fastcompany: With 4-D printing, Skylar Tibbits and the Self Assembly Lab are printing materials that fold, transform and shape themselves and could adapt to changing environmental conditions. No assembly required.
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Edits done!
Just finished going through all of the edits and comments of the dedicated/nuts group of people who volunteered to go through the final draft of the Local Economy Revolution. That there is a lot of work. Thanks, folks! So... this puppy is read to go to print, or whatever you call it anymore. Thankfully, that's …
Turning An Ordinary Bike Lane Into Something Playful — The Pop-Up City
I need these somewhere…Turning An Ordinary Bike Lane Into Something Playful — The Pop-Up City
Quantifying cities’ emotional effects A new Web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments, which may have consequences for social behaviors. Place Pulse via humanscalecities:
stoweboyd: theatlantic: The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare? If college professors spent less time lecturing, would their students do better? A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short lecture videos at home and work on activities during class time — has found statistically significant gains in …
thisbigcity: That’s about the same as the population of Tallahassee every day. Got some other #citydata you’d like us to share? Let us know! In the meantime, check out the other posts in our #citydata series. Wow.
smartercities: MIT maps PV potential for Cambridge, MA | Green Futures Magazine A new 3D map covering 17,000 rooftops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, means communities can estimate the benefits of installing photovoltaic panels on a particular building at a glance. The Mapdwell Project, developed by MIT’s Sustainable Design Lab, combines Google satellite imagery with light detection …
Update: Still pushing
OK, this is taking a little longer than planned. I have comments back from half a dozen kind reviewers, and...they're sitting here staring at me while I try to keep the clients happy. Dang clients...no, wait...More as soon as I can. Stay tuned.....
Proposed term: ‘soylent infrastructure’; made predominantly from (hidden, concealed) people. Twitter / justinpickard (via new-aesthetic) Excellent.
wugs: slurivariv: theocproject: world-shaker: Phonebloks Don’t get me wrong, the new iPhones look interesting. But this is an excellent idea for the future of cellphones. (by Dave Hakkens) Completely agree with the OP. This is a very democratic, sustainable, and innovative path forward for cell phones. I hope such an idea can catch on. I …
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 