"Technology is just so much junk unless it improves the lives of all people" Jacque Fresco Venus Project
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This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth
Multiple printers constructed the building in 200 hours using local soil, meaning it’s zero-waste and needed no materials to be transported to the site. Source: It´s nice that words by Jenny Brewer Mario Cucinella Architects and Wasp, Italy’s leading...
Read moreThis new coastal Brookly park is designed to thrive as sea level rise
Instead of ignoring sea level rise, this park will evolve with it Source: FastCompany Newsletter Author Adele Peters [Photo: © James Corner/Field Operations/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group/courtesy Two Trees Management] If you walk down Metropolitan Avenue, a...
Read moreCreative Communities Workshop Documentation
So the first day of the architecture workshop startet with a tour around an in the cathedral led by Ulrich Gehmann and Heiner Weigand. The workshop officially startet with lectures by John Marx and by basislager8 Bernard Prigge
Read moreImpressions of the Creative Communities Architecture Workshop Event
Impressions of the Creative Communities Architecture Workshop at basislager8 the ponstructions team camp Impressions of the International Creative Communities Workshop Event with John Marx Architecture and Art Director burning man San Francisco; Federico...
Read moreCity Dreamers Documentary Highlights Four Women Architects Who Rethought the City
Source:archdaily written by Christele Harrouk City Dreamers is a documentary by filmmaker Joseph Hillel that underlines the ever-changing city of tomorrow and the life and work of 4 women architects who reconsidered the urban environment. Phyllis Lambert,...
Read moreCreative Communities- build.future.cities Workshop Event
First impressions of an extraordinary event and kick off for a new network with the topic: build.future.cities and creative communities...with the initiators Ulrich Gehman ideal space and Heiner Weigand karmacom with the ponstruction team. The workshop...
Read moreArchitecture Workshop CREATIVE COMMUNITIES building.future.cities
- creative-communities-invitation-lettre_20191107.pdf „Man is the measure of all things.“ Protagoras If there are no reliable constants and truths, if the individual is the point of all reference, scale, and orientation, how can architecture, with its...
Read more7 amazing ecovillages green-minded travelers can volunteer at
Source: MATADOR Network by Ali Wunderman Ecovillages are like bright spots in all the darkness. While most of the world struggles to find solutions to the causes of our worldwide illnesses, ecovillages are communities who are entirely dedicated to eliminating...
Read moreEventworkshop CREATIVE COMMUNITIES building.future.cities
We want to comprehend the needs of „living people“ and shed light on what insights can be obtained into creative and dynamic urban development removed from immediate constraints. We therefore cordially invite you: ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP CREATIVE COMMUNITIES...
Read moreAn architect's vision for 'the city of the future' is now a hippie commune in the Arizona desert — here's what it's like
For decades, a community of workers has been building "the city of the future" in the Arizona desert. The project, known as Arcosanti, was envisioned by architect Paolo Soleri, who wanted to create
Read moreBeing a process, and seeing in relationships
Wikimedia en:User:Edgy01 (Dan Lindsay) I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe. R. Buckminster...
Read moreExploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk’s Neon and Noir
From Afrofuturism to the New Weird, nine sci-fi subgenres for understanding what’s to come Source: Medium Daily Digest by Jay Owens “Cyberpunk” has been the go-to imagery of the future for a startlingly long time — Bruce Bethke’s short story of that name...
Read moreThe Highway or The Higherway / Documentary About Proposed Highway around Auroville
A highway is proposed to go though the intentional township of auroville.... This short documentary explores what this would mean.... https://www.auroville.o...
Read moreJacque Fresco - Values & Visions in the New Society
Full lecture: https://www.thevenusproject.com/product/jacque-fresco-values-visions-in-the-new-society/ Jacque Fresco speaks about the physical factors responsible for the way we react to the world around us. These determinants of our behavior are always...
Read morePlastic litter is prevented from entering the Sea. Floating parks realized by recycling the plastics to platforms.
Recycled park is the proposal to retrieve plastic waste from the river the Nieuwe Maas just before it reaches the North Sea. The plastics are recycled to give new value to the river. From the plastics we will construct floating platforms for a new green...
Read moreAuroville: A Test Run for the Future | Anu Majumdar | TEDxChennai
How would a city engage with the needs of the future? Would it only look at buildings, technology or the environment? Or would it start with humanity, education and an integrated plan that can make it a catalyst for change? Anu Majumdar is the author...
Read moreLow-rise planet. Measure in urban geography
We are deeply convinced that the best stimulus for work is a personal example. That's why we took paper and pencils and started creating sketches and notes that have later become the model of landscape-estate urbanization introduced in this video. We...
Read moreBioArchitecture: Designing Spaces that Stimulate Blissful States | Michael Rice
Bioarchitecture is design informed by the beauty and mathematical elegance of the natural world. From fractals to fronds, you can see patterns of recursion in the work of Michael Rice. But it’s not just being influenced by Mother Nature. Rice tells us...
Read moreFloating University Berlin
From May to September 2018 raumlaborberlin will create a visionary inner city offshore laboratory for collective, experimental learning. With numerous partners we will experiment with knowledge transfers and the formation of transdisciplinary networks...
Read moreTED Talk Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you | Marc Kushner
"Architecture is not about math or zoning - it's about visceral emotions," says Marc Kushner. In a sweeping - often funny - talk, he zooms through the past thirty years of architecture to show how the public, once disconnected, have become an essential...
Read moreUrban tiny house's versatile lounge comes with an elevator bed
Copyright TruForm Tiny The constraints of living in a small space mean finding inventive solutions to make the most of the space that is available. Some of these creative ideas include hiding storage in the stairs, under the sofa, or hiding the stairs...
Read moreArchitect Trupti Doshi speaking at IAD 2018
How Findhorn Eco-Village Serves Planet with Whole-Hearted Principles, Essence & Guidelines
In 2017’s newsletter with a Planet focus , I explored 2 prototypes for an Integral City – one was Durant, Oklahoma, and the other Findhorn Eco-Village, Scotland. A year later I find myself and Integral City endeavours relocated to Findhorn Eco-Village...
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