like structures.
A new blogger Jemuel at Pratt Institute talks about protomorphs and generative operations.
Additionally
The hauntology of contemporary urbanism seemed to be popular this week. From ghost cities in China where there are by some estimates up to 64 million vacant homes, to Spanish new development busts. Meanwhile the BBC sees ghost estates ahead instead of business as usual for the foreseeable future ... Even perhaps, the future ghost cities of America?
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Thanks Nam!
Dinner is On The Table: BRACKET on Farming
I Just finished reading the 40 plus essays in BRACKET on Farming. Food production is a not much talked about subject and I don't remember seeing that many designs so the opportunity to survey this is welcome.
After digesting as much as I could for two weeks I split the content three ways: One-third didn't grab my interest; another third had something to keep me reading. The last third kept me thinking and worth the effort. There are some diamonds here if one digs.
All of the essays have something interesting to say. Lots of diagrams, proposals, presentations in color and b&w. A few overviews and art-audience related works. But the main emphasis is on practical solutions and for me the solution based presentations were the best ones. The too-many software generated graphics were an overkill and as a reader I could do without so much charting.
Despite the graphics assault the Urban farming projects were the ones I keyed into. The rural based ones were ones I didn't get into much but that is also my bias. I had to go back and re-look at those to get a better understanding.
An example. At first glance the vertical PIG CITY proposal seemed a horrible idea. But with a re-read I got the Dutch context and harvesting need of pork within Europe. This piece as all of the essays had lots of facts and statistics as backup.
One that kept me thinking about and re-designing internally was an urban Orchard and farm from Alexandros Avlonitis WHAT WE ARE IS WHAT WE EAT. . The design and essay, not ground-breaking and pretty straight-forward could be presented and implemented right off.
There are a lot of ideas in this compilation and the editors did a good job at keeping the focus on solutions. I could go back several times for inspiration.
eric chavkin
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