http://www.soundsofsilence.de/ a more recent example of layered distances in...

HUBERT DUPRAT AQUATIC CADDIS-FLY LARVAE WITH CASE 1980-2002 Animal as artist? The Aquatic...

imagine possessing the freedom to let go of all inhibitions, all forces tying you down to your feet...

What do I want individuals to feel? What aspects of nature do I want them to experience so that I can convey my personal ties and attractions to the natural world? Do I want [them] to play with sand and let it trickle through my fingers? Do i want to play with a clump of dirt - roll it a ball in my hand and then break up it again - how can I...

What types of technology already exist that could provide alternatives to heating and cooling that require a closed, 'controllable' environment to function? Any ideas? These are a few I have brainstormed Ideally the technology used adopts a relatively seamless or invisible connectivity to the user - hopefully easily forgotten as it does not...

L.A. Times review on Open House at Art Center: Vitra Design Museum: Architecture...

by redrawing the section diagramms, I regonized different spacial qualities qualities:...

I think this CD becomes immersive for the person experiencing these sounds outside of the place...

on earth i can use the landscape as outside elements but in space there has to be an atmospheric...

trying with textured elements trying to make the pattern 3d always the question of how...

make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is non-stable... ... make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely... ... make something which cannot 'perform' without the assistance of its environment... ... make something which reacts to light and temperature...

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"Sachs has played a key role in transforming the contemporary mood of pessimism into a...

A documentary from Channel 4. Commentaries on the film: "Scientific consensus: the starting point of debate" "Keep politics out of science – and vice versa" "Apocalypse My Arse" "Don't let truth stand in the way of a red-hot debunking of climate change"

"Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for...

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

further soft/hard core relation samples

Kurt Vonnegut, a favorite author of mine, passed away yesterday at the age of 84. His favorite book of mine being Slaughterhouse-Five. This is a excerpt of his last published words from his poem "Requiem." When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating...

in the name of energy conservation, i would like to propose that all businesses requiring the...

Here's a link to a description of the Janet Cardiff piece I mentioned in class today: Submarine tour in Los Angeles (down in Long Beach)

If we are attached to nature as it is now on Earth, how will we deal with the separation once we...

This class talks a lot about what it would feel like to be in zero-gravity. I believe that this...

Concept 1 Naturesphere(the portable biosphere) Input-Output model Important elements: Nature...

1 Being really interested in biology I looked to the fundamental cell for inspiration. In our realm of existence our societal exoskeletons are all fixed. This seems very limiting and causes a lot of waste (ie constructing a building in fashion back in the 1970s and tearing it down to build another building because A: it does not function anymore...

The World by Nakheel Properties // concept by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum A place...

Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames A film which shows the viewer how small and at the...

First Commercial Plant For Biodegradable Plastic The first 100% biodegradable plastic is ready...

The Fall by James Willingham A plant tries to survive in a world which has been consumed by...

Pittsburgh's Hyperactive Technologies "The vision system in Hyperactive Bob essentially...

Flower by Mathew Bevins As nature evolves, its selection of who will carry on to the future...

Who I Am and What I Want By David Shrigley "Ostracized from society. Here, amongst the...

I like the idea of putting people out of their comfort zone - because I feel like many people in...

When it comes to designing in space applying and translating templates already given to us from the...

Plantwall The point is again to adapt ourselves to nature. If we've figured out no-soil, drip irrigation systems for plants to grow and live indoors, what can we learn to alter about our energy and life sustaining abilities? What can we do without and what can we harvest impactless from the System?

Philip Ross

Otto Karvonen Urban Space Occupation Kit An example of public space for private use. The...

phase one possible styles and visual language:

All my proposals are of peaceful environments, places to relax rather than places to be entertained. There is too much stimuli around us now as it is, I think people need to re-connect with nature and learn/appreciate doing nothing. It's a beeautiful thing to be able to sit in nature and observe. If the Space Collective would be a group...

I can't transcribe ideas directly to a computer as well as I would to a physical sheet of paper; but oftentimes when I write by hand the ideas and sentences are all over the place because I pay less attention to mechanics. Regardless, I wrote this blurb earlier (forgive the incoherencies): What "nature" is to me It's vast, isolated,...

My second option would also be intended for a shorter period of time as a recuperating experience. It would primarily be an experience for a single person but it would be in the form of a room. There would be a large window in the room so the person could enjoy sunshine and a view. All other walls would be covered with screens that would show...

45% of all people who experience zero gravity also experience space sickness from being weightless....

If I were to build a space colony or space habitat I would want it to be a place where people can continue to be free. All science fiction and renderings of moon colonies seem so restrictive and claustrophobic. I would want a space colony with a built in atmosphere just like the Earth. People could move freely, and in space every direction would...

One of my favourite artists is Mary Mattingly. Her visions of the future can be seen as...

I wouldn't want much to change - maybe that's depressing or unimaginative or boring but it's the truth. What I admire most about nature is its resilience, no matter how hard we abuse it, it always bounces back, amazingly and surprisingly (although some would argue that at this moment it may be reaching its physical limits). After it's...