the robot tracing a city in the desert

“Artist Rodrigo Derteano’s autonomous robot plows the desert ground to uncover its underlying, darker color, using a technique similar to the one of the Nazca lines, the gigantic and enigmatic geoglyphs traced between 400 and 650 AD in the desert in southern Peru. Guided by its sensors, the robot quietly traced the founding lines of a new city that looks like a collage of existing cities from Latin America.”

via we make money not art

87,3 Kilo Ohm

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87,3 Kilo Ohm is designed and built by Erwin Stache, and invites people in public spaces to play together. A distinctive feature of this installation is both the ability to change tones, speeds and other parameters of sound, and the ability to interact and play with others. 87,3 Kilo Ohm serves as an interactive orchestra, where the player is also the conductor. Audio material is composed and programmed by Erwin Stache.”

via ateliernord.no

Scanning New York City With Lasers From 3,500 Feet

via Gizmodo. “[..] a crew methodically swept over New York City in a laser-equipped Shrike Commander aircraft. They were busy creating the most accurate, detailed 3D map of the city to date.”

Archigram Archival Project

“The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and made possible by the members of Archigram and their heirs, who retain copyright of all images.”

The Naked City, Guy Debord, 1957. (via chriswoebken)

proofmathisbeautiful:

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547 West 27th Street Proposed Rooftop Painting (via Madilworth)

Awesommmmeeeeeeee!!!!

Don’t Waste Spaces, Light Them!

reblog landscapearchitecture. via The Pop-Up City. Wasted Spaces is a London-based non-profit art organization that transforms vacant shop fronts and unused properties into exciting art experiences. This attracts new audiences and gives them the opportunity to view, discuss and interact with art at street level.

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Underwater Skyscraper.

Water-Scraper is an interesting approach to population growth, given that our seas are slowly rising.  It is a futuristic idea from eVolo’s 2010 skyscraper competition. Being a nerd and having seen every episode of SeaQuest and SeaLab 2021, I fully support this architecture design.  It looks like a giant jelly fish and each scraper is self sustaining. Thanks Inhabitat!

reblog spime: Biocity: The city experience is a web of connected networks and multi layered threaded paths that condition us to the emotional state of the city space. In essence, the city fabric is a giant multi user multi data sphere. The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.

Reblog spime: Wild City is a research into non-planned and barely regulated processes of urban transformations. Starting off from the drastic changes in the urban structure of the city it tries to identify the internal logic of those transformations and investigates how to describe seemingly chaotic events in a process based and systemic way.

The street as platform

cityofsound, 2008.  “The way the street feels may soon be defined by what cannot be seen with the naked eye.”

The City is a battlesuit for surviving the future

article by Matt Jones, BERG. “Cities are the best battlesuits we have. It seem to me that as we better learn how to design, use and live in cities - we all have a future. Matt Jones is design director at Berg in London. He has worked as a designer for the BBC and Nokia. He began his career studying architecture, and writes a blog called Magical Nihilism.” via io9, image:archigram, response by bruce sterling at beyond the beyond

Sustainability Planning Toolkit

“ICLEI’s Sustainability Planning Toolkit, based on the model pioneered by City of New York’s PlaNYC, contains comprehensive, step-by-step guidance to develop a sustainability plan for cities, towns, and counties of all sizes. It follows a proven, straightforward, and flexible process to create a successful, long-term plan that brings together environmental, economic, and social initiatives under one holistic vision to improve the livability of communities and create lasting benefits.”

via worldchanging

Design Cities

by Rebecca Lyddon. When “asked us to design a city guide for london breaking away from the norm Rebecca Lyddon’s response explores the way that we learn and gain a personal understanding from our surroundings. By looking at the idea of perception and the way that we look at things she has made a pack which contains 12 masks (flat pack) where the viewer choses a mask to wear in a location. It is their personal experience which creates a unique view for the viewer to experience.” via pixelsumo