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Technology_162

2012-01-21T15:35:00.004Z

Entry: Smart Facades
Focus: The Art of Planning

Smart Interfaçades Congress is the international facades congress which takes place under the new architecture-events called The Art of Planning in which internationally known architects offices will present current new facade design trends, spectacular facade solutions, new facade technologies and discuss with researchers and engineers the future of intelligent adaptive building facades.
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http://www.art-of-planning.de/

Science_167

2011-12-31T18:37:00.002Z

Entry: Anatomy Atlas
Focus: Visible Body

The Visible Body is the most comprehensive human anatomy visualization tool available today. This entirely Web-delivered application offers an unparalleled understanding of human anatomy. The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700 anatomical structures, including all major organs and systems of the human body.
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http://www.visiblebody.com/

Book_75

2011-12-31T18:27:00.001Z

Entry: Experimental Architecture
Focus: Dynamics & De-realisation

The collection of architectural design projects included provides an overview of philosophical theories that focus on what appears to be real, presenting a range of methodologies and a set of tools for addressing this discourse. Incorporating the ontological potential of space into a design process and part of a set of design criteria will help develop an understanding of the conditions under which forms and design criteria are generated.
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http://www.springerarchitektur.at/produktkatalog/architektur-design/dynamics-de-realisation/

Technology_161

2011-12-04T15:21:00.004Z

Entry: Energy Adaptative
Focus: ReVolt House

TU Delft team ReVolt House is currently designing and will build a sustainable prototypical home which is entirely powered by solar energy. The house will be shown, tested and judged at the Solar Decathlon 2012 event in Madrid, which is the world championship for solar, sustainable homes.
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http://www.revolthouse.com/

Architecture_151

2011-10-30T14:45:00.003Z

Entry: Educational
Focus: Hyperbody

Hyperbody is a reseach group of collaborative design focusing also during the use and maintenance of buildings. Hyperbody looks at all stages of the lifecycle of buildings and at the economical and ecological consequences, focusing on the development of new ideas and practical applications for interactive architecture that leads to emergence of pro-active building bodies which act in a changing environment.
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http://www.hyperbody.nl/

Technology_160

2011-10-02T15:43:00.000+01:00

Entry: Educational
Focus: Sustainability Workshop

Sustainability Workshop offers free online resources that teach the principles and practice of sustainability in engineering and design. This site was created to help educators teach and students learn the broader context and importance of sustainability in the engineering and architecture profession.
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http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/

Architecture_150

2011-09-17T18:04:00.002+01:00

Entry: Sustainable Technologies
Focus: SuAT

SuAT research focuses on new approaches for the design, planning and operation of buildings as dynamic systems. The motivation and aim of this research is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in buildings and increase the efficiency of energy and resource use in the built environment. The research is based on the identification and integration of advanced technologies from the fields of building services, information and communication.
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http://www.suat.arch.ethz.ch/en/

Science_166

2011-08-28T15:34:00.000+01:00

Entry: Forecast
Focus: Institute for the Future

The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group, working with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future and providing the foresight to create insights that lead to action.
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http://www.iftf.org/

Design_96

2011-08-22T12:36:00.001+01:00

Entry: Network Design
Focus: Dreamhamar

Dreamhamar is a network design process led by Ecosistema Urbano in order to design the Stortorget Square in Hamar, Norway. Using network design, dreamhamar is offering a creative and innovative way for conceptualizing the city’s new main square by using 21st century tools, such as information technologies, on-line and on-site workshops and network-learning dynamics.
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http://dreamhamar.org/

Technology_159

2011-08-15T15:42:00.001+01:00

Entry: Sustainability
Focus: Open House

The overall objective of Open House is to develop and to implement a common European transparent building assessment methodology, complementing the existing ones, for planning and constructing sustainable buildings by means of an open approach and technical platform.
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http://www.openhouse-fp7.eu/

Art_149

2011-08-07T15:13:00.001+01:00

Entry: Convergence
Focus: Plattern-Completion

Pattern Completion brings together artist Michaela Nettell, sound designer Tom Simmons and neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers to create an installation exploring ways in which networks of brain cells recall memories.
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http://www.pattern-completion.net/

Architecture_149

2011-07-16T17:01:00.002+01:00

Entry: Platform
Focus: Wonderland

Wonderland is a Vienna based network for for young Europe-oriented architecture practices aiming experience, information and knowledge exchange, which continuously initiates collaboration projects with international teams to foster inter-European exchange, organises Project Spaces, Blind Dates and symposia, conducts research on current challenges and approaches in the field of architecture as well as urban planning and shares results with members and the public by means of exhibitions and publications.
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http://www.wonderland.cx/

Technology_158

2011-07-09T18:15:00.001+01:00

Entry: Society vs. Innovation
Focus: Techonomy

Techonomy is about the centrality of technology to business and social progress and the urgency of embracing the rapid pace of change brought by technology. Every major issue going forward will be affected by how it intersects with tech innovation. We believe the relevance of leaders depends on understanding and keeping this conviction at the forefront of their thinking.
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http://www.techonomy.com/

Architecture_148

2011-06-25T17:54:00.001+01:00

Entry: Symposium
Focus: proto-e-co-logics

The symposium will tease out speculative directions for architecture that move beyond innocent and reductive approaches to ecology as in notions of “sustainability” and “green”. Recent tendencies in architecture take a unique point of view, with aesthetically novel and unnatural sensibilities emerging from a close scrutiny and study of apparently natural systems. These speculative tendencies are being driven by mathematical and computational abstractions that transform the way we understand the matter-information relationship.
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http://proto-e-co-logics.com/

Technology_157

2011-06-19T17:55:00.002+01:00

Entry: Network
Focus: SMART

SMART Solutions Network is a social media site for anyone interested in the latest computational technologies to solve complex architectural, planning, engineering, and fabrication problems.
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http://www.smart-solutions-network.com/

Architecture_147

2011-06-12T17:35:00.002+01:00

Entry: Exploratory
Focus: suckerPUNCH

We are inundated by images everyday which wear us down with their hopeless nostalgia repackaged as new, weary of quirk and whimsy but still in need of a laugh and a stiff drink, we need to confront that which claims to be contemporary in an attempt to define the present.
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http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/

Book_74

2011-06-12T17:33:00.001+01:00

Entry: Microcosm
Focus: A Planet of Viruses

Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We’re most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground.
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http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo11461703.html

Technology_156

2011-06-04T18:07:00.002+01:00

Entry: News and Information
Focus: Next Big Future

Breaking news of disruptive technology and science that can majorly impact the future course of civilization. Answer for - What matters? What is the sequence?
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http://nextbigfuture.com/

Science_165

2011-05-22T15:47:00.002+01:00

Entry: Future
Focus: International Institute of Forecasters

The International Institute of Forecasters, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to developing and furthering the generation, distribution, and use of knowledge on forecasting through the following objectives: Develop and unify forecasting as a multidisciplinary field of research drawing on management, behavioral sciences, social sciences, engineering, and other fields; Contribute to the professional development of analysts, managers, and policy makers with responsibilities for making and using forecasts in business and government; Bridge the gap between theory and practice, with practice helping to set the research agenda and research providing useful results; Bring together decision makers, forecasters, and researchers from all nations to improve the quality and usefulness of forecasting.
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http://www.forecasters.org/

Architecture_146

2011-05-15T18:14:00.001+01:00

Entry: Green
Focus: Eco-Structure

Eco-Structure delivers a wealth of practical information and real-world examples of green building. Explore the digital edition of Eco-Structure. Enjoy online the same format as the print magazine. It's quickly accessible, and easy to use.
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http://www.eco-structure.com/

Art_148

2011-05-01T18:00:00.001+01:00

Entry: Networks and Robotics
Focus: Abstract Machine

Born and raised in Silicon Valley, Douglas Edric Stanley has since emigrated to France where he has been working for the last decade as artist, theoretician and researcher in Paris, Geneva and Aix-en-Provence. He is currently Professor of Digital Arts at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art where he teaches programming, interactivity, networks and robotics, and runs the Atelier Hypermédia, an atelier dedicated to the exploration of algorithms and code as artistic materials.
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http://www.abstractmachine.net/

Book_73

2011-05-01T17:57:00.001+01:00

Entry: Nature Patterns
Focus: Flow

Of great interest to general readers of popular science, for its accessible and broad-ranging introduction to topics like self-organization, emergence, and complexity. Also people interested in natural history, looking for an explanation of the science behind many of the incredible forms to be found in nature. The book cuts across the boundaries of many disciplines - physics, chemistry, biology, engineering - and will be of interest to students and professionals in those areas. The theme of forms, shapes, and 'natural creativity' will also be of interest to artists and architects.
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http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199604876.do

Architecture_145

2011-04-17T15:25:00.002+01:00

Entry: Nature vs Technology
Focus: NEAR

The Network for Emerging Architectural Research is a new research initiative in Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) at The Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Intended to be an entirely new platform for experimentation in architecture and urban design, NEAR seeks to expand beyond the traditional limitations of academic research and establish a space for experimentation and development in-between academia, industries, and public institutions.
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http://www.nearpratt.net/

Science_164

2011-04-09T17:47:00.002+01:00

Entry: Frontier Research

Focus: European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding body set up to support investigator-driven frontier research. Its main aim is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers to be adventurous and take risks in their research. The scientists are encouraged to go beyond established frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of disciplines.
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http://erc.europa.eu/

Technology_155

2011-04-03T16:01:00.003+01:00

Entry: Net TV

Focus: FORA

FORA.tv is the leading online destination for intelligent video programs on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world, with paid-membership, and fee-based video viewing of live events, lectures, and debates to a smart, deeply-engaged audience.
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http://fora.tv/

Science_163

2011-03-20T17:44:00.000Z

Entry: Sustainability
Focus: Forum for the Future

Most organisations now recognise that global challenges like climate change, food and energy security and population growth will mean big changes for the way they operate. Forum for the Future’s role is to help them find their way to a sustainable and successful future.
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http://www.forumforthefuture.org/

Book_72

2011-03-20T17:41:00.001Z

Entry: Visual History
Focus: Human Anatomy

Lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration. Before the invention of photography, artists played an essential role in medical science, recording human anatomy in startlingly direct and often moving images. Over 400 years, beginning with Vesalius, they charted the main systems of the body, made precise studies of living organs, documented embryonic development, and described pathologies.
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http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Human_Anatomy-9780810997981.html

Architecture_144

2011-03-06T15:52:00.002Z

Entry: 20 Years and Beyond
Focus: Buildings Futures

Building Futures aims to address the big picture. How and where will we be living in 50 or 100 years’ time, when the climate has changed and cities are bigger than ever? What technologies will architects be using to design buildings and what new materials will they be specifying? How will the inevitable new technologies affect the buildings we all use every day?
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http://www.buildingfutures.org.uk/

Science_162

2011-02-27T16:41:00.004Z

Entry: Sustainable World
Focus: Worldwatch Institute

Worldwatch Institute delivers the insights and ideas that empower decision makers to create an environmentally sustainable society that meets human needs. Worldwatch focuses on the 21st-century challenges of climate change, resource degradation, population growth, and poverty by developing and disseminating solid data and innovative strategies for achieving a sustainable society.
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http://www.worldwatch.org/

Art_147

2011-02-27T16:38:00.001Z

Entry: Studio
Focus: Ecole

Ecole is a multi-disciplinary studio whose scope of work spans from architecture to artistic direction, from industrial design to graphic design. This website contains a portfolio of our commissioned work and other internally initiated research projects, and a Classics section which comprises an image bank of works we look at frequently.
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http://www.e-c-o-l-e.com/

Architecture_143

2011-02-12T16:13:00.002Z

Entry: The Next Normal
Focus: Architect Magazine

What's Next for Architecture? The Next Normal, A collaboration with Bruce Mau Design. Essays by Kermit Baker, Paul Nakazawa, and Kiel Moe; Interviews with Michael Graves, Andrés Duany, and others; BIM, ROI, and much more.
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http://www.architectmagazine.com/the-next-normal.aspx

Science_161

2011-02-05T18:51:00.002Z

Entry: Age Lab
Focus: Disruptive Demographics

Disruptive Demographics is an online publication providing insights on the convergence of global aging and technology on business innovation and public policy. Disruptive Demographics draws upon original research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab, business cases, cross-national data, developments in technology, and lifestyle trends to present new thinking about old age.
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http://www.disruptivedemographics.com/

Book_71

2011-02-05T18:48:00.002Z

Entry: Slavoj Žižek
Focus: Living in the End Times

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new analysis of our global situation, Slavok Zizek argues that our collective responses to economic Armageddon correspond to the stages of grief: ideological denial, explosions of anger and attempts at bargaining, followed by depression and withdrawal.
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http://www.versobooks.com/books/482-living-in-the-end-times

Art_146

2011-01-31T15:25:00.002Z

Entry: Creative Environments
Focus: AA Interprofessionals

The AA Interprofessional Studio is a post-professional course leading to a Graduate Diploma in Spatial Performance and Art. Functioning as a creative office, the course explores alternative forms of collaboration between the multiple creative professions through the research, conception, design and implementation/production of a series of genre-defying spatial performances and constructions.
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http://interprofessionals.net/

Technology_154

2011-01-15T18:56:00.003Z

Entry: Cleantech
Focus: Green Tech Media

Greentech Media is a business to business site covering daily news and market analysis about the end-to-end greentech market. Content is organized via dedicated solar, smart grid and enterprise channels, and includes coverage of other emerging market sectors. Our audience is targeted toward business executives and managers who have purchasing and decision making power: the thought leaders of the fast moving greentech economy.
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http://www.greentechmedia.com/

Science_160

2011-01-09T17:31:00.002Z

Entry: United Nations
Focus: Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information.
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http://www.fao.org/

Science_159

2011-01-09T17:28:00.001Z

Entry: Solar System
Focus: Planetary

The Planetary Society, founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman, inspires and involves the world's public in space exploration through advocacy, projects, and education. Today, The Planetary Society is the largest and most influential public space organization group on Earth.
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http://www.planetary.org/

Science_158

2010-12-26T18:33:00.001Z

Entry: The World Ahead
Focus: Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and international affairs. It is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-profit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas.
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http://www.foreignaffairs.com/

Architecture_142

2010-12-19T18:14:00.002Z

Entry: Global Sustainability
Focus: Future Cities Laboratory

ETH and NRF further their collaboration by establishing the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability in Singapore. The Global Environmental Sustainability shall strengthen Switzerland’s and Singapore’s position in the area of Global Environmental Sustainability of highest potential for the present and the future society.
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http://www.futurecities.ethz.ch/

Book_70

2010-12-19T18:10:00.003Z

Entry: Brain Images
Focus: Portraits of the Mind

Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the brain as never before. These black-and-white and vibrantly colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed daily by scientists around the world, but most have never before been seen by the general public. Each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced by a leading scientist in that field of study.
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http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Portraits_of_the_Mind-9780810990333.html

Design_95

2010-12-12T18:36:00.001Z

Entry: Ecological Experiments
Focus: EcoRedux

EcoRedux assembles an unexplored genealogy of ecological material experiments that underground architectural groups conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. The research project documents a larger disciplinary transformation and an experimental mindset in the finale of the 1960s, reporting the displacement of 'building' as the main product of architectural design.
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http://www.ecoredux.com/

Technology_153

2010-12-05T17:53:00.001Z

Entry: Idea of Extremes
Focus: BBC Extreme World

Extreme World is a new season of coverage on TV, Radio and Online, examining the global differences that divide us. Over the next few months BBC News correspondents will be exploring eight key themes that illustrate the contrasts in our extreme world.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/extremeworld

Architecture_141

2010-11-28T16:13:00.002Z

Entry: Web Platform
Focus: Bustler

Bustler, the sister site to the leading architecture platform, Archinect, focuses on keeping the design community busy and inspired. Bustler has become the go-to online publication for competition and event listings in the architecture and design industries.
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http://www.bustler.net/

Technology_152

2010-11-14T18:05:00.001Z

Entry: Generative Craft
Focus: CROMA

This website is a working tool for CROMA, a collaborative and multidisciplinar research initiative at MIT that aims at developing technologies and use case scenarios for building responsive, programmable, and energy-smart architectural components. CROMA gathers MIT experts in the fields of Architecture, Media Arts and Chemical Engineering to envision and implement compelling scenarios of smart, interactive architectures.
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http://croma.mit.edu/

Book_69

2010-11-14T18:01:00.002Z

Entry: Building Green
Focus: Design For Reuse

The 15 diverse projects in the Design for Reuse Primer demonstrate new models of “building green.” Material reuse is always integral to a sustainable vision of how to tread lightly on the earth, be economically pragmatic, and nurture a community. From a school for children with learning differences to a center for holistic living, these case studies are intended to provide insights about the material reuse process in a wide variety of context.
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http://www.designforreuse.org/design_for_reuse/DesignForReusePrimer.pdf

Science_157

2010-11-07T18:16:00.001Z

Entry: Portal
Focus: Living Reviews

Living Reviews are scientific open access journals, publishing review articles that provide insightful surveys on research progress in the fields they cover, and guiding readers to the most important literature in the field.
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http://www.livingreviews.org/

Science_156

2010-11-07T18:13:00.001Z

Entry: Climate Data
Focus: Real Climate

Real Climate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.
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http://www.realclimate.org/

Architecture_140

2010-10-31T17:36:00.001Z

Entry: Visions to 2030
Focus: Audi Urban Future Award

The Audi brand stands for change and technical innovations. The courage to rethink and challenge the established is a decisive prerequisite for this continual advancement and the core of our corporate culture. The Audi Urban Future Award is initiated in order to identify and advance along paths leading towards a sustainable and responsible future.
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http://www.audi-urban-future-award.com/

Architecture_139

2010-10-24T16:19:00.001+01:00

Entry: Climate Phenomena
Focus: Cloudscapes

Transsolar KlimaEngineering presented "Cloudsacpes" at the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice in cooperation with Tetsuo Kondo Architects. They are the first engineering firm to participate in the Architecture Biennale. The installation is an abstraction of a climate phenomena which unveils the techniques used in their practice, that usually remain unseen. Next to the visual cloudscapes, Transsolar wants to create a virtual cloudscape: an online platform where people can post their innovative ideas about sustainable design.
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http://blog.cloudscap.es/

Design_94

2010-10-17T17:21:00.002+01:00

Entry: Information
Focus: Cool Infographics

Charts and graphs can communicate data, info graphics turn data into information.
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http://www.coolinfographics.com/

Science_155

2010-10-10T15:34:00.002+01:00

Entry: The Royal Society
Focus: History of Science

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. We aim to expand the frontiers of knowledge by championing the development and use of science, mathematics, engineering and medicine for the benefit of humanity and the good of the planet.
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http://royalsociety.org/history-of-science/

Design_93

2010-09-26T17:41:00.001+01:00

Entry: Foresight Strategies
Focus: Design Intelligence

DesignIntelligence is the Design Futures Council’s bi-monthly report on the future, delivering original research, insightful commentary, and instructive best practices. Design leaders rely on DesignIntelligence to deliver insight about emerging trends and management practices, allowing them to make their organization a better managed, more financially successful enterprise.
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http://www.di.net/

Book_68

2010-09-20T16:02:00.001+01:00

Entry: Urbanization
Focus: Climatopolis

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there’s no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how we’re going to avoid a hotter future but how we’re going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives as we change our behaviors and our surroundings.
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http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465019269

Art_145

2010-09-20T16:00:00.001+01:00

Entry: Future
Focus: Dystopian Movies

The most simple definition of a dystopia is as follows: An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
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http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/

Science_154

2010-09-05T15:43:00.003+01:00

Entry: The End Issue
Focus: Scientific American

The features from the Scientific American September 2010 issue, which cover a range of topics, such as the decomposition of human flesh, the disappearance of cultures, the Earth's remaining natural resources, and apocalypse scenarios.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/TheEnd

Science_153

2010-09-05T15:37:00.002+01:00

Entry: Sustainable Development
Focus: The Earth Institute

Earth is at a critical crossroads. While revolutionary advances in science and technology have lifted humanity to new heights of prosperity and longevity in many parts of the world, hundreds of millions of people are vulnerable to the impacts of hazards and natural disasters, extreme poverty, infectious disease and a host of other challenges. At the same time, human activity, especially in the last 100 years, is threatening the health of the environment and potentially posing risks of unprecedented magnitude to our shared future.
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http://www.earth.columbia.edu/

Art_143

2010-08-28T18:06:00.001+01:00

Entry: Environments
Focus: InfraNet Lab

InfraNet Lab is a research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. The laboratory posits the argument that a body of unique built works continues to arise out of the complex negotiation of, and competition for, biotic and abiotic resources. Operating in a manner similar to infrastructures, these works have evolved to merge landscape, urbanism, and architecture into a sophisticated mutant assemblage of surfaces, containers, and conduits.
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http://infranetlab.org/blog/

Technology_151

2010-08-22T17:44:00.001+01:00

Entry: Gadgets
Focus: Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a blog about gadgets and technology. Started in 2002, Gizmodo has grown to be Gawker Media's largest blog, bringing in upwards of 100 million page views a month in traffic, posting about a variety of electronics, as well as all sorts of things gadget geeks might enjoy.
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http://gizmodo.com/

Science_152

2010-08-15T18:08:00.002+01:00

Entry: Accountable Predictions
Focus: Long Bets

The purpose of Long Bets is to improve long–term thinking. Long Bets is a public arena for enjoyably competitive predictions, of interest to society, with philanthropic money at stake. The Long Now Foundation furnishes the continuity to see even the longest bets through to public resolution. This website provides a forum for discussion about what may be learned from the bets and their eventual outcomes.
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http://www.longbets.org/

Design_92

2010-08-08T15:58:00.001+01:00

Entry: Data Visualization
Focus: Information is Beautiful

Information is Beautiful contains visually stunning displays of information that blend the facts with their connections, their context and their relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining and beautiful. This is information like you have never seen it before, keeping text to a minimum and using unique visuals that offer a blueprint of modern life, a map of beautiful colour illustrations that are tactile to hold and easy to flick through but intriguing and engaging enough to study for hours.
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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Architecture_138

2010-08-01T17:38:00.001+01:00

Entry: Committee on the Environment
Focus: AIA COTE

The Committee on the Environment (COTE) works to advance, disseminate, and advocate, to the profession, the building industry, the academy, and the public, design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment. COTE serves as the community and voice on behalf of AIA architects regarding sustainable design and building science and performance.
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http://www.aia.org/cote_default

Design_91

2010-07-10T17:48:00.002+01:00

Entry: Beyond Sustainability
Focus: Integrative Design Collaborative

The Integrative Design Collaborative is a consortium of advanced practitioners who serve as resources, coaches, and program managers to help project teams achieve increasingly higher levels of environmentally responsible design, from Green to Sustainability to Regeneration.
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http://www.integrativedesign.net/

Architecture_137

2010-07-04T16:01:00.003+01:00

Entry: Urban Guide
Focus: Self-Sufficient(ish)

Information on growing plants, wild food recipes, and alternatives to lead a low impact urban life.
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http://www.selfsufficientish.com/

Science_151

2010-06-27T15:36:00.002+01:00

Entry: Future Policies
Focus: World Future Council

Never has man-kind been so close to destroying the livelihood of future generations. We are on a collision course with the future because of distorted frameworks, unsustainable human systems and chronic political short-termism. In order to ensure an intact and just world for the generations to come, a systematic change toward sustainable political decision-making is imperative.
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http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/

Book_67

2010-06-27T15:34:00.002+01:00

Entry: Robotic Revolution
Focus: Wired for War

Wired for War takes the reader on a journey to meet all the various players in this strange new world of war: odd-ball roboticists working in latter-day “skunk works” in the midst of suburbia; military pilots flying combat mission from their office cubicles outside Las Vegas; the Iraqi insurgents who are their targets; journalists trying to figure out just how to cover robots at war; and human rights activists wrestling with what is right and wrong in a world where our wars are increasingly being handed over to machines.
LINK>>>>>
http://wiredforwar.pwsinger.com/

Book_66

2010-06-27T15:31:00.001+01:00

Entry: Humanity's Impact
Focus: World Without Us

The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically-treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.worldwithoutus.com/

Science_150

2010-06-20T16:01:00.001+01:00

Entry: Rethink Science
Focus: World Science Festival

The annual World Science Festival is a production of the Science Festival Foundation. The aim, to cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/

Art_142

2010-06-06T18:24:00.001+01:00

Entry: (eco)systems
Focus: Syntfarm

Syntfarm is a collective which explores and preserves expressions and structures of dynamic (eco)systems on our planet. There are 4 spheres that syntfarm renders on informational and tactile basis: Atmosphere, Biosphere, Lithosphere, and Hydrosphere.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.syntfarm.org/

Book_65

2010-06-06T18:15:00.004+01:00

Entry: Facts and Figures
Focus: Pinpoint

Manual that presents the most important information on all the key aspects of sustainable building in concise and clearly organized form; makes it easy to put it into practice with the help of graphics, tables, and step-by-step instructions; illustrates it with examples; and supplements it with practical tips.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.pinpoint-online.ch/

Technology_150

2010-05-30T18:25:00.001+01:00

Entry: Transition
Focus: UNIDO

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. Its mandate is to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies in transition, and work towards improving living conditions in the world's poorest countries by drawing on its combined global resources and expertise.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.unido.org/

Technology_149

2010-05-16T18:42:00.001+01:00

Entry: Expo2010
Focus: Siemens

Siemens is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, presenting answers at Expo 2010.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.siemens.com/entry/cc/en/expo.htm

Science_149

2010-05-16T18:40:00.001+01:00

Entry: Future
Focus: Foresight

Foresight’s role is to help British government think systematically about the future, using the latest scientific and other evidence combined with futures analysis to tackle complex issues and help policymakers make decisions affecting our future.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.foresight.gov.uk/

Design_90

2010-05-16T18:34:00.001+01:00

Entry: Webguide
Focus: ZMEtravel

ZMEtravel is a travel blog that covers travel locations that a user might want to visit, reviewing popular tourist attractions, hotels, beaches all around the world, from urban to rural, from classic to exotic.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.zmetravel.com/

Technology_148

2010-05-02T18:31:00.001+01:00

Entry: Solar Ivy
Focus: SMIT

Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology will provide a sustainable relationship between our clients, our products, and the environment. SMIT's work will connect and provide for people in pursuit of a zero footprint lifestyle by creating a rich portfolio of products and a dense network of relationships.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.s-m-i-t.com/

Architecture_136

2010-05-02T18:29:00.001+01:00

Entry: Communication
Focus: Realities United

Realities United is a studio for art, architecture and technology, which develops and supports architectural solutions, usually incorporating new media and information technologies. The office provides consulting, planning, and research, also undertaking projects for clients such as museums, businesses, and other architectural firms.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.realities-united.de/

Art_141

2010-05-02T18:26:00.002+01:00

Entry: Air Vessels
Focus: ALAVs

ALAVs are a defined research process we designed objects that behave and respond in specific ways and are part of a networked system that emphasizes autonomous and flocking behavior.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.alavs.com/

Technology_147

2010-04-25T18:32:00.002+01:00

Entry: TV
Focus: Big Picture

Big Picture TV streams free video clips from hundreds of leading thinkers and experts to help you make sense of the most important issues facing the world today.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.bigpicture.tv/

Science_148

2010-04-25T18:24:00.002+01:00

Entry: Globalization
Focus: Global Research

The Global Research website, is involved in book publishing, support to humanitarian projects as well as educational outreach activities including the organization of public conferences, lectures and also acts as a think tank on crucial economic and geopolitical issues.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/

Technology_146

2010-04-17T18:42:00.001+01:00

Entry: Iceland Ash
Focus: Radar Virtuel

The Radar Virtuel goal is to make available online the largest real-time aircraft traffic coverage. This information can be useful for various needs, locating an aircraft for personal or business purposes, computing statistics, and notably it can lead to a better public understanding of what happens above our heads, and display on the web some data that is already available, and make it easy to interpret.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

Architecture_135

2010-04-17T18:40:00.001+01:00

Entry: Reprogramming
Focus: Hyperhabitat

Hyperhabitat, reprogramming the world is the biggest Internet Zero network ever built. This video shows how the installation at the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition works, how are established the relations between objects and scales, nodes and codelines, visualization and representation.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.hyperhabitat.net/

Design_89

2010-04-11T17:34:00.001+01:00

Entry: Sensible Environment
Focus: Post Oil Cities

Post Oil Cities is a project without commercial objectives that forms part of the activities of hybrids thought and action with which we investigate the relationships between humans and their environment from an ecological viewpoint. As well as post oil cities, hybrid 2.0 have open lines of investigation on art ecology, perception, landscape and eco architecture.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.postoilcities.org/

Technology_145

2010-04-11T17:31:00.001+01:00

Entry: Renewable
Focus: Nordic Energy Solutions

The official showcase for Nordic renewable energy strongholds. The Nordic countries generate 63 percent of their electricity from renewable sources. No other region in the world can match this. We do have a lot of rain, mountains, forests and wind to work with, but crucially we have the technology to exploit these resources and a political framework that encourages innovation and the use of clean energy sources.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.nordicenergysolutions.org/

Technology_144

2010-03-28T18:31:00.003+01:00

Entry: Processing
Focus: Wiring

Wiring is an open source programming environment and electronics for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics. It illustrates the concept of programming with electronics and the physical realm of hardware control which are necessary to explore physical interaction design and tangible media aspects.
LINK>>>>>
http://wiring.org.co/

Book_65

2010-03-28T18:28:00.001+01:00

Entry: Built Environment
Focus: Dictionary of Ecodesign

The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design. Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, this illustrated dictionary provides over 1500 definitions and explanations of ecodesign terms. Providing a unique resource for the practitioner and student, this book leaves the reader free to 'dip' in and out of the book allowing for 'bite-sized' learning at their own convenience. It is an essential reference for all architects, engineers, planners and environmentalists involved in designing and planning projects and schemes in the built environment.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.routledge.com/9780415458993

Technology_143

2010-03-21T18:46:00.002Z

Entry: Communication Arts
Focus: Obscura Digital

From mapping video onto nearly any surface to building large-scale, multi-touch displays, Obscura Digital delivers groundbreaking immersive and interactive experiences. Part technology lab and part creative studio, we are continually generating new forms of experiential marketing for our clients around the world.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.obscuradigital.com/

Design_88

2010-03-13T19:29:00.001Z

Entry: Transdisciplinary
Focus: 3deluxe

The collective title 3deluxe connotes an interdisciplinary team of about 40 individuals from the fields of architecture, interior design, art, graphic design, media design and product design. On the basis of this broad spectrum of specialist knowledge, 3deluxe devises holistic design solutions that range from graphic identities via media installations to architecture and all boast a coherent aesthetics.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.3deluxe.de/

Architecture_134

2010-03-13T19:27:00.001Z

Entry: Holistic Solutions
Focus: Post-Oil City

Thinking and acting ecologically, environmentally friendly planning, and energy-efficient forms of construction – these are the new standards for a society that is faced with the effects of climate change and the foreseeable end of fossil fuels. Architects and urban planners seek to meet this challenge, and as the majority of the world’s inhabitants already live in cities, urban areas have become the main setting for their endeavours.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.ifa.de/ausstellungen/dt/rueckblick/2009/post-oil-city/

Technology_142

2010-03-13T19:25:00.001Z

Entry: Energy Efficiency
Focus: Solar Decathlon Europe

The Solar Decathlon Europe (SD Europe) 2010 was created through an agreement signed between the Government of Spain's Ministry of Housing and the United States Government, who committed to organize a sustainable solar architecture competition in Europe.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.sdeurope.org/

Design_87

2010-03-13T19:13:00.002Z

Entry: Responsive Textiles
Focus: Loop.pH

Loop.pH is a London based design and research studio that aims to bridge the gap between design and the natural sciences. They specialise in the conception, construction and fabrication of environmentally responsive textiles for the built environment. Loop.pH belong to an emerging generation of designers redefining conventions of how, why and with what things are made. Emphasis is placed on learning from both traditional craft based practices alongside the cutting edge of scientific and technological discovery.
LINK>>>>>
http://loop.ph/

Technology_141

2010-03-06T18:38:00.001Z

Entry: 22nd Century
Focus: Massive Dynamic

Massive Dynamic is a multi-faceted corporation working for the betterment of medical, communications, energy, transportation, and entertainment technology. As humanity moves boldly into the future, Massive Dynamic will be there leading the way, improving the quality of life for people everywhere.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.massivedynamic.com/

Science_147

2010-03-06T18:35:00.002Z

Entry: Changing Behaviors
Focus: MIT Energy Conference

The goal of the MIT Energy Conference is to bring together leaders in the fields of technology, policy, industry, and finance to develop solutions for the tremendous challenges present in today’s energy markets. The confluence of environmental and security concerns have created an opportunity for fundamental change in the way the world produces and consumes energy. The MIT Energy Conference will showcase promising technology and policy approaches that have the potential to achieve critical scale and make a significant impact on the global energy landscape.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.mitenergyconference.com/

Architecture_133

2010-03-06T18:33:00.001Z

Entry: Open Network Ecology
Focus: Terreform ONE

Terreform ONE is a non-profit design group that promotes green design in cities. Through our creative projects and outreach efforts, we hope to illuminate the environmental possibilities of New York City and inspire solutions in areas like it around the world. It is a unique laboratory for scientists, artists, architects, students, and individuals of all backgrounds to explore and advance the larger framework of green design.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.terreform.org/

Art_140

2010-02-28T17:39:00.002Z

Entry: Ecomedia
Focus: Urban Interface

Urban-interface links ecology and media to explore the interrelationship between designed and emergent systems in cities, by examine the architecture of environmental and social change through the interface of urban design and multimedia.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.urban-interface.com/

Science_146

2010-02-21T18:41:00.001Z

Entry: Future Thinkers
Focus: Future Fundamentals

Credit Suisse and National Geographic have partnered to create the Future Fundamentals programme, designed to explore the challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow. Together, we are focusing on some of the most thought-provoking forces affecting the world today and how we can set out foundations in order to progress to a brighter future. Fundamental trends occurring in the world today will provide a valuable understanding of how we build a sustainable and successful future.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.futurefundamentals.org/

Book_64

2010-02-21T18:37:00.002Z

Entry: New Materials
Focus: Smart Surfaces

Smart Surfaces brings these design fields into the creative focus of planners and designers, and emphasizes concrete possibilities for applications. Planning fundamentals, including cost-benefit analyses, and questions related to building, including details of constructions, are presented in a clear and intelligible way. The various materials are introduced and their potentials assessed. Smart Surfaces not only offers a good overview of the themes but also provides inspiration for making use of these new surfaces.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/architecture+%26+design/book/978-3-7643-8811-9

Technology_140

2010-02-21T18:34:00.001Z

Entry: Foresight
Focus: Drivers of Change

A factoid and rhetorical question are on one face, backed up by further information about the driver on the other face. The set was devised by the Foresight & Innovation team at Arup, a group tasked with exploring emerging trends and how they impact upon business of Arup and its clients. This innovative tool will help anyone concerned with trying to anticipate and respond to the challenges facing our society today.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.driversofchange.com/

Technology_139

2010-02-13T18:52:00.001Z

Entry: Research Project
Focus: The Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project is an international collaboration of academic researchers, supported by some of the world's best high-technology companies, which aims to completely reassess the function and significance of the Antikythera Mechanism.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/

Music_32

2010-02-13T18:45:00.002Z

Entry: Environmental Sound
Focus: Positive Soundscapes

In the acoustics community, sound in the environment, especially that made by other people, has overwhelmingly been considered in negative terms, as both intrusive and undesirable. Desirable aspects of the soundscape have been investigated in the past, mainly by artists and social scientists, however this work has had little impact on quantitative engineering acoustics, however, perhaps because of barriers to communication across different disciplines.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.positivesoundscapes.org/

Design_86

2010-02-13T18:36:00.002Z

Entry: Social Innovation
Focus: Sustainable Everyday Project

The Sustainable Everyday Project proposes an open web platform to stimulate social conversation on possible sustainable futures. The network is organized around 3 core activities. The promotion of a Scenarios laboratory where new visions of sustainable everyday life are proposed and discussed. The constitution of a Catalogue of cases showing examples of social innovation from all other the world developing original solutions promising in terms of sustainability. The organization of a traveling exhibition to meet public events, confront with close scientific communities and give visibility to new visions of sustainable daily living.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/

Science_145

2010-02-07T17:48:00.001Z

Entry: Science, Technology and the Future
Focus: Discover Magazine

Online magazine for science news, articles, current events and future views on technology, space, environment, health and medical, more.
LINK>>>>>
http://www.discovermagazine.com/