Some time ago a friend told me that when he was a young boy, his mom explained him that at the time he would be an adult, mankind…
In an era in which the disciplines of architecture and urban design are injected with technology, we see new innovative software for urban design and modelling being launched.…
LimeWire founder Mark Gorton has recently announced to launch an application for open source urbanism, inspired by the peer-to-peer principle. Gorton’s goal is to stimulate “crowdsourced development, freely-accessible…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged bottom-up, crowdsourcing, data, interactive, mapping, open source, planning, portland, Technology, urbanism |
Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti.…
Do your part! Greenify your PC! AOL provides a new Green Toolbar that saves the planet and your wallet, aiming to contribute to the environment by…
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. That’s what the guys of SPAARbOD must have thought. In these times of financial disorder, there seems to be place…
The browser plugin by Get Green available for free at Inferknow helps the world reducing CO2 emission with each mouse click. Installing this Firefox extension is…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged browser, co2, digital, ecological, environment, firefox, green, internet, plugin, recycling, Technology, world |
CityCAD is a relatively new software tool for architects trying to become a urbanist or planner. The 1.6 version has just been released. Considering the name, CityCAD shows…
A city consists of a hard side and a soft side. The hard side tells us something about the physical structure of a city. Too less people realise that what…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Also tagged app, application, city, data, digital, experience, graphics, internet, mac, mapping, parallel, physical, public space, tagging, tags, visualisation |
The concept of space becomes more and more diffuse in the digitally oriented Western society. The emergence of the Internet already had a tremendous reflexion on physical space. For example,…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Also tagged ar, augmented reality, camera, city, gps, iphone, physical, public space, sharing, social, space, tagging, Technology, trendwatching, virtual, web 2.0 |
