Greener Gadgets Coverage
ARTICLE: LiveBlog from the Greener Gadgets Conference, a showcase of revolutionary design and tech innovations that will shape the future of the consumer electronics.
We Have To Stop Meeting Like This: A Few Good Design Minutes with Jesse James Garrett
Video: How do you design to understandable ignorance. Jesse James Garrett on AIR, Flex and the design challenges ahead of us.
Data Visualization with Eric Rodenbeck
VIDEO: Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen design & technology studio talks about data visualization and projects like Cabspotting, Trulia and DiggLabs.
The Future of Digital Design with Paul Seletsky
VIDEO: Is architecture similar to medicine, with interconnected systems that need to be holistically addressed in order to understand and launch a project? Skidmore Owings and Merrill’s Paul Saletsky discusses the unique intersection of digital design, technology and Building Information Modeling.
Shadow Cities: Robert Neuwirth on the World’s Informal Economies
VIDEO: Robert Neuwirth talks about his experience living in some of the world’s poorest slums in cities like Istanbul, Mumbai, and Rio; and how shadow economies keep them alive.
The Other Architecture - With Lebbeus Woods
VIDEO: Architect, theorist and critic Lebbeus Woods discusses architecture in the contemporary world. How do terrorism and economics affect the architect’s vision? Are architects doing anything besides just making things look good? And is there another direction that engages people and moves beyond being mere spectacle?
The Tuneful House - Joel Sanders
VIDEO: A house that records ambience, let’s you remix it and then play it back? Joel Sanders gives a Postopolis! demonstration on his latest creation that does just that. Domestic DJs never had it so good.
BIG GAMES with area/code
VIDEO: Kevin Slavin is serious about games. At one point, he mentions they might bring peace to the Middle East. He does not seem to be entirely joking.
City, Ecology, Mobility - With Mitch Joachim
VIDEO: Mitchell Joachim’s insists that his plans are not futuristic. As the Executive Director for philanthropic design collective Terreform, he’s responsible for progressive solutions for current problems… the fact this involves squishy cars makes it all the better.
DO CONVERGENCES CONVERGE? with Lawrence Weschler
VIDEO: What do Che Guavara’s death, the Lamentation of Christ and Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson have to do with each other? Is there a really a relationship between “ethnic cleansing” and the rise of cosmopolitanism? And are “History” and “Life” the same, or two very different things?
