VIDEO: Jill Feherenbacher interviews Michelle Kaufmann about the new eco-prefab home mkLotus, which debuted late September at West Coast Green in San Francisco. What she finds is a testament to thoughtful, smart design.
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Data Visualization with Eric Rodenbeck
via CultureVIDEO: Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen design & technology studio talks about data visualization and projects like Cabspotting, Trulia and DiggLabs.
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Lucy Gallant – Keep Going
via CultureMusic Video: Keep Going is about when your feeling so depressed and want to give up on life you have to keep going because its always going to get better so you have to stay positive.
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Lucy Gallant – Rebel
via CultureMusic Video: Rebel is about all the positive people of the world joining together like an army of rebels and over powering the corrupt system that we live in.
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The Future of Digital Design with Paul Seletsky
via CultureVIDEO: 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.
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Transnationalism in Chinese Arts
via CultureVIDEO: Questions about trans-national art and artists, how globalization is re-positioning local art, and strategies for curating contemporary art in small spaces are elaborated on by both the audience and the speakers.
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The Other Architecture – With Lebbeus Woods
via CultureVIDEO: 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?
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The Tuneful House – Joel Sanders
via CultureVIDEO: 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.
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City, Ecology, Mobility – With Mitch Joachim
via CultureVIDEO: 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.
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Contemporary Dance on the Fringe
via CultureVIDEO: A short documentary about Art of Movement, an international contemporary dance festival in Russia that took place in 2006. It includes interviews with American dancers who performed and taught there: Valda Setterfield, Judith Howard, Olivier Besson and Gulgun Kaym.
